Best of Tumblr Fridays!
Friday, July 17, 2009
My favorite links, photos, and videos from the week on my Tumblr blog.
Yesterday, July 16th, was the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission. The Big Picture has some beautiful photos from the trip.
New York City artist Dash Snow died this week at the age of 27. Snow was a close friend of photographer whose work you may recognize from the new Levi's ad campaign. I first heard about Snow is this NYMag profile from January 2007. I can't help but think that we'll look back on this as a marker in The Death of The Hipster.
This collection of photos gives you taste of Snow's life/work. (Some images NSFW)
An oldie, but a goodie. In 1976, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a camera on the front of a sports car, and had a race car driver friend of his speed through the streets of Paris at dawn. This is real and amazing.
C'etait un Rendez vous
3 references on Swoopo.com and the psychology of gambling.
The Crack Cocaine of Auction Sites, by Mark Gimein
Swoopo, by Jonah Lehrer
The Dollar Auction Experiment, Wikipedia
This article in The Atlantic looks at how the internet, drugs, and artificial intelligence, as ways to evolve human intelligence: Get Smarter, by Jamais Cascio
Yesterday, July 16th, was the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission. The Big Picture has some beautiful photos from the trip.
New York City artist Dash Snow died this week at the age of 27. Snow was a close friend of photographer whose work you may recognize from the new Levi's ad campaign. I first heard about Snow is this NYMag profile from January 2007. I can't help but think that we'll look back on this as a marker in The Death of The Hipster.
This collection of photos gives you taste of Snow's life/work. (Some images NSFW)
An oldie, but a goodie. In 1976, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a camera on the front of a sports car, and had a race car driver friend of his speed through the streets of Paris at dawn. This is real and amazing.
C'etait un Rendez vous
3 references on Swoopo.com and the psychology of gambling.
The Crack Cocaine of Auction Sites, by Mark Gimein
Swoopo, by Jonah Lehrer
The Dollar Auction Experiment, Wikipedia
This article in The Atlantic looks at how the internet, drugs, and artificial intelligence, as ways to evolve human intelligence: Get Smarter, by Jamais Cascio
Pandemics. Global warming. Food shortages. No more fossil fuels. What are humans to do? The same thing the species has done before: evolve to meet the challenge. But this time we don’t have to rely on natural evolution to make us smart enough to survive. We can do it ourselves, right now, by harnessing technology and pharmacology to boost our intelligence. Is Google actually making us smarter?
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