It’s as difficult as ever to predict how we’ll look back, five years from now, ten years from now, at what’s been labelled the «Arab Spring». One thing, however, is for sure: It has produced a probably unprecedented wealth of iconic images and videos, spread over social networks. Egyptian photographer Mosa’ab Elshamy has turned 16 months of photography into one great audio slideshow. It proves that photos plus sound can sometimes outclass video. Those images don’t have to move to move you.
From Weekly Filet #77, in July 2012.
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In people’s Wikipedia profiles, you’ll often read that they influenced someone or were influenced by someone. Take that data, graph it and you’ll get a fascinating visualisation.
From Weekly Filet #77, in July 2012.
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A brilliant essay on the word «Hacker» and why it is important that there are people who hack things. Written in 2004, it hasn’t lost a bit of its relevance.
From Weekly Filet #77, in July 2012.
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Five intriguing experiments of how the internet transcends places. My favourites: the Sketchbots and the Data Tracer.
From Weekly Filet #77, in July 2012.
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Before the economy breaks down, lets break down the economy. Starring: A whiteboard and a lot of colorful pens.
From Weekly Filet #77, in July 2012.
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Of course, we never fall for those cheap tricks shops use to make us buy their stuff. Do we?
From Weekly Filet #76, in July 2012.
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Insomnia, more than not being able to sleep, is about being afraid of just that. Interesting read.
From Weekly Filet #76, in July 2012.
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The Public Domain Review has a series of wonderful illustrations from around 1900, imagining the then future year 2000. As you will see, people hoped for aerial firemen, underwater fish-riding races and whale buses. While the illustrations are fun to look at, you can’t help but admit that most of them are not too far off on a conceptual level. What can be learnt from that: When we try to imagine the future, we tend to extrapolate current technology and underestimate major disruptions. But then again, heck, they even saw batman coming, fighting his kins in cars.
From Weekly Filet #76, in July 2012.
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Turn your instagram photos into magnets. Nice little gift (say, to yourself).
From Weekly Filet #76, in July 2012.
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After reading this book review, this is a sure buy. I mean, who doesn’t want to know, «Why is there something rather than nothing?».
From Weekly Filet #76, in July 2012.
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Make sense of what’s happening, and imagine what could be.
Carefully curated recommendations on what to read, watch and listen to. For nerds and changemakers who love when something makes them go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!».
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