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• WOWOW: Kinetic Trashbags & Names

  by Alexander Becker

  Kinetic, trashbags, and names that is. Enjoy and galvanize.

  • The BMW Museum's kinetic sculpture takes your brain to another dimension --

    A kinetic sculpture comprising 714 metallic balls suspended in air will soothe your weary mind. It's one of those things that's better seen than described, but if you can imagine a wave of undulating orbs that appear to weightlessly float, you'll start to get the idea.

  • Shapeshifters and the Art of Seamless Tailoring --

    Instead of steel, aluminum or even carbon fiber, the GINA Light Visionary Model has a body of seamless fabric stretched over a movable metal frame that allows the driver to change its shape at will.

  • Inflatable Street Sculptures --

    Joshua Allen Harris has created some fantastic New York street art in the form animals made out of shopping bags positioned on subway street grates that cause them to periodically inflate and animate.

  • GoogleUnique Names --

    Recently I've noticed two new strategies in naming children. One I call the global brand naming strategy. The object is to devise names that work in as many languages and regions of the world as possible. The other recent strategy is to find GoogleUnique names.

  There you have it. Dangerously cosmopolitan.

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• WOWOW: Profit, Independence, & the Kill Switch

  by Alexander Becker

  Independence day, profit margins, security -- this is important, don't skip it, pictures from the sky, 3D art, and cultural immersion in Europe. In random order.

  • The Margin Manifesto: 11 Tenets for Reaching (or Doubling) Profitability in 3 Months --

    Remember, more customers isn't the goal; more profit is.

    Perfect products delivered past deadline kill companies faster than decent products delivered on-time. Test someone's ability to deliver on a specific and tight deadline before hiring them based on a dazzling portfolio.

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  • Designing devices to be remotely overridden is a bad idea

  • 10 of the World's Most Amazing 3D Street Artists: From Sidewalk Sketches to Awesome Wall Murals --

    3D graffiti, whether it's in chalk or paint, on walls or the street, represents a new way of combining the mastery of Renaissance art techniques with the gritty, ephemeral qualities of amazing street art.

  • Pictures From the Skys!

  • 10 Things To Do In Europe That Will Make You Smarter --

    Combining academia with cultural immersion: surely this is the ultimate education? We strained our brains and came up with a list that balances lessons and leisure to turn you into a European scholar du jour.

  Happy Independence Day -- independent from anything, that is.

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• WOWOW: Survive a Plane Crash while Refining Your Learning Skills

  by Alexander Becker

  Now that pseudo-productivity is declared dead, let's go back to the drawing board. Start with art, disaster prevention and recoevery, some interesting research projects, and the latest news on how your memory works.

  • The impossible art of Li Wei --

    Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.

  • How to survive an airplane crash --

    According to the statistics, two-thirds of the people involved in air crashes survive. Approximately one-third of the third who do die could have survived if they had known what to do and almost all of these died from smoke or fire. If it seems certain the plane is going to crash, here's what to do while the plane is going down.

  • 25 leading-edge IT research projects --

    While universities don't tend to shout as loudly about their latest tech innovations as do Google, Cisco and other big vendors, their results are no less impressive in what they could mean for faster, more secure and more useful networking. Here's a roundup, in no particular order, of some of the most amazing and colorful projects in the works.

  • The world in 2058 --

    The consensus view is that we'll muddle through many of the issues that vex us today -- including climate change and terror threats. And we'll hit upon so many medical and technological wonders that today's 50-year-olds will have a fair chance of finding out firsthand how the world will look in 2058.

  • Want to remember everything you'll ever learn? Surrender to this algorithm --

    ... there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget. Unfortunately, this moment is different for every person and each bit of information. Imagine a pile of thousands of flash cards. Somewhere in this pile are the ones you should be practicing right now. Which are they?

  Make this week yours. Even art is not impossible.

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• WOWOW: The Artists Edition [Links of the Week]

  by Alexander Becker

  Something for my beloved artists -- papercuts, teaching effectively, and procrastinating successfully. Also for the attention-span impaired; then again, we're not after sheer count of items.

  Insanity

  Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and by habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are, accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves. --Henry David Thoreau

  Art

  The papercuts of Peter Callesen -- Strange and beautiful.

  Education

  The movie director’s guide to effective teaching --

  Research has shown that learning most frequently happens at the start and at the end of a message. Your message could be a presentation, advertisement or a lecture, it doesn't matter -- people remember the beginning and ending more than the middle. It's called the primacy-recency principle and was first studied in the 1920's. Movie directors understand this to well -- that's why in most movies something big usually happens within the first couple minutes and the best song is left until the end. They want you to remember the start of the movie and feel good at the end. We can apply this concept and provide a better learning experience for your audience.

  Procrastination

  Seven ways to procrastinate for better results --

  1. Where problems go away with time.
  2. Where problems are best ignored.
  3. Where you have good back-up and support systems in place.
  4. Where something more important comes up.
  5. Where you are getting into a deal.
  6. Where you are tired, hungry or angry.
  7. Where people are on your back because you are known to be a doer.

  As always, creating a significant difference between work and play heightens the sensations of both. Feel, appreciate, and enjoy your weekend and your week.

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