We’ve had a few videos whizzed around glue this week. Just had to share them.
Easy Lionel – This poor guy is absolutely fried, so these Glaswegian cleaners film him and take the piss.
Messiah Remix goes off!!! – Biblical loonacy
You’ve gotta love YouTube.
This infographic features statistics of how men in the United States will die in 2008. There are various causes covered including suicide, heatstroke, and electrocutions. The data was collected from the CDC’s WONDER Database.
WONDER stands for Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research which is a collection of data that’s available to public health professionals and the public at large, boasting a wide array of public health information.
Grim eh. Looks nice though.
Britain from Above will make use of technology to create stunning images of Britain from above.
Using aerial and satellite photography, groundbreaking filming technology, data mapping, and exclusive archive Britain from Above will look at varied issues from how four million people move around Greater London each day and how football crowds move to why ‘phantom’ traffic jams inexplicably appear on motorways.
422 South created ground breaking CGI sequences revealing never seen before patterns of life in modern Britain. Starting with GPS data mapping the movements of London taxi cabs, commercial aircraft, Channel shipping, refuse trucks and schoolchildren, 422 MD and senior programmer Craig Howarth translated lists of raw numeric co-ordinates sampled at regular time intervals, into coherent animated paths. 422′s VFX team, led by Art Director Dave Corfield and VFX supervisor Andy Howell visualised the resulting paths in Maya and composited them with satellite imagery of the UK using Shake. The result is simultaneously beautiful, surprising and informative.
The BBC also teamed up with Jason Hawkes Aerial Photography who have specialised in creating aerial photography since 1991.
Britain from Above will be aired on BBC One, Two and Four and available online through the iPlayer and this website where you can also rewind through time at 20 sites around the country.
The first episode is this Sunday at 9pm on BBC One.
Series website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove
More aerial stills:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/2498680/Britain-From-Above.html
Mare Street, E8 — Digital Club from Digital Club on Vimeo.
Music and animation by Digital Club, commissioned by Creative Review for Creative Futures.
More nice stuff at:
http://www.thedigitalclub.net/
Some lovely Flash AS3 work from Masayuki Kido, a freelance web designer from Japan.
He’s the guy behind the immense Eco Zoo
Check out his site and the 3D demos:
http://roxik.com/
http://temp.roxik.com/
I’ve been roped into doing a Digital Bitesize at glue about the thinking behind GTD and Inbox Zero.
Here’s 43 Folders creator Merlin Mann doing his stuff at Google talking about Getting Things Done, the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume email.
Speed: We’ve moved to a new infrastructure that makes every page faster. This new platform will enable us to keep up with traffic growth while ensuring Delicious is responsive and reliable.
Search: We’ve completely overhauled our search engine to make it faster and more powerful. Searches used to take ages to return results; now they’re very quick.
Design: Finally, we’ve updated the user interface to improve usability and add a few often-requested features (such as selectable detail levels and alphabetical sorting of bookmarks).
They’re also promising that it will be “faster, easier to learn,” and “hopefully more desirable.”
Take a look, or grab an account:
http://delicious.com
I’ve been trying out “Things” as my new app to manage projects at glue. Unlike most GTD apps it’s not too complex and i was up and running within 15 minutes of watching the screencast.
I use the desktop app for my “master” list at the moment as there’s a quick HUD that lets you get any thoughts straight into the inbox to process later.
The feature most people are waiting for though is syncing between desktop and iPhone; which the developers say will be part of the next update.
Culturedcode had to write the code for the iPhone and iPod Touch interface from scratch and have come up with something that is really simple and really sweet.
If you run projects at work and are trying to sort your life out a bit… i recommend you try it out.
OSX
http://culturedcode.com/things/
iPhone
http://culturedcode.com/things/iphone/
UPDATE: the Desktop and iPhone apps now sync over Wi-Fi.
See more:
http://www.oddee.com/item_96457.aspx
The Muppets now have 4 dedicated YouTube channels, but these grumpy old fellas really used to make me laugh. They’re now on YouTube giving their “video response”.
Interests and Hobbies:
Heckling, hectoring, complaining, insulting and any unreasonable criticism that otherwise ruins it for others.
