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Chopin Funeral March

By ⋅ January 7, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Over one million people like this video on You Tube. The link that lead me there: “I am just listening to Frédéric Chopins “Funeral March”, played by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Chopin had the unique talent to combine the most melancholic melodies with some of the most beautiful sounds. His “marche funèbre” is a very good [...]

AI is on it’s way and the Military will be using it first?

By ⋅ December 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Robotics coming to warfare is a mostly obvious topic from following the increased use of unmanned drones in “Targeted Killings” and surveillance, along with the ability to defuse a bomb remotely through the use of robotics etc. etc. – the presence and dexterity of real life robotics in use in war and industry is evident. [...]

Thank You Mask Man by Lenny Bruce

By ⋅ February 12, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The film was completed in 1968. Its audio is derived from a recording of Bruce’s routine. The short was made by San Francisco-based company Imagination, Inc. and directed by Jeff Hale, a former member of the National Film Board of Canada. After years of saving a small town, its population is angered that The Lone [...]

From Cigarette vending machine to art vending machine

By ⋅ January 10, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Progress. Take those awful dispensers of death and convert them to burpers of art. That is what Art*O*Mat does. They refurbish cigarette dispensers into art dispensers. Each machine gets an individualized makeover before it’s shipped off to various locations, from museum shops to small art boutiques. Cute idea.

Street trials pro Danny MacAskill displays amazing skills

By ⋅ December 26, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

This seems impossible to me, even after watching it. Street trials pro Danny MacAskill seems to be a unity of one with his bike, doing moves and stunts that would be amazing even if he had been born a hybrid wheeled life form. Knowing he is bouncing around like a flea, with the accuracy of [...]

Making animation using Google Docs… wow!

By ⋅ December 23, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Part of the big G’s new advertising campaign and because of that, or is it despite that? a pretty nice desplay of what can be done with skill, creativity and a bit of sweat equity. The animation is quite clever and created using only the tool set available via Google Docs.

Don’t let AIDS gain more ground. Creative ad: human ball

By ⋅ October 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Don’t let AIDS gain more ground. Everyone must have access to treatment.

Stop Lights? We don’t need no stinkin’ stop lights!!

By ⋅ October 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Traffic flows better without traffic lights. Sometimes the inherited truth is actually wrong. And if you want to make cuts, rather than cutting back on services people use and need, maybe ending certain ingrained big brother enforcement might work better (start with traffic lights, but why not the Drug War? War in Afghanistan?)

HTML5 + CSS3 + Firefox 4 = very cool slide show example of new tech

By ⋅ October 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Put magic in a bottle, digitize it and turn it into a webpage and you have these new capabilities. DZ Slides

Salman Khan on the Khan Academy

By ⋅ September 26, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Old news for many, but a really great source for education via YouTube videos: Khan Academy Sal gives a presentation on the Khan Academy, how it started and what sets it apart and challenges the notion that free is somehow by definition less valuable than very expensive, and that live is always and necessarily better [...]

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