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ImprovEverywhere.com presents “Welcome Back” where a crew of total strangers enthusiastically welcome back total strangers at the airport terminal! I think everyone should be greeted this way!!!!
Reminds me a bit on Ben Zanders lessons on How Happy Birthday Should Always be sung; with passionate enthusiasm, waving hands while standing, vibrant smiles, and shining eyes with a community of awesome people!
(Clockwise from left: Aaron Daye/The Gainesville Sun; Monica Almeida/The New York Times; Monica Almeida/The New York Times; Zach Boyden-Holmes/The New York Times)
NYtimes has a great short interview article in how the now iconic “Obama O” logo and campaign was created in a matter of weeks from motion and graphic design firm MODE and Sol Sender ! I’ll copy the article after the jump as well.
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I love sketchbooks, but I especially like sketch books that seem spontaneous, real, rustic, and have character. Meet Amitai Plasse who sketches people in the NYC subway system, and blogs about it! Very cool!
I’ll post a few of my favorites after the jump!
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Kokuyo adds a simple twist to a highlighter pen allowing you to highlight, circle, or outline any text!
Several years ago I slammed my highlighter into a corner and left 2 jagged edges leaving vampire like tips (I might have also just carved a triangle out with an exacto blade late into a creative night procrastinating). Anyhow, I used the pen until it dried up, but I never thought I’d see this accident turn into a product! Accidents(procrastinating) are sometimes the best inventions!
Thomas Friedman lectures a bit on his new book. Watch it here along with the slides!
Buy “How Flat and Crowded” here.
Tim Brown’s talk from “Art’s Center: Serious Play”, which I attended and blogged, is online now. Watch it above. Watch out for the finger blasters!! and yes, work should be play!
Will I Am launches a new song in celebration in the new presidency here. Also watch his previous videos “Yes We Can” and “We are the Ones” which I’ll also embed after the jump.
Very cool. makes ya think about doing things differently!
“GuerilLA, the Improv Everywhere-offshoot in Los Angeles, recently put up their newest mission, Aerial Philanthropy. The group threw dollar bill airplanes off of a parking deck in Los Angeles by the ArcLight Theatre. You’ll notice Skylar Stone randomly happened to catch one of the bills.”
via urbanprankster
Shepard Fairey and MoveOn.org are giving away free stickers! Awesome! Get them before they run out! My order was right above 1 million.
Sheps printing a limited run of 5,000 of these posters selling this saturday!
Congrats Barack Obama! Yes We Can! Watch Obama’s acceptance speech above!
Very clever!
“Instructions.
Step 1: Click on the stickers below and drag or right click to save to your desktop.
Step 2: Print onto a sticker sheet.
Step 3: Leave no vending machine un-stickered.
Bonus: You find some change to put in your pocket along the way.”
via PressforChange08
I’ve posted about Benjamin Zander before, but it’s always great to see him present again with a live demo for a mini master class! Zander rocks along with Rozie (Zanders inspiration)! Buy his book “The Art of Possibility“.
“Opportunity is always one sentence away.”
“Always give an A!”
“When you make a mistake, say, HOW FASCINATING!”
“The only conductor to ever lead the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Zander is a prophet of human potential and an unrivaled champion of joie de vivre. Watch as he helps unlock the boundless potential of a 15 year old cellist and teaches the entire Pop!Tech audience what it means to live in a world of possibility. “