If you missed Jennifer Lin rockin out her beautiful and inspiring piano skills at TED2004 then here’s your chance again to see and be amazed on her brief performance on Oprah!
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While at GEL this past week, I ventured down to Lincoln center to say hello to David Blaine who is living in a tank of water for a week, then holding his breath under water for 9+ minutes monday night while escaping a set of chains. The tank is beautiful, his fingers are pruned like crazy, and the public is lovin it! The nytimes has a great article on the event.
I’m off to the wonderful GEL conference (good experience live) in nyc… I’ll be back in a few days!!!
update: highlights from GEL
– Google exit party, meeting people!
– Seth Godin, love the tie man.
– a chocolate high tour (sweet riots)
– exchanging BIG ideas with people
– seeing everyone from last year again!
This is an old fun material, but I just saw a demo of it again which reminded me how freakin cooooool it is. Ya add some powder to a cup of water, and va va voooom….it bubbles up into instant snow, or moreso some expanded pellets that look like snow. Check out the video and you’ll see the magic unfold right before your eyes!
I’ve been running into a bunch of cool ads this week! Heres another one that adds a hunk of retro hair to any waiting passerbys. Be cool to see this on side bus windows! Hop onto the hair bus!
Who says you can’t have a bit of fun and work in an office environment… Get a beanbag on a chair!
You know those manholes that steam up on cold mornings in nyc… We’ll now everytime you see them, you’ll think think about hot steaming Folgers coffee. I’m not sure if these ads are real, but seems like a great idea!!
Chronos Chromos concrete brings to us adaptable concrete that changes colors to create images, text, or just plain cool ambient aesthetics. In a large space. The transition is a bit slow, but has a magical blurring quality to it. I’m not sure how much this system would cost, but I look forward to finding and experiencing it soon. Check out their demo video! (takes awhile to download)
Vectorial Elevations is one of these rare projects that gets users to interact online as well as react off-line in a large public space. Users anywhere in the world could participate. 18 robotic spotlights were networked to a server in a large public square in Mexico city. On-line participants created animated sequences of patterns using all 18 spotlights. Throughout the night, these on-line sequences would become reality in the space where thousands of people would view, react, and awe in an amazing projected atmosphere. On-line users could view their creations via webcams. How cool is that!
It’s curious how industrial products are slowly evolving back to their natural stages. Pictured above are two showerheads connecting you to nature a bit more. First, a shower head that rains on you in a sexy kinda way, then another one that actually creates a cloud that rains on you…pretty cool yeah!!!
Watch this preview for the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” about the troubling Climate Crisis. I had the great opportunity to hear, listen to, and interact with Al Gore at the TED conference where he spoke passionately about this global issue. His personality during the conference was incredible. The content that he presented was mind-boggling. I can’t wait for this movie to reach a larger audience in hope for changes that must be made.