This amazing online video was captured in April 2008 in Haines, Alaska. The skier fell 1,500 feet in 20 seconds and walked away without injury.
Filmed from the vantage point of a helmet camera, what’s so haunting about this video is the agony of being buried alive, the sound of desperate breathing, and finally the rescuer’s shovel opening up the view to a blue sky. An amazing second chance on life!
The creative work of Ashley Perry, titled, Industrial Span, captures the city Melbourne as an urban space dominated by transport and overpowering modern architecture. Accompanied by a powerful haunting musical score, Perry presents the cityscape as a fast, disorienting urban space obsessed with industry and transport.
Filmed in high definition, the Panasonic AG-HVX202 video camera signals the beginning of the end for videotape by recording to a solid-state P2 flash media cards with variable compression, frame rates and resolutions.
Ashley Perry is an applied communication doctoral candidate at RMIT University undertaking innovative research, in the form of a film, investigating auto-mobility in the city of Melbourne.
You can follow Ashley’s work more closely at his blog
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Photo Courtesy: Mike Lee
I came across this interesting article by Robert Capps in Wired Magazine. He writes how the so called world recession and fast-paced advancement in digital technology has changed our consumer choices to buy “cheap and simple” products for the future.
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
“…Cheap, fast, simple tools are suddenly everywhere. We get our breaking news from blogs, we make spotty long-distance calls on Skype, we watch video on small computer screens rather than TVs, and more and more of us are carrying around dinky, low-power netbook computers that are just good enough to meet our surfing and emailing needs. The low end has never been riding higher….
The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine
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Honeywell Print Ad from 1970s
Here’s a prediction. Will we see “the end to emails” in 2010? Lets be honest- its easier said then done, right?! Well, there’s a growing social movement on the internet that is calling for the end to email in the workplace altogether. Fact remains “the e-mail” technology is an old technology that dates back from the 1970s.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. How can I use open source communication tools such as Wikis, Ning, and Yammer to improve productivity, collaboration, and project management at my current workplace, RMIT University. Reading and responding e-mails at the work can sometimes discourage productivity and collaboration in the workplace, especially when you’re working with large content files, revisions, and documentation. While, Google is set to release, Google Wave, one of the most anticipated new modes for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.
Here’s a video presentation of Luis Suarez from IBM giving a speech at Web 2.0 Expo in Europe advocating the end to emails. Apparently, he did it and hasn’t looked back since.
It starts with changing habits. What do you think? Can you live without email?
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Robert Mackey from NY Times writes: …”We are not, unfortunately, talking about this handshake, or the Arab-Israeli conflict, but about the mysterious falling out between two German brothers, Adi and Rudolf Dassler, who dissolved their successful family sneaker business 61 years ago, set up rival sneaker companies, Adidas and Puma, on opposite sides of a river in the small Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach, and refused to speak to one another for the rest of their lives.”
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/truce-in-six-decade-sneaker-war
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