Digital Image Resizing on crack
Holy crap. Seriously, wow. Be ready to get your mind blown over the digital image resizer.
That’s my dad!
So my dad's on YouTube. He's in his 70s and has more joie de vivre in his little pinkie than most people half his age have in their whole bodies. He's a semi-retired conductor who believes passionately in this new form of exercise he created called Conductorcise. Have a look. It's brilliant!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00c8-3z9V9I]
Flight of the Conchords
Thank goodness for New Zealand. First, I saw the preview for Eagle vs Shark and while I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies, this one looked quirky enough to be right up my alley.
Then I was introduced to Flight of the Conchords. Please, if you have any sense at all you will watch Business Time and Issues. Or, er, you can just click play below. Ahh, this new fangled technology.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5tmnBeNv18]
Cookie Monster eats a computer
Life lesson... don't eat a computer, especially if it was made in 1971.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAKgJDahzw]
Online video
In the past three days, I've been asked to take a look at some great video. Everything from Alanis Morissette doing My Humps to a beatbox flautist. Obviously this isn't new anymore, but I guess its power is new to me. We all knew it was only a matter of time before we got creative with video. Here's my favorite example, though. Of course, it's from the brilliant Stephen Colbert. He provided a video challenge. Edit a video of him being interviewed by Gwen Ifill from PBS's NewsHour.
Imagine what the world would be like without bandwidth. It would be a sad, sad world.
NTC video winner
I cried once when I was at NTC. Well, it wasn't exactly crying. It was that welling up, lump in the throat feeling you get when you witness something really powerful. The winner of the NTC video contest, Stop the Clash of Civilizations, blew me and everyone else away.
It addresses two fundamental points we cannot forget:
1. We do have the power to change our world
2. What we want to change is what a lot of other people want, too
It's so easy to forget these things. For most of us, we spend our days dealing with the trees that blind us to the forest. When we start to see the forest, we still only see all the trees and we neglect the ecosystem that binds the whole thing together. Taking stock in the world around us is definitely not the path of least resistance. Thankfully, this video makes it easy to remember that that path isn't the right one.
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