Portal: No Escape, An Amazing Live-Action Short Film Based on the Game Portal
/Now that's how you adapt a game. This is transmedia and participatory culture at its very best. Gaming geeks are going to love this.
Stanford D. School - An Introduction
/Design is all the rage in the startup world. No longer just the purview of the UI and marketing teams, now companies are taking a design-based approach to just about everything. Apps and codebases can be designed, but so can human resource departments and quality assurance procedures. It’s a powerful philosophy, and now the smartypants factory known as Stanford University has a whole program dedicated to training the next generation of innovators.
Where was this stuff when I was in college? Recent classes include “Improv and Design,” “Storytelling and Visual Comms” and “Creative Gym: A Design Thinking Skills Studio.” D.School’s philosophy is to bring together people from different disciplines and collaborate on problem solving using human values as a centerpiece. Their website’s predictably well designed, and best of all, you don’t need to be a grad student to learn some of the basic methodology they use.
InsideOut Episode 1 by Photographer & TED Prize winner JR
/Since the TED Prize winner JR announced his wish in March to turn the world InsideOut, thousands of people have participated in what he hopes will be the world's largest participatory art project. This is the first Episode documenting the project.
Joshua Foer: OK-ness is the enemy of greatness
/At the 99% Conference, Joshua Foer illustrates why we must step outside of our comfort zones to achieve truly remarkable things.
When most of us learn a new skill, we work to get just "good enough" and then we go on autopilot. We hit what journalist and bestselling author Joshua Foer calls the "OK Plateau," where we have gained sufficient skills for our needs and we stop pushing ourselves.
But experts do it differently. Looking at the research on everyone from incredible athletes to memory champions, Foer has extracted four principles that describe how to push through the OK Plateau to achieve true greatness. Watch this fantastic talk from the 99% Conference to learn strategies for developing expertise in any field.
To find out more visit Joshua Foer's website, follow him on Twitter and read his book Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.