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Fresh Impressions on Brandmarks (from my 5-year-old) (by AdamLaddVideos)
Cincinnati, Ohio-based identity designer Adam Ladd asked his 5-year-old daughter her impressions on some popular logos.
Branding exercise or our typical road to consumerism?
(via: underconsideration)
Focus.
“[Apple is] going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight our customers and make our employees incredibly proud of what they do.”
- Tim Cook in his first email to Apple employees as Apple’s new CEO sent August 25, 2011
“The path [Sony] must take is clear: to drive the…
My goal has never been to dominate the market. My goal has always just been to just make a living.
Makes using and paying for this service that much more satisfying.
A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked. The Story Behind Corning’s Vision. (by CorningIncorporated)
Should this video suppose to make me want to invest in Corning? Or the software & hardware company who will actually make this stuff and use Corning as a part of the supply chain?
Windex might be a good investment too.
ZKO Rollercoaster // GREAT EMOTIONS (by virtual republic)
The notes and bars were exactly synchronized with the progression in the animation so that the typical movements of a roller coaster ride match the dramatic composition of the music.
Simple and well executed.
An FAA budget bill awaiting the president’s signature requires the FAA to open the nation’s airways to drones by Sept. 30, 2015 and provide a plan on how to do that due nine months after the bill passes. From the story:
The FAA is also required under the bill to provide military, commercial and privately-owned drones with expanded access to U.S. airspace currently reserved for manned aircraft by Sept. 30, 2015. That means permitting unmanned drones controlled by remote operators on the ground to fly in the same airspace as airliners, cargo planes, business jets and private aircraft.
Currently, the FAA restricts drone use primarily to segregated blocks of military airspace, border patrols and about 300 public agencies and their private partners. Those public agencies are mainly restricted to flying small unmanned aircraft at low altitudes away from airports and urban centers.
www.cnchelicopter.com xmhobbies MC6500PRO camera mount DEMO video (by cnchelicopter)
Another video demonstrating some great amazing shots from a drone chopper. Of course, it comes with the typical club music and slo-mo shots to increase the drama.
Via this now canceled Kickstarter campaign as recognized by FilmmakerIQ.
Steve Jobs explains the rules for success (by jandafrique)
Two points of wisdom:
ON PASSION
… it’s the ones who love what they do, so they could persevere when it got really tough.
ON RECRUITING
You gotta be a really good talent scout. You need a team of great people… (to) build an organization that builds itself.
I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies). Trailer (by sebastien montaz-rosset)
Incredible.
Totally like whatever, you know? (by n0m3rcy)
… speak with conviction… it is not enough these days to simply question authority, you gotta speak with it, too.
Thanks to my wife, Laura, for pointing me to this brilliant poet, Taylor Mali, “a vocal advocate of teachers and the nobility of teaching, having himself spent nine years in the classroom.”
Check out this other fantastic on-stage performance: What Teachers Make:
“18 Days in Egypt” has 18 days to go to reach its goal of $18k:
In an interesting twist, it currently has 81 backers.
You’ve joined your significant other on the couch to watch the latest Breaking Bad. As the episode plays, may you play Words With Friends with your college roommate?
Wait. Breaking Bad is possibily the only show on TV that you really need to pay attention to. So… NO!
Late to the game… but thoroughly enjoyed this, and I’m extremely impressed. Brilliant… and fun.

The rear-view picture-in-picture (with disclaimer) is a nice touch.
I’ve always wondered what this was like. It always seems to be a little Willy Wonka in there.
For all you AV nerds out there; A once in a lifetime trip around the conveyor system at B&H Photo in New York City.
For digital diehards, B&H is a mecca of SLR cameras, lenses, computers, editing tools, and everything you could possibly want to produce media. I’ve visited B&H many times, and spent a lot of dough. In the used equipment section is a zoom lens for $250,000.
There are few places like B&H in the world, and even the Apple Store looks anemic in comparison.
B&H is also on Tumblr
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I used this thought in a conversation yesterday and was hoping to get the actual quote. Found it. (via: brainyquote)
"Reframing Mexico" looks at the Mexico City beyond the violent headlines. The site features 12 short video documentaries and multiple interactive features. Topics include a single mother raising children in a large metro dump, a carpenter whose illegal immigration to the US ended when the American dream eluded him, a disabled father overcoming stigma and discrimination, and others. Interactive features include a border crossing game, a "build your own wrestler" feature, and more. This project is a collaboration between UNC Photojournalism and Monterrey Tec.
"Reframing Mexico" looks at the Mexico City beyond the violent headlines. The site features 12 short video documentaries and multiple interactive features. Topics include a single mother raising children in a large metro dump, a carpenter whose illegal immigration to the US ended when the American dream eluded him, a disabled father overcoming stigma and discrimination, and others. Interactive features include a border crossing game, a "build your own wrestler" feature, and more. This project is a collaboration between UNC Photojournalism and Monterrey Tec.
Chinese-Australian students have come under increasing scrutiny, raising debate about the role of culture, coaching colleges and notions of childhood in an increasingly competitive school environment. Are Chinese parents too pushy, their focus too narrow and the children too obedient? Or are there lessons to be learnt from Chinese students to ensure everyone shares in the success?
Goa Hippy Tribe is an interactive documentary that tells the story of the original Goan hippies, led by the inimitable Eight-Finger Eddie, who first met in the early 70s and re-connected on Facebook to re-unite in 2010. An immersive online trip, the project features interviews shot by director Darius Devas as well as material contributed by Facebook users as part of an initial, groundbreaking social media phase.
This project presents a collective portrait of workers who keep New York City running. Their stories unfold in a series of multimedia profiles produced by students at the Columbia Journalism School.
A collection of images that follows my journey into the past and asks questions of the future, while using pictures to create an awareness of exactly what the people of Camden, N.J., must face each day.
From warriors to "butterflies on wheels," Vietnamese women have inspired generations.
A group of singers from Tampa Bay traveled to Israel and the West Bank to perform a play about Martin Luther King Jr. The play, "Passages of Martin Luther King," explores the philosophy of non-violence that guided the American civil rights movement. The U.S. Department of State sponsored the play's performance in Jerusalem and on the West Bank as a cultural exchange with the Palestinian National Theater and Palestinian director Kamel Elbasha. The play was performed with Palestinian and American artists who performed 10 shows over three and a half weeks as a way to share King's message of non-violence and peaceful resistance.
The final flight of space shuttle Atlantis represents the end of NASA's shuttle program. In this special report, we compile shuttle program news, photos, facts and history. From the launch of Columbia in 1981, to the tragedy of Challenger in 1986, to the final flight of Atlantis in 2011, with videos, photo galleries, a shuttle trivia quiz and more.
âViral Sockpuppetsâ is a character-driven crowd-sourced conversational story-making game, played within the YouTube community. Every time someone asks you a question it has the potential to change the direction of your own personal narrative, but two people can only develop a narrative for a short period of time before it eventually dies. Equipping a community of storytellers with the power to design and resolve conflicts on a public stage can not only guarantee a committed audience for his or her story, but will also produce a one-of-a-kind experience. The creation of a good story does not need to be linear, formulaic or built around a single plot. The âViral Sockpuppetsâ is a virtual âstory-worldâ populated by characters that create new organically developed stories through an âexquisite corpseâ-like game. The protagonist asks the community to help resolve a dilemma by responding to the question with a âsub-plotâ story suggestion. Players are then divided into categories: the active players who produce âsub-plotsâ and the passive players who vote on which sub-plot is selected for the narrative. Once an active player wins the public vote two times within the active narrative (it does not need to be consecutive), that player assumes the role of protagonist. At that time, the current dilemma is resolved and a new one is launched featuring the new protagonist. In this way, the âstory-worldâ of the game never ends facilitating âsub-plotsâ and narrative chapters to continue the story forever.
Florida's foreclosure crisis seems like a never-ending nightmare. Mortgages are caught up in MERS, an electronic database that most homeowners never heard of until the foreclosure crisis. Homeowners in foreclosure are worried that robo signing by lenders' employees may have led to mortgage fraud. The mortgage process itself is under scrutiny by the courts and government regulators who are asking: How could something so simple as a home loan go so terribly wrong?
A webdocumentary about Burkina Faso (Ouest Africa). Six people from this country will show us their dailylife and speak about their country.
This is our multimedia site for Super Bowl XLV. It includes videos, panoramic images and a photo feed. It may not be up long in this form. The NFL has a time limit on how long we can post images of its official events.
How a group of street children formed a brass band in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
With its opening on Jan. 11, 2011, the striking and grand Salvador Dali Museum entered a new era in its home along St. Petersburg, Florida's picturesque waterfront. The story of the Salvador Dali Museum is rich in detail and even some intrigue. So take your time and explore our special report to see for yourself why this museum and the surreal artist are now forever entwined with St. Petersburg's history.
Was modern physics born in the Inferno? Motion video for an Boston Globe Ideas section about the influence of Dante's Inferno in Galileo Physics
A look into Massachusetts ethnic/race/country of origin by town.
Denmark was the first country to sign the UN Convention relating to the status of Refugees in 1951, and since then the small Scandinavian nation has received and helped numerous refugees. Over the past decade, however, national legislation have been tightened repeatedly leading to international criticism. The danish people are torn between national interest and international human rights. Nobody knows the exact number of refugees living illegally underground in Denmark, but it remains a fact that danish citizens deliberately choose to break the law in order to help them.
This interactive documentary tells the stories of African immigrants and refugees living in Australia and their struggles and successes in shaping - and being shaped by - Australian society. It is both multi-platform and multi-lingual as the entire site has been translated and subtitled into six of the highest needs languages spoken in the African-Australian community. Each story is also being broadcast nationally across 68 language programs on SBS Radio.
A special put together to recall the era of Marcelo Bielsa as the coach of the Chilean national soccer team (la roja or la selección Chilena) Includes galleries, infographics, statistics and videos.
A special created to explore the enormously popular Chilean television series, Los 80, which tells the story of the Herrera family living their lives under the military regime. Features a video interview with Boris Quercia (of "Sexo con Amor" and "El rey de los huevones"), a text interview with screenwriter, Rodrigo Cuevas, a gallery of behind the scenes moments, and a interactive time line which shows how the Herrera family interacts with Chilean history.
Explores a Chilean copper mine of the same size and type as that of Mina San Jose, in order to see what mines can do to protect their workers and why individuals chose to be miners. Includes a mixed media video speaking with a miner and the mine boss, gallery of photos showing the space beneath the earth and interactive graphic mapping out this particular mine and demonstrating its safety protocols.
Camde isn't just the second-most dangerous city in country faced with losing half of its police force. Neglected woodlands and hundreds of abandoned buildings are home to a diverse homeless population that include people beyond South Jersey.
Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is the world's oldest international human rights organisation and the only charity in the UK working to eradicate all forms of modern slavery.
A selection of the most important, exciting acts performing this year at the Teatro del Lago en Frutillar, Chile along with a sample of their music.
A floor-by-floor interactive guide to the Boston's Museum of Fine Arts new Art of the Americas Wing.
The generation you belong to isn't just about the year of your birth, but about your cultural experiences. Take this quiz and pick which fashion trends, news events, movies, TV shows or toys you remember from your formative years. Then we'll match you up with your generation.
A community narrative as told through the photos and words of residents of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, during the 24 hours of Oct. 19, 2010.
An evolving collection of innovative, interactive stories exploring the world - and our place in it - from uniquely Canadian points of view.
n 2001, Argentina's economy collapsed, leading to deep economic and social disruption. But the Argentinean people are resilient, with a fierce spirit of determination. Now What Argentina? explores the history of this crisis, the adaptations of the people, and the enduring Argentinean culture. The site's debut follows a month-long foreign reporting assignment in which UNC-Chapel Hill journalism students collaborated with Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina journalism students to produce a dynamic multimedia website detailing the lingering effects of the country's economic crash. This project not only raises awareness of Argentina's struggles to a broad international audience but also illuminates the financial crises that are currently challenging people around the globe. The students, guided by faculty and professional journalists, used photos, audio, video, panoramic photos, timelapse photography, information graphics and design to examine the lasting effects of the 2001 economic collapse. The stories range from political violence and drug addiction to tango and soccer and much more. The stories of the people and their city make up Now What Argentina, a documentary multimedia project that examines the fall, recovery, and continued challenges of a nation.
In 1957, UC Berkeley student Burton Abbott was tried, convicted and executed for the kidnapping and killing of a 14-year-old girl. The case was based on purely circumstantial evidence, and a created a media frenzy in its day. This tool allows users to look at the news articles leading up to the execution, and vote on whether they thought Abbott was guilty of his crime. ( This project was done entirely in HTML5, no Flash used. )
California is going through the fragile process of desegregating the housing quarters of all of its prisons. In February 2010, Folsom State Prison became the fourth prison in the system to integrate its housing program. This map shows some of the politics that go into a typical prison yard at Folsom, and why many inmates are not happy about the integration policies.
33 Chilean miners were trapped in the mine San Jose and the same figure took the Plan B to start planning the final stages of the output of them to the surface. After two months of anxiety, wakefulness, and expectation, the rescue began. La Tercera invites you to know the process lived these past 68 days, which moved to Chile and shocked the world.
In India, all women must confront the cultural pressure to bear a son. The consequences of this preference is a disregard for the lives of women and girls. From birth until death they face a constant threat of violence.
The jobs of some take care of us in ways we don't often stop to think about. Life doesn't pause when we turn out our lights and go to sleep. There are about 3 percent of Americans who work night-shift jobs between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m., according to a 2007 report by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Graveyard-shift employees drive police cars, stock grocery shelves, care for the sick and injured, repair roads, brew coffee - they labor at night so the rest of us can make it through our days.
Some 30,000 American soldiers are taking part in the Afghanistan surge. Here are the stories of the men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division. Over the next year, The New York Times will follow their journey.
As the national debates illegal immigration in the astract, a Bay Area family lives the raw anguish of deportation and the intense fight to stay together. This is their story.
Reporter David W. Dunlap describes how the new World Trade Center complex is taking shape.
Before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleansâs Lower 9th Ward was home to an estimated 18,000 people. But five years later, only about a quarter of that number live in the hard-hit neighborhood. Andrew Curtis, a university researcher, leads a team of students and local community members that is documenting the substantial changes in the area. Take a tour of the evolving landscape of the Lower Ninth Ward and read what local residents and researchers have to say.
About 70,000 blocks make up New York City, each one a tile in our vast mosaic, each with its own stories. Below, a core sample from just one, South Elliott Place, between Lafayette and Dekalb.
A look at the world's largest family suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and the hope that they may help scientists find answers for everyone else.
Zoom in on the images below and examine up close some of the damage caused by the earthquake in Haiti.
Snaking along the 28-mile-long Berlin Wall stood as a border between East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. That all changed on Nov. 9, 1989, when an inexact translation, a confused border guard and a natural longing for a better life opened a hole in that wall that would eventually end the Cold War.
Reporting on the importance of reading in people's lives. An approach to the act of reading in various stages of life.
A timeline that tells the emergence of political parties in Brazil from 1964 to 2010.
In the age of do-it-yourself media, Eric Deggans figured it was time to let the readers choose which new network TV shows might appeal to their own particular tastes. So answer this series of simple questions to find the new show most likely to earn a spot on your TiVo. Best of all, if you don't like the show you picked out, Deggans won't get the blame; it's a mess you made.
The folks at Rosetta Stone offered the Consumer's Edge a challenge: We'll loan you our latest language program, called TOTALe, for a product test of the language of your choice. Ivan Penn polled Facebook and Twitter fans and reviewed a list of the dozens of languages spoken at home in the Tampa Bay area and picked Mandarin Chinese. Rosetta Stone says after 200 hours of study, a learner will be able to speak conversational Chinese (It's about 150 hours for the romance languages). Penn is putting it to the test.
"Love and loss" is a short documentary film about a couple's love for each other and the life-changing decision they made to try to save their relationship: gastric-bypass surgery.
"The votes have been tallied and here are what visitors to the Super Bowl 2012 Dashboard thought of the game’s commercials. Which of the top-ranked commercials is best in show? Vote for which best typifies its category below."
"A Chrysler ad that aired during the Super Bowl has drawn comparisons to a famous political advertisement from Ronald Reagan’s campaign in 1984."
"A series of articles and videos chronicling the experiences of military veterans who have returned from Iraq or Afghanistan but continue to confront the medical and psychological scars of battle. Check back for new stories."
"The primary season of a presidential campaign offers a unique glance into the character of a state. Take a look back at key moments and scenes from the 2012 campaign, state by state."
"More than a century after men first boxed in the modern Olympics, women will finally get a shot, when their sport makes its Olympic debut at the London Games this summer. For American hopefuls, the next step in the long gantlet of getting there takes place a couple of weeks from now outside Spokane, Wash., at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Twenty-four women will compete; three will survive. Those three — one boxer each from the flyweight (112 pounds), lightweight (132 pounds) and middleweight (165 pounds) divisions — will then advance to the Women’s World Championships in May in Qinhuangdao, China. The top eight in their weight classes there will take their fight to London. Olympic bouts will consist of four two-minute rounds, compared with three three-minute rounds for the men."
"In his election-year State of the Union address, President Obama set forth a long list of domestic economic proposals, many of which centered on jobs and changing the tax code. Watch his speech and follow along with fact checks and analysis from Times reporters."
"For a while now, Bill Cosby has been at the point in his career where people want to shower him with accolades. A Kennedy Center honor in 1998. The Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002. The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2009. Another round of appreciation comes this week when the Paley Center for Media begins almost two months’ worth of programs celebrating Mr. Cosby’s 50 years in show business. So I’m going to do a little commemorating of my own, focusing on less well-known Cosbyana. Here is a collection of vignettes from Mr. Cosby’s television career as examples of what has made him so good for so long."
"This gallery will be updated throughout the media preview days of the auto show."
"After his third deployment, Sgt. Matthew Pennington, 28, returned to his home in Dexter, Me., where he is recovering from both physical and psychological traumas."
"A strong stump speech is one of the most important components of a presidential campaign. In an effective speech, a candidate can weave promises and attacks, lay out ambitious plans, and connect with voters on a personal level. Times reporters following the candidates have deconstructed and annotated four candidates’ stump speeches, providing context and checking facts. Click on the player to start the video and read the reporters’ notes."
"A selection of visual highlights from the past year."
"Jerry Leiber and Nick Ashford had a lot in common. They wrote some of the most enduring songs in the pop canon, and each was half of a legendary songwriting team: Leiber and Stoller, Ashford and Simpson. They also happened to die on the same day, Aug. 22, 2011, creating the intriguing duo of Ashford and Leiber. And so they are a part of The Music They Made. This is a mix that celebrates those surprising connections. It unites “Yakety Yak” and the Bush Tetras, Amy Winehouse and Marvin Gaye, 1977 punk and “Penny Lane.” But the true common thread? They were all amazing artists who died this year. "
"Nearly nine years of war in Iraq have produced a growing cadre of world-class, homegrown Iraqi news photographers. Some started out with little technical knowledge but a strong desire to document their country’s experience. Within months, they were producing work that became increasingly crucial to the world’s understanding of Iraq. These are the stories of five of those photojournalists, with a sampling of their images."
"A series profiling people who are functioning normally despite severe mental illness and have chosen to speak out about their struggles."
"As other American forces shipped out, a handful of units stayed behind to help wind up the bases. At the center of the logistical nightmare of leaving Iraq after more than eight years of war was a Kentucky National Guard unit, the 149th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade."
"An on-the-ground examination by The New York Times of sites across Libya that were the targets of NATO airstrikes found evidence that the air campaign was not as flawless as NATO has described. The Times found credible accounts of dozens of civilians killed in several distinct attacks, of an attack on rebels and an ambulance that NATO explicitly denied, and of structures that seem to have been hit by mistake."
"Vivian Toy has visited nearly 600 Manhattan co-ops and condos, mainly for the Real Estate section’s “On the Market” page. Here she casts a critical eye on a typical Manhattan two-bedroom."
"Here it is: A visual time capsule, capturing our world at seven billion people — and counting. Below, you’ll find a virtual quilt that weaves together about 400 of the more than 1,000 photographs we received. There is little rhyme or reason to the order you see. We sought a mega-snapshot of our world — different regions, subjects, viewpoints."
"An Unexpected Debut: Boyd Lee Dunlop found his musical talent during the Great Depression. But after years of playing in bars and nightclubs, it took a damaged piano in a Buffalo nursing home for him to be discovered."
"A video gallery of cinematic villainy, inspired by nefarious icons and featuring the best performers from the year in film."
"Since no supercomputer can yet predict the future, we need your help. Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline, which is divided into three sections: a sampling of past advances, future predictions that you can push forward or backward in time (but not, of course, into the past), and a form for making and voting on predictions. The most prescient prophet might receive an iPad 2 in 2050. But if the past is any guide, this prediction will almost surely be wrong."
"Derek Boogaard fought his way to center ice as one of the N.H.L’s most feared fighters. But the role exposed him to repeated head traumas."
"Jerry Sandusky, accompanied by his lawyer, Joseph Amendola, sat down with The Times’s Jo Becker for a wide-ranging interview that stretched over two days."
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The more I use Instapaper (via Twitter and Reeder), the less I offer a Hat Tip (HT). I wish there was an easier way to back track the source.
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A slide I presented for The Poynter Institute's "A New Curriculum for a New Journalism" seminar Jan. 7, 2010. It was wrapped around a larger presentation where I talked about how a curriculum might look like if it was focused around being platform agnostic and dropping the rigid structure of sequences.
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