“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”
- Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl
How can you not love this?
The Amazings is a wonderful idea that celebrates our elders, those with amazing life experience that they have to bestow.
From Guitar Lessons From a Punk-Rock Hero to Retro Hair Do’s, they offer a multitude of courses on skills and knowledge that might otherwise disappear from generation to generation.
The Amazings is currently based out of London. Fingers crossed for a branch everywhere else too!
Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s transmissions from space
Couple of cool facts about astronaut Chris Hadfield, the commander of the International Space Station who’s been Tweeting, Reddit-ing, and YouTube-ing from space:
1) The idea to go behind the scenes with social media was hatched 3 years ago at the Hadfield family dinner table — the Hadfields were trying to figure out how to generate interest for the Canadian Space Agency, which is facing major budget cuts. Hadfield wanted is “to help people connect the real side of what an astronaut’s life is – not just the glamour and science, but also the day-to-day activities.”
2) Hadfield does the posting and responding himself, but Hadfield’s son, Evan, is his unpaid assistant, doing most of the maintenance work: “I make it so that he can simply float up to the computer and post without wasting any of his valuable time.” (I love his Twitter bio: “Internet janitor”) Evan also fed his dad tips about what was going on down on Earth, so he could snap photos.
3) When he gets back: “He’s gonna land on Earth, he’s probably gonna vomit on himself, and then he’s going to pass out. That’s what happens when you come back from space.”
I love this quote from Canada’s first man in space, Marc Garneau, who said he wished he’d had social media during his flights:
“You need that feeling that you haven’t been abandoned up there. You need to feel that there are a whole bunch of people on the ground that are watching over you,” he said. “I think the connection is much stronger now because [Hadfield] has all these people who are tweeting to him and he’s tweeting to them.”
Filed under: show your work
Organizations need structure. Markets and enterprises need rules. As successful entrepreneurial businesses grow, they often come to believe that new, complicated processes will undermine their culture. But systematization need not lead to bureaucratization, not if people understand what the rules are for and view them as legitimate.
If you want to know why nearly all companies suck at content marketing, these two charts should make it abundantly clear. Org charts? Committees? That is a good way to slow the process and lose in a world that moves at the speed of social media and memes. Oh, and then you have to add “legal review” to everything…
Less is more when it comes to creating and delivering great content marketing. Relevance and timeliness is everything. That is something you do not get out of meetings, committees and cross-functional groups.
(via marksbirch)
find your groove and werk it, werk it everyday in every way
“A boy and his atom” by IBM, made by moving individual atoms.
Merging humans and technology.
These printable sensors are an extension of the Rogers Research Group’s electronic tattoos, and can measure skin hydration, temperature and electric signals from muscle and brain and activity.
Once the sensors are printed on the skin, researchers use a commercially available spray-on bandage to protect the electronics, which keeps them in place for about two weeks.
To achieve a longer lifespan, sensors would need to be embedded under the skin like real tattoos.
Stay tuned. That can’t be far off.
Emma Leth
[T]he things people put on display inevitably generate a kind of inertia. In a world where we now have extraordinarily efficient ways of communicating and displaying, the question of who you are becomes incredibly complicated.
I think that brands are a part of this. When you surround yourself with certain kinds of objects, they become a public statement about who you are. There are hundreds of choices that are necessary to fill out your life with objects and things, and I think that requires an inner logic as well.
Maybe the modern version of introspection is the sum total of all those highly individualized choices that we make about the material content of our lives…
[O]ur material choices as consumers are no longer trivial. They are now amongst the most important choices we make. They have consequences well beyond our own selves — they have global consequences… you’re saying to the world, “These are my values. This is the kind of world I want.
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