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Stephen Fry: What I wish I'd knew when I was 18
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Stephen Fry: What I wish I'd knew when I was 18
STEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I'D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18 from Peter Samuelson on Vimeo.
Probably a little dangerous but very cool.
How Sunday Streets has helped local merchants by encouraging people to get out of their cars and onto their bikes.
I love street art...
iPhone application that scans ingredients to warn vegetarians of potential animal products in their food.
Excellent!
It is time for things to change.
Not crazy about the brand but wild about the message..
Related resources: McKinsey Report "The Internet of Things"
Other things to watch out for:
Bio-sensing
awareness of the thing moving around us
Application and opportunity:
Airport security
Environmental Protection
Food integrity
Semantic Measurement of location-based data plus bio sensing can make for some helpful scenarios for virus detection and infectious disease control, crisis management and response.
Anticipatory Systems
Systems that collect data from machines or social systems and create an automated response mechanism to respond before crisis or the need to replenish occur.
In concept of these ideas and technologies it is helpful to consider the holistic scenarios involved.
Who are the actors? What is the system? How to they interact (or not) and where can measurable, quantifiable and responsive metrics and data be extrapolated. Look for the places where data is already being emitted and leverage those spots to add value to a business, consumer or process and create meaning for this data.
Once again...Digital Kitchen just kills it.. with thei amazingly beautiful title credit for Big Love..
Freeband - The Ambient Life from The QBF on Vimeo.
This was a rather odd result whilst running Personas..
Such cool stuff they make:
Things To Know 4.0
Found on YouTube
This is another official update to the original "Shift Happens" video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence...
I am pleased to announce the Digging Deeper 09 workshop. This is something I have been working on for a few months with some nice folks from IDSA and AIGA. We are very excited about it and we believe it will be an exciting way for people to learn about sustainable design techniques and create and opportunity to collaborate with others and gain practical experience.
"If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference."
R. Buckminster Fuller
My only point of contention: I know of one happy Spanish person... me ;-)
off topic but wonderful...
One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite artists
The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis.
Crisisofcredit.com
As yet unseen footage of the first stable version of levelHead, an augmented-reality spatial-memory game by Julian Oliver.
You can read more about levelHead and how it works here: http://julianoliver.com/levelhead
An inspiring story of how a death in the family changed a former Victoria's Secret product manager changed her life and realized her job skills can be applied to help people and create real change.
for more inspiration, see Project M.
“ Dictating who you can love is like trying to dictate when you can breath. "
We should all be so lucky to find someone we want to be with the rest of our lives.
How anyone could justify taking that joy away just mystifies me.
"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.
Getting the point across
Inexpensive, viral, emotive, persuasive...
and just in time for Valentine’s Day
(warning... Total tear-jerker)
History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.
Spatial Operating System
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Gobbledigook by Sigur Ros
Click here for audio
I imagine that if this song had any actual lyrics (no it is not Icelandic) that it would be about falling madly in love. Because if falling in love had a sound to me, this would be it..the sound of joyful noise.
Thanks Cole!!!!
Micheal Moore has released his latest film Slacker Uprising for free.
favorite Flickr community rule "Don’t be creepy. You know the guy. Don't be that guy."
We heart it visual book-marker.
I love people telling it like it is..
Why does it seem only comedians (Jon Stewart) are allowed to tell the truth?
The Smithsonian is hosting an installation/ARG called Ghost of a Chance..
True public art..
I love this..
very exciting.
An old BBC Article I found about how it is scientifically proven that Buddhists are happier than other people. I am not sure one can accurately quantify happiness but speaking from my own experience, I have been much happier Buddhist than not Buddhist.
Two new things to love about SFMOMA.
1. A blog for the SFMOMA which I think is a great idea.
2. A truly interactive, real life experiential piece from artist Tony Labat which I think is brilliant and am curious to see how it shakes out.
Another example of true, well crafted experience design
The fruits of my iPhone Dev Camp contribution to the world...
location based
intuitive
ambient
multi directional
subjective
activity wayfinder
My friend and I are in the midst of making a new tool for iPhone 2.
Its a location based, intuitive, ambient, multi directional, subjective activity wayfinder.
Written in Coca called Heatmap.mobi.
Screenshots and more info on the way... off to code and design now.
Simple idea...
Dance and celebrate to the world..
and the world will dance and celebrate with you .
So beautiful
Sometimes on a rare, wonderful occasion..
we stumble into the finding the very thing we never knew we always wanted.
I am so happy to have been exposed to film-making.
My life will never be the same.
You can make money without doing evil
Seen at The Google Creative Sandbox, 2008
Obscura DIgital, San Francisco
An interactive fiber optic sculpture that responds to the viewers emotions.
Beautiful!
BART offers a plethora of mobile options and now is also launching city-inspired iTunes playlists as well. I like this.
Aynne is your new bicycle
Giant solar-powered LED in China
Eco-friendly design everywhere...
A new age of enlightenment?
That would be nice.
A good site for information graphics ideas
Two wonderful stories on technology:
Radiohead's distribution revolution enables them to be free of the big music industry machine.
and
With one word a man Twitters his way out of an Egyptian Jail.
Don't fear it - use it for good.
Two Halloweens ago some friends got together for Beat It Vs Love is a Battlefield dance
That would be me and some friends and friends of friends...
people seemed to like it
Google has given free life-long voice mail to the homeless of San Francisco.
this was just funny..
Who Needs Designers
Live performance and Light installations..
I will give kudos when they are due. Glaxo-Smith Klein hatched a radical idea on marketing its new anti-rotavirus vaccine. (Rotavirus is responsible for the deaths of thousands of newborns and infants due to diarrhea and dehydration). Instead of launching the drug to the more prosperous markets of North America and Europe - they focused their efforts on markets where the virus was taking it's largest toll. Developing countries and countries with limited financial resources.
The vaccine was launched and paid for with grants from The Gates Foundation and pre-orders from the countries where the drug was to be launched. The price was kept down so the margin is low - but since the volume would be high it would cover the cost.
90% of newborns in countries such as Mexico are vaccinated now.
GSK gets a good story to tell and more importantly children are saved.
It is a shame that stories like this are hard to come by. I think that when businesses start thinking about how they can improve their models to consider more than just short-term economic gains we can see real change.
Good Magazine has a collection of spiffy information graphics.
From the Neighbors Project:
More than anyone needs to know about one of my very favorite books...
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood who is my very favorite contemporary author.
The official Oryx and Crake website.
and an excellent Guardian UK audio interview with Ms. Atwood on dystopia, good and evil and her thoughts on writing. This is an mp3.
A surfer saved a dog from drowning in Lake Michigan. The mixed breed pooch was swept off a pier by a wave as his disabled owner watched helplessly. Fortunately a quick thinking surfer swooped the dog up on to his board and rode the pooch safely to shore.
Finally!... Smart cars will be arriving early 2008 to the US. I am very excited about this.. There is already huge demand and deposits are already being taken.
I imagine I won't be able to get for at least a year but this will be my next car unless someone comes out with a very cute convertible hybrid or electric car first.
Bay Area drivers get first look at tiny Smart and they like what they see