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iPhone user Webguydan’s Review of the app Pocket First Aid & CPR which helped save his life this week in Haiti.
Best. Advertisment. Ever.
Article here.
Rethinking Scholarship
This video is to help promote a two-year fully paid $18,000 scholarship for aspiring designers and art directors. They are asked to fill a sketchbook in any way they want, or take it apart and rebuild it into something totally different.”
More info and past videos at rethinkscholarship.com.
via Chad Kouri at The Post Family
Thanks to keeptheballrolling for posting this!
The Vice Guide to Travel: Liberia
I have always love VBS.tv. These new Liberia episodes are intense.
While Liberia’s former president Charles Taylor’s trial for war crimes and sundry other atrocities continues at the Hague, the ex warlords of Liberia remain in their native country. Some are harassed by cops; others are hunted by vengeful gangs. The lucky few still maintain control over some territory.
空中都市を走る200年後のゆりかもめは夜だとすごい宇宙っぽい ！という設定。 垂直反転させただけでこんなおもしろい映像が作れちゃいます
Tokyo by train at night. This video is stunningly hypnotic. Let’s go to Tokyo.
The EyeWriter is “a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.”
I have been following the GRL project to help Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE, tag again since the beginning and, it still gets me every time I think about it. Such an incredible use of knowledge, love and determination to help give back someone something so simple.
This makes my stomach churn. My friend Chad wants me to go skydiving. I have never in my life even considered skydiving much less spent 2 hours contemplating it. The main point of contention for me is that I hate the feeling of falling. I mean I HATE it. I hate roller coasters. I have cliff diving. I hate running down the stairs to fast. That is my major concern. Not the heights. I fly a lot so that really doesn’t faze me. All that being said, this description of what sky diving feels like from Skydiving Magazine makes me, I can’t believe I am saying this, consider it:
“Freefall is not the “roller coaster drop” feeling most people expect it would be. It is a comfortable sensation of floating and support, with a slight pressure of air against your body. “
While taking advice from Skydiving Magazine about what it feels like to JUMP OUT OF A DAMN PLANE seems like a bad idea, that answer still gives me some solace. I am going to decide by tomorrow. Have any of you done this?! Tell me about it.
If I do, I am guessing that as soon as I land I will 1) propose to the nearest female, 2) Urinate on my self uncontrollably, 3) Urinate on myself while proposing to said female and, most likely urinate on her also.
PS - GOOD GOD I NEED SOME HIGH WAISTED, ACID WASHED JEANS IF I AM GOING TO JUMP LOOK AT THAT DUDE I’M NOT KIDDING, LOOK INTO HIS EYES!
So I used to do magic. Most people that know me, know that. Some know exactly how much I DID magic. I joined the International Brotherhood of Magicians at something like 14. I went to competitions. Conventions. Lectures. Meetings. I ate that stuff up.
Then I stopped. I still do it from time to time when the drinks are piling up and someone finds a deck of cards but, I don’t actively study magic anymore. I just kind of moved on. I went to college. I picked up new hobbies and talents along the way but magic is still what I think I am the best at.
Above is a show-reel for Dynamo. I first met Steve at the Winter Carnival of Magic in probably 2001 or 2002. He was amazing then and still is. Seeing someone you used to magic with in hotel lobbies when you were a teenager reach this level of success in something you used to be obsessed with is both incredibly exciting and kind of a slap to my ego.
He kept with it and I didn’t. Honest to God, one of the only things that keeps me up at night is the thought that I could have been in ADIDAS commercials doing magic tricks to David Beckham. Although, I guess my life rules if that is all that keeps me up at night.
Come Fly With Me…
The airport near me is notorious for horrible prices but, they have a great deal going this month. Book by the 27th and fly to any of the above cities for roughly $200! This, combined with no longer being tied to textbooks and accounting homework, makes my wallet tremble and the vagabond within scream. Flights have to be taken by the 10th of March.
So where should I go? I bolded my short list. How has a plan for me?
• Austin, TX (AUS)
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW)
• Denver, CO (DEN)
• Houston, TX (HOU)
• San Antonio, TX (SAT)
• Memphis, TN (MEM)
• Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN (MSP)
• Milwaukee, WI (MKE)
• Chicago, IL (ORD)
• Indianapolis, IN (IND)
• Detroit, MI (DTW)
• Akron/Canton, OH (CAK)
• Dayton, OH (DAY)
• Columbus, OH (CMH)
• Allentown, PA (ABE)
• Pittsburgh, PA (PIT)
• Albany, NY (ALB)
• Buffalo, NY (BUF)
• Providence, RI (PVD)
• Rochester, NY (ROC)
• LaGuardia, NY (LGA)
• John F. Kennedy, NY (JFK)
• Syracuse, NY (SYR)
• White Plains, NY (HPN)
• Nashville, TN (BNA)
• Newark, NJ (EWR)
• Daytona Beach, FL (DAB)
• Gainesville, FL (GNV)
• Miami, FL (MIA))
• West Palm Beach, FL (PBI)
• Tampa, FL International (TPA)
• Sarasota/Bradenton, FL (SRQ)
• Orlando, FL International (MCO)
• Jacksonville, FL International (JAX)
• Fort Meyers, FL (RSW)
• Tallahassee, FL (Fort Walton Beach, FL) (TLH)
• Valparaiso, FL (VPS)
• Pensacola, FL (PNS)
• Mobile, AL (MOB)
• Gulfport, MS (GPT)
• New Orleans, LA (MSY)
• Montgomery, AL (MGM)
• Birmingham, AL (BHM)
• Huntsvile/Decatur AL (HSV)
• Jackson, MS (JAN)
• Houston, TX/Houston Intercontinental (IAH)
• Myrtle Beach, SC (MYR)
• Wilmington, NC (ILM)
• Charleston, SC (CHS)
• Savannah, GA (SAV)
• Hilton Head, SC (HHH)
• Augusta, GA/Bush Field (AGS)
• St. Louis, MO (STL)
• Portland, ME (PWM)
• Manchester, NH (MHT)
• Charlottesville, VA (CHO)
• Newport News/Williamsburg, VA (PHF)
• Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA (ORF)
• Richmond, VA (RIC)
• Salisbury, MD (SBY)
• Phoenix, AZ (PHX)
• Seattle, WA (SEA)
