Just looking at this thing makes me appreciate what amazing things our bodies are. Japanese beatboxer Hikakin and freestyler NonStop. Hypnotic and amazing to listen to and watch.
Put together by myISH . Probably would have been better if they just inset Hikakin rather than split screening but still seriously cool.
Astounding one take video of Alex Chadwick playing 100 seminal guitar riffs to create a brief history of rock and roll. It is very cool and Alex is obviously incredibly talented. Seriously, I’m seriously super impressed. Make sure you watch the whole thing.
I’m humbled. Think I really need to add learning to play guitar back into the goals list. Something I’ve been told all my life I could never do (why do parents and teachers tell you things like “you just aren’t good at languages” or “you don’t have an ear for music” ? Ugh…)
Impressive Effie-award winning campaign to save the Troy Library by Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide even if using slightly questionable deception and the application of reverse psychology to achieve the goal against a very well-organized and very vocal opposition. Great idea though.
I do wonder at how many times people can use this same idea of whipping up public outrage on a fake campaign and then using psych jujitsu to transfer it over to the actual campaign. Definitely a great strategy in this case, but duplicable in other cases? Trying to think of where else I could apply it in some of the campaigning that’s been done. Definitely a workable strategy on low turnout/care issues where apathy might be an issue.
I already tweeted this, but it was such an amazingly interesting video, I’m posting it on the blog.
PBS Idea Channel on the phenomenon of My Little Pony lovers in the young, male demographic and changing ideas about masculinity. Have to admit to never having run across PBS Idea Channel before, but being super impressed with this as an intellectual inquiry.
Being a non-traditional kind of guy (yeah, not so into the watching sports on tv, fast cars, and playing XBox till my fingers fall off.) I find this interesting because, at least growing up, there was definite pressure on conforming into accepted “male” roles if not outright sterotypes. Not doing so reflected upon not just your social status, but also implied sexuality. It made me a very socially awkward teen, an overly competitive and achievement obsessed young adult and it was a long time before I was comfortable with the fact that I just didn’t fit into the “normal” guy mode (in fact, I’d still say it’s a problem in terms of dating where women influence these gender biases as much as men.).
Kinda great four minute video explaining the cosmic background radiation and the origins of the Big Bang.
Oh, and more cosmically awesome learning materials available over at the
Big Bang Registry.
Dare Mighty Things.
Is there anyone else who watched this video and had the feeling that when the EDL team explained this to whoever calls the shots on these things at NASA they must’ve exclaimed, “My God! It’s just crazy enough that it might actually work!”
In any case, on 5 Aug 2012 Curiosity will try to land on Mars. Not a trivial feat as this attests.
Godspeed Curiosity. Fair winds and calm seas.
I am so glad ZeFrank is back on air (ok, yeah… disclaimer: I backed his Kickstarter for “A Show” so evened the odds a little… Ahem…).
Still, it leads to awesomeness like this so worth all the pennies. Enjoy.
Make yours a good self.
Cool little short about office life and the powers that rule it. Very accurate in my experience.
Even more impressively, all effects done on camera, no post sfx! And they won the Reed film competition Grand Prix.
via Geeks Are Sexy
Sure, they make it cutesy, but you have no idea how often this actually happens. Disaster recovery in most orgs is not given anywhere near the attention it deserves. If it can happen to Pixar, it can happen to you.
So, um… do your backups kids. And make sure you have offsite backups as well! I use Crashplan myself (which works on Win, Mac and Linux) though was using Haystack’s Arq on my Mac until very recently as well. Seriously, the minimal cost is nothing compared to losing photos or critical docs. Believe me.
