March 2011
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5 things I heard March 30, 2011
1. The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness http://vevo.ly/gvQLpd?r=bb 2. Brockford Lee - New Mistakes http://bit.ly/i9oDqE?r=bb 3. The Shins - Sleeping Lessons (RAC Remix) http://bit.ly/fLh1bM?r=bb 4. The Good Natured - Your Body Is A Machine http://bit.ly/ftMe4G?r=bb 5. Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Atlas Hands http://bit.ly/ehgehp?r=bb
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5 things I learned March 30, 2011
1. Animal portraits http://bit.ly/fBAPbU 2. 13 Great Musical Moments in Wes Anderson Movies http://bit.ly/howPdE 3. Awesome murals http://bit.ly/hoL6QV 4. ”The Music Box”- a one man musical. Starts rough, but so good http://bit.ly/gdTvq8 5. The poems I read last night at the End of the Dialtone http://bit.ly/eVcSKv
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5 things I learned today - Weekly Episode 10...
1. 100 years of movie set locations http://bit.ly/hQk2FJ 2. Bodies in motion http://bit.ly/eksJkO 3. What would you do for $5? http://bit.ly/f2B7nj 4. 360 degree view from Everest http://bit.ly/icnnSb 5. The amazing floating soccer pitch in Thailandhttp://bit.ly/fMMyBe
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5 things I learned March 29, 2011
1. Stanley Kubrick as a photojournalist in 1949 Chicago http://bit.ly/dNLJL3 2. Amazing catch by the ball girl http://bit.ly/hBA2vJ 3. The largest canyon in the solar system, on Mars http://1.usa.gov/eKrUGA 4. Fantastic view of the Aurora http://bit.ly/hieQLo 5. A Thomas Edison film of Japanese acrobats from 1904 http://bit.ly/hbQP9n
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5 things I learned March 28, 2011
1. 3D Images taken in 19th Century Japan http://bit.ly/g2y2Hm 2. Documentary on time http://bit.ly/hwkBLS 3. Find ways to fail quicker http://bit.ly/gjD20t 4. Exotic tree houses & hanging huts http://bit.ly/fHWLes 5. Why? Why would you pose like this? http://bit.ly/eRQv8Y
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5 things I learned March 27, 2011
1. Computer-aided loom makes for amazing weavings http://bit.ly/hJMeQn 2. Automotive diagnostic iPhone apps http://bit.ly/hX9ty1 3. Crochet graffiti http://bit.ly/fnvYid 4. The 55 best Simpsons headlines http://bit.ly/g2XAvm 5. The science of empathy http://bit.ly/ghzugt
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5 things I heard March 26, 2011 - Guest Post -...
Eric Daniel Barker (http://www.facebook.com/ericdbarker ) has been quietly making a noise in our music scene, finding and polishing forgotten, unknown or never appreciated gems. 5 things Eric Daniel Barker heard March 26, 2011 1. Lou Bond - To the Establishment http://bit.ly/fkTY6Z 2. Roky Erickson - The Right Track http://bit.ly/eRLTdQ Written by Powell St John for The 13th Floor...
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5 things I heard March 25, 2011
Picked by our Isaac Johnson 1. Washington - 1997 http://bit.ly/gEip9I The first track from this Aussie singer/songwriter’s 2010 debut album. 2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues http://bit.ly/evTMTV The new single from their forthcoming album of the same name. Look for this release 5/3/2011. 3. Cults - Go Outside http://bit.ly/gKwaIi From their 3 track EP, simply titled...
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1 idea 5 people - Episode 9
“Why do you think you are here?”
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5 things I learned March 25, 2011
1. Hypothetical letters http://bit.ly/edFZiC 2. The amazing floating soccer pitch in Thailand http://bit.ly/fMMyBe 3. Pay too little for gas? http://bit.ly/ggs3h8 4. From Mao to Mozart http://bit.ly/gINrpe 5. Uncanny scenes from Beijing’s IKEA http://bit.ly/gntmbi
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Nick Tierce
Nick Tierce has his sights set on a very particular visual language for his own films, with a clear affinity for the visual visionaries of film. Tierce is working on his first short format film, Grief Splatterd Canvas (http://kck.st/hQu5KE), a film noir thriller that owes a great deal to the Directors of Photography who left their marks on our collective imaginations. 5...
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5 things I learned March 24, 2011
1. Custom bikes http://bit.ly/ge8qNv 2. Clever and compelling way to tell the danger dirty water poses http://bit.ly/hS0LqV 3. Google’s new Think Quarterly magazine http://bit.ly/hVLq62 4. Test your Color IQ http://bit.ly/gHh9Vd 5. Russian controlled avalanche fail http://aol.it/gDge7M
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5 things I learned March 23, 2011
1. Bodies in motion http://bit.ly/eksJkO 2. YouTube Symphony http://bit.ly/hWtQGA 3. super moon - Flickr: Search http://bit.ly/hM4PrT 4. The Physics of Skateboarding: Part 1 http://bit.ly/ihoXGN 5. The Longevity Project http://bit.ly/fgC3Oe
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5 things I learned today - Weekly Episode 9 Season...
1. Using Echoism.org to test the symmetry of models http://bit.ly/i23Id4 2. History of the world in 100 seconds, according to Wikipedia http://bit.ly/h6i2NY 3. Human conversation in eleven sentenceshttp://bit.ly/hGCAsE 4. The Cyclotrope http://bit.ly/hvfiQ4 5. Seriously, no CGi was used in the making of this Saturn video http://gizmo.do/fPgVKa
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5 things I learned March 22, 2011
1. Seen from above http://bit.ly/f9u8BL 2. 360-degree view from the top of Everest http://bit.ly/icnnSb 3. Three famous directors’ fresh takes on opera http://bit.ly/gC59x4 4. The blog for the production of The Hobbit http://bit.ly/evVzHy 5. Space walk! http://bit.ly/e7KUCZ
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5 things I learned March 21, 2011
1. Historically hardcore http://bit.ly/gl8Pf2 2. History of the world in 100 seconds, according to Wikipedia http://bit.ly/h6i2NY 3. Eddie Vedder new solo album, Ukulele Songs http://bit.ly/hLlrja 4. AP updates its styleguide http://bit.ly/hkmV5Q 5. What would you do for $5? http://bit.ly/f2B7nj
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5 things I learned March 20, 2011
1. 3D light shows http://bit.ly/eD4GI3 2. 100 years of movie set locations http://bit.ly/hQk2FJ 3. Super spoiler (video edit of famous movie moments) http://bit.ly/eiRuZ9 4. Questions for the famous folk http://bit.ly/fz56HN 5. Pictory (picture + story) http://bit.ly/cuXSiP
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5 things I learned March 19, 2011
1. Using Echoism.org to test the symmetry of models http://bit.ly/i23Id4 2. Werner Herzog’s documentary of French cave paintings http://bit.ly/elfYqs 3. NYC in the 1800s http://bit.ly/hZyDEL 4. “Home of the Future”, hehe http://bit.ly/hF4s2o 5. 14 iPhone photography accessories http://bit.ly/fplukX
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5 things I learned March 18, 2011
1. Astonomy Picture of the Day http://1.usa.gov/gOe1CZ 2. The best haircuts in Music History http://bit.ly/h8BI6b 3. Human conversation in eleven sentences http://bit.ly/hGCAsE 4. Escape Vehicle No. 6 http://bit.ly/foEOPL 5. The phantoms at the moment a TV turns on http://bit.ly/gJj0qB
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Michael Donald Edwards
Michael Donald Edwards (Producing Artistic Director) is in his fifth season as producing artistic director of Asolo Repertory Theatre (http://asolorep.org). He was previously the associate artistic director for Syracuse Stage and served as artistic director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz. A Garland Award and Drama Logue Award winning director, Mr. Edwards has directed at Indiana Repertory...
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1 idea 5 people - Episode 8
If your life were a movie, what song would play during the closing credits?
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5 things I learned March 17, 2011
1. Color photos from 1920s Ireland http://bit.ly/gcNnK0 2. U.S. Army trials tactical smartphones http://bit.ly/gSTnYU 3. Scaffolding can be beautiful http://bit.ly/heTHZf 4. Glass, it’s the future http://bit.ly/gedLPq 5. Um, clever, dirty, safe for work (!) http://bit.ly/eICCQX
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5 things I learned March 16, 2011
1. I hope some of these airplane cabin designs come true http://bit.ly/guL84e 2. Manual of traffic signs http://bit.ly/gpvMVT 3. A remote controlled book (from BMW) http://aol.it/e7XXI3 4. The Cyclotrope http://bit.ly/hvfiQ4 5. Vintage cace car crashes http://bit.ly/hzYTJ2
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5 things I learned March 15, 2011
1. Seriously, no CGi was used in the making of this Saturn video http://gizmo.do/fPgVKa 2. Use your iPhone to start some situational art (ok, selfishly I want to use this and hope to get enough people so I can) http://bit.ly/gsLBSZ 3. A stylish project management tool http://bit.ly/e9k8Jq 4. Hot Wheels Video Racer http://bit.ly/golXdB 5. Japan - Vast Devastation - The Big Picture...
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5 things I learned today - Weekly Episode 8 Season...
1. Amazing photos of the amazing city in transition Dubai http://bit.ly/fzhr0k 2. Cartoons take on the old masters http://bit.ly/hmVuto 3. Hand drawn pakour animation http://bit.ly/hvANHw 4. Book making in 1947 http://bit.ly/g7BU1q 5. Crazy hand drawn history of scifi mind map http://bit.ly/hzaUxf Find more at http://5thingsilearnedtoday.com http://facebook.com/5tlit...
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WatchOur entire 5 things I learned today series.
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5 things I learned March 14, 2011
1. Pop culture in illustrations http://bit.ly/gk6Wj6 2. Steven Pinker on Violence & Human Nature http://bit.ly/g769lB 3. Too Fast on Trikes: Drifting http://bit.ly/gGl9nk 4. Kinetic Sculptures http://bit.ly/hSwLB 5. New York City 2015 3D Model http://bit.ly/eFmgeQ
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Derek Anderson
SInce Derek took over the Shamrock Pub (http://www.facebook.com/shamrockpub) in Sarasota, he has been able to explore and share his love for craft beers. The 3rd Annual St. Patty’s Day Block Party (http://on.fb.me/firiD7 ) will be an opportunity to try all 5 of his picks. 5 Beers I look forward to this St. Patricks Day1. Rogue’s Kells Irish Lager Deliciousness. Very...
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5 things I learned March 13, 2011
1. Watch the ripples of the Sendai earthquake across the Pacific http://bit.ly/eDoiTf 2. Slideshow of “ordinary” Americans http://bit.ly/hIf0Q3 3. Girl Walks Into a Bar - Feature Film shot FOR YouTube http://bit.ly/fQV9K2 4. A whole year in one photo http://bit.ly/eCKeTb 5. Slot Cars http://bit.ly/fHcvVj
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5 things I heard March 12, 2011 - Guest Post -...
By day Karma Bennett works for one of the fastest-growing indie publishers in the country. By night she can be found singing and dancing with wild abandon, or DJing for more than 39,000 followers on her radio stream (http://www.blip.fm/daretoeatapeach ) at Blip.fm. She has been working on a novel since 2006, but pursuing her writing career since the age of six. She would be ever so...
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Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea. 2005) and Apocalyptic Swing (Persea. 2009), which was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award and a fellowship to...
“At some point, every company gets taken over by conniving business assholes,...”
– Joe Hewitt (via stoweboyd)
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5 things I learned March 11, 2011
1. Keirin: Speed racers http://bit.ly/g2N4mz 2. Map/Portraits http://bit.ly/dFRaxo 3. Dancing around the world http://bo.st/gH3Yyh 4. Reimagining education with video http://bit.ly/ihVv8J 5. Crazy hand-drawn mind map of the history of Sci-Fi http://bit.ly/hzaUxf
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5 things I learned March 10, 2011
1. The science of traffic http://aol.it/gBSo3r 2. Book making in 1947 http://bit.ly/g7BU1q 3. Time lapse video of the trek along the Appalachian Trail http://bit.ly/fJMRAh 4. Dramatic actors http://bit.ly/h2RDHZ 5. Mapping science http://bit.ly/g0Vu50
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Watch
Saying It
Leaves flap through the dark windows
like stiff-veined flags. Wind stirs
much of the street. An uncut lime
is small and fits in the palm’s hollow,
near the wrist. It turns like a key:
the apartment door and the neighbors’
door, the front door to the sidewalk
beneath the tree of urgent flags,
and the windows which seem so much
like passages—— should be looked through,
but not stepped...
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5 things I learned March 9, 2011
1. William Kamkwamba (15 yrs old) who built a windwill to power his home http://bit.ly/fuGlCS 2. Hand-drawn pakour flip-book animation http://bit.ly/hvANHw 3. King Philip IV signs autographs http://bit.ly/g7pKmx 4. Osaka - World Expo - 1970 http://bit.ly/ef3uLK 5. A collection a day http://bit.ly/g31V0U
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5 things I learned today - Weekly Episode 7 Season...
1. Human planet http://bit.ly/gmQalI 2. Crazy pov bike race http://bit.ly/e6llBz 3. Portrait made of screws http://bit.ly/hCwl5O 4. Famous objects from classic movies http://bit.ly/g3KC95 5. Playing with scale http://bit.ly/fJfA8z Find more at http://5thingsilearnedtoday.com and http://facebook.com/5tilt and http://www.youtube.com/user/5thingsilearnedtoday
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5 things I learned March 7, 2011
1. Wild West in photos http://bit.ly/fIV3AE 2. Books from some of the 2011 TED speakers http://bit.ly/dLDWZ2 3. Maps using words http://bit.ly/f9adoA 4. Toy blocks become robots, for real http://bit.ly/fgwPyU 5. The next 25 years in emerging tech http://bit.ly/eVdbWM Find more at http://5thingsilearnedtoday.com and http://facebook.com/5tilt
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Preview of Weekly Episode 7 Season 3
This week’s 5 things will be at our favorite soccer pub, Champions Pub (http://championspubofflorida.com/ ) and will aire tuesday March 10. More at http://5thingsilearnedtoday.com and http://facebook.com/5tilt and http://www.youtube.com/user/5thingsilearnedtoday Photos by Gabriel Hernandez and Scott Braun
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5 things I learned March 6, 2011
1. Cartoons and Old Masters http://bit.ly/hmVuto 2. Yeah, they’re hot, but srsly, them ollies of theirs are hotter http://bit.ly/gR2J88 3. Get all Dr. Frankenstein on these books http://bit.ly/fZr4dt 4. Weird Rules for creativity http://bit.ly/guuGjl 5. There are some amazingly creative social protests in Russia these days… Kissing cops is one of them http://bit.ly/fhr7oU
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5 things I learned March 5, 2011
1. Dubai is in transition http://bit.ly/fzhr0k 2. Surreal stories http://bit.ly/h5J8dv 3. Wow, funnel friends http://bit.ly/g9L3zD 4. Creative ads http://bit.ly/f0O0et 5. Nicholas Felton released his annual report http://bit.ly/exxVFL
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5 things I heard March 5, 2011 - Guest Post -...
See the full gallery on Posterous There was a time when the artist Tobey Albright lived among chickens. That time has passed. The times that he ventured out, we missed him, but he managed to make a stone his own. He doesn’t make things/He makes things. He has times ahead of him. We have his times ahead of us. The time now has him living on the internet...
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5 things I heard March 4, 2011
1. Astronautalis – “Midday Moon” http://bit.ly/f7O82y 2. The Friendly Ghost – Forever (Drake vs. Jack Johnson) http://bit.ly/f4YgYE 3. Wavves - King of the Beach http://bit.ly/hQ0VUb 4. The Knocks – Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (Temptations cover) http://bit.ly/eYNP9Y 5. 王菲 - 我願意 (Faye Wong - I’m Willing (Wo yuan yi)) http://bit.ly/fk28jb Find more at...
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5 things I learned March 4, 2011
1. Human Planet http://bit.ly/gmQalI 2. David Foster Wallace documentary http://bit.ly/gXygdO 3. Famous Objects from Classic Movies: a game http://bit.ly/g3KC95 4. Jump ahead 70 years http://bit.ly/hgbBrr 5. The Death Star: an infographic http://bit.ly/fvAbuL Find more at http://5thingsilearnedtoday.com and http://facebook.com/5tilt
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5 things I learned March 3, 2011
1. A picture of a thousand words http://bit.ly/htIQCn 2. A crazy POV bike race (holy shit!) http://bit.ly/e6llBz 3. Best Picture title screens 1927-2009 http://bit.ly/ggFcUT 4. Behind the scenes of the Old Spice videos http://bit.ly/gL5pHM 5. Visualizing salmon http://bit.ly/fhcYdK Get more at http://5thingsilearnedtoday.com and http://facebook.com/5tilt
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Bill Paxton
See the full gallery on Posterous Bill Paxton has stepped with ease from one memorable role (Aliens, Weird Science) to another (True Lies, Twister, Big Love). 5 (films that have influenced my career) 1. Harold and Maude, 1971, directed by Hal Ashby 2. The Man Who Would Be King, 1975, directed by John Houston 3. Steamboat Bill, Jr., 1928, starring Buster Keaton...
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5 things I learned March 2, 2011
1. Meticulous hand-crafted miniture army http://bit.ly/gGvV5G 2. Weather data in an interesting presentation http://bit.ly/hinDR1 3. Time travel in Television and FIlm http://bit.ly/fZmk9M 4. Awesome camera icons to use http://bit.ly/fm4S0Z 5. The 83rd Oscar Awards in 83 Amazing Infographics http://bit.ly/eVZ49M Get more at http://5thingsilearnedtoday.com and http://facebook.com/5tilt
