My friend Henry has started to play with video. This is his bird feeder from earlier today. A male Baltimore Oriole and a male Orchard Oriole feast on some grape jelly. With cameo appearacnes by a Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
I believe Henry shot this on his DSLR camera and it’s mighty easy to see the difference between this and video from my little Casio. Let’s hope Henry keeps making movies.
What It Is, originally uploaded by mshhoward.
” It was tough to stop wishing for something else and just enjoy what it was.”
In a recently-released TED video, author Simon Sinek explains what he sees as the secret to Apple’s success and makes a case for the real reason the company is so innovative–even though it has “the same access to the same talent, the same agencies, the same consultants, the same media.”
Pencil Vs Camera – 5, originally uploaded by Ben Heine.
Learfield’s Jeff Martin makes work fun during United Way “volunteer day” a couple of years ago.
I got so bummed out by all the bitching about why the iPad sucks, I had to take a little art break. I have zero skills in the drawing/painting department, yet find this little drawing app more fun than a Jordanian gigolo.
Of all the early reviews of the iPad, this one by Stephen Fry soars above the rest for me. During his visit to Apple HQ, he gets time with Jonathan Ive and Steve Jobs. Fry is shameless and open in his love of all things Apple reminds me of the decision to buy my first Mac.
“We are human beings; our first responses to anything are dominated not by calculations but by feelings. What (Jonathan) Ive and his team understand is that if you have an object in your pocket or hand for hours every day, then your relationship with it is profound, human and emotional. Apple’s success has been founded on consumer products that address this side of us: their products make users smile as they reach forward to manipulate, touch, fondle, slide, tweak, pinch, prod and stroke.”
On Steve Jobs:
“For some, his personal magnetism is almost of a dangerous, Elmer Gantry kind.”
Jobs on Life and Career:
“I don’t think of my life as a career,” he says. “I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career — it’s a life!”
Fry’s hand-on review of the iPad:
“It is possible that the public will not fall on the iPad, as I did, like lions on an antelope. Perhaps they will find the apps and the iBooks too expensive. Maybe they will wait for more fully featured later models. But for me, my iPad is like a gun lobbyist’s rifle: the only way you will take it from me is to prise it from my cold, dead hands.”
[via @jonzissou]
Excerpts from Adam Bryant’s interview with Guy Kawasaki:
That last bullet is my new objective. If you get a longer email from me, remind me of this post.
Found this wonderful quote from Arianna Huffington on Seth Godin’s blog:
“Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, ‘Why are they doing that for free?’ We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.”
There you go. That’s it. That perfectly sums up why I can spend almost every waking moment doing what I’m doing right now. Even the most modest form of self expression is endlessly entertaining.
Irresistible.