Photoshop's Filters In Two Minutes

Barcelona-based audiovisual design studio Device has packed all the filters from Photoshop CS5 into a two-minute video showing them applied to the Ps icon.

Think of it as a performance art demo.  

Creativity Top 5: Week of July 22, 2013

How and Why to Be a Leader

Umair Haque for the Harvard Business Review Blog Network: 

We're in the midst of a Great Dereliction — a historic failure of leadership, precisely when we need it most. Hence it's difficult, looking around, to even remember what leadership is. We're surrounded by people who are expert at winning — elections, deals, titles, bonuses, bailouts, profit. And often, we're told: they're the ones we should look up to — because it's the spoils and loot that really matter.

But you know and I know: mere winners are not true leaders — not just because gaming broken systems is nothing but an empty charade of living; but because life is not a game. It isn't about what you have, and how much — but what you do, and why — if you're to live a life that matters.

Leadership — true leadership —is a lost art. Leaders lead us not to a place — but to a different kind of destination: to our better, truer selves. It is an act of love in the face of an uncertain world.

Entrepreneur Mike Sellers Advice For New Startups

Game designer, entrepreneur and AI researcher Mike Sellers answers the Quora question "As first time entrepreneurs, what part of the process are people often completely blind to?" 

An idea is not a design
A design is not a prototype
A prototype is not a program
A program is not a product
A product is not a business
A business is not profits
Profits are not an exit
And an exit is not happiness.

Cosmos: Science, curiosity and wonder have a new host

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was a series produced and hosted by Carl Sagan in the early 80s. I have fond memories of the series and the way it explored science. I am so excited about Cosmos: A Spacetime Oddysey, hosted by the brilliant Neil deGrasse Tyson, a 13-part follow up to the original series co-produced by Ann Druyan (Sagan's widow.) Science, curiosity and wonderment are throwing a party, and you are invited.