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Elderly People Look At Their Younger Reflections In This Beautiful Photo Series By Tom Hussey
‘Reflections of The Past’ is an award-winning photo series by commercial advertising photographer Tom Hussey. The photographs show an elderly person looking pensively at the reflection of his/her younger self in the mirror. Hussey was inspired by a World War II veteran who said “I can’t believe I’m going to be 80. I feel like I just came back from the war. I look in the mirror and I see this old guy.”
Trailblazer – Never get lost.
Trailblazer is an addon for Google Chrome which turns your hundreds of tabs into a glanceable, shareable map.
RAGING CINEMA
Video essays on film. Pure gold.
Why Props Matter on Vimeo
A look at the hidden power of film props. And how filmmakers use the everyday (and not so everyday) objects in their scenes to enhance cinematic storytelling. Written, edited, & narrated by Rishi Kaneria (@rishikaneria).
I Love TV Intros
That's it. TV intros, by decade, genre.
Computers can't Give Credit: How Automatic Attribution Falls Short in an Online Remixing Community - Microsoft Research
In this paper, we explore the role that attribution plays in shaping user reactions to content reuse, or remixing, in a large user-generated content community. We present two studies using data from the Scratch online community – a social media platform where hundreds of thousands of young people share and remix animations and video games. First, we present a quantitative analysis that examines the effects of a technological design intervention introducing automated attribution of remixes on users' reactions to being remixed. We compare this analysis to a parallel examination of "manual" credit-giving. Second, we present a qualitative analysis of twelve in-depth, semi-structured, interviews with Scratch participants on the subject of remixing and attribution. Results from both studies suggest that automatic attribution done by technological systems (i.e., the listing of names of contributors) plays a role that is distinct from, and less valuable than, credit which may superficially involve identical information but takes on new meaning when it is given by a human remixer. We discuss the implications of these findings for the designers of online communities and social media platforms.
The Decay of Twitter - The Atlantic
The social network fundamentally changed in early 2014. And that’s causing big problems for the company. Yet the two entities that are called “Twitter”—the San Francisco-based corporation and the character-delimited social network—are not entirely disconnected. And similarly, no matter how many features Twitter-the-company tacks on to draw in new people, it’s still captive to the whims of Twitter-the-network. Recently, I’ve started to wonder if the corporation is trapped in more than a nominal way. What if network is one of the company’s greatest obstacles, especially when it comes to growth?
“SuperBetter” Review - The New Yorker
The idea that life’s challenges can be turned into a game in seven steps is the premise of Jane McGonigal’s “SuperBetter” (Penguin), a new book that seeks to bridge the gap between video-game culture and what is now called happiness research. Games, whether played on coffee tables or on digital screens, are usually described as escapist diversions; we don’t expect those hours of sweet nothingness to help us find fulfillment in our work, build strong relationships, cultivate confidence, or nurture other traits that serve the more amorphous cause of happiness. McGonigal, however, thinks that she can transform game-playing passion into a balanced life. She calls it “living gamefully,” and, according to her, it’s a regimen that has the power to fix almost everything that aspirin can’t.
Twenty Links: a Delicious-inspired child theme for WordPress - Stephanie Leary
Twenty Links is a child theme of Twenty Ten for WordPress. It turns your WordPress site into a bookmark repository that, coincidentally, looks a lot like the old Delicious.
Genre Blender
The Blender is a tool meant to help readers find books that include more than one genre. Using the Blender is easy -- simply pick two or three genres you are interested in and click the "BLEND" button. Your results will include any title from the database that has the genres you selected. If you look at the results, you will notice that some genres will appear in ALL CAPS. This means that the genre is very prominent in the blend. Other genres might be listed in lowercase letters. This means that the genre is a part of the book, but not dominant in the story.
Put a Bow on It | This American Life
This week we go into the room at the headquarters of fast food chain Hardee's with the people who decided that this burger with beef, hot dogs, and chips is what America should be eating. We'll hear the story of how they sold that burger and other instances where how you tell the story is more important than the literal facts.
DMCA Exemption Has Been Approved for Documentary Filmmakers | International Documentary Association
If you've ever needed high-definition footage off of a Blu-ray or DVD, you might be aware that the images you are trying to access are protected by something called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Passed in 1998, the DMCA was Congress's attempt to update copyright law to better apply to the digital age. Among other things, this act makes it illegal to "rip" footage off of DVDs and Blu-ray discs. This law blocks a filmmaker's ability to make fair use with copyrighted footage by restricting access to such digital material stored not just on DVDs, but also on Blu-ray discs and digital streams. Luckily, Congress recognizes the danger that the DMCA poses to fair speech, fair use, and other lawful uses of copyrighted material in documentary filmmaking. Thanks to a special process created by Congress, the Librarian of Congress now grants specific exemptions every three years.
TANIS
Tanis is a bi-weekly podcast from the creators of Pacific Northwest Stories, and is hosted by Nic Silver. Tanis is a serialized docudrama about a fascinating and surprising mystery: the myth of Tanis. Tanis is an exploration of the nature of truth, conspiracy, and information. Tanis is what happens when the lines of science and fiction start to blur...
Perceptus
Educating patients through autonomous data visualization tools We're a non-profit developing open-source tools
[Disruptors Only] Marketing Campaign Generator
Dumb government getting in the way of your revolutionary business model? Use this simple tool to generate marketing material for your growth hacking agenda.
Saul Bass On His Approach To Designing Movie Title Sequences — ART & SCIENCE — Medium
Graphic designer and Oscar-winning director Saul Bass worked with some of the most creative filmmakers in Hollywood to set the tone for their work through his unique title sequences for films ranging from Psycho to Goodfellas. In 1977, Bass sat down with Herbert Yager to discuss his process and the theories behind his signature contribution to film: the title sequence. Following is an excerpt from their conversation, as found in the Saul Bass papers, which reside at the Academy’s The Margaret Herrick Library. The interview was conducted as part of the film, Bass on Titles.
Virtual Reality Storytelling Could Change Human Consciousness
Filmmaker Chris Milk is mulling over his role in plotting the potential for virtual reality (VR) technology beyond games, having delivered a TED talk in March 2015 heralding VR as “the ultimate empathy machine”. Milk and his company Vrse – co-founded with producer Patrick Milling Smith – have been putting his ideas into practice with short VR documentaries including Clouds Over Sidra, which focuses on a refugee camp in Jordan, and Waves of Grace, telling the tale of an Ebola survivor in Liberia.
Photographic education for all - BBC News
"I don't think a classroom is an appropriate place to teach any more." This is not the sort of thing you'd expect a National Teaching Fellow and award winning university lecturer to say, but Jonathan Worth has backed his words up with actions and his latest photography class has removed itself from educational institutions completely. Instead he is using the techniques learned from running open classes to raise awareness of the muscle wasting disease Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) which is the biggest genetic killer of young boys in the world.
About the Library
The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library. If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.
Welcome to Yarn
Make, share and connect stories with things on the web
Harvard Education Publishing Group - Home
In this article Eigil Pedersen, Thérèse Annette Faucher, and William W. Eaton have taken on one of the most difficult questions in educational research: the impact of the classroom teacher on children's adult status. The authors detail the results of a research project of unconventional methodology and Unusually long duration. They sought originally to examine atypical IQ changes but came to focus on the enduring effects of one remarkable first-grade teacher. Drawing upon the idea of the "self-fulfilling prophecy," the authors relate the effects of teachers' attitudes and resultant behavior to the subsequent adult status of sixty children. Their conclusion, in contrast to that of many recent studies, is that the classroom teacher may have a significant effect on children's chances for success in later life.
Behind the Scenes: The Ballad of Holland Island House on Vimeo
A peek behind the scenes of the animation process and ideas behind The Ballad of Holland Island House, an award-winning animated short film made using a unique process of clay-painting animation. The film tells the true story of the last house on a sinking island in the Chesapeake Bay, and features images that look like moving oil paintings. In fact, several well-known paintings were inspirations for the design of some scenes in the film.
Ansel Adams Photographs
In 1941 the National Park Service commissioned noted photographer Ansel Adams to create a photo mural for the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC. The theme was to be nature as exemplified and protected in the U.S. National Parks. The project was halted because of World War II and never resumed. The holdings of the National Archives Still Picture Branch include 226 photographs taken for this project, most of them signed and captioned by Adams. They were taken at the Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Kings Canyon, Mesa Verde, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Carlsbad Caverns, Glacier, and Zion National Parks; Death Valley, Saguaro, and Canyon de Chelly National Monuments. Other pictures were taken at the Boulder Dam; Acoma Pueblo, NM; San Idelfonso, NM; Taos Pueblo, NM; Tuba City, AZ; Walpi, AZ; and Owens Valley, CA. Many of the latter locations show Navajo and Pueblo Indians, their homes and activities.
morgueFile free photos
Welcome to the morguefile classroom. Do you want to learn the basics of photography or improve certain camera skills? Do you wish to contribute to a growing knowledge base for photo enthusiast. With the morguefile photography classroom you can begin to take better photos of any subject and get more enjoyment from your photography. Jodie Coston 10 lessons to learning photography. These lessons were originally published in 2004. Jodie Coston is a freelance photographer who lives in northwestern Montana. She has exhibited her work in gallery exhibitions around the world and has won numerous international awards for her images.
Twools - Twitter Power Tool | Seriously Social with Ian Anderson Gray
"To make Twools even easier to install and use, I’ve developed a WordPress version of Twools. This allows you to quickly install on your WordPress site and add all the information via the settings menu. If you’ve been worried about editing code, then this is your thing. The new version fixes a few bugs, adds an author item to the feed and now caches requests so you don’t have to worry about going over your limit with the Twitter API."
CSS Bar Chart Using HTML5 Progress | Geoff Graham
"I published a post about how to make a responsive CSS bar chart a little while back. Since then, several people have asked how to do the same thing, but a horizontal version. That’s what we’re going to cover in this post."
Book Cover .Gif on Behance
Minimalist animation
MassMine: Your Access To Big Data
"MassMine is a social media mining and archiving application that simplifies the process of collecting and managing large amounts of data across multiple sources. It is designed with the researcher in mind, providing a flexible framework for tackling individualized research needs. MassMine is designed to run both on personal computers and dedicated servers/clusters. MassMine handles credential authorizations, data acquisition & archiving, as well as customized data export and analysis."
‘The Pub’ #33: Ann Heppermann on the rebirth of audio fiction | Current.org
"Scoring, sound effects, scene, narrative — they’re the hottest tools in the hands of today’s most innovative audio journalists, and yet they come from the very non-journalistic world of fiction. “We have the popularity of narrative nonfiction. Well, that’s just us as journalists pulling concepts from fiction and putting it into nonfiction,” veteran independent producer and audio fiction evangelist Ann Heppermann told me on The Pub. “So, in a way, it’s like fiction is going to take it back, you know?”"