A Thinking Place

Imagine a place where thinkers gather to talk with each other. Imagine their ideas making wrestling moves. Imagine those ideas initiating ikedo shifts. Imagine them executing kung-fu leaps and thrusts. Imagine the new idea-combinations that emerge. Imagine their effects on the human environment when these ideas finally get to be fabricated into forms.
In the Glass House, a thinking place given form by Philip Johnson, thinkers have another opportunity to meet and share. How wonderful!

Here is the Glass House where this and that gets knock around. Have a look.

Uploaded by coolhunting on Jul 20, 2008
In this video RISD president John Maeda narrates a visit to Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, CT. Maeda shares his impressions and talks about how it relates to his thoughts on simplicity. Meanwhile, we explore the site (there are actually several buildings on the property in addition to the Glass House), shot over a couple picture perfect spring days

John Maeda The Thinker

John Maeda is an interesting man. He thinks. He works. He talks. He keeps learning from contact with other human beings.
Here he is talking.

Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Sep 20, 2007 http://www.ted.com The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics.

The Ripple-Effects Of Deeds

Yes. The things we do affect others in ways that we may not realise. For better. For worse.

For this Christmas, for logging-in, I wish you many blessings for the good things that you have done for others.

May you be encouraged and supported to have your deepest hopes fulfilled.

 Have a wonderful Christmas!

The Global Financial Crisis And The Dummies

In most of my sharings, I have made it positive, empowering and motivating. You watch, read and feel good, ready to face the real world with bright thoughts and brave steps.
But many things around us are falling apart. Some quite senselessly! And I am alarmed and confused.
The CRISIS STAGE is upon us. There seems to be no escape. So here in this sharing is one enlightening piece that may help some of us, DUMMIES,  see why we dummies,  are all going through this bad-bad mess. Perhaps, we may pull through. Somehow.

The Gift Of Self

If ever we can give a gift to another human being, it has to be the gift of enabling this particular human being to be who she/he is capable of becoming. However, this maybe the most difficult gift to give. The giver must first have the inkling of its value. Then the idea of how to give it. Then to persuade the recipient that this gift is valuable. Hopefully the recipient will accept the gift and unwrap it. Then put in the necessary persistence to enjoy the gift of a self-actualising human being experiencing the thrill and the powerful effects of growing capable. But it has to start somewhere. And Sir Ken Robertson makes a case to start at the beginning.

The Fascinating Human Being

The human being is fascinating. Mainly because of his innate human ability to learn.
Over two hundred thinking skills, classified by taxonomists; labelled as thinking hats and dancing shoes; rebranded as habits of the mind; packaged as 8 habits of highly effective people; taught as mindmapping; resurfaced as a kick in the seat of the pant and a wack on the side of the head. How alarming!

Now it comes as a curve ball thrown by Sir Ken Robertson.

A Must-Be-In Place: Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat. Just a natural wonder. And the people. Amazing!
The well-edited video by a professional team documents the stunning place.

Melissa Venema Plays

Here is Taps played in its entirety. The original version of Taps was called Last Post. It was written by Daniel Butterfield in 1801. It was lengthy and formal, as demonstrated in this clip. In 
1862, it was shortened to 24 notes and re-named Taps.
Melissa Venema (age 13) from Holland plays the original version on a trumpet. The original Last Post was played on a bugle.
The conductor of the orchestra is Andre Rieu also from Holland.



Here Melissa plays it again, a year later.



Melissa moves easily into different music genre, the distinctive feature of a talented craftsperson. Sample them in the following 3 videos:

Sheer Delight

Delight. See it. Feel it. Enjoy it. Aahh. That's what delight is about!

One Of Life's Miracle For Sharing

Something so magical is now possible to record with hi-tech movie cam. Thanks to people with taste and passion, this video can be enjoyed and circulated.

Understanding The Fundamentals Of SketchUp

What is SketchUp?

 

Check-out a tutorial:

The Grace-filled Amazing Grace

Behind the Amazing Grace is an amazing story.

Here it is:

Uploaded by charityfocus on Nov 4, 2011
An unforgettable video.
Category: Nonprofits & Activism Tags: wintley

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More Of A Wonder

How to enjoy this wonder? This amazing tool needs viewing of what it does when one with imagination is let loose with it!

A Wonder Tool

Here is a good demo of what a designing software can do. It is SKETCHUP. Google gives it away free. It is the best programme for 3-D rendering of built forms. Architecture. Machines. Furniture.
Bridges. More. View and enjoy .

What A Pleasure!

Here is beauty and wonder, alive and joyful!

Wyman Meinzer_ Photographer

Here is a collection of well-shot frames by Wyman Meiner. I am sharing this pleasure knowing that a day will come when the land will undergo drastic transformation as callousness replaces respect for life.




Wyman Meinzer's West Texas from Wyman Meinzer on Vimeo.

Urgent Plead To Act

Getting back to basics is more than just a fad for today. The message "to be aware that no one can live alone and be sheltered from the impact of others' decisions and behaviour" is urgent. It requires serious attention. The usual dismissive response "Argh! More from the impractical dreamers", cannot be tolerated anymore. We who control resources and management must act with respect for the rights of beings that live on planet earth.

Thanks to this group of clear-eyed children who has the courage and talent to engage in deep conversation with powerful adults for this video.

Getting To The Heart Of The Matter

Getting into the heart of the question, 'What Is The Best Religion', is to get into the heart of the human being asking the question.

The wise one answers in this video.

Remembering Steve Jobs

Thank you Steve Jobs for being who you are. 

I am one of the millions of people who have been empowered 

by what you and your team have contributed. 

My condolence to your family and to all who will miss you.

May you rest in peace and in eternal bliss.

Implications For The World As A Super-Power Arises

Thinking out of the box?
No thinking!
Bad thinking!
Keep thinking only inside the box!
Box-up the thinking ones!
Which position is the beneficial one?
Let's consider the options as the realities play themselves out while the rest of the world awakes gradually to the new configurations.

Computer Graphics Animations

Purely fantasy. Purely the creation of the imaginative persons. Purely the product of science technology with the visual arts. And a fresh art form is the pure product: computer graphics animation.

It is good for entertainment. It is excellent for education. It is great for career development. It makes money for businessmen. It is a worthwhile investment for venture capitalist. It is recreation for lively minds and restless hands. It amuses both the young and the grown kids. It is popular course studies for art and technology institutes. It is the in-thing for advertising. In fact it is the dream-stuff that dreams are built on for engaging research and development for everything under the universe.

Just dig in!

Having Fun With Technology

Where will the integration of phone technology with multi-media communications lead the consumers to?

Here is one interesting "what if?"

More convenient functions:

 
 And here is another with more solutions for more demanding consumers:

Using Technology With Imagination

Imagine.

A young Elvis Presley singing with his daughter Priscila Presley together fourty years later.

What a marvellous combination: imagination and technology!

Van Gogh's Paintings

More Van Gogh's paintings with Don McLean's vocal

 

 Uploaded by whitepine on Sep 1, 2009

Paintings by Vincent van Gogh with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Category: Music Tags: van gogh mozart

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Art To Express Deep Feelings

What is the end of doing art?
Definitely one of its functions must be to express deep feelings.
Here is one where the singer and the song is one.
This is startling because of the background of the singer and the song writer. The age, education, cultural and ethnic and religious could'nt be more different.
Yet, the feelings and aspirations are so similiar. Both wants peace and freedom to be who they are.

Listen in.

 

Understanding The Intelligence And The Specialness Of Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali has a working style that is highly methodical. That he is gifted is already shown as a child. But that gift also comes with a great relish for hard work and meticulous observation of his surroundings.

Plus he has a strong sense of self-mockery and a decadent delight in pricking the pomposity of all and sundry!

This BBC Series in 6-parts, has given me a deeper understanding of the man and his life-works. I am sharing this wonderfully produced documentaries with hope that you may enjoy them as I have.

Salvador Dali The Man And His Works

Salvador Dali's life and works share intelligence and fantasy without a clearly defined border.

These remarks made about Dali is telling:
"At best labelled eccentric, at worst a paranoid lunatic, truly, he should be seen for what he painted: a surrealist, a modern-day alchemist, a man with one leg in this reality, and one leg in the other, his waxed moustache strangely suspended between a world where gravity exists, yet does somehow not seem to affect him too much. When once interviewed on an American television show, Dalí referred to himself in the third person, proclaiming "Dalí is immortal and will not die". In fact, Dali died several times. He had died a few years before he was born. He died as a young artist, when Dali broke with the Surrealist movement, whose members, like Bréton, began to refer to Dali in the past tense, as if he had died. He died when Gala died in 1982. He also died of heart failure on January 23, 1989, in Figueres."

More of this remarkable man's works.

From Wikipedia,the free encyclopedia

In 1941, American photographer Philippe Halsman met the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in New York City and they began to collaborate in the late 1940s. The 1948 work Dali Atomicus explores the idea of suspension, depicting three cats flying, water thrown from a bucket, an easel, a footstool and Salvador Dalí all seemingly suspended in mid-air. The title of the photograph is a reference to Dalí's work Leda Atomica (at that which can be seen in the right of the photograph behind the two cats.) Halsman reported that it took 28 attempts to be satisfied with the result. This is the unretouched version of the photograph that was published in LIFE magazine. In this version the wires suspending the easel and the painting, the hand of the assistant holding the chair and the prop holding up the footstool can still be seen. The frame on the easel is still empty.

The copyright for this photo was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office but according to the U.S. Library of Congress was not renewed, putting it in the public domain in the United States and countries which adopted the rule of the shorter term.

Here is a collaborative work by Salvador Dali with Walt Disney

Uploaded by nomerodin1 on Jan 18, 2011 http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destino Category: Film & Animation Tags: disney world cartoon
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And some of Dali's paintings animated by talented admirers:

Uploaded by Hooyaiyei on Jan 5, 2007
Salvador Dali
Category: Film & Animation Tags: Salvador Dali
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The Place Where Christ Was Crucified

Here is the place where the Christ painted by Salvador Dali was put in that condition by the Romans.



Jerusalem | Filmed in Imax 3D from JerusalemGiantScreen on Vimeo.

An Artist Talking About Another

I stumbled upon Helen Mirren sharing her thoughts on Vasily Kandinsky. Amazing that she draws a connection between her acting as a carefully worked-out-thought-process with the paintings of
Vasily Kandinsky. But the link is fascinating: spontaneity, a loosey easy-peasy casual flow of feelings. Effortless!
Listen to her analysis of two art forms, distinctively different but spiritually similiar.

Communicating With Imagination

See how imagination is taken to a new level. The medium is Computer Graphics with 3-D Animation Software.

Enriching The Life Of The Community

Our knowledge is meant to enrich our lives. It is vital that learning becomes a life-long habit.
Here is a video presentation to show how economics, technology, art, transportation, work and lifestyle can be reorganised to enhance the quality of life of the community.

Animated Shapes And Type Faces

The awesomeness of grasping basics is the freedom available to the creative person.

Just consider lines: straight and curves. Consider combinations. Consider size. Consider directions. Consider positions.

In these following videos, you'll see imaginative combinations of straight lines and curve lines of different sizes in exciting positions and surprising directions.

The fun-part for the designer is to have the right lines in the right place and at the right time. Having every bit organised to communicate an idea is the most interesting part of doing design.

Enjoy the works of Jeroen Krielaars using the Adobe Design and Animation Softwares.



sstv connected from Jeroen Krielaars on Vimeo.

sstv monster from Jeroen Krielaars on Vimeo.

sstv abstract from Jeroen Krielaars on Vimeo.

Sketch from Jeroen Krielaars on Vimeo.

sstv radar from Jeroen Krielaars on Vimeo.





Moshun from Jeroen Krielaars on Vimeo.

The Artist That Inspired Milton Glaser

Piero della Francesca was the painter that fascinated Milton Glaser.

Here are some of his paintings.

Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Apr 1, 2010

http://www.ted.com From the TED archives: The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here, he muses on what makes a convincing poster, by breaking down an idea and making it new.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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Milton Glaser The Thinking Man

Milton Glaser, designer-artist, has always been articulate with words as well as with his prodigious works.

Here is a good taste of his thinking between art and design. His analysis of the value of money and the value of creativity in the context of human transactions and the quality of life is incisive.

A Look At Predictable Patterning In Nature

This is a fascinating look at INFORMATION in nature. Information is the new component besides energy and matter in the areas of science-study.
What is information?
Information is data. There is a a big chunk of information in the building-block of life in the DNA. The arrangement of data in DNA is sequential and orderly. There is no randomness in the data-infomation- pattern. There is design in the arrangement of the data in the form of codes in the DNA formation.
Intriguing questions arise with this observation:
How do the infomation-patterns get into the DNA formation?
There is unmistakeable evidence of design in the DNA sequencing and organisation. Underpinning design is an implicit acknowledgement of intelligence.
Is intelligent design then science?
Does the acknowledgement of a CREATOR as being the source of the intelligent design interfere with the study of science?
At any rate, this video offers a thread to this line of investigation. Take a look at predictable patterning in nature:

Picasso At Work

How does Picasso work?

What is his style?

Here is a rare glimpse into the master at work:

Picasso's Guernica In Animation

Picasso's Guernica in animated form

Guernica Picasso from Evgeny Mylt on Vimeo.

This video tells the story of Guernica - considered by many to be Picasso's masterpiece. Guernica demonstrates graphically the tragedy of war and the suffering that it brings to ordinary individuals, particularly innocent civilians.

Guernica gained monumental status and is a perpetual reminder of the consequences of war, an anti-war symbol, and also an embodiment of peace. On its completion Guernica was displayed around the world in brief tours. It became widely acclaimed. The tour brought the Spanish Civil War to the world's attention. Guernica became a face-to-face encounter with inhumanity, a wanton massacre at the village of Guernica in Spain

This fantastic animated collage was created by Evgeny Popov.
The sound production and the marvellous Spanish guitar was by
Maxim Alechin. 

Popov is a graduate of the Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences.  He works as a multimedia director, editor and CG artist as well as with a camera.

The Intriguing Numbers

The Fibonacci numbers are intriguing. 

What do the numbers tell?

Why are they important to our understanding of growth?

How are the numbers connected to growth in all living things?

How are these numbers connected to the formation of the planetary systems and the galaxies?

Are there some inferences that one can draw from the many connections that are inter-related in materials and in nature?

Take a look at the intriguing connections:

This video shows more examples:

Here is an artistic expression of the Fibonacci numbers

See how another enthusiast re-interpret the same understanding of the Fibonacci numbers:

Now see the way another enthusiast applies it to the calendar dates:

Here is another connection, to sounds:

Here the believer uses the intelligent design construct to express his belief system: