February 2012
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WatchFor all us bobos that are struggling to tie a bow tie on our own, this stop motion is helpful. A useful stop motion. Who would have thought:-)
turbotoddi:
My very first stop motion project, and why not make something useful like how to tie a bow tie? 140 photos all taken with a Nikon D3s. The film is made in iMovie.
January 2012
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WatchTwine. A new way to make your physical surroundings talk to you in bits. My inner geek likes this.
One step closer to something that actually makes meaning. Dont think we are there yet, but twine seems fun enough to be worth it for some of us.
A strategy for eating Cap´n Crunch
Randy has, over time, worked out a really fiendish Cap´n Crunch eating strategy that revolves around playing the nuggets´most deadly features against each other. The nuggets themselves are pillow-shaped and vaguely striated to echo piratical treasure chests.
Now, with a flake-type of cereal, Randy´s strategy would never work. But then, Cap´n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it...
December 2011
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“One surprising trend in gaming is that gamers today prefer, on average, three to...”
– Jane McGonigal, director of games research & development at the Institute for the Future in California and author of Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Happy and How They Can Help Us Change the World (Penguin)
Cowbird, sagas from real life
Jonathan Harris who claimed fame with his We Feel Fine project are back with a new and very exiting idea.
Cowbird are supposed to tell heartfelt stories about life. Humanity´s sagas. Not a small order to start with. It will be interesting to see if Mr Harris are able to gain interest from people who passionately can tell stories and start sagas on their own.
At present the only saga available...
November 2011
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WatchA Year in New York
This is the best tourist promotion video for a city in a very long time. And it isnt a promotion. It is only images straight from the heart of Andrew Clancy. That is why it propably is so good.
Enjoy.
October 2011
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WatchI had the pleasure of attending a presentation with technology thinker legend, Kevin Kelly in my hometown Oslo spring 2011. It was a talk about near future communication. It was superb. Then I saw this talk from Creative Mornings in SF on the subject possibilities. Again, brilliant.
It is packed with thoughts that make you hmmm and aha. “In jazz, when you play a mistake, play it...
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Getting a clear picture of french wines
I have allways had problems with getting a clear and good overview of french wines. This subway inspired map is truly helpful. Check out the complete map over at BigThink. Inspiring!
We are good for biz if you are independent
Interesting article from Good.is. Yelp is driving profit for indie restaurants.
While the individual reviewers may not be the most charming, in aggregate, they’re changing the restaurant market, creating new business for well-reviewed companies and cutting into the market share of chains.
September 2011
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Get off the threadmill
According to the founding father of behaviour economy theory (in my book at least), Daniel Kahneman, there is a principle named The Customer Satisfaction Treadmill.
The faster we get it, the faster we want it.
The more convenient it becomes, the more we realize just how convenient it could be.
The more our unreasonable demands are met, the more unreasonable they become.
In other words. Listen...
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Iceland’s Northern Lights Shimmer in Time-Lapse of 6,500 Still Images
Photographer Ágúst Ingvarsson shot over 6,500 still photographs of the aurora borealis in and around Reykjavik this past winter. Combined, they make up Aurora Islandica, a gorgeous time-lapse video of this supernatural meteorological phenomenon. This is one to watch full screen.
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Shuush, there are more people out there
seanmcdonald:
Shuush is a prototype web based Twitter reader that ranks your followers on frequency of tweets. It aims to amplify the people that don’t usually get heard, and scale back those with frequent updates.” via jonathanmoore.
This is interesting. Not because I think the technology is good enough but it is a starting point in adressing the big challenge algorithms are not able to. The...
August 2011
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Be the pipe
It´s not about what you post but what you listen to. It´s about sharing the valuable ideas that you hear. You don´t want to be the source of everything, you want to be the pipe for everything.
Ashton Kutcher (interview in Details Magazine)
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Need creative fuel? Try these 19 slides.
Inspiration from creative thought leaders View more presentations from Aimar Niedzwiedzki
July 2011
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May 2011
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“The current custodians of ebooks — Amazon, Google and the publishers...”
– Kevin Kelly on What books will become
April 2011
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Guidelines for e-commerce checkout design →
mattjukes:
A great research based article about how best stop users from abandoning their shopping cart.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/04/06/fundamental-guidelines-of-e-commerce-checkout-design/
Word.
March 2011
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Love thy neighbor
If you run a furniture shop, one of the best things that can happen, is that other people selling furniture (or related articles) open up stores in close proximity to yours. Together you become more attractive to customers, and also grow the interest of the public with regards to furniture.
There is a digital version of this too, but often overlooked because of the “winner takes it all” dogma...
November 2010
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“Ideas don’t come from watching television
Ideas sometimes come from...”
– Seth godin has done it again. Go on, read his poetic post on Where ideas come from. Inspiring stuff.
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Less but better, Life Edited
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill are running a very interesting project these days. He is running a design competition (tens of thousand of USD up for grabs folks) were he is asking for help to live happily with less.
Less space that is.
Why do we need to have so big living spaces? Can we live with less, but live better? Make room for the good stuff as Hill claims.
If you have the slightest...
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WatchI really try hard not to write about our (Suddenly Oslo) own work, but when Contagious Magazine (the worlds best magazine on communication in my view) writes about it, I suspect it to be of a very high and sharable standard.
Instead of describing what we did for PlayStation Move I advise you to read the excellent article on Contagious here. It´s also been written up on the highly popular...
October 2010
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The Last Working Class Hero
This might provoke and it might be that I am late to arrive. Anyway. Am I correct to assume that the extreme interest in the chilean miners are partly based on them being the last true workers from the industrial revolution?
That we have entered a time when the word labor and workers have a completely different perception and meaning depending on whom you talk to and off course, context.
It is...
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Smells like negative spirit
While commuting this morning a worrying thought hit me. It might have been another pasenger on the bus, but the effect was still the same.
The word smell has become negative. Once upon a time this word was neutral. It didn´t say anything about the quality of the scent other than it´s mere existence. Today, my hunch tells me that smell is now reflected negative. Unless given a specific positive...
September 2010
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Seven words of wisdom
Sometimes you stumble upon wisdom that sums up bucketloads of aha moments and other varieties of excellent waves in the brain.
For instance these seven brilliant words:
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
They were first written by Michael Pollan in his book In Defence of Food. Imagine how he felt the moment he wrote those seven words down. And note that he had spent years on research on the...
Beautiful Wilderness Downtown
This piece of art (nothing less) from Arcade Fire and Chris Milk for The Wilderness Downtown is so social, shareable, spreadable that I am almost out of words.
If you haven´t experienced this digital installation, do so now. Don´t wait. Just do.
Now I need to think some more about this. Below is a text I wrote in the installation. I really mean it.
The new tools to improve literacy skills
They are the Generation Net, whose toddler years have spawned countless mummy blogs, whether they liked it or not. Now, they’re getting their own back. Children as young as three are turning to blogging to tell their side of the story. - The Independent
This will cause lots of worries short term. Long term our children will be better at writing because they have tools that empower their...
August 2010
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“The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as...”
– Wikipedia and Brand Autopsy
Just discovered on Shuffler
Just discovered the new smart little music discovery service called shuffler, who helped me discover indie act Menomena. Social, semantics, the web and oh yes talented people.
Hard not to like.
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Digital are making us more organic
A sudden thought.
Is the need for slow food, real food (made from scratch), climbing mountains, sailing all a result of the digital network?
That we crave for something closer to nature because of Facebook and emails.
They are clearly not opponents based on the latest trends.
So I am not sure if I find artificial flavors the smartest biz to invest in…
Just a thought. Yours for a...
Label lyrics Made in Italy
Lately I´ve been obsessed with what is written on the labels of various products. A lot is uninspired, but it seems that producers with passion for great content on the inside of the box, also create what I from now will refer to as Label Lyrics.
Here is one from the superb makers of italian food, Cipriani.
Why is the pasta Cipriani so special?
7 whole grade eggs are used in every kg of the...
Bike Season
I cant remember the source but I hope the author excuses my reposting.
Please ride the bike you have, in the clothes you like, at the speed you enjoy. If you see something interesting, stop to look at it. Take spontaneous detours. Notice something new about your neighbourhood each day. Ride calm, composed and courteous. Refrain from road rage. When faced with road rage from others, please wave...
July 2010
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Strawberry fields forever?
Some decades ago (here in Norway), farmers started selling their strawberries directly to customers at the parking lots of gasoline stations. It was a smart idea. Strawberry season were more or less at the same time as the national holiday season (july). In other words, there were easier to get a good price and a customer for that matter at a gas station, than in grocery stores in the cities.
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How we are dealing with summertime, and you can... →
Don´t let your work life interfere with your holiday this year. The Suddenly crew has made a guide on how to make sure your holiday actually becomes days of private joy. Hope our thoughts inspire you to do the same.