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Is institutional collaboration an oxymoron?

So can institutions collaborate?

I think they can collaborate with other institutions but aren’t great at collaborating with the general public as they have to bend and be flexible to what the public desires. This always comes with great difficulty to institutions. An example is why you see so few institutional websites with the opportunity to comment on articles (please commenting system  below)

 

So I have been asked to present at this and I need your thoughts so that i can formulate my presentation, a friend said to just take a bottle of wine and a bag of crisps, which would clearly be metaphors for Institution (wine) and community at large (crisps) 

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Review: knowing nick cage

just watched the film Knowing. wondering if people now make idiotic movies so Nicholas Cage can work. the premise for those who haven't seen it is that aliens send down a list of meaningless numbers to children in the sixties who go crazy and write them randomly down. the aliens then come back fifty years later. a few mins before the world ends to pick up and save the grandchildren of the original kids. on the assumption that the parents of these children have found these numbers and worked out that the thousands of random figures indicate a series of disasters that proves that they know when the world is doomed and should go to coordinates that are also hidden in the numbers to be picked up in space ships. real grown ups heard this idea and gave massive amounts of money to other grown ups to make it. I doubt that Nick Cage was auditioned but just arrived once it was being made, presumably after reading that another unbelievably awful film was being made after seeing random letters on the back of a cereal packet. Having said all this i think it is the best film i have seen him in for a long time.

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Archived by accident

It last the end of the case, the leads had evaporated, dried up like a summer well. The mud was dryed and cracked just like his old fashioned ideas of good and bad. He was so far out of fashion he was coming back in again, but he didn’t know that and neither did the hicks in the God foresacken hole they called a town in these parts.

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How long is it before a plays ending is changed by the audience

http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmoo Your sitting in the Theatre watching a play – just before the interval – the actors stop, come out of character and tell you to get your phones out and to vote using Twitter on the way that  the play should end.

This might seem really far fetched but it isn’t at all, already within Live TV performances such as the Xfactor, the shows producers are watching the twitter stream and changing elements within the show as it goes out Live…..

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Art donor card – #wasted

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Especially for the event tonight at the bluecoat, in Liverpool.

Should people be allowed to give their bodies up for art after their death.

The Damien Hirst donor card was created back in the 90’s by artist Leo Fitzmaurice, he gave me a few when we were both working for Team. (the Liverpool version of All about audiences).

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