Research and Development

“And it does!”. We still haven’t got to the same level of flexibility.

A amazing resource: Folk Streams. 

The secret Russian space station program. “Diamond“.

100 million times better.

TV-B-Gone is one of the best inventions of the past decade - Mitch Altman explains why he open-sourced it.

The Thief and the Cobbler, a never completed gem by Richard Williams, the man behind “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”.

From my ex. Selecting is where it has always been. Coxsone Dodd and King Tubby would tell you that.

Finally, what might happen when we finally build one.

A Triumvirate of wonder about the universe. Courtesy of TED. This kind of thing gives me hope - I wonder if the luminaries of the Enlightenment would look upon the modern world and despair or rejoice?

Bill Stone explores the Earth and space.
Patricia Burchat: The search for dark energy and dark matter.
Brian Greene: The universe on a string.

George Smoot on the shape of the universe. Mindbending scale, multiple magnitudes of beauty. Thinking of dark matter as invisible matter is a much better analogy. As he says in the talk, “Matter just follows where Dark Matter goes”.

Franco Sacchi on the third biggest wood after Holly and Bolly.

Finally, a classic, Stewart Brand on the long now.

I have always been obsessed with putting myself in the moment, and through my work, other people. It’s a very powerful thing to see people forget about their everyday lives and come back to now - which is all we really have.

The world keeps throwing up places that seem to bring out extraordinary performances out of people, seemingly by their very existence. The “because it’s there” syndrome. It’s interesting to contrast Manoa Drollet surfing Teahupoo, and Travis Pastrana playing in his own backyard. Both in the moment, one in a natural environment, and the other in an environment of his own imagining.

The sheer imposing physicality of Teahupoo made me recall an experience I had recently in Anthony McCall’s “Line Describing a Cone”. The cone being of light didn’t stop it from transporting me into another world, bringing me back to the moment.

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese concept, based around the beauty and perfection of the natural imperfection of nature, and how to incorporate that into man made objects, buildings and places.

Lateralisation of brain function is the concept of the left and right sides of the brain having divided functionality - something as a left hander I am particularly interested in - and how such “handedness” develops.

77Boadrum is a performance by Bordedoms. I wish I could have been there - a perfect example of Wabi-Sabi and Lateralisation of brain function?

A truly astounding descent.

One of the most innovative ads of the year.

I believe this is the location, after scouring the comments.

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This lead me to recall the rush of seeing the below video for the first time - via EveryoneForever, but now, from Vimeo.

Thanks to Wikipedia’s BASE jumping entry, I think I have found, The Troll Wall. Map Link.