Awesome. How great would it be if this was an everyday occurrence:
Songs played: “I Feel Good” – James Brown / “Come Alive” – A Skillz & Krafty Kuts / “So Good” – Tuxedo
Peter Sharp gave these commuters an unexpected surprise when he started dancing by himself, encouraging anyone that wanted to join to get up off their seat. Once a few people joined in on the fun it was only a matter of time before the whole train car was rocking. Quite neat really. Meanwhile in Perth, on another train:
“Viet Cong still sound like a band being tugged in opposing directions, but here they control the discordance with confidence, transforming “Continental Shelf” into something disquietingly divine” ~ Pitchfork.com
Taken by my friend, Ray, who recently became the father of a precious baby girl:
This neat picture reminded me of something Arthur C. Clarke predicted in the early 1970s:
Arthur C. Clarke accurately predicts the future of computers and of the Internet in a video that dates back to 1974. The man truly was a visionary.
Pretty amazing how far and how fast technology has advanced, and yet, never in the history of humanity has there been such a divide in awareness of modern advancements. You could take a simple sheet of paper and a pen to a remote village in the Amazon or Papua New Guinea and no one there will even know how to use it; one can only imagine what life will be like in the coming decades (please be cyborgs please be cyborgs)
There may be side-effects to technological integration, but I figure if more people are connected to their devices, as docile as people may become, wouldn’t this make them less prone to outbursts of violence and achieving genuine coolness. I can see value in idiocy, I mean, doesn’t that one guy and the cameraman seem less stupid to you?
Life and our capacity to interact with it will always be in our hands (metaphorically speaking of course; someone without hands for instance doesn’t need them to take control of their life. You know what I’m saying? I’ll shush now)
Like Star Wars Uncut, hundreds of wildly devoted fans created their own 15-second scenes from The Empire Strikes Back for them to be edited into a complete scene-for-scene remake of the original. A hilarious and charming mix of animation and live-action schtick — from stop-motion to live-action, shadow puppets, still images and animation; whatever conceivable form of art you can imagine, it is in this fan film: