as they remember their life together from their first date to danny’s final days with terminal cancer, these remarkable brooklynites personify the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of everyday people when we take the time to listen.
storycorps is recording the stories of americans.
fascinating insight and perspective from author (and philosopher, it seems!) matt ridley.
he marvellously explains how the human race continues in prosperity as it becomes more populous (unlike other species)... due to our ever-increasing, collective and cumulative knowledge, exchange and specialisation...
(his explanation is more coherent... probably better to just watch the vid!).
interviewer: what do you think of stefan sagmeister?
bob gill: i think he's very hot. and its nice that somebody that's so hot, is talented and also a very nice person. so that's great. it doesn't always happen that way.
this video has been around a little while, just lovely. for a rockstar designer, he comes across humbly, intelligently and softly spoken.
okgo's rube goldberg machine:
just need a team of engineers and some dominoes... how hard could it be?!
steve jobs inspires a group of stanford graduates (and me too)... here.
maira kalman is beautifully quirky...
elizabeth gilbert on the 'inherent emotional risks of creativity'...
...i have to find some way to have a safe distance between me, as i am writing, and my very natural anxiety about what the reaction to that writing is going to be from now on.
this talk - the idea of just continuing to 'do your job'... to keep showing up - is spot on, i think.
ted is my all-time, hands-down favourite website. a catalogue of talks from an annual conference in the states, featuring the world's leading thinkers from all walks of life... the videos are brief, insightful and rarely dull (a strictly-adhered-to time limit helps in this regard!).
for starters, jonathan harris' amazing interactive projects (left)...