Networked Society ‘On the Brink’, an interesting 20 mins if you have it.
The intro draws on theories first put forward by Sir Ken Robinson in his 2001 book ‘Out of our Minds: Learning to be Creative’ (and in his subsequent legendary TED lecture here) that are turning out to absolutely spot on.

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Jagger.

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teaim:

The latest beauty industry secret? 
Fotoshop by Adobé 

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The creative process, visualized. 

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corwood:

This is recommended! Haven’t watched this for a while. Thanks for the reminder jesuisperdu!

MUST WATCH: Powers of Ten is a 1968 American documentary short film written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten (see also logarithmic scale and order of magnitude). The film is an adaptation of the book Cosmic View (1957) by Dutch educator Kees Boeke, and more recently is the basis of a new book version.  Both adaptations, film and book, follow the form of the Boeke original, adding color and photography to the black and white drawings employed by Boeke in his seminal work.

The film was rereleased in 1977. In 1998, “Powers of Ten” was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. [via]

sciencecenter:

Moth’s true colors shine after 47 million years

Pause for a moment. Go back to the title of the post. 47 million years ago. That blows my mind. It’s been 47 million years since this puny moth flew around the Earth, and today, scientists have figured out what it actually looked like. Unbelievable.

“Until now, we had no idea what colors ancient moths and butterflies had,” said Yale University paleogeologist Maria McNamara.

The fossils’ time-machined hues exist because moths and butterfly wings have what’s known as structural color. Rather than pigments, structural colors are created by light-warping nanoscale surface features; if fossilization occurs delicately enough, and the intervening eons are gentle, those structures can be reproduced and preserved indefinitely.

teaim:

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. Info on locations here…

Forget the old Red, White and Blue: America is to sell itself to the world via a multicoloured, ‘percolating’ logo by The Brand Union, launched yesterday. Jury well and truly out on this one…

http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/november/brand-usa

If you grew up in the 70s, 80s, or 90s, or indeed 00s 
and like music, you probably remember the 
John Peel Festive 50s. So here's your chance to 
listen to every single track, in sequence or at
random. Someone said: "If you're going to be hypercritical,
There's too much f***ing Wedding Present." 
SHUT UP, one can never have 'too much' Wedding Present.
http://peelplayer.com

teaim:

With Angle, fixing a bluetooth headset gets as intuitive as picking up a phone.

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teaim:

Holy gastronomy! Flickr set showcasing 43 courses at El Bulli. 

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teaim:

The story behind the Burning Man poster… lovely work.

Oooh Type porn game… try match the vector points to their original positions to reshape the letters.

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life:

Over the decades, while LIFE published dozens of photoessays by the 20th century’s greatest photographers, few combined the raw intensity and technical brilliance of Larry Burrows’ “One Ride With Yankee Papa 13” — widely seen as the single greatest photographic achievement to emerge from the war in Vietnam.

Here, LIFE.com presents “One Ride With Yankee Papa 13” in its entirety for the first time since it was published: all the photos that appeared in the April 16, 1965 issue of LIFE are here; all of the words here, from the third slide onward, are taken directly from that issue. In addition, we unveil a gallery of never-before-seen photos taken in the weeks leading up to the events chronicled in the photoessay. In his searing, sympathetic portrait of young men fighting for their lives at the very moment America is ramping up its involvement in Southeast Asia, Burrows’ work anticipates the scope and the dire, calamitous arc of the entire war in Vietnam.

(see more — One Ride With Yankee Papa 13)