A little event we’re hosting at the office this evening…
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brand-interaction researcher and planner.
creative marketing magician.
culture freak.
technology geek.
mail | kdreke at gmail dot com
{BTW, opinions found here are my own, and do not reflect the thinking of my employer.}
creative marketing magician.
culture freak.
technology geek.
mail | kdreke at gmail dot com
{BTW, opinions found here are my own, and do not reflect the thinking of my employer.}
Jul 03
» BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | North Korea launches beer advert
North Korea’s first TV beer commercial is set to be “the new look of Pyongyang”
“ When we push athletes to their limits in the lab, we’re learning that their brains give up before their muscles do. Is fatigue really just all in our heads?
Jul 02
Quadrant of Cultures (via Endless Forms Most Beautiful)
Panasonic RS-833S Vintage 8-Track 1 (via studiosmith)
The Dorabella Cipher is an enciphered letter written by Edward Elgar to Miss Dora Penny, which was accompanied by another dated July 14, 1897). Penny was never able to decipher it and its meaning remains unknown to this day.
The cipher, consisting of 87 characters spread over 3 lines, appears to be made up from an alphabet of 24 symbols, with each symbol consisting of either 1, 2, or 3 approximate semicircles, oriented in one of 8 directions. The orientation of several of the characters is ambiguous.
A small dot, meaning and significance unknown, appears after the fifth character on the third line. A count of the 87 characters reveals a symbol frequency very close to that that would be expected if the cipher were a simple substitution cipher, based on a plain text in English, but attempts to decipher it along these lines have so far proved fruitless, leading to speculation the cipher may be more complex.
Jul 01
The Sputnik Observatory
It’s the result of a two-year collaboration with New York-based Sputnik, Inc., an organization that documents contemporary culture through intimate video interviews with hundreds of leading thinkers in the arts, sciences and technology, covering a wide range of topics.
The central premise of the Sputnik project is that everything is connected to everything else, and that topics and ideas that may seem fringe and even heretical to the mainstream world are in fact being investigated by leading thinkers working in fields as diverse as quantum physics, mathematics, neuroscience, biology, economics, architecture, digital art, video games, computer science and music. Sputnik is dedicated to bringing these crucial ideas from the fringes of thought out into the limelight, so that the world can begin to understand them.
Conducted over more than ten years and previously unavailable to the public, the interviews within the site chronicle some of the most provocative human ideas to have emerged in the last few decades. The site itself aims to highlight the interconnections between seemingly disparate thinkers and ideas, using a simple navigational system with no dead ends, where every thought leads to another thought, akin to swimming the stream of consciousness.
There are about 200 videos on the site today, and there will be thousands more added over the coming weeks, months, and years.
Site by Jonathan Harris
Icelandic singer Björk chats with All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen about some of her favorite artists and spins an eclectic mix of music.
Hear selections from Syrian musician Omar Souleyman, the post punk duo Eyeless in Gaza, fellow Icelandic singer Ólöf Arnalds, The Pokrovsky Ensemble and the wildly eccentric, London-based rock group Micachu and the Shapes.
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- Banksy
Jun 30
Recent RIP’s on facebook.
250 Best Movies of All Time
