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!
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Congrats Barack Obama! Yes We Can! Watch Obama’s acceptance speech above!
How awesome! Seongyong Lee added a little air bubble to his utensils designs which float them like buoys with handles in the air, and a nice scooper for your punch bowl!
I’m off to Camden Maine again for this years “Pop!Tech 2008:Scarcity and Abundance” Conference! This years lineup of speakers and musicians are awesome! I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to post, but make sure to watch the FREE live online video stream!(9am-6:30am EST) Check out the entire speaker list and schedule here, otherwise I’ll list a few highlights below:
– Chris Anderson, Editor Wired magazine
– Stephen Badylak, Regenerative Medicine
– Malcolm Gladwell, Tipping Point, Blink, New Yorker
– Van Jones, human rights and civil rights activist
– Jay Parkinson, online doctor
– Clay Shirky, all things web
– Frank Warren, Post Secret Founder
– Benjamin Zander, renaissance musician
– Imogen Heap, musician
– Erin Mckean, lexicographer
– Chris Jordan, photographer
– the unusual, suspenseful, mind blowing, amazing!!!
ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.
Woa, pretty sweet. A 3D sketch program from the University of Toronto. I see lots of promise in this video! More info here.
via drawn.ca
I’m not sure what Nudibranch’s are exactly, but what I am mesmerized by is how photographer David Doubilet takes these incredible images underwater seemingly CGI or at least a bit of photoshopping, but sweet goodness, David strapped a mini lightbox to his camera and went right down in the ocean to shoot! Awesome! I need a large portable lightbox strapped to my camera now! Check out the rest of the article and images via National Geographic!
via National Geographic (NotCot)
Picture: “Sometimes the Box is better!”
In the picture above, the box is better because the kid jumps into a toy, rather than playing with a toy. Big cardboard boxes somehow invite humans to draw, rip, manipulate, and imagine. Brown boxes don’t seem to have rules. We can make them what we want. As kids, we imagined and created more. As grown ups, we adapt to what things are for. In the world of creativity, remember that “perspective” is key to creativity. Just because something is made to do “this” does not mean it can’t do “that”.
– Tech: SpaceX Falcon 1 makes it to orbit! Amazing. Congrats! Videos here. (Falcon 1 is the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to orbit the Earth)
– Politics: Obama helps total stranger pay for airport luggage back in 1988. Awesome! Obama rocks!
– Odd: Japaneses florescent bulb wrestling. I don’t get it?
– Fun: Heelys makes grownup size’s now. I saw a few adults sporting these in the past few weeks. At first I was like, these are for kids, but then realized, these can be mad fun, though they still look kinda ugly. Grab a pair, and make your boring co-workers where them Here’s a video, or some videos on the heely site.
– Sleep: The art in sleeping. When your tired, you somehow find a way to sleep no mater whee you are!
– Videos: “How and engineer folds a shirt” vs someone in “Japan folds a shirt“. Personally, I like Japan style. And yes, there are those that have the bunch it up and pack style.
If your like most designers out there you breathe Adobe products yet have your slight nudges on features or GUI implementations. If so, creators Adam Meisel & Erik Frick have created the “Dear Adobe” website allowing you to gripe about all your devilish encounters. Go gripe about something, go see what others complain about, see the top gripes, and feel good your not the only one unhappy with adobe, though they rock!
My brain hurts after watching this incredible lecture “Predicting the next 5000 days of the web” by Kevin Kelly (of Cool Tools) from the EG 2007 conference. The web is seriously only 5,000 days old. It’s changed our world forever. What’s to come in the next 5,000 days?!!!
“There is only One machine.
The web is its OS.
All screens look into the One.
No bits will live outside the web.
To share is to gain.
Let the One read it.
The One is us.”
All very very true, but still,my head hurts but I love it! Now go watch this video!!!!
via TEDtalks
– New Dillar Scofidio + Renfro website is up!
– Ninja Cat video!
– Punching Cat vs Printer video.
– Kenny George, a 7’9″ college Basketball player! (video)The dude dunks standing!
– A peek into the Youtube Headquarters.
– SugarKane asymmetrical glasses.
– Magic Mirror technology … making any shirt a customized ad…scary!
– Remote Control your houses energy with Ploggs.
Our buddy Bre Pettis has a pretty sweet TV show piloting tonight! Check out his post with more info or give it a watch at midnight on the history channel. Watch the teaser video above or here.
A few months back I drove by a parking lot and saw 2 dudes skating around spinning around like mad men. The weird part was, I couldn’t see their skateboards. I thought weird and straightened my head avoiding the traffic I almost ran into.
I’ve finally realized what these bizarre inventions are. Their called Freeline Skates seemingly like mini skateboards for each foot, somewhat resembling sideway rollerblade besides the fact it’s not strapped to your foot. This is some pretty crazy weird stuff. That’s all I can say, but it seems to be making a blaze across the world! Check out the video above or their website for more info.