Loosely Assembled

Leon Botha talks about identity, vibrations, and formlessness.

I came across this guy researching Die Antwoord

This video actually has very little to do with geography, but I do find it interesting that there are specific places, micro regions, where longevity is dramatically higher than the global average. In this TED Talk, National Geographic writer Dan Buettner discusses some interesting common denominators of these long lived, healthy and happy clusters of humans.

There isn’t actually anything very surprising in terms of specific details, but where I see the value of these findings being transformative is in various scenarios such as urban planning, architecture, community development, families, tradition making, suburbia 2.0, retirement, economic development, health care reform, and more.

China is building handfuls of cities from scratch, I wonder how many, if any, of these common denominators have a chance at being intentionally incorporated. When new cities are being designed, is there a “creative brief”?

(via open culture blog)

The most ambitious and engaged graffiti so far. It almost needs a new term coined just to differentiate it from everything else.

(Via @lucatoledo .)

This cool video of Jeff Williams cruising around the space station brings up the obvious but perhaps underappreciated fact that in space, you don’t really need floors.

(Via
YouTube
- In This Orbital Outpost…We Are the Experiment
.)

From a CCRMA final project called Sonifying & Visualizing Neural Data by Mindy Chang.

Great video from Derek Sivers about assumptions, opposites, logic, history, and thinking.

The example about Japanese addresses finally gives some context to the alternative global coordinate system Geotude, basically recognizing and giving names to the spaces between the lines.

This talk by Will Self starts out slow, but really gets cooking a few minutes in.
He’s talking about walking from London to New York and how to explode your many micro worlds.

Sachiko Kodama works with magnetic fluids to create these surreal active sculptures.

via @caseorganic

Who needs gold plated cables?

(Via @kottke.)