David Byrne Subverts PowerPoint 150
NoData writes "The AP is reporting that David Byrne, visionary musician and frontman for 80s New Wave art band 'Talking Heads,' has turned Powerpoint into a visual art medium in a (satiric) DVD/Book combo. Says Byrne in the article: 'The genius of it is that it was designed for any idiot to use.'" Shades of Edward Tufte ("PowerPoint Makes You Dumb"), as the article points out. The book is published by high-end German publisher Steidl.
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The book includes mostly lucid musings on how PowerPoint has ushered in "the end of reason," with pictures of bar charts gone hideously astray, fields of curved arrows that point at nothing, disturbing close-ups of wax hands and eyebrows, and a photo of Dolly the cloned sheep enclosed by punctuation brackets.
Plus, I think he's just having a bit of a laugh on the conformist business world. It's, you know, satire:
Byrne...said the compilation wasn't meant as a "serious statement about anything."
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Impress [openoffice.org]
KPresenter [koffice.org]
Keynote [apple.com]
Any others out there?
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