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The Beauty of Data Visualization

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.

Tags: art, corporate ethics, design, genius, information, perception, ted talks, visionary
Posted in Art |

Pinchbeck and Hancock on Interesting Stuff

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Tags: aliens, ark of the covenant, consciousness, Daniel Pinchbeck, data, drugs, energy, entheogens, evolution, gnosticism, Graham Hancock, information theory, mind, noosphere, perception, psychedelics, pyramids, reality, Yahweh
Posted in Editorial |

The Secret Powers of Time

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

An awesome animated video of a speech by Philip Zimbardo that outlines current and past states of human relations to time perception.

For more animated talks check out RSA Animate.

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Tags: awareness, children, family, future oriented, hedonism, memory, perception, Philip Zimbardo, present, time
Posted in Editorial, Video |

The Tiny Universe of Visible Light

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

The portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that encompasses visible light is mind bogglingly tiny.

Tags: electromagnetic spectrum, light, perception, vision
Posted in Video |

Level Up!

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Game designer Jane McGonigal explains why the skills learned through online gaming are teaching kids how to be super-empowered hopeful individuals that can not only make epic changes in virtual worlds – but in the real world as well.

Well that’s all well and good but how does she push the gaming to real life? Through EVOKE – a deeply involved social network game that gives participants mission objectives for making social change.

EVOKE trailer (a new online game) from Alchemy on Vimeo.

Additionally, some companies are now implementing gaming elements into their workforce structuring.

Tags: awareness, collective consciousness, consciousness, gaming, Jane McGonigal, level up, perception, superhero, virtual reality, world of warcraft
Posted in Editorial, Video |

Atemporality for the Creative Artist

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

TimeWarp

Atemporal: (adj) Independent of time; timeless.

An excellent article by science fiction author Bruce Sterling on Atemporality for the Creative Artist.

If you have a genuinely avant garde idea, something that’s really new, you should write about it or create about it as if it were being seen twenty years from now. If you want to strip away the sci-fi chrome, the sense of wonder. You want it to be antique before it hits the page or the screen. Imagine that it was twenty years gone into the future. Just approach it from that perspective.

No longer allow yourself to be hypnotized by the sense of technical novelty. Just refuse to go there. Accept that it is already passe’, and create it from that point of view. Try to make it news that stays news.

Futurity was expected, futurity is here now, there goes futurity into the past, so long futurity, thank you for an exciting, fulfilling and worthwhile time.

How can we crack atemporality with video frame-rates?

Here is a video series of Bruce Sterling dicussing atemporality and the passage of time.