I Am Seb

This is the most beautiful video I’ve seen for a very long time. I can’t wait to go up there and see it for myself.

Astonishing demonstration of quantum locking of a superconductor in a magnetic field.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

- Arthur C. Clarke

Milestone 2 is complete, though it took far longer than I expected mostly due to stopping to watch films all afternoon!

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A great idea from Mitchell Joachim. Not sure meat houses are ready for the public, but growing wooden houses from vegetation is a radical and brilliant solution to ecologically-friendly communities.

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 still dragging along the floor. Check it out.

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 interesting perspective on creativity.

Don’t save the world, just learn to listen. Starting with John Francis, who didn’t use any form of motorised transport for 30 years, and didn’t speak for 17 of them.

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 recommended for some of the details in the animation) available 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: