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Tue, 21 May 2013 08:00:47 -0500

The Sad Reality of Gun Control by Bruce Feirstein

Illustration by Steve Brodner

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Tornado Strikes Moore, Oklahoma

An EF-4 tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma today, causing widespread damage across a 20-mile path throughout the Oklahoma City suburb. The tornado has claimed at least 6 lives with many more injured and has left thousands without power.

Our thoughts go out to those who have been affected, and we hope those in the Oklahoma City area stay safe in the upcoming days. You can find more information on how to help the tornado victims here.

AlmaBBDO and Getty Images have just released their newest...

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:12:18 -0500

AlmaBBDO and Getty Images have just released their newest creation: 85 Seconds. A short put together exclusively with Getty footage. Copywriter Sophie Schoenburg and art director Marcos Kotlhar spent more than four months trawling through Getty footage to create the final edit.

“We reviewed more than 4,000 Getty Images Video clips and adapted the story as the research evolved. Sometimes we searched for something we had in mind, and other times we would find something great we weren’t looking for,” says Schoenburg.

Awesome work curating and editing. Respect for these guys.

The campaign follows on from last year’s From Love to Bingo, which spliced 873 still images into a one-minute ad that told the story of a couple falling in love and growing old together. You can watch it here.

A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:49:20 -0500

Like a personality test but about how you use information and communication technology, aka the...

2 Good Places to Live, 1,200 Light-Years Away

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:00:36 -0500

2 Good Places to Live, 1,200 Light-Years Away: Astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler mission said...

Beautiful. alecxinwonderland: 8 Minutes of the Earth’s...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 08:00:46 -0500

Beautiful.

alecxinwonderland:

8 Minutes of the Earth’s Rotation

How I wish our planet’s movement was this apparent while staring at the night sky. It could probably make a lot more people realize just how tiny we are compared to this vast unexplored galaxy above our heads.

This is a stack of 70 pictures with a 5 second exposure each at ISO 3200 and f/2.2.

Photographed by: Paolo Nacpil

♡☹♡

"[Age] makes you more aware of other people’s lives. You see more from the inside: the troubles, the..."

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:00:50 -0500

“[Age] makes you more aware of other people’s lives. You see more from the inside: the...

Truth.

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:00:56 -0500

Truth.

Do you love or hate the 80s? I have mixed feelings. When I look...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:00:52 -0500

Do you love or hate the 80s? I have mixed feelings. When I look at the architecture from that decade my eyes ache but then I remember my first WalkMan and the excitement of walking on the streets listening to my very own private music. National Geographic is launching a new series titled ”The 80s. The Decade That Made us” and this is its wonderful teaser.

Creative by The Corner agency, directed by Hoku & Adam at Partizan.

Via Creative Review.

May I gift you with a new psychological puzzle? “You can...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:00:54 -0500

May I gift you with a new psychological puzzle?

“You can force your story’s shape but the color will always bloom upstream.”

Upstream Color. From Shane Carruth, the writer and director of Primer.

Starlings

Head Like The Sun

You can watch the New York Times review here.

ibmsocialbiz: A study of work by Amazon Mechanical Turks...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:00:54 -0500

ibmsocialbiz:

A study of work by Amazon Mechanical Turks analyzed their accuracy in analyzing Google Street Map images for wheelchair accessibility. Results: 81% without any quality controls and 93% with the addition of simple quality control schemes.

(via Crowds Helping Make City Sidewalks More Accessible | Follow the Crowd)

wolframalpha: RIP Roger Ebert. Champaign-Urbana will miss...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:00:55 -0500

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RIP Roger Ebert. Champaign-Urbana will miss you.

“Dear Straight People, Why Do I Have to Prove My Love Is...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:41:21 -0500

“Dear Straight People, Why Do I Have to Prove My Love Is Authentic?”

Respect to Denice Frohman.

Life Drawing at The Book Club “Every easel in a life...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:00:55 -0500

Life Drawing at The Book Club

“Every easel in a life drawing class captures a different angle of the model. We created the film by editing each drawing with the next, moving around the circle of easels. To find out more about life drawing classes at The Book Club visit wearetbc.com”

Shot, produced and directed by Wriggles & Robins

Graded by Aline Sinquin at MPC Sound Mix by 750mph

Life model: Clelia Rinaldi

"There’s some fear involved in doing what you love. I get up every morning and I look at that fear..."

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:00:41 -0500

“There’s some fear involved in doing what you love. I get up every morning and I look at that...

First World Problems Read by Third World People. This is just...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:00:57 -0500

First World Problems Read by Third World People.

This is just how ridiculous and out of reality we all are.

"The older you get, the more you turn into a cartoon character."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:08:03 -0500

“The older you get, the more you turn into a cartoon character.” - Richard Bartle (via...

Wealth Inequality in the United States. Shocking. I really...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:52:01 -0600

Wealth Inequality in the United States.

Shocking. I really don’t know how most of the top 1% can be aware of this and don’t push for change so everyone can move towards a better future.

“Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.”

So you want to smoke pot…

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:22:00 -0600

What would happen if pot were like wine?

The Sociology of Gossip We all love gossip and it doesn’t...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:36:00 -0600

The Sociology of Gossip

We all love gossip and it doesn’t matter if you want to admit it or not. At some point or another, we all have questions and need answers about not only “academic” or intellectual stuff. We want to know what, when, how, and why about people around us and people up in the stars: celebrities. And this eagerness —sometimes secret, sometimes addictive, sometimes even irrational— to know more about what is happening is just a reflection of us trying to understand why and how something happened. It’s an unconscious quest to find in gossip a reflection of who we are as a society.

Gossip is anthropology. And even though I pride myself of not buying any of those tabloids full of gossip, maybe we all should try to figure out what all the covers and stories filling those publications mean and say about us.

Maybe I should stop trying not to buy into gossip —aka stop being an arrogant nerd— and try to understand what this “Celebrity Obsessed World” means.