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The Music Video Reinvented

December 3, 2009

Check out this music video from the group Ok Go. Mesmerizing.

Cool, huh?

It reminds me of Feist’s 1234 video

and the tread­mill video –also by Ok Go. These guys have it fig­ured out. There is some­thing sub­tly com­pelling about these videos. I can watch them over and over again. I think we appre­ci­ate see­ing peo­ple just being peo­ple –not being scan­dalous or overly special-effected, just hav­ing fun and being human.

Update: This video from Oren Lavie also falls into this genre of music-videos-showing-people-doing-interesting things.

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Practical Ingenuity

May 26, 2009

I like peo­ple who think design can change the world. Grow­ing up, I was hugely inspired by The Inge­nu­ity Gap –a book which explains why we must be excep­tion­ally cre­ative in our responses to prob­lems like cli­mate change and global ter­ror­ism if we are to stand a chance at solv­ing them. Here are two inspir­ing exam­ples of informed, cre­ative design.

The first is from Design that Mat­ters (DtM), a Boston-based charity: 

And here is the third TED pre­sen­ta­tion from Hans Rosling (his oth­ers are here and here, if you missed them). Rosling’s non-profit Gap Min­der, based in Swe­den, uses data visu­al­iza­tion (like the Tren­dal­izer) to make the world’s devel­op­ment sta­tis­tics understandable. 

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