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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:09:07 -0500

Sir Ken Robinson on Education Systems

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:33:14 -0500

Not sure how I have missed out on Sir Ken Robinson until now. However, he has some excellent ideas for reforming education. The current system is broken, the current system is a disservice to helping us (humans collectively) tackle the problems we are all facing: hunger, cancer, space exploration hindrances, energy, to name a handful.

I feel by changing the education process - most notably, doing away with what he calls anesthetising students and encouraging their divergent thinking (something improv teaches, by the way) - we will be doing the best thing we can for the future our children will grow into.

See what I mean below:

"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative..."

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:38:03 -0500

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

- Ira Glass (via nefffy)

buzz: zsultan: We found our new iOS guy. Meanwhile, I’ve...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:00:05 -0500

buzz:

zsultan:

We found our new iOS guy.

Meanwhile, I’ve apparently been replaced while on vacation!

12 Crucial Homepage Elements Your Website Must Have [INFOGRAPHIC]

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:46:20 -0500

12 Crucial Homepage Elements Your Website Must Have [INFOGRAPHIC]:

Twelve crucial elements your homepage shouldn’t go without.

Looks like I might have a little work to do. :D

itsaboutinterior: Exterior chimney by Haugen/Zohar.

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:28:42 -0500

itsaboutinterior:

Exterior chimney by Haugen/Zohar.

lab111: Snoring Dormouse with sound - listen (von...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:31:05 -0500

lab111:

Snoring Dormouse with sound - listen (von thamesditton46)

OMGOMGOMG! And I totally hope you’re doing this with your Saturday. :)

itsaboutinterior: House BM by Architecten de Vykdre Vinck...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:00:06 -0500

itsaboutinterior:

House BM by Architecten de Vykdre Vinck Taillieu.

thedailywhat: Sleeping With Celebrities of the Day: Comedian...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:03:05 -0500

thedailywhat:

Sleeping With Celebrities of the Day: Comedian Mark Malkoff — who’s done some pretty weird sh*t in his day — tries to save some cash while visiting Hollywood by attempting to convince a few celebrities (and a few “celebrities”) to let him crash on their couch (or, you know, treehouse).

[thanks mark!]

allcreatures: This bear looks like it’s relaxing a giant bubble...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:03:05 -0500

allcreatures:

This bear looks like it’s relaxing a giant bubble bath. The animal was caught on camera as it submerged itself in the foam that had been produced by a nearby waterfall. Picture: Sergey Gorshkov/Minden/solent

Lego Moleskines

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:30:06 -0500

Lego Moleskines:

I’ll take two crates, actually. One for me and one for the kid.

thedailywhat: Photo of the Day: Members of the Polish...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:05 -0500

thedailywhat:

Photo of the Day: Members of the Polish opposition party Palikot’s Movement held up Guy Fawkes masks in the Sejm today to protest their government’s recent passage of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

[reddit.]

mabelmoments: Picture: Jan Vermeer/Minden/solent

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:30:05 -0500

mabelmoments:

Picture: Jan Vermeer/Minden/solent

allcreatures: How to draw… wolves by Nadia Shireen

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:01:07 -0500

allcreatures:

How to draw… wolves by Nadia Shireen

For Michael Mishaw mrtoto: Robot Headphone Splitter | Uncrate

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:00:06 -0500

For Michael Mishaw

mrtoto:

Robot Headphone Splitter | Uncrate

agentmlovestacos: Amanda Palmer and Reggie Watts sing about...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:00:05 -0500

agentmlovestacos:

Amanda Palmer and Reggie Watts sing about Doctor Who. Click the image to watch.

via doctorwho & Buzzfeed

f1dot8: North by Northwest: The Vandamm House Or how Alfred...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:00:05 -0500

f1dot8:

North by Northwest: The Vandamm House

Or how Alfred Hitchcock and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer put a Frank Lloyd Wright house on top of Mount Rushmore in spite of common sense, Frank Lloyd Wright and the United States Government. Sort of.

To understand how the Vandamm house came into “existence”, you have to understand the main point of “North by Northwest”. The complexities of the famous plot aside, it is about a man who is surrounded by the trappings of wealth, power and prestige - none of which are of any use to him whatever in his incredible adventure.

“North by Northwest’s” hero, Roger Thornhill, is a Madison Avenue ad man who is abducted when he is mistaken for a spy. He’s kidnapped from the least likely place on the planet - right out from under the Everett Shinn murals in the Oak Bar of the Plaza Hotel. Having made the point that even the safety of the most famous hotel in New York was useless to his film’s hero, Hitchcock went on to surround Roger Thornhill with example after example of late-1950’s luxury, and kept hammering the point that none of it did Thornhill any good. The assassins take Thornhill to the Phipps Estate on Long Island in a Cadillac limousine. He’s nearly killed later in a Mercedes roadster. He escapes back to the Plaza, then to the new United Nations Building. His adventures take him to Chicago via the Twentieth Century Limited, where he meets a female spy who possesses a Bergdorf Goodman wardrobe, a ruby necklace from Van Cleef & Arpels, and a new 1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III convertible. From there, Thornhill’s adventures culminate in a visit to Mount Rushmore, where he finds the mastermind behind the assassins in a luxurious Modernist eyrie built almost on top of the monument.

The Vandamm house was a problem - or, rather, multiple problems. First was that it had to fulfill the recognition requirement; the house had to reek of sophistication and luxury. Second, it almost had to be a Modernist house; the rocky hills of South Dakota didn’t lend themselves to traditional architecture. And third, it had to be a Modernist house that was obviously in the same class of expensive good taste as the Plaza and the ruby necklace and the Lincoln and the Twentieth Century Limited. Hitchcock knew that there was only one way to fill these requirements - a Frank Lloyd Wright house. He ran into trouble almost immediately.

The biggest was that Frank Lloyd Wright was expensive, even by Hollywood standards. read more

stuffthatyoulove: Key(board) Desk Brush By...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:30:05 -0500

stuffthatyoulove:

Key(board) Desk Brush

By Present/&/Correct

allcreatures: One of 22 recently-born coatis is given a medical...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:12:44 -0500

allcreatures:

One of 22 recently-born coatis is given a medical inspection by zoo keepers at Melbourne Zoo. The coati, which belongs to the larger raccoon family, was given a vaccination and micro-chipped to be easily identifiable in future.

Picture: EPA/JULIAN SMITH (via Animal pictures of the week: 20 January 2012 - Telegraph)

Yet another reason for me to go back to Australia.

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:06:04 -0500

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