This an interesting article on engagement. The more people give of their time and effort without making them do it (micro efforts) for long or really thinking about it… the more people will do it.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/06/ff_gamed/

Not only is this illustration a bit disturbing, but this article offers a nice view into how the graphic went viral…. digital bread crumbs.

From Tumblr to TV: How our #Starbucks ‘Trenta’ graphic became an online hit | Editors | National Post.

There is some interesting thinking here, I agree with most of this article. I get ideas in the strangest places, in the shower, car, walking down the street, spacing out in my coffee, during my second beer, trying a new scotch, climbing a mountain…. you’ll notice that the places I can think of first don’t include being connected or ‘at work’ in the common way we think of it. But I do ‘live my work’. That is my nature, and I think I am not alone.

What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space :: Articles :: The 99 Percent.

I came across this post on Motionographer through the After Effects listserve. I really love the editing. This video really nails it.

Seb. from Shueti rocks this beautifully shot and edited piece for the IRC Dance Movement | Motionographer | Motion graphics, design, animation, filmmaking and visual effects.

People are looking at the chart BP used in their press conference about how much progress they are making on cleaning up. Showing cumulative amounts in the chart can look very misleading as we can see in the linked posts.

The original Stephen Few Post

Wired Science post that show a very cool 4x speed video…..

The video is here

This is a really great homage to the the first generation video games I grew up with. Modern tools and techniques taken all the way to great effect, but not too overdone. Nice.

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. Video.

Now this is interesting too…

The Mariana Trench To Scale [Pic] | I Am Bored.

The sheer scale of things makes this interesting. Very extreme scale graphic which in some ways does not work on my laptop screen. Yet, I am drawn to this anyway.

This is an amazingly original and creative visualization…

What Is This? – what is this – Gizmodo.