I tweeted Jay this morning but when I was biking through Amsterdam I couldn’t stop thinking about this particular video. Jay has an extraordinary fine grained resolution looking into the world. I love that. Remembers me about me when I was studing art and was still actively vlogging. Now the rush of life makes me lose that. This video is reminding me and giving me back the incentive to take the time to look, wonder, enjoy, love life.

• permalink to the original post: Panic Begins
• made by Jay Dedman
• website name momentshowing.net
• direct link to the movie
• posted on April 14, 2008

“By 2010 computers will disappear. The will be so small the will be embedded in our clothing. Images will go directly to our brain creating full emergence in virtual reality…. If you go to 2029 we will have 2-25th power beter price performance capacity…. it will be millions of times more powerfull then it is today…. a $1000 of computer will be far more powerful than the human brain in term of raw capacity… we are going to merge with these technologies… it will be a great expansion of our intelligence… growth is exponential not linear.”
Progress is inevitable. So these predictions by Ray Kurzweil just blow my mind because if you only look at the growth curve, he must be right.
 
• permalink to the original post: How technology’s accelerating power will transform us
• made by TED & Ray Kurzweil
• website name ted.com
• direct link to the movie
• talk held on February 2005

Amy is back. How I missed her. Gave me an excuse to look at her vids again. Posted “the jamaica plain principle” before but she has more amazing vids to share with you and the world. Like the “electric chair”, “why not” and “travolta travolta”.

permalink to the original post: electric chair
made by Amy Carpenter
website name Welcome to Amyville
direct link to the movie
posted on April 15, 2006

Commented on the post after one day of silence on my part:
21 comments so far but not one about having a nice job they are proud of. So even this 22nd comment has a purpose. Telling you like minded people that it can happen, having a nice job that pays the rent, feeds the kids and you still have time to be with those kids.

For more that ten years I have been my own boss and off course loved it, but the money factor killed many of my playfulness. Why? Because I’m a creative people person and not a business suite. The value of making is not the money I earn with it. It’s the added value I bring to the other person by my creativity.
I found out this can be true (even more true) within a regular job.
All the business (hate it) is done by my boss and I just do what I’m good at. Adding more productive hours and finding my knowledge and creative thinking touching more people.
You can only do so much as a one mans army.

Not that I’m saying I will never be “free” again, heck I still have my foundation for the remaining two days in the week.

nb. This is a perfect example of how a videopost could / should work from the interaction point of view. GO RUPERT!!!

permalink to the original post: Mad As Hell (6 minute rant)
made by Rupert Howe
website name twittervlog.tv
direct [vPIP class="hVlogTarget" type="video/quicktime" onclick="vPIPPlay(this, 'width=640, height=480, autostart=true', '', 'active=true'); return false;"]link to the movie
posted July 13, 2007

Solar thermal power generator tower in Seville, Spain. An amazing sight and a truly great idea, still think we are missing something in finding a more direct way to transform sunlight into energy.

permalink to the original post: Solucar Solar Tower
posted on youtube by Jemper14vigilans
made by the BBC
posted May 2, 2007

Very nice office teamwork and nicely directed. One shot film. And gives a great insite into the company and the young people that work there. I’m getting old fast.

permalink to the original post: Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger
made by amandalynferri
website name Connected Ventures
uploaded on April 20, 2007

A nice and poetic statement on street advertising by Grafitti Research Lab and the Anti-Advertising Agency.

permalink to the original post: Antiadvertisingagency’s Light Criticism Grafitti
made by Anti-Advertising Agency
posted on March 28, 2007

Why do people succeed? Because they’re smart? Or lucky? How about: Neither. Richard St. John compacts seven years of research on successful people into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.

permalink to the original post: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes
speaker Richard St. John
website name ted.com
filmed on Februari, 2005

5 year after the fact they posted their witness video. Gets to me more than all the footage I saw on the regular news channels.

permalink to the original post: What we saw – Bob and Bri
made by Bob and Bri

A great overview on what internet and in that sense written text / language has done for us so far. What to do with it in the future?

permalink to the original post: Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
made by Digital Ethnography – Mike Wesch
posted Wednesday, March 8, 2007