Continuing with yesterday’s theme of NOT-SO-stupid-tricks-by-animals-you’d-never-have-as-a-pet-tricks…
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Month: August 2008
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So Much To See
I am off on a trip to see a place I have always dreamed of going to. I did not expect to get there so soon. And it’s not a minute too fast, as my list of “must sees” has been growing daily. I have never been much of a traveler, but the internet keeps delivering all of these sights to me, and now I want to explore far beyond my keyboard.
Deputy Dog’s 9 Amzingly Unique Bridges You May Not Have Seen is a must see. All 9 were new to me and all 9 were pretty incredible.
The Ultimate Movie In My Head keeps expanding.
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Color is relative
Check this out. It’s an interactive site. Drag your cursor over the different colors and the background will shift to match. It’s interesting how certain backgrounds make the other colors jump out more. What you see really is determined by what surrounds you I guess. Thanks Metafilter!
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Petitinvention
Petitinvention is the blog of Mac Funamizu . He’s got lots of good ideas. These are his personalized paper cups so that you never mistake which cup is yours again.
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How We Work
MetaFilter lead me to Rodcorp’s How We Work site, and although it is not the kind of thing we usually point out here at TATT, but although it’s not about specific work, it’s about the process to get us there, and it’s kind of glorious itself.
From J.G. Ballard, to the Coen Brothers, to Malcolm Gladwell, to Walter Benjamin, the site has catalogued the methods of what people do to create. Although it is definitely a white male centered list, it is fun place to browse through, and may very well lead to some new habits. They have posted a list here.
We’re interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. And in the specific anecdotes and the way people describe their own relationship to their own work.
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Tinkering School
Summer’s over. Camp’s kaput. Are you going back next year? What are the coolest camps out there? Space camp could be but boy is it pricey!
Tinkering School is a week long camp in California for kids age 7 -17 where you learn how to build things. Really cool things. They have tons of videos up on YouTube showing all that have done. Check it out right here.
I wish there was a Rube Goldberg camp though:
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Robo Fish: How Stuff Works Videos
As cool as they are just being there, robots teach us a lot of things. And they are still sooo cool; imagine that!
These robofish certainly deserved to be in the last robot roundup, but hey, there’s only so much space, time, and candy (wait, what’s candy got to do with anything?).
How Stuff Works is one of the great websites out there with tons of stuff on all kinds of stuff. When you get tired of silly videos on YouTube, or your parents say it’s time to watch something educational, go to their video channel. Bookmark it today.
