Using animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery. Take a quiet 10 minutes and dive in. With music from Anna Oxygen, Mirah, Caroline Lufkin and Mileece.
Miwa Matreyek creates performances where real shapes and virtual images trade places, amid layers of animation, video and live bodies. Full bio and more links
(Source: vimeo.com)
Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She’s teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers’ minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state.
Emily Pilloton wrote Design Revolution, a book about 100-plus objects and systems designed to make people’s lives better. In 2010, her design nonprofit began an immersive residency in Bertie County,… Full bio and more links
(Source: projecthdesign.org)
Neil Pasricha’s blog 1000 Awesome Things savors life’s simple pleasures, from free refills to clean sheets. In this heartfelt talk from TEDxToronto, he reveals the 3 secrets (all starting with A) to leading a life that’s truly awesome.
(Source: ted.com)
The Passion and Perseverance Behind a Start-up
Joe Liemandt, founder, President and CEO of Trilogy, describes the passion and perseverance it took to take his enterprise software company from a five-person start-up to a global industry leader.
(Source: ecorner.stanford.edu)
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
I remember filter on status feeds being a big topic on the Web and Beyond conference a couple of years back. Since then we’ve been adding more and more data to these feeds, the need for good filters will increase. Simply showing popular stuff or stuff I liked before won’t cut it.
An other one.. Take a look at Facebook for example. It’s nice to have an option to follow your favorite brands, but do you really need to see that crap when you want to know whats up with your friends?
Peldi’s (balsamiq) talk at The Business of Software 2011 conference with some great advice about starting your business and give a good overview of things to consider before taking the leap.
(Source: blogs.balsamiq.com)
Lea Verou – Polyfilling the gaps (JSConf.eu)
Polyfills, a term coined by Remy Sharp back in 2010, are scripts that mimic a future API providing fallback functionality to older browsers. The rise of HTML5, CSS3 and ES5 resulted in various polyfills being written by developers all over the world to fill in the gaps of browser support, so we can use new standards before they are universally adopted by browser makers. In this talk, we will explore various techniques commonly employed in good polyfills and shims, so you can start writing your own when a polyfill for the feature you need is not already available. This way, not only you will be able to improve your own workflow, but also share it with the world and give back to the community.
(Source: badassjs.com)