Social Flights
Social Flights is built on a new class of business methods which combines game dynamics with collaborative consumption to disrupt inefficient and oppressive industries.
(The elevator pitch explains further. Via Fast Company)
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Annotating Interaction and Graphic Design, Creativity, Diversity, Highbrow, Lowbrow, Architecture, Art, Environment, Access, Datum, Research, Hunches and Stuff.
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- New music: The Man Who Died In His Boat by Liz Harris’s Grouper Grouper (Liz Harris), Brisbane, October 2012. (via Flickr ) Liz Harris has a knack of creating stripped-down, unpretentious music that i...
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