“Creatives”
This is video of a 5 minute talk I gave at Ignite Bay Area 2. It’s inspired by the collision of cultures ten years ago at my first job, when they went from a purely tech/business/enterprisey consulting firm to being a cool sexy web firm. (I was worried before giving the talk that the problems had all been solved in the last decade — the reaction I got from the audience suggests not!)
The video isn’t the clearest, so the slides (sans nice fonts) are embedded below. If you hit the Play button on the slides at roughly the time I start talking, it should auto-advance in time with my blethering.
Incidentally, there are a bunch of upcoming Ignite events in San Francisco — at the Chirp, Google I/O and Web 2.0 Expo conferences — and it’s fabulous fun (and a great challenge). I highly recommend submitting talks.
It fills my heart with love to see a pop star make a video _worth_ deconstructing! ♥♥♥
Interview about the making of the OK Go video. Confirms that there was some light post-production tweaking, but for the most part, what you saw was one machine.
Great stop-motion music video.
Brilliant clip of TV news clichés in action.
Oh man, I can’t wait for this. A clip from Chris Morris’s upcoming comedy about English suicide bombers. Word from Sundance is that it’s as good as “In the Loop”.
Wonderful wonderful wonderful.
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Even my reasonably strong dislike for Jimmy Fallon couldn’t stop me loving the little outtake of him rehearsing with the Muppets.
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One of my all-time favourite things: A high-school percussion group performing DJ Shadow’s “Building Steam With a Grain of Salt” live.
Christmas carol by Pomplamoose, with Zoe Keating on cello. Ace!
Every geek’s favourite TV Trope — “Zoom in and enchance that”
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I quite like this set of animations for AOL’s new corporate identity. Viewed together like this, it feels like when the BBC reveals a new collection of idents!
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Another video slice-up by Cassetteboy. “The nice thing about the internet is that it is christmas all the time.”
This just makes me so, so happy!
Wicked funny video series by “Hard Left Productions”, using YouTube’s annotations to branch.
30 Rock isn’t the most consistent show, but by god, every episode includes at least one amazing moment that catches me off guard so I need to pause the DVR to laugh and enjoy it.
Thought-provoking video from Merlin Mann. It’s long, but chock-full of food for thought. (Protip: Click through to Vimeo and download the .m4v file from there — it’s the perfect format for copying onto an iPhone)
In particular, the topic of the “Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition” was of great interest to me, as I look back on how I’ve progressed over almost-a-year at Slide, and face the brand new challenge of having direct reports to manage.
You, along with a democratically-elected representative, can learn about “bills of attainder”
Redditors collaborated and voted on questions, Barney Frank answers them. His answer to the question about the GLBT march is essential viewing.
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