Archive for the 'think' Category

Obama’s acceptance speech

He does not disappoint. That is a beautiful speech.

Seen on the streets of New Orleans

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史上最悪のハリケーン被害で廃墟と化したニューオーリンズで横行する略奪行為、上記のグラフィティでは略奪者に向けて一部の住民と共に実弾を発砲していたナショナル・ガードがテレビを民家から持ち出して略奪しているところを描いている.

A nice touch of sarcasm, depicting the national guard that actually were shooting the looters doing the looting.

Please Don’t Send Me Home

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John Cage’s 4′33″

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John Cageの「4分33秒」、オーケストラ・バージョン.

あなたにはなにが聞こえるかな?

John Cage's 4'33" (four minutes, thirty-three seconds) in full orchestra version.

what do you hear,when the best music in the world is played?

manufacturing consent

"Ils ne sont grands que parce que nous sommes à genoux "
-Étienne de La Boétie

"They are large only because we are on our knees."
-Etienne de LaBoetie

「彼らが大きのは、我々が跪いているからだ」
-エティエンヌ・ド・ラ・ボエシー.

football players that do other things

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飲料水GatoradeのアルジェンチンCF,サッカー選手だけれど、本職は他にあるというシリーズ.
学校の教師、精神科医、医学博士としての生活とがサッカーする場面とカット.スポーツドリンクに対するこの切り口としては面白い.スポーツドリンクは体躯界系だけ飲むものではないという点も強調されているので、だれでも共感できるスポーツの楽しさと熱狂が伝わる.

this ad for Gatorade argentina by BBDO take an interesting angle to sports drinks, that it is a product for all of us by showing amateur football plyers that have obviously a professional actibitythat is not a sport.

adidas has a sinilar concept for their Beijing olympyc ad, yet their ad is adressing to the people but not for everyone, it is more of a demonstration of the coesion between the chinese olympic team and the chinese public.

goodnight mr randy pausch

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以前紹介したrandy pausch. 残念ながら、膵臓ガンのため自宅で家族に見守られて死去した.これから先も、彼の「最後の授業(アマゾン)」はたくさんの人へのインスピレーションとなり続けるでしょう.単に賢く世渡りが上手になるための講義ではなく、生きるための講義である.以下に日本語字幕付きの講義(9つのパートに分かれている).

Unfortunately has passed away of pancreatic cancer at is family's home. His "the last lecture" (Amazon) is and will remain a great inspiration to many of us. It's not about being smart or cunning, but it's an essential life lesson.

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kinetic typography, Somewhat New Medium

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kinetic typographyの新たな成功例.映画やテレビの台詞をタイポグラフィーとしてデザインして動画化する手法は一つの新しいビジュアルの表現方法として確立しつつある.MC Paul Barnamの「Somewhat New Medium」をDave Corbettが映像化.

Dave Corbett designed the visuals for this kinetic typography of MC Paul Barnam "Somewhat New Medium".

rebel with a cause

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ジェームズ・ディーン主演の代表作にちなんで「理由ある反抗」と題名された作品.
T-Shirts一枚のストーリーを通じて、アパレルまたは洋服の過剰消費による社会・環境へのインパクトを描いた動画.Stuttgart Media UniversityKristian Labusga という学生が卒論のために制作.どの学生にも、このように問題定義する機会を与え、クオリティのいいものは流通させてほしい.

The short outlines the socio-environmental impact of chasing the newest clothing trends, or rather the ecological backpack of that new shirt you just picked up."Written and directed by Kristian Labusga for his final thesis at Stuttgart Media University.

“ The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

-banksy

la vie n’est qu’une…

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a song on the end of the world

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adbustersTV より.

from adbustersTV

trans-satinelle updated

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http://www.philips.com/社の脱毛器 satinelleという商品のCF.「7歳の時に母の服を借りて着ていたところを見付かった. 今は、母が私の剃刀を借りる…笑」.「ひとを欺すつもりがあるわけではなく、一番自分らしくいることが重要.女性に見えるようにするときに一番難しいのは、毛の処理だ」などのセリフから、主人公が美しいトランスベスタイトだと分る.トランスベスタイトを通じて女性の脱毛の問題を語るのは、革新的でなおかつ的確だと思う.女性以上に女性らしく美しくなろうとする人だからこそ執心する美学がある.サイトのスチールも、すべてこの人の物語で統一させた点ではクライアント側の視野の広さに驚かされる.

http://www.philips.com/'s satinelle line of hair removal products told through the story of a beautiful transvestite is courageous and original, all the more the execution of the ad is effective. All creatives dream of a open minded client such as http://www.philips.com/. I doubt the public is as liberal...

horseradish

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“To the worm in a horseradish, the world is horseradish”

-Yiddish proverb

lawrence lessig - on supercapitalism

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Stanford大学法学部教授Lawrence Lessigが語る著作権や特許などの知的所有権の問題やオンラインカルチャーの行方.ウエブの時代においての著作権という複雑な問題についてLessig氏独特の単純なビジュアルと短い文とキーワードでプレゼンを行う.

Lawrence Lessig the leading expert on copyright and the distribution of culture in the web context. He is a strong advocate of open source innovation and free culture steering the law "code". His presentation style is very unique and surprisingly uncomplicated for such a contentious subject matter.

all the water in the world

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左:地球上のすべての水、14億0870万立方キロメートルを集めて球状にしたもの.(海水、氷、湖、河川、地下水、雲、その他を含む).
右:地球を取り巻くすべての大気、5140兆トンを集めて球状にしたもの.

イメージよりも少ないと感じる人もいるでしょう.この数値の画像化がどのように編集されているのかが気になって、Dan Phifferノブログ(英語)にたどり着いた.Danは詳しく検証した結果、画像化されたものは正確であるという結論に達する.
教科書ではなくネット上でこのようなインパクトの強い情報を公開することに対して、これからどう付き合うべきなのか考えさせられる.誰かがその編集方針を決めて、または決めずに無数の解釈が共存し続けるのか.受け手としては、情報源にどのような形のintegrity、つまり統一性、首尾一貫(性)?を求めるのかが問題になると思う.

Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc.
Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth.

At first sight the small air and water seemed rather small. I was curious to verify the rendition of this data.<a href="http://blog.phiffer.org/post/27344630/left-all-the-water-in-the-world-1-4087-billion">Dan Phiffer</a> did a good job of validating <a href="http://www.sciencephoto.com/q_nrDf6hB-8=mwhn797RKZQ/guest.html">Science Photo Library's work</a>; whether it be treehugger bias or the other. As opposed to a text book, how do we verify editorial integrity or for that matter even select editorial strategy one over the other in the web context? For the foreseeable future,a plethora of second guesses and interpretations is probably what we'll be served with. It's not good enough? How can we reach meaning if the research process is so fastidious.

how to work better

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hello in there - john prine

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We had an apartment in the city,
Me and Loretta liked living there.
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown,
A life of their own left us alone.
John and Linda live in Omaha,
And Joe is somewhere on the road.
We lost Davy in the Korean war,
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore.

Chorus:
Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger,
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day.
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello."

Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more,
She sits and stares through the back door screen.
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen.
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy,
We worked together at the factory.
But what could I say if asks "What's new?"
"Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do."

Repeat Chorus:

So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes,
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello."

Adobe Photoshop CS3 shortcut guide

Adobe Photoshop CS3ショートカットガイドのpdf.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 complete shortcut guide pdf (for International English, Macintosh version user)
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wear terror

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ファッション09年春夏メンズコレクションに相応しい言葉とデザイン.

design and words that 2009 Spring Summer men's collection will not produce this year.




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