Category Archives: tubed

The Golden Age of Video

Tactile Computing

Every now and then someone at TED presents a tech­no­logy or an idea that’s so utterly amaz­ing, or ridicu­lously simple that it can’t help but change the world. David Merrill shows off an MIT pro­ject called Siftables in this talk, and even though I’ve been mess­ing around with com­put­ing for 25 years my jaw is

Thinking About Genius

Elizabeth Gilbert wrote the 2006 best seller Eat, Pray, Love, and in this year’s TED talks gave a fant­astic talk on the nature of cre­at­ive genius. In a room full of sci­ent­ists, this talk on being pos­sessed by a cre­at­ive muse, a spirit of genius, raised a stand­ing ova­tion. This utterly enthralling talk is an

Das Rad (The Rock)

I’m work­ing on a short story about dif­fer­ent per­spect­ives over a long period of time at the moment, as was boun­cing around the inter­webs for inspir­a­tion when I came across this little gem from the 2003 Academy Awards for short films. It didn’t win, but it clearly deserved the nom­in­a­tion.
There’s a higher res­ol­u­tion ver­sion (def­in­itely

My Chilly Snowman Mate Says He Would Like Some Too

It’s freez­ing out­side, though unfor­tu­nately snow’s not men­tioned in the fore­cast. Still, for those of use who remem­ber Aled Jones wail­ing about through the film of The Snowman, this advert for Irn Bru should warm the heart: