Jane McGonigal says gaming can make a better world. Challenging people now with games that endorse problems of the future can save us from having them. Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? By spending all this time playing games we are actually changing what we are capable of as human beings, we are evolving to be more collaborative.
Games are a super powerful platform for change. I came to think that we actually have super hero powers. Genius! Jane McGonigal@TED explains how.
Is it just me or are we all starting to like long commercials? Or, in other words, is the quality of the content that has risen? Or simply just because we are told a longer story? We’ve been fed up with huge amounts of short ads that we’ve learned to avoid not just by pushing the ‘next’ button on the remote control but by blocking them subconsciously. We need no physical instruments for that anymore. It is just like getting used to living near by railroads. Pretty soon, you simply don’t here anything anymore.
In the same time, we became better and better in absorbing whatever interests us more. So why would we need longer ads?!? Just because, it’s the story that we crave for! On the other side, we started watching more series and shorts than movies. But that is also because we want more stories in our time-lack daily life. Blink! Advertisers thought, if that is the lenght that we are happy with than why not transforming the ‘flashy 15 /22 seconds ad’ in a real story.
Some of them did and I believe there are still more to come. ADseries, that’s what we’re on to. I, for myself, am pleased with this. Fellows, keep it coming! Take a look at these 2 fresh ones from Dior and Absolut. Are we gonna have posters for ads now? Are we, are we, are we? Cool!
Landholder Larina is sitting in the garden together with her old nurse Filipjewna. While her daughters Tatjana and Olga are singing she remembers her youth and her first love. Homecoming singing peasants interrupt her reminiscence. Tatjana is saddened by the peasants’ singing and she immerses herself in a book. Olga is unable to relate to her shy and withdrawn sister who is forever hiding among books. Larina complains about Tajana’s conduct and assures her that the heroes of her books do not really exist.
This is how the beautiful story of Peter I. Tschaikowsky’s Eugen Onegin starts. All tickets in the Staatsoper in Berlin have been sold out long time ago. But it doesn’t matter because on the 5th of June one could enjoy free live opera in open air, projected on a huge screen, just side by side with the opera building. It was the last show of the season.
I can’t say I am an opera connaisseur but seeing one of the most famous opera pieces in the world while sitting with my friends on a blanket, drinking red wine and eating cheese and while tens of other people around you are doing exactly the same…let’s say it gives one a totally different perspective on what opera is all about.
A lot of young, some lost stubborn tourists and old couples who didn’t run away from placing their posteriors on the uncomfortable cement, where spending 3 hours being amazed by the great performance . Make up and props were very interesting, giving a ‘contemporary’ dimension to the ‘old’ piece.
Onegin remains behind, desperate and alone. The show ends and the square starts applauding. In just a few seconds the actors come out of the Staatopera building to bow to the audience outside.
I must say bravo Berlin, you enchanted me with this cultural event and thank you for bringing opera to my eyes and ears. I guess many of us who were there wouldn’t have had the intention to enter the opera for this event. I am glad I didn’t miss it!
By the way, BMW was sponsoring the whole event and this is why at a certain point we started seeing a few flying horses on the sky of Berlin. Sure, helium balloons shaped like horses. Funny guerilla though!
Jane McGonigal says gaming can make a better world. Challenging people now with games that endorse problems of the future can save us from having them. Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to [...]
Is it just me or are we all starting to like long commercials? Or, in other words, is the quality of the content that has risen? Or simply just because we are told a longer story? We’ve been fed up with huge amounts of short ads that we’ve learned to avoid not just by pushing [...]
aaaaa Landholder Larina is sitting in the garden together with her old nurse Filipjewna. While her daughters Tatjana and Olga are singing she remembers her youth and her first love. Homecoming singing peasants interrupt her reminiscence. Tatjana is saddened by the peasants’ singing and she immerses herself in a book. Olga is unable to relate [...]
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