Archive for January, 2009
Star Fans in their Homes
Photographer Steve Scholfield Land of the Free series capture the eccentricity of these enthusiasts, mainly Star Wars and Star Trek, relaxing at home with family and pets. Gold.
Designing the Optimal Nap
Naps make you brainier, healthier, safer. But to understand how you can nap best, you need to understand your body. During sleep, your brain’s electrical activity goes through a five-phase cycle.
Church Hats
As a tribute to “that hat”, worn by Aretha Franklin at President Obama’s inauguration, Time have produced a photo essay about the church hats of Afro Americans. Photographs are by Michael Cunningham whose work is definitely worth a look, particularly the beautiful “Queens - Portraits of Black Women and their fabulous hair”.
Tombstone Containing Electronic Memories
Japanese tombstone manufactures are embedding bar-codes into their tombs. The scanable bar-codes have the capacity to hold an electronic scrapbook of the life of the deceased. The audiovisual material can then be accessed through the mobile phones of their loved ones.
Guide to Online Video
Today the web fully supports video. And that requires a new paradigm for how you think about video, how you document your work, and how you reach out to your constituents.
This 7-part introduction is designed to get you thinking about online video, and to get you started on the path toward becoming a more web-centric organization. By See3 Communications.
The Chelsea Affect Granta
Obama does Carnival
A worker cleans Barack Obama masks in the Mascaras Condal factory in Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro. The new face of the White House is the hottest for this year’s Carnival in Brazil. Looks like we’ll be partying with thousands of masked, half-naked Obamas at the Carnival parades next month… because, yes we can.
(AP)
