No Facebook without the Dutch
Thursday, January 19th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »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…?
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »... 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
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »Foreign Policy has a nice slide show about street food vendors (click to view). My earlier posts in the series People: (1) (2)
Men in film
Monday, January 16th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »A nice morphing video made by Philip Scott Johnson. He makes more of these as you can see on Johnsons Youtube channel, but I consider this currently the best one because he matches the face proprtions nicely. His actresses video is ...
Fishing under the ice
Sunday, January 15th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »You may think that is about a fisherman sitting on the ice near an air hole, but these divers do it a little differently: Yes, they are standing upside down with their feet against the ice. Notice how they manage to ...
Quantum levitation brought to a whole new (game) level
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 Posted in Creativity, Smart thinking | No Comments »Some footage of the work on quantum levitation done at the Japan Institute of Science And Technology. The engineers were inspired by the game Wipeout to do their work: Now package it nicely and you have a geek game that will make ...
Fireworks 2012
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »If you have the highest tower in the world, what does itself lend to? Right! - 2012 fireworks from the Burj Khalifa in Dubai: How many windows did they break that night? Here are some other views:
Beauty of people
Monday, January 9th, 2012 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »... of age 100. These are from the 'Happy at 100' series by photographer Karsten Thormaehlen. I love these photo collections of 'just people'. Do you know any more?
Leukemia patient receives blood – now recruiting 1000 donors.
Sunday, January 8th, 2012 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »Here in the Netherlands, leukemia patient Floris Lindeman who cannot donate blood anymore, decided to 'compensate' by recruiting 1000 new donors. Here's what he writes (in Dutch of course): "Op weg naar 1000 donoren! Mijn naam is Floris Lindeman (32) en de bloedbank ...
I want to see the world united
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »Playing for Change episode 54. No comment, enjoy. United | Playing For Change from Playing For Change on Vimeo.
