Here's the video of the 5-minute talk I gave at the first Ignite London earlier this month: Error(e) 404 - Italy as a country not found.

(photo by oladybug0)

Brian Eno on making your own culture:

"As people become increasingly comfortable with drawing their culture from a rich range of sources—cherry-picking whatever makes sense to them—it becomes more natural to do the same thing with their social, political and other cultural ideas. The sharing of art is a precursor to the sharing of other human experiences, for what is pleasurable in art becomes thinkable in life."

(from the death of uncool)