All year long, Andrew Ross Sorkin has diligently and carefully reported on the wild and often dispiriting going- on in world through an financial and economic lens. We were heartened by his recent round-up of the most promising developments of the year, possibility-thinking made tangible.
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In this mind-boggling little film, Steven Berlin Johnson shows how play and pleasure may be as powerful drivers of invention as necessity.
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(Video link here.) We were knocked out by this short wondrous film by Grace Jackson, about Jack English, a 93-year-old who lives in an isolated cabin deep in the Ventana Wilderness, California. After his wife died, he moved to the land he’d hunted on and “fell in love with” as a boy. He built a small cabin using…
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Speak of the devil! Christoph Niemann created this brilliant cover for the new New Yorker’s Innovator’s Issue. At the New Yorker blog, Niemann has again illustrated his process , which AGAIN involves nixxing an idea, only to have it come back at him in a completely unexpected way. We GET and love that the brilliant…
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(Video link here.) Several times during the past week, we heard several very creative people we know say “Sometimes I wonder if I’m crazy” meaning…crazy to be doing this…or that…or whatever uncharted path they’ve embarked upon that is not THE NORM. In honor of them, and to antidote the feeling that “crazy” is bad, we…
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Wondrous, dragonfly-like model planes can float for up to half an hour under the power of one single-wound rubber band. This trailer Float is a view into the passionate world of model plane builders; it is mesmerizing and curiously relaxing, a weekend retreat. via BoingBoing
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