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Archive for December, 2009

Piano juggler

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

Watch Dan Menendez play Wish you a merry Christmas: His website is www.pianojuggler.com

Christmas wish

Thursday, December 24th, 2009 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »

This We're all in this together video makes for a nice Christmas wish: The music is Keeping Warm by We Were Promised Jetpacks. For more background info visit MadV's Youtube channel.

The power of storytelling

Monday, December 21st, 2009 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »

Photographer Ryan Lobo describes his work at TED India (nov 2009): At the end of his talk he says: "That's the power of storytelling: focus on what's dignified, courageous and beautyful". Isn't that much more interesting and a larger contribution than our ...

Tetris

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

Human Tetris downhill on the streets of San Francisco: And there is the "La Bastille" art project. See also my post on the Game Over project.

Motorcycle demo

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

Here's a fantastic motorcycle demo by Italian police in the 1950s:

Wombat: All is one

Friday, December 4th, 2009 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »

Funny animation created by Jason Ables for Global Mindshift: He has a point... (Better quality here)

Notes and neurons

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

At the World Science Festival in June 2009, during the session Notes & Neurons: In Search of a Common Chorus this is what musician Bobby McFerrin did: The session dealt with questions like: Is our response to music hard-wired or culturally determined? Is ...

Improv Everywhere did it again

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »

I was actually touched looking at this by seeing all these people wanting to help out. Look at their website for older 'Improvs'.