I’ve been an avid MensHealth reader for a while now and have been religiously following their workouts in hopes of becoming a MensHealth Guy (or at least looking like one). But it’s only after my wife noticed a certain trend based on their cover designs that I realized what I’ve been doing wrong… it’s all in the pose.
See if you notice it too.
I woke up to an appropriately gray morning. While we don’t usually do sentimental-type things like this on the blog, I had to offer up a moment of respect and thanks for this gifted artist. He gave us all a lot…at great cost to himself.
Michael Jackson was the source of enormous joy for me as a kid and teenager, and for that I will always be very grateful. I could wax poetic about the pivotal moments for which he provided the soundtrack (and the sweet moves), but what makes him great is that millions of us had those moments.
Here (broken into 2 parts) is his performance at the Motown 25 show in 1983. I wanted to include this because while the Thriller album ROCKED my world, this was the first actual vhs tape I ever had of Michael Jackson. We played it well beyond the point of abuse. It never got old. It still hasn’t.
In case you weren’t aware, this was the debut of the moonwalk.
Thanks MJ. Rest in peace.
UPDATE: Just read a beautiful piece on MJ by Jeff Chang:
Michael Jackson :: Morning’s End
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, Brad Colbow’s entertaining web comics have become a favorite around here. In our slackness, we’re not keeping up with the latest, so this is not the most recent, but I love it!
Facebook meets Twitter…or Twitter meets Facebook..or my new word for it, “TwitFace“:
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
As a huge fan of the groups that will be performing in the Savannah Urban Arts Festival, I thought I’d give you a run-down of the festivities that I’m most looking forward to. A “pre-cap,” if you will.
A few weeks ago, Drew blogged about thru-you.com (Music Production 2.0), an incredible sampling of remixes done using YouTube videos. I found it so inspiring that I started digging around for collaborative YouTube projects and discovered the YouTube Symphony project. I guess I’ve been living under a rock because that was the first I’d heard of it.
In case you missed it as well, YouTube held an open call for musicians anywhere in the world, to audition for a chance to perform as part of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. Entrants were to upload a video of themselves performing a piece of music written by Chinese composer Tan Dun especially for the occasion. A panel of orchestras chose the finalists, and then the YouTube community got to pick the winning musicians.
You’d have to to be living in a cave not to be aware of the rapid decline of the newspaper industry in the US. Actually…it’s happening everywhere. There’s an article on Tech Crunch that’ll give you an idea of how rapid that decline has become, in terms of the havoc it’s reeking on advertising revenues: $7.5 billion last year. OUCH.
Of course, the interweb is being blamed, the argument being that big bad Google is allowing the public to access newspaper content for free, so that now no-one wants to buy the newspaper. CORRECT. And also WRONG. Newspaper-type-folks please allow me to weigh in:
Neither of these have anything to do with design but it’s hard to not share when you find greatness like this.
Blow 1: 6th Sense Tech:
Our favorite futurist Frank shared this with us yesterday. Of course we’ve come to expect nothing less than cutting edge and inspirational from TED videos but this took the cake.
Blow 2: Music Production 2.0
There’s 6 more of these on his site but this was my favorite. It truly represents the shift into the DJ culture DJ Spooky talked about some time back. The idea of Open Source music creation taken to its logical and most creative conclusion. Enjoy!
To celebrate their 10th birthday, Google unveiled Project 10 to the 100th, a call for entries of ideas from any and everyone on how to change the world by helping others. The premise is fairly simple, get anybody with a good idea to send in a submission, and Google will help the folks with the best ideas make them happen. They’ve earmarked $10 million for the winners.
If you’ve got a brilliant idea, then you better get cracking! The submission deadline is October 20th. You can see the full set of entry requirements here. You can submit more than one idea, and you don’t even have to have the technical expertise to implement it yourself.
Voting on the top 100 ideas will be open to the public and will begin on January 27th…and since my memory is not what it should be, I’ll be signing up for an email reminder to vote.
You have to admit…this is ALMOST as impressive as our cupcake and ice cream birthday celebration ;).
I know I’m late but I just saw this Justin Timberlake video and was floored by the sleek use of a simple visual device: The audio waveform in black space. This literally gives you an idea of what the song looks and feels like and it managed to keep my attention all the way up to that end part.
Anyone know who did this?
Around here, we have a deep and abiding love/respect/admiration for the TV show CSI:Miami, not because of the action, crime solving techniques or orangey-blue glow of every scene, but because of the sweet genius that is every word that falls from the lips of David Caruso’s character, Horatio Caine.
Horatio is a man, nay a legend, who can take an situation and sum it up in one sentence while putting on his sun-glasses and exiting stage right. He has also been know to strike some fantastic poses that I am embarrassed to admit, we’ve intentionally emulated around the office from time to time. We’ve considered collecting this man’s pearls of wisdom and editing them together ourselves, however we came across this video on YouTube posted by stewmurray47.
Behold “CSI Miami - Endless Caruso One Liners”
Oh…and in case you needed one more hit, there is also this jewel posted by jhohcable; “David Caruso parks his car”. I swear this happens to me every single morning…
