Photo. Aviation. The Academy of Magical Arts. Simon Sinek: Understanding The Game We're Playing. Pop up video Augmented Reality. The Most Successful E-mail I Ever Wrote. 2008 blast from the past: me, Mike Wallin, and Derek Sivers, the subject of this post. (Photo: A3maven) [Total read time: 3-5 minutes.] Derek Sivers is one of my favorite people.
He is a programmer who lost his stage fright by doing more than 1,000 gigs as a circus ring leader (!!!). He’s also a musician who founded CD Baby in 1998. . – 300,000 artists – 5,339,025 CDs sold online to customers – $200,000,000+ paid directly to the artists Derek sold the company in 2008, and he did so in a most unusual fashion (bolding mine): Sivers sold CD Baby to Disc Makers in 2008 for what Sivers has reported to be $22 million, bequeathing, upon Sivers’ death, the principal to a charitable trust for music education.; while alive, according to Sivers, it “pays out 5% of its value per year to me.”Wikipedia I know this to be true. Stranger still, at its largest, Derek spent roughly four hours on CD Baby every six months! Without further ado, the most successful e-mail he ever wrote… Enter Derek Sivers.
Stress relief. 2016 Inspiration. Delight. Iconic snap and shares. The Big Idea - Biology of Story. Amnon Buchbinder, Principal Investigator and Writer-Director of this Interactive Documentary, invites you to join him for a 5-part introduction to the Biology of Story. Each part is 2 – 3 minutes in length. Further down the sidebar are some selections that we feel help give a glimpse of the "whole" of the Biology of Story.
Amnon Buchbinder is the Writer-Director of Biology of Story. He has directed three feature films: the docu-myth Travelling Medicine Show, and the theatrical releases Whole New Thing and The Fishing Trip. He has written many screenplays and story edited hundreds more, is the author of The Way of the Screenwriter (House of Anansi Press) and the novel Mortal Coil. He is Associate Professor in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University. For more info, see Amnon's Personal Website. Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain.
Sxsw. Turning posts reactions into tangible. Surprise and delight. Caelum Gallery. Kagii’s work is a marriage of simplicity and complexity, and imagery and transparency. The artist starts by painting a canvas, often of figures, using a pallet knife, in bold, flat colors, He takes a digital photograph of the painting and feeds it into a computer. The image is then printed onto sheets of acetate. Although they are paler than the original painting, the sheets glow like subtle stained glass. The sheets are cut up into strips, and are then strung with fish wire from clear, plastic arms that extend from the wall.
The strips then visually reassemble the original image, but in layers like a translucent cubist painting. The result is a prismatic experience, and the configuration can be circular, square or a shallow rectangle. Even if a work is very large and complex, the fact that it is entirely translucent gives it an almost weightless, ephemeral look. Kagii’s art straddles the disciplines of sculpture and painting.
Blind date with books. Brilliant vending machines. Data Viz. Sketch noting. 20 Videos We Couldn't Stop Watching In 2014. In the breakneck pace of digital culture today, our attention span has been whittled down to the length of a two-second GIF. Deciding to click play on a longer video often seems like too much of a commitment.
But sometimes, you have to devote your full attention to a video, because it's just too damned good, whether it's a visual explanation of a woolly scientific concept, a history of video-game graphics, or plain old eye candy. What follows are the videos we couldn't take our eyeballs off of in 2014. David Lynch directs a commercial for Christian Louboutin nail polish We're a big fan of David Lynch doing anything, but especially things that make no sense even for the notoriously strange director. A time-lapse video of the construction on Ground Zero since 9/11 A lot has happened at the site of the old World Trade Center since the attacks of 9/11, and EarthCam has had its livestream focused on it nearly the whole time.
Watch a bunch of spice bags explode awesomely.
Magic leap. Food experiences. Typography. Inclusive marketing. Projection mapping. Honest Slogans: Archive. Foresta Lumina, Coaticook - Demo. Typewriter Artist. Quadcopter badassery. ANAMORPHIC. Read / view me. Pitch ideas. MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU. Customization. Goldrunner. Audio. Funny business stuff. Occulus rift. Resonate. The Presentation Form Presentations should have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Two clear turning points in a presentation’s structure guide the audience through the content and distinctively separate the beginning from the middle and the middle from the end. The first is the call to adventure—this should show the audience a gap between what is and what could be—jolting the audience from complacency. When effectively constructed—an imbalance is created—the audience will want your presentation to resolve this imbalance.
The second turning point is the call to action, which identifies what the audience needs to do, or how they need to change. This second transition point signifies that you’re coming to the presentation’s conclusion. Notice how the middle moves up and down as if something new is happening continually. . © 2013 Duarte Press, LLC.
Packaging. Delight. Commercials. Personalization. Awesomeness. Activations. Ted Talks. Mobile. Social Media. Teasers and challenges. Info graphics. Pranks. The Message is Medium Rare. Coin! Pop up stores. Experientialism as antidote to stuffication. Eye tracking. Idea orphans. Vending machine. Surprise and delight. Anki (AI Cars iPhone controlled) Leap motion. The Acting Styles of Dr. Tobias Fünke. Pokin. Facial recognition. Vending machine. Anatomy of a conspiracy theory: The Death Star truthers. Jazz. Skunkworks. Gameification examples.
Hot Set. Best of Cowbird on Cowbird. ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS on the Behance Network. Presentations. Web comics. Beer. Modern & Contemporary Design Platform for designer, architects & creative. Conferences. Creativity. Zeitgeist Phone Booth Shows Off Smart Windows' Capabilities | Underwire. AUSTIN, Texas — What if you could step into a room, touch the walls, and transform them into something entirely different: One second they’re displaying data you can manipulate with taps and swipes, the next you’ve got an immersive, 360-degree video of someone skydiving surrounding you.
Another tap, and the walls practically disappear, turning transparent. [bug id="sxsw2012"] This is basically what PepsiCo is showing off at its Zeitgeist phone booth here during the South by Southwest festival. Marketing gimmicks aside, it’s an inspiring look at the way a new display technology could transform our future interactions in a few short years. The phone booth is comprised of eight Samsung smart window displays arranged on the four vertical walls of the booth.
When the parts of the screen go black, they’re opaque; when they’re white, they’re see-through. The whole system is running Unity, an authoring system that’s used in videogame platforms like PlayStation. KitHAUS - true modular site constructed pre-fabricated housing system. Tips for Your 40s: Men's Health. The DaVinci Machines Exhibition | Home. Leonardo da Vinci traveling exhibition, Da Vinci - The Genius from Grande Exhibitions creators and producers of museum quality exhibitions.
Portraits Painted Using DNA Traces From The Subjects. Artist Michael Mapes tends to define himself in unusual terms. His CV reads like a series of jokes: “1979: decided not to attend Rhode Island School of Design. 1989-90: Contemplated in Boston. 2012: Still doesn’t text.” As an artist, Mapes depicts other people in similarly unconventional terms. His portraits, which he calls Specimens, are made from actual DNA and other detritus produced by the subjects.
“I’m attempting to deconstruct a human subject and recreate them,” Mapes tells Co.Design. “In a way, that provides a greater opportunity for study and contemplation.” He begins a portrait by taking a few hundred photographs of a person in their environment, which Mapes says grants him a more complex understanding of their identity. God may be in the details, the work suggests, but so are our identities. Check out more of the work on his website.