5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

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    • 5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.   The Spanish city of Valencia has a stunning array of retro-scifi/futuristic public arts and cultural buildings http://bit.ly/brUHgS

    2. There is a scene in the Alexandria Quartet that this underwater sculpture garden invokes, most likely unintentionally http://bit.ly/cTy3aD

    3. An experimental appropriated video project on vimeo called "oops" http://bit.ly/aiXNIb

    4. This collection of iconic photography (and the stories surrounding them) and amazing http://bit.ly/bBA1Au

    5. The stations of the Moscow Metro are a fascinating and at times bewildering blend of architectural styles http://bit.ly/dmQXD7

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  Roof tiles made out of solar panel glass http://bit.ly/aBb8V6

    2. Why you should shut down your computer at the end of a day of work http://bit.ly/bzmhyj

    3. Process videos are fascinating to me, and this one, of a reverse glass sign gilder is no exception http://bit.ly/acgVT8

    4. Miniature Earth aims to put into a human scale the scale of humanity http://bit.ly/9sAPSw

    5. Infographis + Wine = Winefographics, right? http://bit.ly/9t4SFd

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.   Young Me, Now Me is a great project http://bit.ly/dhOmjp

    2. A 1960 Canadian film called Frames of Reference uses really creative film making to make some really quite pedestrian points interesting and vibrant again http://bit.ly/8WWtmZ

    3. Long exposure photography makes the passing of time the medium http://bit.ly/cTRfEn

    4. An incredible project, How I explain it to my parents, wherein abstract artists try to explain to their parents what it is that they do http://bit.ly/baKgsc

    5. McDonald's wants you to know that their burgers do grow mold http://gizmo.do/c7cnR2

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1. These high school kids reciting Gertrude Stein's "Patriarchal Poetry" (and his awesome explanation about sound and meaning after their recitation) do a super fantastic job with it http://bit.ly/8XaHzh

    2. A new video from Holy Fuck makes great use of the cat meme http://bit.ly/blDmPJ

    3. Found imagery animation is cool http://bit.ly/b7TVb0

    4. An ongoing collection of literary tattoos brings to mind the caution: you need to be more interesting than your most interesting decoration http://bit.ly/aP2Cmt

    5. A beautiful collection of images from Auguste Racinet’s “Le Costume Historique” http://bit.ly/djV8I8

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  Look out shake weight, I see your future in the past http://bit.ly/bNX26G

    2. Ooooh, seriously, digital wall painting is not just for toddlers http://bit.ly/cYJZPF

    3. If Oscar Wilde were alive and on facebook, he would own all these p0wnings http://bit.ly/9QNys3

    4. Can you imagine the American version of this "How I Get Dressed Series" for men? http://bit.ly/bayGkg

    5. A futuristic refrigerator concept "Nanorobotic Bio-Gel" to hold food and keep it cool http://bit.ly/9ZF6oq

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    1.  A shortlist from PhotoRadar of the Digital Camera Photographer of the year http://bit.ly/9I0x6x

    2. If you haven't watched Ze Frank's (http://bit.ly/bj1xWt) Ted Talk (http://bit.ly/a4S6u2), this project is the beautiful one he ended with http://bit.ly/ccvQ4O

    3. There have been a number of super cool "small spaces" designs that show how a clever solution can make up for a lack of square footage http://bit.ly/besCS0

    4. A fantastic video using ancient sculptures for stop motion animation http://bit.ly/aXNMUm

    5. Google has got coverage of the soon-to-be-really-close-to-earth comet (swinging by beginning October 20), Hartley 2 http://bit.ly/dfRg5G 

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  What kind of worker are you? Rick Ross (http://bit.ly/boFhCN) would be proud http://bit.ly/an0HY8

    2. Human billboard on the side of a bus sounds like a twisted horror movie plot, but is actually a friendly guy trying to selling banking products http://bit.ly/blTt4e

    3. Design to encourage a behavior is cool, especially this DUEL Bank http://bit.ly/axImDo

    4. I have yet to take my planned journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway, and while this amazingly detailed Google Map/Video mashup is awesome, it only increases my desire to go http://bit.ly/9i9eJV

    5. So what does happen when water drops fall on a super hydrophobic carbon nanotubes? http://gizmo.do/doHJHp

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.   Creative Labs @ Google have collected 106 amazing and creative things they've found on the internet ****MAJOR TIME SUCK**** http://bit.ly/a4IhqC

    2. Vanity Fair has an awesome collection of photography from the making of The Empire Strikes Back http://bit.ly/cG6bXJ

    3. A collection of stunning buildings and villages in Spain built on the edges of big drops http://bit.ly/biMw4z

    4. Artist Ai Weiwei presents his installation at the Tate Modern in London: millions upon millions of hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds http://bit.ly/diHeXl

    5. For you flyers out there, HasWifi will answer that question for your flight before you leave for the airport http://bit.ly/aDyaDT

     

     

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  I have been keeping this one a closely guarded secret for a while now, but, here goes: you can browse through connections of musical artists based on actual user behaviors scraped from Last.FM and Amazon over years and years http://bit.ly/cunLdO

    2. What is your desk like? http://bit.ly/a1nLWD

    3. Daily photos of the clouds, yeah, Clouds 365 Project http://bit.ly/dkEnzj

    4. I am not sure how to take this (losing its nerve, caving in to pressure or learning from its efforts), but GAP is reverting to its old logo http://bit.ly/bF6lZo

    5. Enormous lego ship. Kinda crazy enormous. whoa http://gizmo.do/9s18hv

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.   The PostSecret project is always fascinating http://bit.ly/9VyYkf

    2. Seventy-two years of 'At the Shooting Range' portraits for this Dutch woman http://bit.ly/cSZQ5T

    3. Here is a prototype of the first commercially available exoskeleton to help people walk again http://bit.ly/cnF8tx

    4. Sure, Google may have its driver-less car driving around the Bay Area, but this Italian team has their driving to China http://bit.ly/9YUGTV

    5. Not sure if this book on understanding rap lyrics is tongue-in-cheek or the sign of rap's demise http://bit.ly/cWXusO

    5 things I learn today - weekly episode 8

    1. After being on Facebook for awhile you start to notice some of the different kinds of profile pics, but here is a massive flowchart of the many different styles http://bit.ly/b54TZE

    2. Bacon and how its made http://bit.ly/aVnJ74

    3. An absolutely gorgeous interactive infographic tracing the world's emigration and immigration http://bit.ly/9CYovX

    4. The New York Public library has created a Mad Men reading list of the books mentioned, referenced or displayed in the show http://bit.ly/dwpsGZ

    5. If you have trouble getting those words you need to write written, then Write or Die might be for you http://bit.ly/9Pq2KB

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    1.   The FBI put a GPS tracking device on this 20-year-old student's car, and when his mechanic found it, they showed up asking for it back http://bit.ly/9j3opr

    2. The flap over the Gap logo redesign has reached the mainstream status as it rockets into the meme-osphere http://bit.ly/ck1rAN

    3. A collection of incredibly hot nerdcore rap http://bit.ly/cCrbZ6

    4. If you haven't been following the argument Malcolm Gladwell (author of Outliers, The Tipping Point and Blink) has been having with the internet, it is starting to get good http://bit.ly/c1yLtJ

    5. Simply the best volcano footage this side of Mount Doom (Frodo Lives!) http://bit.ly/9aU4Jz

     

     

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    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  An interesting project that uses the language of porn and sex work to tell the stories of the people involved in it  http://bit.ly/9neumC

    2. Bacon and how it's made (surely there is a hidden magic step they aren't showing us here) http://bit.ly/aVnJ74

    3. A very slick approach to map illustrations (of a city I love!) http://bit.ly/d1lWSS

    4. The New York Public library has created a Mad Men reading list of the books mentioned, referenced or displayed in the show http://bit.ly/dwpsGZ

    5. Aluminum foam has the potential to save many lives and is just really pretty cool http://bit.ly/cRf23D

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.   Photographing the same anything for years is bound to be pretty interesting, but this dead tree is beautiful http://bit.ly/9uW9X2

    2. An absolutely gorgeous interactive infographic tracing the world's emigration and immigration http://bit.ly/9CYovX

    3. SoBi is a new bicycle share program that is coming to NYC and other places that takes advantage of so many of us carrying smartphones in some pretty exciting ways http://bit.ly/bQOClC

    4. This is old, but new to me: He-man singing 4 NONBLONDES http://bit.ly/bTk5pm

    5.  5 productivity myths http://bit.ly/9zy1Dd

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  After being on Facebook for awhile you start to notice some of the different kinds of profile pics, but here is a massive flowchart of the many different styles  * http://bit.ly/b54TZE

    2. Unified facial recognition is coming to your smartphone http://bit.ly/blCR9u

    3. Man, I sure could use this video on high 5 etiquette http://bit.ly/bp7rcJ

    4. A panel of lovely contemporary poets selects a new volume each month for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club http://bit.ly/bq7Is3

    5. oSkope visual search is still pretty cool http://bit.ly/aiN2yP

     

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    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.   A project to highlight the potential effects of climate change http://bit.ly/bKc0KS

    2. Japanese concept cars through the years http://bit.ly/dzJr7j

    3. A SCUBA hotel on an old oil rig off the coast of Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia http://bit.ly/b8wjTs

    4. Very cool visualization of the world's language groups and their distribution http://bit.ly/abuyV5

    5. omg txting an driving bans may increase accidents http://bit.ly/cgJVkH

     

    5 things I learned today (and don't want to forget)

    1.  Of course when you combine a gorgeous chess set with a variety of sex toys it is awesome http://bit.ly/9P5bvr

    2. An advertising agency in South America decided the way to get more customers for ADT Alarm Services was to alarm the hell out of unsuspecting folks with a clever (too clever?!) trick http://bit.ly/aTLlik

    3. It's true, even the trailers for most of these movies make me tear up http://bzfd.it/cGtdwo

    4. Here is a service that let's you shop in celebrity closets for charity http://bit.ly/aTthMX

    5. There is something beautiful about these photos of billboards see from directly below http://bit.ly/b468pN