At Ignite LA on March 1, Adam Sadowsky unveiled the new OK Go video. It was one giant, beautiful Rube Goldberg machine that took 20 18 hour days, thousands of ping pong balls two pianos and several TVs to put together. The killer things: they did this in one take, things were in sync with the music, and at one point the song dropped out and had just the machine playing the music.
Seriously, this has to be the sweetest music video ever in life.
Wow, this was good. My favorite highlight: discussing the lunacy of the 80 hour + workweek. I’m glad he went there, because I’ve seen people who believe in dedicating their every waking moment to a project or startup—and expect everyone else to as well.
I know you can’t always do it in 40 hours, but I really question the efficiency of someone who works 80 hours plus every week on a project.
Chalk one up to working smart, then work hard.
While I’m acutely aware of our overuse of adjectives (especially on Twitter, where everything is a brilliantly awesomely stunning list of the 35 best CSS techniques) here on the Internets, I’ve got full belief in the fact that this talk is amazing.
In short, teach our children about food—we’ll be a better, healthier and smarter society. My kids will know, and I want to share it with every one of you.
TED Blog: Teach every child about food: Jamie Olivers TED Prize wish, now on TED.com.
It’s not easy to make a great, simple intro video to your product. But Square really managed to pull it off so well. Have a look!
I think my head almost exploded from how great this was. A sexy typeface + Lady Gaga parody = just perfect. Enjoy.
Jackie Lay does some really great typographic animations from a Tom Waits song. Slick work.
(via @lemonbar77)
Why is he climbing a mountain? Total win.
Seriously!
Mix one part Nirvana with one part Rick Astley, stir gently and enjoy a total mindwarp.
And further demonstrates my love for TED and the genius people who speak there. The idea of being able to make it even easier to learn about products you’re purchasing, take photos among a myriad of other benefits just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Reservation: not into the idea of putting a chip into my brain as stated at the end of this talk. It short circuits enough on its own.