Fascinating: Julien Breton - light calligrapher

Link

Love: Ramona Falls - I Say Fever

Fascinating: Back to the Future

Irina Werning

Love: Steel drum

Never heard of this instrument before until today... now it's an unending beat to my day.

Love: ZAZ - Je Veux

Fascinating: Murmuration

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

Video of a massive starling flock turning and twisting over a river in Ireland has gone viral, and with good reason. Flocking starlings are one of nature’s most extraordinary sights: Just a few hundred birds moving as one is enough to convey a sense of suspended reality, and the flock filmed above the River Shannon contained thousands.

ANSTAM // BALDWIN

Love: Todd Selby x Christine Sun Kim

Todd Selby x Christine Sun Kim on Nowness.com.

Todd Selby's video on performance artist Christine Sun Kim, who is deaf from birth and works in the medium of sound visualization.

The Third Wave

Video collaboration between The Last Magazine and Y-3: The Third Wave. Choreographed by Benjamin Millepied.

Youtube Symphony Orchestra

Started as a project in 2009, with musicians all over the world auditioning on Youtube to perform Tan Dun's Internet Symphony No.1, the project came back in 2011, bigger and better.

Fascinating: How Tau sounds like

Surprisingly well actually.

This reminded me of a movie that I forgot the title of, where an autistic person who could memorize extraordinarily long numbers called π "visually beautiful".

Fascinating: 10,000 Year Clock

That's what I call long term thinking. Imagine how the world would change and the clock will be forgotten only to be rediscovered in thousands of years... The only thing it would say about this civilization is that we were liked measuring time.

Link

UPANATEM: On set of the upcoming music video

Love: WORLD ORDER "BOY MEETS GIRL"

Project "Chicken Nest"

by Juliana Santacruz Herrera

The Singing Tree (Panopticons)

What is interactive? Is it an interface if the interaction happens between a non-human user and an instrument built for a non-human user?

Designed by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu, the sculpture was finished in 2006 as a part of East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network (ELEAN), Lancashire, England.

You can hear it in action here:

More information here.

Gene Davis

via Ali Loves Curtis

Video Games vs. Real Life

Interesting photo set: http://tinyurl.com/4msdnmw

via http://www.underconsideration.com/

Love: Die Antwoort

What I call a thought through band. Great videos, amazing site, even their haircuts are designed to match the overall image.

And awesome music - I've been to their concert this summer - they have more energy than 5 Energizer bunnies.



http://www.dieantwoord.com/

Beautiful story, beautiful site

http://www.notesfromadrowning.com/

Should I work for Free?

Great little guide on pro-bono work http://www.shouldiworkforfree.com/

I agree 110% with all points.

Lean Startup Principles by Eric Ries

Here in Upanatem, we work with many start-ups and small businesses. Many of high-tech start-ups we know face similar challenges around the questions of when to release a product. Some of them never get to the release stage, having lost their energy during the prototype development. Others dwell on their product until it is absolutely polished to perfection and release it way past all deadlines and over-budget only to find out that nobody wants it. Yet other release a rough prototype, get negative feedback and get discouraged and throw in the towel.

Eric Ries here talks about how to avoid these pitfalls. It can be helpful to any business looking for ways to reduce waste in all levels of operations, but it is especially golden for the start-ups working on their first releases.



Eric Ries is a modern-day start-up guru who has given talks to to as diverse audiences as Harvard Business School students and NASA. Eric also has a very informative blog Lessons Learned. He is great in that all his points are immediately applicable and not-intimidating and the overall message is very inspiring.