In the year 2062, a bunch of elderly hipsters are interviewed about the good old days of social media.

Created for Social Media Week 2012, this video captures interviews with octogenarian hipsters as they take a look back on what  social media and digital culture were back in the day.

Agency: Entrinsic
Production Company: Sons and Daughters
Director: David Quinn
Post-production: Posterboy
Editor: Danica Pardo

Reflecting the global impact of social media – and its role as a catalyst in driving cultural, economic, political and social change in developed and emerging markets – Social Media Week is one of the world’s most unique global platforms, offering a series of interconnected activities and conversations around the world on emerging trends in social and mobile media across all major industries.

In just under three years, Social Media Week has expanded to 21 cities, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Sao Paulo, Rio De Janeiro, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Istanbul, London, Paris, Rome, Milan, Glasgow, Berlin, Moscow, Beirut and Hong Kong. Starting in 2012, SMW is adding Tokyo, Singapore, DC and Miami. Annually, SMW attracts more than 60,000 attendees across thousands of individually organized events, with half a million connecting to the conference online and through mobile. More Info: Social Media Week 2012

[via: futurehipsters.com]

After nearing a month at Derooted HQ, I, Jenn King Intern at Large, am emerging from my relatively inactive internet (or should I say INTERNet, har har) presence to fulfill my new role as Jenn King Intern at Large / Blogette Extraordinaire. Please, bear with me while I get whatever the computer equivalent of finding one’s sea legs is.

Relating to the More is More subheading at my post, last night I had the pleasure of attending Marian Bantjes lecture at the Ontario College of Art and Design. For those of you who might be a little unfamiliar with her work, Marian is a Canadian designer/typographer/illustrator/maker of wonderful things who counts among her clients Saks Fifth Avenue, Penguin Books, Wallpaper*, The Guardian, WIRED, Stefan Sagmeister and The New York Times. Her work is personal, ornate, complex and rich, and stands in contrast to the extremely minimal Modernist design that has been popular with so many designers for  so long. I found it really refreshing to look at someone’s work who knows that while simplicity and negative space have their places, sometimes the eye can be pampered with beautiful, luxurious images and that when done right, just because something is ornate and intricate doesn’t mean it has to look like a 90′s club poster.

The talk itself wouldn’t have broken any new ground for those familiar with her work or who have read her writings, as my companion pointed out, but with time constraints being what they were it was still a nice look into the way she creates her intricate, detailed patterns and designs.  I especially enjoyed her work done outside of regular computer methods, as this is something I’ve been passionate about exploring. Her flower and pasta patterns are of particular note, and her “read before you eat” droog table was a beautiful merger of aesthetics and message.

Also, on a personal note, my birthday is in a few months, and just as a gift idea for anyone that has an extra 16,000 dollars burning a hole in their pocket, I’d really like one of the sailboats she designed for *Wallpaper. They remind me of the the dazzle ships used around WW1 and 2.

So in short, for anyone interested in design, illustration, typography, or nice things, you should go check out her show while it’s at OCAD (100 McCaul St.). It starts tonight and runs until June 5th, 2011, with the opening reception tonight from 7-9 pm.

In case you missed it, last week Google rolled out its new gem known as Google Art Project. Absolutely fascinating in a manner only Google could deliver. Google Art Project brings the worlds greatest fine arts and museums to you giving you immediate access to over 1000 works of art in 17 of the worlds renown museums across the globe. With the same brilliance of the Google Street View technology, you have the freedom to tour collections at the MoMA and Met in NewYork City, Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the National Gallery in London – these are just to name a few museums now available to you with out the travel expenses or the ridiculous lineups for a brief viewing.

The project started when a group of Google whizkids who were passionate about the arts got together to think about how they might use Google technology to help museums make their art more accessible – not just to regular museum-goers or those fortunate to have great galleries on their door steps, but to a whole new set of people who might otherwise never get to see the real thing up close and personal.

Most of the paintings are rendered in super high resolution (7 billion pixels!) allowing for a very detailed view of the brushwork.

Further more to put a cherry on top, you can log in with your Google account and start your own art collection.

The project launched last week with 385 rooms of museums on display. Excellent start.