head-up-loaded
The WWW
Playlists on Youtube
May 5th
Let us keep that joke aside for a while and accept the fact: “It is easy to find stuff when it is properly organised”. It’s cool only in comics, to have your bed heaped up with stuff scattered randomly.
I’m a huge fan of the word ‘efficiency’ and also ‘ninjas’ of course and ‘cats’. Again, quips aside, efficiency, it is a properly designed action that would give you a maximum output from a minimum input. It doesn’t spontaneously happen. It takes a conscious effort to design that action. Some people do it for you, they put in the effort needed and make your lives easier. These people are respected, they manage to gather a huge influx of goodwill from their audience (you). Such an effort directed to design that action gives them a sense of satisfaction and hence helps them to earn a living out of the work they enjoy doing.
‘Efficiency’ gives me a direction to discuss: Playlists on Youtube.
People who make Playlists on Youtube or upload videos/vlogs that are basically directed to make Youtube organized, are the people I’ve been talking about. I can recall tens of such people, who today, actively post videos/playlists on Youtube that are either compilation of a huge amounts of data from different places or an eclectic mix of information aimed at discussing a single topic/issue.
The first person I’d bring to light essentially has to be Michael Stevens. He posts these greatly informative videos overflowing with facts in his Youtube channel VSauce. His videos usually belong to LUT, DOT, Leanback, DONGS, IMG! etc, the categories he organizes them into. My favourite among these categories is the DONG category. It is an acronym and DONG stands for ‘cool free stuff you can Do Online Now, Guys‘. With each video in the DONG category directing you to a 15 or so other interesting places on the internet, for me is the most engrossing category. Similarly, videos from some categories in this channel are bound to keep you wondering for a while. Other videos will force you to replay them again and again an you’ll notice something new every single time. Some other interesting Youtube channels you’d want to go to are CGPGrey, SciShow, MinutePhysics, DanBrown (Pogobat), Veritasium, CrashCourse, Numberphile, SixtySymbols etc…
Tell me in the comments about the other channels you follow, how they help you to find/stumble-over things easily.
The Best TED talk ever
Mar 9th
This was the latest mission of a New York based collective known as Improv Everywhere. It has to be the best video of all the TED talks you have ever seen. Just watch it. The Spinning beach ball of death…
Improv Everywhere is a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents.
To name a few their other interesting mass events include:
Frozen Grand Central, the Food Court Musical and the famous No Pants Subway Ride.
Spread the word: KONY 2012
Mar 7th
You must have heard Kony 2012 going all over the internet. Have you wondered what it is all about?
Kony 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children to get Joesph Kony, Ugandan guerrilla group leader and head of the Lord’s Resistance Army, arrested before the end of 2012. The operation involves the viral spread of information about Kony and his war and humanity crimes to result in enough support from the American Government for ambassadors to visit Uganda to assist the Ugandan military in the capture and arrest of Kony. It does not matter which part of the world you live in. You can always help to spread the word. This is the least I could do for them.
HOW TO HELP:
Join TRI or Donate to Invisible Children: http://bit.ly/yp5Ffv
Purchase KONY 2012 products: http://invisiblechildrenstore.myshopify.com/
Sign the Pledge: http://www.causes.com/causes/227-invisible-children
No Robots: A touching short movie
Mar 7th
No Robots from YungHan Chang on Vimeo.
No robots is a wonderful short story about a time/place where robots are disliked by the society. It is about a man whose prejudiced opinion about robots is broken. Watch the short movie to witness those touching series of events that make a man change his preconceptions.
Beautiful drawing, direction, details and an amazing overall usage of color.
Make your own Ambigrams
Mar 6th
It has always been fun to write my name in a way that it reads the same (or something else) when turned upside down.
Instead of hours of brainstorming and doodling on paper you could try using FlipScript, which makes ambigrams automatically. The sad part is that it doesn’t let you have a high resolution version of the ambigram it makes for you, unless you are ordering something from their website. Still, it gives an idea on how to proceed with your doodles and saves you from the inefficient brainstorming.
note: Sometimes, when it is possible to make it into a single word, flipscript does it automatically. eg: textbox1: Friends; textbox2: Family.
