gedankentank.tumblr.com

zehnuhr: Polar Bear Your flight has an impact. Plane Stupid’s...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:34:22 +0100

Polar Bear

Your flight has an impact. Plane Stupid’s new cinema ad, written and commissioned by creative agency Mother and made by production company Rattling Stick. Director Daniel Kleinman.

This works really well.

frischmilch: paulchen: (via youmaybeoffended)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:33:55 +0100

frischmilch:

paulchen:

(via youmaybeoffended)

(via loveallthis)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:04:43 +0100

(via loveallthis)

verbalized: This is pretty much the coolest-looking shower...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:46:49 +0100

verbalized:

This is pretty much the coolest-looking shower ever.

"I just get frustrated by all the money that’s being spent to stop good ideas. California has 8..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:52:50 +0100

““I just get frustrated by all the money that’s being spent to stop good ideas. California has 8 times more lobyists than they do have law makers and legislators… So I think it’s time for some damn leadership. And some courage to be demonstrated.””

- Gavin Newsom (mayor of San Francisco) talking about how to make your city and your politicians greener during a live webcast (via inhabitat.com)

"When people think about creativity, they think about artistic work — unbridled, unguided..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:08:17 +0100

“When people think about creativity, they think about artistic work — unbridled, unguided effort that leads to beautiful effect. But if you look deeper, you’ll find that some of the most inspiring art forms, such as haikus, sonatas, and religious paintings, are fraught with constraints. They are beautiful because creativity triumphed over the “rules.””

- Business Week: Creativity loves constraints

Best of Twitter tunes album released

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:06:00 +0100

Best of Twitter tunes album released :

“The trend started earlier this year when Dan Stowell, a composer and computer scientist at Queen Mary, University of London, encoded the sound of waves crashing on the shore using the programming language SuperCollider and then tweeted the results.”

This is freaked out and small! The phenomenon follows the same patterns like #tweetcoding (“Code something cool in <=140 characters of AS3”). It’s interesting to see the creativity that can arise out of 140 characters.

Creativity loves constraints.

Kool Keith meets Tom Waits. An amazing joint venture! (via...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:17:01 +0100

Kool Keith meets Tom Waits. An amazing joint venture! (via Christian@ThePosse)

Tape 138: Zeit-der-Unschuld-Coverclash

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:34:32 +0100

Tape 138: Zeit-der-Unschuld-Coverclash

2009 - the year the browser finally took over?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:02:18 +0100

Check the signals!

1. Webkit - Standing on the shoulders of a giant

Webkit’s taking web technologies to new limits
Webkit’s empowering Mobile Safari, Android Browser, Chrome, Titanium, Adobe Air etc.
Also pushing Firefox to a new level

2. New platforms, devices and API’s for new interactions

3. OpenSource Web Frameworks - The fuel of innovation

JQuery, JQuery UI, JQtouch
Protovis
…

adv-rdrb: Else Mobile (The Time Has Come) Created for Else...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:48:30 +0100

adv-rdrb:

Else Mobile (The Time Has Come)

Created for Else Mobile Phones as half viral campaign, half official website content and commissioned by The Visionaire Group in LA. ‘The Time Has Come’ acts as an intro for the new mobile device. The entire campaign was shot on location in downtown LA and California.

— (via Vimeo)

“Humans and data become closer. Technology was supposed to make our lives easier. Instead our live grow more complicated…”

“The Else UI can be operated by one hand in the one for the terminal of the overall touch panel. For instance, it can be operated to hold a strap. The one that manner of operation traces concentric circle menu displayed as shown in pie chart.” (via wirelesswatch.jp)

“Ride is a brand new skateboard shaped wireless video game...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:51:43 +0100

“Ride is a brand new skateboard shaped wireless video game controller that players stand on to interact with the game. Features include motion sensing technology, where the board can be rotated, tilted and lifted to pull off tricks, smarts sensors for speed and a gritty surface like on a real skateboard.” (via designboom)

Check this video for a demo and this video for instructions.

"You are one third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. And I have a tip for you. If..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:04:22 +0100

“You are one third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. And I have a tip for you. If you have to work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be.”

- Julian Treasure in his TedTalk: The 4 ways sound affects us

“Scrivener is a word processor created specifically for...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:03:40 +0100

“Scrivener is a word processor created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. (via Stevenbjohnson).”

Photos from “Landscape of oil” by Edward...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:33:35 +0100

Photos from “Landscape of oil” by Edward Burtinsky

“… and I feel that all of us need to now begin to really take the task of using our talents, our ways of thinking, to begin to deal with what I think is probably one of the most challenging issues of our time, how to deal with our energy crisis.

And I would like to say that, on the other side of it, 30, 40 years from now, the children that I have, I can look at them and say, ‘We did everything we possibly, humanly could do, to begin to mitigate this, what I feel is one of the most important and critical moments in our time’… “

(see Edward’s Ted Talk )

The litl - A startup from boston delivers a fresh netbook design...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0100

The litl - A startup from boston delivers a fresh netbook design approach.

It runs a custom (Gnome based) Linux with a slick interface shaped by Pentagram. Basically all things on the litl happen in the browser and live cloud.

I really like its elegant simplicity. It takes a lot of work, nerves and guts to deliver such a simple interface.

(via kottke)

Vega - An Android-powererd 15.6” touch device (via...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:30:46 +0100

Vega - An Android-powererd 15.6” touch device (via createordie)

szymon: Phantom Bike by Olli Erkkila

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:13:24 +0100

szymon:

Phantom Bike by Olli Erkkila

Tape 137: Die Hölle, das sind die Anderen

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:05:24 +0100

Tape 137: Die Hölle, das sind die Anderen

lukees: USB StarTrek Communicator™

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:05:35 +0100

lukees:

USB StarTrek Communicator™