Patrick Blanc
Building garden walls…
Posted: December 21st, 2011
at 10:22pm by mnp
Categories: art,green,architecture,11th dan
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Behind the Scenes - The 360 Project
"The 360 Project" is an exploration into the crossroads of photography and motion pictures. It is a study of peak dance movements, captured simultaneously by 48 cameras aligned in a circle.
There are two components to "The 360 Project" - "Ballet 360" features ballerinas from Canada’s National Ballet School, "Krump 360" features dancers from Northbuck Krump. The two styles of dance represent polemic perspectives in both technique and origin - one is beauty, the other beast.
The resulting images resemble a type of digital statue - a frozen, peak moment, embodying the essence of each dance form in 360 degrees.
Posted: December 21st, 2011
at 10:12pm by mnp
Categories: myninjaplease,film,photo
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Teaching with Twitter
Posted: December 21st, 2011
at 10:03pm by mnp
Categories: education,#twitterisfothebirds
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Compressed Air Motor Bike
Although this area of automobile science abounds with skepticism, especially from the outsiders, Benstead says that the Yamaha WR250R he retrofitted to run on compressed air can go up to 100 kilometers on a "charge," and that it’s only a matter of seconds to get it from empty to full, with a proper air compressor. (Source)
Mind Crunch : It Won’t Happen to Me
Much research indicates that people underestimate their personal probability of encountering negative events. These findings may be interpreted either in terms of unrealistic optimism or in terms of an illusion of control. Current research has not attempted to distinguish between these two positions though it is shown that it is possible to do so.
Biased Behavior
We think we are better than average at not being biased in thinking that we’re better than average.
This is true especially for people who have studied this subject at college. Thus, the behavioralists neatly infer from the literature that everyone else is biased. Now, surely these are smart, educated people, and they are less biased on simple scientific questions that your average housewife doesn’t know, but there are lots of big issues relating to politics and business strategy that don’t have a monotonic relation between learning and the ability to discern the good. Just look at politics or education, areas subject to a lot of study over the past 50 years, which are hardly more efficient than before all this knowledge arrived. (Source)