Made By Hand: The Distiller. A short-film series on hand-made things.

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A project from http://bureauofcommongoods.com, Made by Hand is a new short film series celebrating the people who make things by hand—sustainably, locally, and with a love for their craft. In our inaugural film, we visit the Breuckelen Distilling Company, the first gin distiller in Brooklyn since prohibition. Founder Brad Estabrooke talks about starting from nothing and the imperfect process of perfecting a craft. His experience bears a lesson for us all: knowing you could fail brings you that much closer to success. director-producer KEEF director of photography JOSHUA KRASZEWSKI editor MATT SHAPIRO title design MANDY BROWN music ROMAN ZEITLIN sound recordist ROBERT ALBRECHT re-recording mixer NICHOLAS MONTGOMERY special thanks BRAD ESTABROOKE & BREUCKELEN DISTILLING CO. http://thisismadebyhand.com http://brkdistilling.com

Made by Hand is a new short film series celebrating the people who make things by hand — sustainably, locally, and with a love for their craft.

In the inaugural film, they visit the Breuckelen Distilling Company, the first gin distiller in Brooklyn since prohibition. Founder Brad Estabrooke talks about starting from nothing and the imperfect process of perfecting a craft. His experience bears a lesson for us all: knowing you could fail brings you that much closer to success.

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links (11.06.11)

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All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@) this week: 

  • Covering Two Decades of Innovation. 20 years of Mossberg tech columns.owl.li/7kspK
  • Your Brain on Facebook : Bigger Social Networks Expand the Size of Neural Networks owl.li/7jI1l
  • Why Fingernails on Blackboards Sound So Horrible owl.li/7gneh
  • Steven Johnson Unveils A Twitter-like Network For Sharing Long Readsowl.li/7dpaQ
  • 50 of the World’s Best Breakfasts, or how the world starts the dayowl.li/7doaX
  • The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection owl.li/7d7dz
  • Introducing Boxie The Robot owl.li/1ftQeX
  • Reading the brain: Mind-goggling owl.li/7fD8W
  • The Science Of Irrationality owl.li/7dqfZ
  • Webcams can now spot which ads catch your gaze, read your mood and check your vital signs owl.li/7d79j
  • Official Google Blog: Giving you fresher, more recent search resultsowl.li/7ivyW Google updates their algorithm.
  • How to Survive the Switch from Google Reader to Google+ owl.li/7dohO
  • Internet Trends 2011 by Mary Meeker owl.li/7fZic
  • First there was Kern Type, the kerning game owl.li/7fLa2 And now, Shape Type. owl.li/7fLa4
  • Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developersowl.li/7d57O
  • "Life in a Day" film now available on YouTube owl.li/1fsLZc
  • Popcorn.js Lets Web Filmmakers Fuse Video With Interactive Designowl.li/78Tgj
  • Google is quietly experimenting in new ways for readers to access publishers’ content owl.li/7hU6M
  • The Role Of Design In The Kingdom Of Content owl.li/78KXg
  • Design Envy, a curated blog of design excellence by AIGA owl.li/7dplK
  • Friends of Type owl.li/7ad44
  • Incredible Monty Python-Inspired Phonotrope Animation Machineowl.li/78SIV
  • PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 8: Video Games owl.li/1frzIP
  • Check out the wonderful Museum of Obsolete Objects owl.li/78tFS /via @veryshortlist
  • Creativity Top 5: November 1, 2011 owl.li/1fqS9b
  • Why Leaders Should Take A Break From Talking owl.li/7d5s6
  • The Silliness of Busyness owl.li/7d59H
  • “Why’s this so good?” No. 18: Brady Dennis goes short owl.li/7fIZB
  • 7 Things Michael Bierut Loves About Design owl.li/7d4vP
  • The Creativity Awards Report 2011 Roundup - Creativity Online owl.li/7fvBH
  • Education Isn't Magic owl.li/1fqt4p
  • Is This the Future of Punctuation!? On the misuse of apostrophe's (did your eye just twitch?) owl.li/78Lps
  • Litfy - All the free e-books you can muster owl.li/7d5oe This is fantastic.
  • The Tablet Revolution | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)owl.li/7dyYG how people use tablets
  • Remodel Your Meetings To Create Internal Entrepreneurs owl.li/7d56s
  • Best statistics question ever owl.li/1fpihW
  • How Symphonies Grew Strong Audiences By Killing The Myth Of The Average Consumer owl.li/76hDvn
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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Introducing Boxie The Robot

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Boxie is a mobile interactive robotic camera built with the goal of actively capturing stories about its environment and the people within it.

via labcast.media.mit.edu

 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

"Life in a Day" film now available on YouTube

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Life In A Day is a historic film capturing for future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. Executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald. Soundtrack available here @ http://goo.gl/N9F6O For more information on Life In A Day, visit http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday.

On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world recorded videos of their lives to take part in Life in a Day, a cinematic experiment to document a single day on earth. From more than 4,500 hours of footage recorded and uploaded to YouTube, Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald and executive producer Ridley Scott created a 90-minute feature film that offers an entertaining, surprising and moving view of life on earth.

After a theatrical release in countries around the world including appearances at the Sundance, Berlin, SXSW and Sydney film festivals, Life in a Day is finally coming home to YouTube—in its entirety, for free.

Starting today you can watch Life in a Day on YouTube, available with subtitles in 25 languages. So if you haven’t seen it yet or want to relive the experience that The Times of London considers “a thrilling piece of cinema” and the Washington Post called “a profound achievement,” now’s your chance.

via youtube-global.blogspot.com

 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 8: Video Games

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Subscribe to the new Off Book channel at http://www.youtube.com/pbsoffbook Video games are important. They are a storytelling medium, a place for self-expression, a sandbox for the human imagination, and an extension of an ages old tradition of gaming.

PBS Arts: Off Book is a web-based series that explores cutting edge art and the people that make it. The 13 episode series focuses on the process, motivation and meaning of a new generation of artists.

Video games are important. They are a storytelling medium, a place for self-expression, a sandbox for the human imagination, and an extension of an ages old tradition of gaming. We play out some of the most essential aspects of our culture in games, and we learn more about ourselves and the world around us in the process. From the powerful cinematic experiences of mainstream gaming, to the hyper-personal environments of indie games, we are in the midst of an explosion of gaming activity that, as some predict, will continue to define the way we live and interact with information, and each other, far into the future.

Featuring:

Eric Zimmerman, Game Designer
Jesper Juul, Game Studies Scholar
Leigh Alexander, Game Journalist
Syed Salahuddin, Game Designer and Curator

 

Previous installments: 
Episode 1: Light Painting
Episode 2: Typography
Episode 3: Visual Culture Online
Episode 4: Steampunk
Episode 5: Hacking Art & Culture with F.A.T. Lab
Episode 6: Street Art
Episode 7: Etsy Art & Culture

 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.