This is a great example of how seeing should no longer be believing. The power to manipulate images translates directly into the power to manipulate what you think and feel. Check out just how much power we have these days to almost effortless maniupulate images and your feelings of self worth.
I nice intro to Don Norman and his work. Whether you’ve only heard his name or you one many of his book, this is a nice short intro to Norman and his rather common-sensical work.
This is pure brilliance from an underrated brilliant man. Carlin likes to hold a mirror up to our uglier sides. Here he makes a delicious beat poetry of advertising and self-delusional bullshit. I particularly love how he juxtaposes situationally contradictory words in the same phrase to show how on the one hand they are contradictory, and on the other how bullshit frighteningly reconciles all contradictions in its ultimate meaninglessness. Like I said, brilliant stuff.
There’s always something interesting in the frictions found where culture intersect. Check out Su Fie’s (Sophie’s) chronicle of a single jewish girl in Beijing trying to find just a little love and romance in such a completely foreign culture.
“The problem is not ignorance, it is preconveived ideas”
This is so worth watching on so many levels. TED had some good stuff, some not so good stuff, and some stuff that seemed good on the surface but in retrospect wasn’t that good.
This one, however, is great. Watch this for the content of Rosling’s insight. Watch this for the powerful presentation of these insights in motion graphics. Indeed this might just be the first use of motion graphics I’ve seen where the motion actually conveys insight.
Watch the video, and if you want to play with Hans’s data yourself, head over to gapminder.org for all of his fully interactive charts. You will be further amazed by both the content and it powerful presentation.
Its hard to really know for sure if this is true viable, it is a fascinating new approach to air travel from a purely technological perspective. While this may not the perfect solution, we need a lot more thinking like this in aviation, healthcare, government, everywhere.
This might be the coolest video I’ve seen online. Sure kids these days might have mySpace, but we had funked up Stevie Wonder singing Superstition live on Sesame Street.
What does this have to do with design or innovation? Well watch the video and compare it to, say, the VMA. On the one hand we have an increidbly cool, intimate and authentic experience. On the other we have generic, prefabbed, homogenized posing. What is an authetic, from the heart, expereince worth to you?
(yes folks, those are real musicians playing real instruments, live. who knew?)
Back in grad school I was one of Richard Florida’s students as he was discovering the connections and correlations between various metrics of diversity and economic productivity. His conclusion was diversity and social tolerance has a consistent measurable and predictable positive economic effect. In other words, diversity pays. Furthermore, it is exactly this openness to diversity that has driven the US to be the world’s largest economy. Unfortunately American public policy has started to close and damn up the flow of creative talent into the country. This, Florida says, is potentially very dangerous because it threatens the very engine of US economic prosperity. Anyway, lots of good stuff here about how cultures cultivate talent and innovation.
I’d like to start this off with one of the most stunningly inspirational interviews I’ve ever seen. Sure Feynman is a nobel laureate, world famous professor, worked on the bomb, and is an all around bright guy. But some people are so brilliant, that they transcend the field of their brilliance and shine into unexpected corners. Feynman has this kind of brilliance. This is worth watching over and over again. Wow.
I currently live in Vancouver, have a Masters in design from Carnegie Mellon University and over a decade of experience designing interactive products and systems in both telecommunications and healthcare.
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