Very likeable animation by the Smart Bubble Society for my old peeps at Greenpeace , it’s well done, though don’t find it that compelling (also, someone really needs a better way to present the hard numbers on off oil and coal generation - right now, all people hear is it’ll be expensive. No one likes that.). Though see interesting solar development here .
What do you think?
Absolutely awesome DIY Guardian article by noted pioneer and leader in the field of data journalism Paul Bradshaw from how to source, munge, and report the facts in a coherent form from oceans of available data. Facts are sacred.
I love this article and the Guardian, who does wicked work in this area, for being awesome enough to publish it and to show people how to do it themselves. Very, very cool.
Second absolutely phenomenal video from The Girl Effect project. Love the work these guys are doing and love their video and online style.
If you’ve never seen the first video they did explaining the idea behind the charity , do so. It’s simpler, but just as inspiring.
By Implication’s Wildfire recently won at the Game Design Category of the 2010 Imagine Cup. Designing a game inspired by volunteerism, they focus on the MDG goals as the basis of what you’re trying to accomplish in your city (and apparently inspired by Filipino volunteerism after the 2009 Typhoon). Sadly, Windows only (boo!), but the video of gameplay mechanics is giving me idears.
Love the mechanics of play, if hard to tell I’d like the game itself. We talked at work once about a game to teach people organizing and campaigning (part of our job helping build a more progressive Australia) and would kinda love applying these mechanics ideas to that. Hmmm…
Euthanasia is a contentious issue in Australia and currently illegal under law. Opinion is divided on it, though even the current federal Labor government has let the statutes stand. A move, for example, by the Northern Territories government here to legalize euthanasia a few years back was overridden by the federal Howard government of the time.
More troubling, Exit International recently tried to air this ad on Free TV but had it yanked at the last minute in what, in my opinion, is a serious violation of free speech.
Love Amnesty using Allen Ginsburg’s “A Prophecy” for its latest ad campaign. Inspiring.
via Osocio Weblog .
In 1963 on 28 August 2010, MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to over 200,000 people at the Washington Monument. Still, one of the greatest speeches ever given and a beacon to the human rights movement everywhere. Watch it all the way through.
Good thing to watch this Sunday and reflect on what you can do to make this world a better place for everyone.
OK, I have to admit I love hearing stories about people who realize their own power in the face of oppression (seriously, I didn’t just take that job at AI for my ego). And let’s face it, domestic abuse is a real problem in so many countries, so kinda absolutely lurv the idea of intimidating gangs of stick wielding pink-saried women - gulabis - giving wife abusers the what for.
Unsurprisingly, the leader of the movement has a long list of charges pending against her, much as you’d expect of any self-respecting, modern day Robin Hood. I also love the fact she goes village to village on a bicycle.
Have to admit, really impressed with this ad from the WWF. Sadly, I might have ignored it if it was a less compelling visual animation. Think they should extend the style to a bunch of their other ads actually. Works well.
Props to the Electronic Frontier Foundation who has been fighting the good fight the last twenty years protecting peoples’ rights online and making the digital domain a better, safer more rights-respecting place for all of us. Definitely an organization that deserves your support, attention and donations to continue the critical and very seminal work they’ve been doing.
via BoingBoing .