So I subtitled a Bollywood video for my Yelp review of International Market in Metairie…
“Our creativity comes from without, not from within. We are not self-made. We are dependent on one another…” - Kirby Ferguson
The Entire Mass Effect Saga Edited as a TV Series
I went through this entire list over the course of a week or two recently. I’d never played the game, but wanted to know the story, and this play-through ended up being the perfect solution. I also love how during “Season 2” he even adds an opening credits scene to each video, reminiscent of TV shows like Star Trek.
Great stuff!
These Mars rover landing animations are getting pretty kickass.
Huge! First trailer for “Cloud Atlas”, the next Wachowski Bros’ movie.
Epic trailer.
“Either Way” - an animated political cartoon by Mark Fiore
SpaceX’s Dragon Makes History
Here’s the amazing highlights of SpaceX’s historic mission to the International Space Station, the first private company to achieve … well, anything close to that.
The hairs on your neck will stand up as you watch everything from launch to capture of a “Dragon by the tail” to landing. What you’re witnessing is the future of manned spaceflight in near-Earth orbit. And that future gets me excited.
(by spacexchannel)
Cookie Monster - “God’s Away on Business”
TED + New Orleans + Open Source = Watch this
HBO’s The Weight of the Nation (4-part documentary about the obesity epidemic)
Part 1: “Consequences” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pEkCbqN4uo
Part 2: “Choices” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLv0Vsegmoo
Part 3: “Children in Crisis” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T24B6T-hp0E
Part 4: “Challenges” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmcZRgWBdwQ
A Moment of Clarity #26 with Lee Camp - Is Wall Street Set Up to Reward Evil?
excerpt: “We’ve created a system where companies get massively punished for doing good things for humanity. So if a corporation announces it will hostilely
take over a 50 year old, locally owned company and fire all their employees, it’s given the financial equivalent of a high-five and a reach-around. If on the other hand it announces it will give free AIDS medication to the dying people of Ghana, then Wall Street knocks it unconscious and draws the word “queer” on its forehead.”
Passing Through
Nikola Tesla’s Words on the Grandeur of Nature and the Power of Thought
There’s many ways to consider the idea that our universe is interconnected. Sometimes this idea is interpreted through the lens of religion, sometimes through the combination of butterflies and chaos theory, and sometimes, as Brian Cox shows us, through quantum mechanics.
Nikola Tesla was intrigued by this philosophy in the late 19th century, and the idea percolated through his work. In an address given before the Franklin Institute in 1893, Tesla considered the complexity of the eye. Those words are set to stunning imagery in the video above from Olafur Haraldsson, where beams of light travel through our world in fairy-like fashion.
Tesla understood that while some may view the intricate structures of the eye as so complex that they must have been designed by a higher power, it operates according to the same set of universal laws of nature that even the smallest atoms must obey. He wondered whether any man would ever completely describe the nature by which the eye translated impressions into thoughts, and the great thinkers of his time had just begun to (correctly) implicate electricity in the eye’s operation.
How amazing that it is the device by which humans have gathered all of our knowledge, yet it is subject to the most basic laws of nature. Those laws which are beyond our control, down to the very machinery that converts light energy to nerve impulses. Here is where the grandeur of nature is most evident: That the smallest units of our universe, the photons, could affect some of the most complex, humans … subject to the same laws at every scale.
I recommend checking out the full speech, available here via Google Books.
“Castaway on the Moon”
Watch this fucking movie.
And prepare to cry smiles.
