In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message.
Ralph Lengler and Martin Eppler come up with this rather nifty periodic table of visualization methods. Click on the image to get to the visualization. When you hover over a particular concept an explanation and diagram pops up
A couple of months ago I was at a family reunion that spanned five generations. It was the second time that we all got together, that last being about 7 years ago when I was a lot younger and didn’t really appreciate the whole idea. Since then, a number of members of the family have been gathering old photographs and even video, and projector slides, with a lot of it accumulating in a flickr group. I can’t imagine how any of this would have been possible without the accessibility of flickr. Hopefully, in a couple of months I am going to use some of this to develop an interactive multimedia family tree. In the mean time although, it’s pretty amazing to look back at the generations that came before you. It makes you realise what a short impact you make on the world. Before, I would have only heard their names in passing. Now, I am full with photos and stories, that seem to put into focus my own beginnings and heritage.
[In the photo above is my grandmother (who I never met) on the right, with her cousins and sister at the Dublin horse show]
A massive bubble calendar with a bubble to pop for every day of the year. Pretty darn satisfying, but at nearly 50dollars, I think I’d like to take a stab at printing off some paper with the numbers and placing a sheet of bubble wrap on top. Granted, these guys have actually printed onto the bubbles themselves.
Anyone have any ideas on why exactly it is so satisfying to pop bubbles?
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