Custom NASA chairs for the crowds to watch space shuttle lift-off and landing, from Space Program Mars by Tom Sachs, “a demonstration of all that is necessary for survival, scientific exploration, and colonization in extraterrestrial environs.”
Complement with this remix love letter to the Space Shuttle.
No More 3D Movies
I’ve sat through a handful of 3D movies over the past few years, and now today again I tried to give the medium another chance and chose to watch The Hobbit in 3D*. But I can safely say I am done with 3D movies.
I can’t think of a single moment in all of the 3D films I’ve seen where I’ve felt somehow more connected then I would if the image was 2D. The difference between a movie in color and black and white is huge, as well as the size of the frame really effects the way a story feels. But 3D is only a distraction.
I’ve fought being the cranky old guy who doesn’t like change from the beginning. My instinct has always been that this is entirely a gimmick. I can’t do it anymore though, 3D it’s time to get off »
Experience Through Images
Throughout all of my extensive travel this year I keep facing the issue that I only feel like I experience my trips once I am able to process the photos I take.
On previous trips I have forced myself to set the camera aside and try and only experience them in the moment, but I found that was incredibly fleeting and unsatisfying in the long run. Leaving me ultimately just ignoring or allowing most of the events to fade away in my mind for the most part unnoticed and unprocessed. I find when I look back at my images though I have a second experience of those moments which often feels like I missed out on what happened in some way. Perhaps this is natural and the photos are simply tools for helping us reflect, and that’s why people love taking »
Rates of travel in 1800. That’s about 6 weeks to Chicago.
(via How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s? | MNN – Mother Nature Network)
Think of this map the next time your flight gets delayed by an hour or two.
I snuck into the Merkelettes studio over the holidays for another Christmas Night session.
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New year resolutions
#1 – Blog More, a lot more.
#2 – Wake Up Early, not stupid early though.
Digiphrenia: Because technology enables us to be aware of and have control over multiple conceptual spaces simultaneously, our attention is increasingly divided. Whether we are “multi-tasking” at work or piloting drone strikes in Afghanistan from a suburban office park in Las Vegas, we are not in the present moment (in a zen sense) but actually in fragments between moments that happen to be occurring at the same time. The key to avoiding these dislocation, Rushkoff suggests, is to understand the difference between time as data flow (like a Twitter feed) and time as data storage (like a book.) Knowing when to be in “the now,” and when to insulate yourself from it can help you reclaim control of your time and attention.
It will take many years to reach the computational power to give a real glimpse of whether we are living in a simulation, the scientists contend, but even by looking at the tiny portion of the universe that we can currently accurately model, it may be possible to detect ‘signatures’ of constraints on physical processes that could point to a simulation.
Science, I love you so much.
Evening work session, with a view of the Nile. #smallworldnews
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were and ask, why not?
John F. Kennedy (via azspot)
We didn’t get to where we are now by being whiny cynics, also, ladies are pretty good at dreaming too JFK.
And You Wonder Why You’re Exhausted
Background via Fast Company:
In The Human Face of Big Data, Rick Smolan, a former Time, Life, and National Geographic photographer famous for creating the Day in the Life book series, and author Jennifer Erwitt examine how today’s digital onslaught and emerging technologies can help us better understand and improve the human condition—ourselves, interactions with each other, and the planet.
Susan Karlin, FastCo Create. Earth’s Nervous System: Looking at Humanity Through Big Data.
The data train never stops.
Takeover of the mobile web (infographic)
Takeover of the mobile web (infographic)
It’s been predicted that mobile internet usage will overtake desktop internet usage by 2015. This infographic looks at exactly how those figures are shaping up and evaluates whether or not the desktop computer is on its last legs.
No one likes to be tied down, eventually the mobile web will simply become the web.
The Chalkboard Zip Hoodie by the awesome Imaginary Foundation is now available in my Thinx Gifts Store.
Great 2 minute spot for The Guardian.
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Rather than promote the author of a failing strategy, we need a C.I.A. director who will halt the agency’s creeping militarization and restore it to what it does best: collecting human intelligence. It is an intelligence agency, not a lightweight version of Joint Special Operations Command. And until America wins the intelligence war, missiles will continue to hit the wrong targets, kill too many civilians and drive young men into the waiting arms of our enemies.