Beauty of people

People: Family faces

Genetic Portraits is a photo series by Canadian photographer Ulric Collette.
He combines the portraits of two members of the same family into one:
 

My earlier posts in the series People: (1) (2) (3) (4)

How to tie your shoes

Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life.

In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way:

"Sometimes a small advantage someplace in life can yield tremendous results some place else".

Tanghi Argentini

This shirt Belgian movie (14min) is a real pearl: 'Tanghi Argentini' by Guy Thys.

This movie from 2006 was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 (Best Short Film, Live Action), and has received many other awards.

Move, learn, eat

'Move', 'Learn' and 'Eat' are three short videos made by Rick Mereki. They cover 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights and 2 cameras, turning three ambitious linear concepts (movement, learning and food) into the trip of a lifetime:

'Move' reminds me a bit of Where the hell is Matt.

Wine map of France

The first London Underground map was still very geographically based, indicating the directions of lines and locations of station, overlaid on geographic features and main roads:

In 1938 Harry Beck designed a more diagrammatic map. This was a breakthrough in cartography, because the locations of stations are not longer geographically accurate:

That design has been copied for many maps ever since. The Strange maps blog featured this beautiful map of the wines of France:

People: Celebrations and protests

The Boston Globe's Big Picture featured two photo series on the way people celebrate and protest:

A step-by-step guide to celebrating

Global protests

My earlier posts in the series People: (1) (2) (3)

Hearing for the first time

This is already 'old news' (september 2011) but still worth celebrating:
Sarah Churman who was born deaf received her hearing implant. This is the video of turning it on and she hearing herself for the first time:

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More news on Sarah Churman's blog.

(Surprising) follow up interview:

A big 'tip of the hat' to Envoy Medical
 

No Facebook without the Dutch

Just so that you know it!

The Dutch Maritime Museum addressed this seamail to Mark Zuckerberg to draw attention to the re-opening of the museum on 2. Oct 2011 (and to the Scheepvaartmuseum Facebook page).

Having one of those days…?

… where things just don't seem to work out?

Here's the perfect antidote:

Which other songs have this effect on you?

People – The way the world eats out

Foreign Policy has a nice slide show about street food vendors (click to view).

My earlier posts in the series People: (1) (2)