Big Think is taking it’s thinking to the next level with the introduction to a new e-learning opportunity, better known as The Floating University.
The student will not only get access to some of the world’s greatest thinkers, but they’ll be able to follow the lectures online for an individual subscription fee of $495.00 US. The inaugural course is Great Big Ideas: An Entire Undergraduate Education While Standing On One Foot, which contains 12 separate lectures ranging from biology to economics. And you’ll be attending this course along with students from Yale, Harvard, and Bard. If you’re interested in signing up, then go to their site now. It does sound like an interesting opportunity, doesn’t it? The first lecture starts on September 2, 2011.
http://youtu.be/fXbBA1DRE84
If you’ve been paying attention to the airwaves, then you’ve probably already heard about this new gadget that everyone is salivating over. Well, everyone that loves to draw. The Wacom Inkling allows the user to draw as they normally would on any piece of paper, but the Inkling captures the vector drawing through the movement of the digital pen and saves your drawing in a digital format that can be transferred to a computer. And it goes further by allowing the artist to draw in layers much like you would in an illustration program. Digital drawing may have just gotten a little easier.
It’ll be available by mid-September, and will run $199.00 US. For more information, check out Wacom’s Inkling page or just keep your ears open. Everyone’s talking about it. Yes, even I have my moments of weakness.
If you’re a fan of Top Gear, then you’ve probably seen this clip already. There are times when life just gets to you, and you need to be a little silly. Preferably in something small. Like the smallest car in the world. So, here’s Jeremy Clarkson driving the world’s smallest production car, the Peel P50. Which in itself is pretty miraculous considering that he’s 6’5″ tall. It’s totally hilarious. Enjoy!
And even more amazing, if you’ve taken a shine to the car, you can actually get a replica here. But don’t wait too long, because there’s only a few more left.
If you’ve ever immersed yourself into a comic, you’ve probably been fascinated at the world that the artist conceived.What if you were given the chance to visit one of those famed cities? How about a tour through Batman’s Gotham, or a flight over Superman’s Metropolis? Sounds pretty cool, huh? So, these are a few of the concept travel posters created by Justin Van Genderen, depicted in a retro style reminiscent of a time when travel opened up a new world to us all. – found through a DesignTaxi post
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Wow, it’s really sad when any kind of writing presented by a university-trained intellectual will inevitably bring out responses from those who are clearly dragging one side of their head against the ground. Perhaps it’s that so many people still use those cave man instincts for proving dominance? Me have PhD behind my name, so me Big Man! It’s not something that I would expect to see from supposedly distinguished and learned individuals, but I guess that I still have much to learn about base human motivations.
In a society where labels and titles promote a person’s standings within our hierarchical society, it’s more than a little frightening to hear words that are designed to build walls of deafness. And when one biased intellect battles against an intellect from a specialty external to his field, then there seems to be little chance of actually hearing a meaningful word exchange that would lead to open communications. Each side insists that it has the only right answer. Right… and that is why we have the color gray in our spectrum. Because there is no one right answer. There are, however, lots of answers that didn’t fit a specific scenario. It doesn’t make them wrong, just not right for that specific situation. Continue reading
Ursus Wehrli has a unique way of looking at his art. A clear and orderly way of looking at things. A uniquely humorous way of presenting art with a penchant for OCD. His new book, The Art of Clean Up, takes ordinary images and puts on an OCD quirk that makes you look think twice before demanding order. I guess that black and white doesn’t work so well in all situations, huh? – found through a DesignTaxi post
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Cooper Berella, also known as Super Cooper, is curating his second art show with the help of Munky King. This particular show has a very power message, Stop It!, which is aimed at highlighting the problems that come from bullying and cyberbullying. About 70 artists from around the world have agreed to support this very important cause, including some of the biggest names out there today. The show will be opening on September 10, 2011 at the Munky King Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, with benefits going to GLIDE (Gays and Lesbians Initiating a Dialog for Equality) and CHIME Institute (an organization dedicated to inclusive education where kids of all abilities learn together). Need I say more? – found through Vinyl Pulse post
If you’ve been following me, then you know that I’m pretty passionate about finding inspiration and making it into something bigger and better for everyone. Well, I was asked to be a contributor for The Urban Times, an online magazine that investigates our future in an optimistic way. Their authors write on a gamut of subjects: built, culture, environment, media, politics, science, technology, the world, and their own features that talk about the future of humanity on this delicate world that we live in. Go on over to read the articles, because there are a lot of extremely thoughtful, passionate, and innovative people who want to connect with us through their words in order to help build a better world. I’m thankful to have found this venue, and look forward to writing for them.
Here’s my first article for them, Humanity’s Outcries Build. Let me know about your thoughts about where humanity is heading.
The Post Carbon Institute put out a pretty good animation story depicting the current world crisis that we are all enveloped in. The warning shots were heard a while back, but we didn’t take it seriously when we needed to. Well, we’ve now reached a point where we all know that change is not only good, but it is necessary.
No matter what pretty packages are put in front of us, we have to listen to their contents first. Because packaging is something that we all love, but know that deep down it’s just simple gift wrapping. Sometimes it hides an amazing prize, and sometimes it’s just something we want to light up and leave on someone’s porch (not something I condone, by the way). Continue reading
