Mixing Genius - Kutiman

This is inspiring and incredible! Unrelated yet interdependent music/youtubing weaved and edited by mix-master Kutiman. "I'm New" is my favorite track off his Thru You project, where what you see is what you hear.

Resource depletion

How Long Will Our World Last?

"Most people get worried about how much energy reserves we have left, but as this graphic shows, that's the least of our problems. The real problem is the materials we use to make things.

Energy could be harnessed from eternal sources, like the sun, the wind, or the seas. But there is only a limited amount of elements in planet Earth and—what's worst—bringing them from other planets will prove impractical with our current technology (and the technology that will be available in the next century).

In the meantime, copper—which is everywhere around you—will be gone in about 61 years; antimony—widely used in medicines—will be depleted in 20 years; while indium, rhodium, platinum, or silver—which are present in many essential consumer electronics—won't last much longer. And those estimations are only valid if we manage to consume half of what we are consuming now.

So, unless we really push technology forward, dramatically increase our recycling rhythm, or something extraordinary happens first—like Apophis obliterating us or the Large Hadron Collider blows us to another dimension, or Nazi zombies getting out of their crypts to make bacon of all of us—we and our children are going to have a really hard time pushing the world forward.

I guess we will have to keep taking life one weekend at a time. "

[via Gizmodo]

Wabi-sabi

A Drop Of Blue Salt from Vida Vega on Vimeo.
A beautiful, simple animation I came across today inspired by the Pablo Neruda sonnet below.

Sonnet IX: There where the waves shatter
by Pablo Neruda

There where the waves shatter on the restless rocks
the clear light bursts and enacts its rose,
and the sea-circle shrinks to a cluster of buds,
to one drop of blue salt, falling.

O bright magnolia bursting in the foam,
magnetic transient whose death blooms
and vanishes--being, nothingness--forever:
broken salt, dazzling lurch of the sea.

You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,
while the sea destroys its perpetual statues,
collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:

because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,
galloping water, incessant sand,
we make the only permanent tenderness.

It's business time.

This prick. Is he for real? I think he's dead serious. Miami Vice's business card "doesn't fit in a rolodex because it doesn't belong in a rolodex." His ego is apparently too big for it also (nevertheless pretty pretty hilarious):


My friend passed on a more legit source on the topic. Here's a fun article about making creative business cards.

I'll continue taking my advice from a real leader -- Mr. John Wooden. A few words of Coach Wooden's wisdom:

1. good values attract good people
2. love is the most powerful four-letter word
3. call yourself a teacher
4. emotion is your enemy
5. it takes 10 hands to make a basket
6. little things make big things happen
7. make each day your masterpiece
8. the carrot is mightier than a stick
9. make greatness attainable by all
10. seek significant change
11. don't look at the scoreboard
12. adversity is your asset













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I was also very moved by J.K. Rowling's brilliant speech to Harvard students last year, passed along recently by a friend. She humbly expresses the fringe benefits of failure and the importance of imagination. I highly recommend it!

Oh yea, it's Business Time. Conditions are perfect. With that said, goodnight world.

M. Ward - Chinese Translation

Twitter hits the streets

I like this clever graff tweet seen on the streets via Questionmarc.

If that's not a sign of Twitter being top of pop culture mind virtually everywhere right now, then this awesome "Flutter" mocumentary surely is...yep, it's the nano-blogging movement:



via Laughing Squid (great blog from sf)

the truth is all there is

I love this song (the Truth/Handsome Boy Modeling School) and Roison is just amazing. She even busts J-Live's part here...


and I want her coat too!