Fruit Fight

 Published by Kristen Cook on YouTube, April 27th, 2015 

 Music Video by Kindie Childrens Music Artist Kristen Cook, featuring animation by Dean Velez and the students at The Anvel. It was written and performed by Kristen Cook (www.kristencook.com), with additional lyrics by Jesse Friedberg.

The song was produced and engineered by Michael Seifert at Ante Up in Cleveland, OH. www.michaelseifert.com

 Support Independent Kids Music! Buy 5 Fresh, Fun and New Kindie Music Tracks by Kristen Cook, including Fruit Fight, for under $5 here: http://apple.co/1bJDK8a

Play It Forward

“Play It Forward” by Kristen Cook is a recently released EP of 5 original songs that will inspire children to be the best versions of themselves.

For more about the EP, go to her Bandcamp page: https://kristencook.bandcamp.com/album/play-it-forward

To learn more about her live shows, music and more go to: http://www.kristencook.com

“Play It Forward” is available on iTunes.

Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

posted by Mark Busse on IndustiralBrand.com

In the late 90′s, a little known Canadian designer named Bruce Mau published his Incomplete Manifesto for Growth outlining his beliefs, strategies and motivations. His 43 points spread like wildfire throughout the design industry and are still regularly quoted by designers.

[read the IndustrialBrand article]

1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good, you’ll never have real growth.

3. Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.

4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view, and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

5. Go Deep. The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.

6. Capture accidents. The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.

7. Study. A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.

8. Drift. Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.

9. Begin anywhere. John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.

10. Everyone is a leader. Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense to do so. Let anyone lead.

11. Harvest ideas. Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.

12. Keep moving. The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.

13. Slow down. Desynchronize from standard time frames, and surprising opportunities may present themselves.

14. Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.

15. Ask stupid questions. Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.

16. Collaborate. The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.

17. ____________ . Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas that you haven’t had yet and for the ideas of others.

18. Stay up late. Strange things happen when you have gone too far, have been up too long, have worked too hard, and are separated from the rest of the world.

19. Work the metaphor. Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.

20. Be careful to take risks. Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

21. Repeat yourself. If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.

22. Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

23. Stand on someone’s shoulders. You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.

24. Avoid software. The problem with software is that everyone has it.

25. Don’t clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.

26. Dont’t enter awards competitions. Just don’t. It’s not good for you.

27. Read only left-hand pages. Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our “noodle.”

28. Make new words. Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.

29. Think with your mind. Creativity is not device-dependent. Forget technology. 

30. Organization = liberty. Real innovation in design, or in any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between “creatives” and “suits” is what Leonard Cohen  calls a “shining artifact of the past.”

31. Don’t borrow money. Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline — and how many people have failed to do so.

32. Listen carefully. Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him of her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.

33. Take field trips. The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet — or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer-graphic-simulated environment.

34. Make mistakes faster. This isn’t my idea — I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.

35. Immitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You’ll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.

36. Scat. When you forget the words, do what Ella did: Make up something else (but not words).

37. Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.

38. Explore the other edge. Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.

39. Take advantage of coffee breaks, cab rides, and greenrooms. Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces — what Dr. Seuss called “the waiting place.” Hans Ulrich Obrist; once organized a science-and-art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference — parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently, it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.

40. Avoid fields. Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.

41. Laugh. People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I’ve become aware of this, I use laughter as a barometer to measure how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.

42. Remember. Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us ware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and as such, a potential for growth. itself.

43. Power to the people. Play only happens when people feel that they have control over their lives. We can’t be free agents if we’re not free.

Oddly, all traces of the manifesto have been removed from Mau’s website, leaving broken links spread across the Interwebs like doors to nowhere. 
[Bruce Mau Design]

Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln

Disneyland, Anaheim, California, U.S.A.

“Disneyland Goes to the New York World's Fair (Part 2)”

(Uploaded by fireurgunz on Dec 9, 2008)

http://youtu.be/mvfjvBO2l2Y

(Uploaded by shoeface25 on Jan 8, 2011)

http://youtu.be/AwJP5h2ESAg

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing ⁱ⁾.

What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and our independence?

It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts. These are not our reliance against tyranny. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere . Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ²⁾

At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military giant, to step the ocean, and crush us at a blow? 

Never!

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?

I answer: that if it ever reach us, it must spring from amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we, ourselves, must be its authors and finishers. As a nation of free men, we must live through all times, or die by suicide. ³⁾

Let reverence for the law be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in the schools, in the seminaries, and in the colleges. Let it be written in primers, in spelling books and almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And in short, let it become the political religion of the nation. And let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes, and tongues and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly at its altars. ³⁾

And let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence. Trusting that, in future national emergencies, He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security. ⁴⁾ Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by the menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves! ⁵⁾

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ⁵⁾

Version from 1999 (Uploaded by asdTubeU on Sep 22, 2008):

http://youtu.be/psgIXqyB_iQ

Transcript of the show:

http://www.nywf64.com/illinois07.shtml

¹⁾ --April 18, 1864 Address at Baltimore

²⁾ --September 11, 1858 Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois

³⁾ --January 27, 1838 Lyceum Address

⁴⁾ --Eulogy on Henry Clay, July 6, 1852 (CWAL II:132)

⁵⁾ --February 27, 1860 Cooper Union Address

Abraham Lincoln Online.com:

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html

LEGO Builders of Sound Star Wars

http://youtu.be/g5Lgcen-PGI

Over 20,000 Lego bricks were assembled by Rene Hoffmeister and Axel Al-Rubaie to create a barrel organ for the 3D premiere of Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace in Germany.

Posted on The Mary Sue by Jill Pantozzi April 15, 2012
http://www.themarysue.com/star-wars-lego-barrel-organ/

The LXD

The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers: In the Internet Age, Dance Evolves...
The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED2010 stage with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet. In a preview of Jon Chu’s upcoming Web series, this astonishing troupe show off their superpowers.


TED2010, Filmed Feb. 2010

http://www.ted.com/talks/the_lxd_in_the_internet_age_dance_evolves.html

The LXD site:
http://thelxd.com/

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
http://www.ted.com/

Mound by Allison Schulnik

Mound by Allison Schulnik from garaco taco on Vimeo.


http://vimeo.com/31110838

The Best of Steve Jobs

G4’s “Attack of the Show” top five Steve Jobs Moments.


1983 Apple Key Note- The “1984” Ad Introduction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiQA6KKyJo


Apple Steve Jobs The Crazy Ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1


MAC vs PC (Viruses)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQb_Q8WRL_g&feature=youtu.be


Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford Commencment Address (with introduction by President John Hennessy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_ptbiPoXM&feature=youtu.be


iPhone Announcement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnLjujMlPxE&feature=youtu.be

[link: G4 Article]

Sembo

This is a music maker. However, with it you only have 16 notes from which to choose and only 16 spots to place your notes/chords (if you’re musically inclined, that’s 2 measures each containing only 1/8 notes).

With a click of a mouse button, each square will toggle on or off.

The image above kind of represents “Jingle Bells”.

Try it out here:
http://www.sembeo.com/media/Matrix.swf

retro futurs : Websites as Book Covers

What if social media websites were books? What would their covers look like? Would it be minimalist? Would it be vintage-like? This is Stéphane Massa-Bidal’s take.

[link: complete collection]

Stéphane Massa-Bidal aka Hulk4598, or Rétrofuturs is a french illustrator / graphic designer. Artist and illustrator known as Hulk4598 or retro-futurs, has been working since 2008 on the interaction between text and image, text / text, and image / picture.

His Website:
http://www.retrofuturs.com/

Found in an article on abduzeedo.com

Best NASCAR Prayer Ever

Pre-race prayer at the NASCAR Nationwide series race in Nashville TN July 23, 2011



“Boogity, boogity, boogity, amen.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J74y88YuSJ8


The “Songify” auto-tuned version:



“Lord, I want to thank you for my smokin’ hot wife.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZnDt2wEFjk


Ricky’s dinner grace from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), which may or may not have served as inspiration.



“Dear, Lord Baby Jesus...”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuAUI_0knfk

If Insurance

AD Week’s Ad of the day

Adam Berg brings good old-fashioned magic to Swedish toy-store spot By Tim Nudd

Computers are great for accomplishing visual tricks, but sometimes they leave behind that artificial sheen. The easiest way to make action seem real is to make it real. Well, not the easiest way—it can be just as laborious, but the process is refreshingly physical rather than virtual. Take this new Swedish ad for If Insurance, from agency Forsman & Bodenfors and director Adam Berg.

Read the whole article at Ad Week:
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-if-insurance-133080


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Qp6ca72oUY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QFFZwAKwMFo

10 Great Magazine Ads

10 Great Magazine Ads That Don’t Just Sit There Looking Pretty
by Tim Nudd
AdWeek

 1. The Airbag Ad (Peugot)

 2. The Talking Ad (Reporters Without Borders)

3. The Solar Powered Ad (Shikun & Binui)

4. The Bottle-Opener Ad (Carlsberg)

5. The Edible Ad (Volkswagen)

6. The Bra-Tightening Ad (Wonderbra)

7. The Bubble-Gum Ad

8. The Test Drive Ad (Volkswagen)

9. The Sunbather’s Ad

10. The Sticky Ad

Read the full article at AdWeek:

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/10-great-magazine-ads-dont-just-sit-there-looking-pretty-132401

Clever Shopping Bag Designs

 YKM

 Fitness Company

Shopping bags given away to customers when purchasing fitness accessories or nutritional supplements at the Fitness Company fitness centers.

Creative Direction: Gert Maehnicke [link]

 Stop’n Grow 

German product that stops nail biting.

David Mously, Creative Director [link]

 Panadol

[link]

 ASPE

Creative bag was given when you bought a book by Belgium’s most famous crime writer. [link]

 Clothes in Closets

Knuckle shopping bag designed by Leo Burnett Lisbon ad agency. [link]

 Karl Lagerfeld

Mask shopping bag designed by Karl Lagerfeld.

 Red Cross

Creative Red Cross shopping bag by Lem advertising agency.
Creative Director / Copywriter: Michael Cheung [link]

 Wheaties

Clever shopping bag that will either inspire you to get in shape, or inspire you to carry a bag in front of you wherever you go.

 Headhunting agency

 Shumnesko

Clever shopping bag designed to promote Bulgarian beer.

Advertising School: Miami Ad School, Europe
Art Director: George Kasabov. [link]

 Olympic games

Paper carrier bag design by Tao Ma for Olympic Games. [link]

 Greenpeace

Give me your hand. 

Creative Director/ Art Director: Lianfend Zheng.  [link]

 Magic-i

The handles of the shopping bag are made of transparent fishing line, which makes it look like it is being held without handles.

Advertising Agency: Grey Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Creative Director: David Sin [link]

 Gaia, Animal Rights

Agency: Duval Guillaume, Brussels [link]

Hurriyetoto

Shopping bag idea and design for Hurriyetoto.com, a major automobile sales web site of Turkey.

Ann Summers

 Golf GTI

Advertising Agency: Agence V, Paris, France
Creative Director: Christian Vince [link]

Alinna

ReVital

Unusual shopping bag designed by Antje Gerwien for ReVital. [link]

Muse

Condomi

Advertising Agency: Draft FCB Kobza, Vienna, Austria
Creative Directors: Patrik Partl, Andreas Gesierich [link]

Meralco

Unplug to save.

Blush lingerie, Berlin Germany.

Team: Christiane Preuss, Katerina Kapagiannidou [link]

Kong

Book

Lipton Tea

GNC Burn 60

Max Factor

Dastoff

http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2009/04/01/clever-and-creative-shopping-bag-designs/

http://creativecriminals.com/compilations/creative-bag-advertisements/

Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

I clever white board presentation of how environment affects the formation of ideas.




http://youtu.be/NugRZGDbPFU

Where the Hell Is Matt?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&feature=related

Purdue Team Submits World Record Claim for Rube Goldberg Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hj_R-0pVys

Why the Office Is the Worst Place to Work

(CNN) -- Companies spend billions on rent, offices, and office equipment so their employees will have a great place to work.

However, when you ask people where they go when they really need to get something done, you'll rarely hear them say it's the office.

If you ask, you'll usually get one of three kinds of responses: A place, a moving object, or a time.

They'll say their house, their back porch, an extra bedroom they've converted into a home office, a library, the coffee shop down the street, the basement. Or they'll say their car, or a train, or a plane -- basically, during their commute. Or they'll say really early in the morning, really late at night, or on the weekend. In other words, when no one else is around to bother them.


Read the whole article and view the video of the seminar by Jason Fried at CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/05/fried.office.work/index.html?hpt=C2
by Jason Fried, special to CNN
Dec. 5, 2010

Moral for Today

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.



Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up.

Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

*****
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.

Free your mind from worries - Most never happen.

Live simply and appreciate what you have.

Give more.

Expect less.


NOW .......

Enough of that crap. The donkey later came back, and bit the farmer who had tried to bury him. The gash from the bite got infected and the farmer eventually died in agony from septic shock..



MORAL FROM TODAY'S LESSON:

When you do something wrong, and try to cover your ass, it always comes back to bite you.

See MAD Artist Jack Davis’ Illustrations of NBC’s 1965-66 Season for TV Guide

MAD magazine artist extraordinaire Tom Richmond and the great comics/TV writer Mark Evanier both recently did posts highlighting a certain piece of TV-related artwork from the 1960s.

For the 1965-66 Fall season, it seems NBC commissioned legendary MAD artist Jack Davis to create a special piece of artwork to promote their primetime line-up. ...

For the whole article, see TV Finale.com:

http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/mad-jack-davis-nbc-tv-guide-14276/
http://tvseriesfinale.com/