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Inside Out: awesome HD mountain biking [video]

Posted on December 13th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss

From the Inside Out Trailer from SecondBase Films on Vimeo.

Konstantin’s cable & Google’s tethered space station

Posted on November 27th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss

NASA artists impression of Konstantin’s cable

Surprisingly it was not a science fiction writer who came up with the idea of tethering a space station at a point on the equator via a hugely long cable, but a Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895. A real stretch for anyone’s imagination the idea has lasted, and thankfully now has some serious backing thanks to Google.

Google has always encouraged it’s great minds to spend plenty of time on innovation (20% of their paid working week in fact). Now it has been discovered that Google have a secret innovative laboratory called Google X where ideas like the tethered space platform get progressed. Read more »

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Address is Approximate – short [video]

Posted on November 24th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss

Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.

Props to DannyGuk for this one. Short and sweet.

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Social Media Activity Maps

Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss

These maps created by Eric Fischer combine data from the photo-sharing website Flickr and the micro-blogging network Twitter. The orange dots represent pictures uploaded to Flickr, while the blue dots are tweets, and the white dots represent locations that have been both tweeted and uploaded to Flickr. Read more »

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Beautiful time lapse view of Earth from the space station

Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss

No words… just beautiful… http://vimeo.com/32001208

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Social Media Analogies

Posted on November 10th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss

People still very often struggle to explain social media especially in marketing circles. Analogies are very often the best way.

The best analogy I have read for Social Media so far is from the great Marketing Week columnist Mark Ritson. Read more »

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Thomas Dolby & Howard Jones – new work

Posted on November 6th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss

Good to see these two legends of 80′s synth pop releasing or re-releasing their work. I had a huge soft spot for both of them growing up through my teens in the 80s. It was a heady time of understanding what a quality sound system was (thanks to my friend Simon Cranshaw), what live music felt like (thanks to Ali Simpson and countless others) and what fun partying with the opposite sex was (thanks to my sister!) Read more »

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Halo The Art of Building Worlds

Posted on November 1st, 2011 by Tim Aldiss

John Martin & Chris Foss eat your heart out! This amazing looking coffee table book – Halo The Art of Building Worlds - is right up there with the best of off-worldly, sci fi, end of the world hyper-reality art work. Check out these amazing images. You can buy the book from Amazon. (click on the images for ginormous versions)