Scientific American: Cholesterol from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.
Text by Jeanne Garbarino. Images by Perrin Ireland. Video by Nick Navatta
Yes, when in excess, cholesterol can be very detrimental to your health and is often the culprit behind heart attacks and strokes. However, behind the seemingly dangerous exterior lies a molecule that is essential for human life.
Streets of Dubai from Alphachimp Studio on Vimeo.
Whilst on assignment in the United Arab Emirates, team members take an adventurous day trip to haggle for brand name knock-offs, peruse backstreet markets, and convince a taxi driver to make a speedy stop at the world's tallest building.
[view the same footage sans music here.]
PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellows from PopTech on Vimeo.
Meet all the Fellows in this video—and then learn more about each organization’s work in their individual PopTech presentations below.
You can watch their videos from the 2009 Fellows page (click the link under each project description), from their Vimeo channel, or follow the links below:
Aviva Presser Aiden & Hugo Van Vuuren of Lebônê
Eben Bayer of Ecovative Design
Paula Kahumbu of WildlifeDirect
Derek Lomas of Playpower Foundation
Josh Nesbit of FrontlineSMS:Medic
James O’Brien of Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School
Emily Pilloton of Project H Design
Hayat Sindi of Diagnostics For All
Taylor Stuckert & Mark Rembert of Energize Clinton County
Congratulations to our 2009 Social Innovation Fellows!
All video is released with Creative Commons Noncommercial-Attribution-ShareAlike license—and we hope you will embed and share these videos widely to help the Fellows continue their work.
"It is a world full of conflicts." notes Jon Stewart in his intro to this report. "Some are more important than others. And some are much, much less."
In the contentious field of science, there are many accepted truths. These two ape scientists duke it out over who is our closest ancestor. Fortunately, The Daily Show correspondent John Oliver is there to conduct an evidence-based debate: Chimps vs. Orangutans.
(A 'must-see' in that you must see the scientist with a mohawk who lacks any capacity for self-deprication or free-style rap skills.)
For all of your artists or artistic types wondering if what you make, makes a difference. You are not alone.
Music video for Tanya Davis' song Art by Andrea Dorfman.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. --Carl G. Jung
(PS. Thanks to Nellie Durand for the link. Nellie makes LOTS of art. Check it out: http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/)
CNN's Becky Anderson looks at how the internet has helped shape a new way on innovative thinking and sharing. This video features our friend Garrick Jones, founder of The Ludic Group and long-time lover of art, innovation and creative business strategy.
In 1999, I visited the Rift Valley in East Africa and sketched the Olduvai Gorge where Louis Leakey, his wife and family members scratched and dug out the earliest ancestors to humans. It is good to see that the family is carrying on the tradition of asking: "Who are we?"This week, NPR is focusing upon the effects of--and coping methods for--this single technology that has shaped the workflow, schedules and lifestyles of much of the world.
For a glimpse on where the emerging new media may take us as "prosumers" who produce and consume media, check out this vision of a future scenario, in which virtual reality, spiritual experience, and the commerce of memory are commonplace.
Imagine creating a 7 minute short animated film using hand drawn black-and-white line drawings. At 12 frames per second, you would have to create 5040 individual drawings.
Now image creating the same number of sequential images but with spray paint on public buildings. That is what this trippy video created in Argentina presents. It is hypnotizing. (Thanks to Matt Andrews)
Photovoltaic cells grown like ivy, electricity cultivated from your corpse, computer-aided oragami, a pheronome dating agency apparatus,... these are some of the beautiful and bizarre designer objects on display at MOMA.
In the words of the senior curator, Paola Antonelli: "Designers they know that their role is to enable revolution. They are constructive by definition."
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(I also enjoy the information graphic consulted by the judges. Sort of like a menu of mustaches!)
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I want to get a hold of this simply for the complex information graphics demonstrating how to execute moves like the Moonwalk and The Reverse Centipede.
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At least it was bubbly Katie Couric, who giggled, and not, shouty Bill O'Reilly. I do think that the Daily Show should incorporate the methodology for full effect.
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Part of the transparency section of Good Magazine, this short video commissioned by ED in '08 highlights details behind America's ranking in public education.
In 2002, UNICEF compared public education in 24 nations around the world. The U.S. ranked 18th. So what's the problem? Are we spending enough per student? Are students spending enough time in school? America needs to do some extra credit if its public education system is going to stay competitive. To boost America’s economy we must focus on strengthening K-12 education. Why? Economists estimate that if America raises student skills closer to that of European nations, the U.S. economy would grow by an additional 5% over 30 years resulting in an extra $1.5 trillion in 2037 alone—more than triple current U.S. spending on K-12 public education.
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Watch graphic facilitator Steph Crowley create a 35-foot mural over 5 days in high speed--inspirational music included!
After a year of working on MissingLink with GradientLabs, and trying to introduce it to the larger graphics and facilitation world, I identify with this Old School Brother of the Monastic Help Desk.
[Thanks to Mark Frisse]
Make Magazine brings you weekend projects of stuff you can make at home.
I found this too late for the holidays, but this video demonstrates three techniques for creating small holiday cards: aluminum foil, woodblock prints and writing with light!
[via Blip.tv]
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