International Space Station Tour-HD

Not often things I find blow me away, but this did, the quality of seeing Earth from space, absolutely amazing.  

Jesus, Father Christmas and Chess

aMap argument I created in a clever widget by Delib. I have discovered how difficult it is to win your own argument.

Unsold Cars

I am happy today, I picked up my new car yesterday, but now I am reminded of the economic climate, can I really afford to run a car? Lovely photographs, I want to go out and take some of my own. I feel sad, that this is all rusting. This seams to be the biggest problem with industry, making more than we need to supply on demand. Link to original article

Photos: David McNew/Getty Images, ANDREW YATES/AFP/Getty Images, Christopher Furlong/Getty Images, David Goddard/Getty Images,Spencer Platt/Getty Images, Matt Cardy/Getty Images, Nigel Roddis/Reuters

We Feel Fine

I love this web art project 'We Feel Fine' a beautiful and inspired project that maps human emotions. This is old news now, shown to me by Helen a media student a few years ago now student. It stuck in my mind as I was reading a book on small world theory. I feel visualizing the social network will follow along the same lines. The creator Jonathan Harris has done a interesting talk on TED.
I have decided to blog about this now because I am doing some research in visualising the value of reach, and I dug about my old links and found an old link by The Logic and Emotion Blog Influence Ripples
"I feel there is a connection" will that get absorbed in to the project? I hope so.

I also really like David Armano's Flickr L+E Visual Thinking Archive 

This is may favorite venn diagram David has done.

40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes

Sourse:cinematical.com/

Dogging and Voyeurism

I love the work of Japanese documentary photographers. I was excited to discover the work of Kohei Yoshiyuki over a year ago when the New York Times published an article about a series of photographs called "the Park" The art of surveillance has been growing in popularity.
Today found this article in Trend Hunter about Steven Meisel's  racy fashion editorial shoot for V Magazine.
There is a big difference, there is no nudity in Yoshiyuki's work.  His work taken in parks in Japan in the 70's. Kohei's work talks about the act of voyeurism and makes us self aware that we are taking part, Steven Meisel's work is voyeuristic.  

Arguments

Found on Top Ten Website. Top 10 Arguments That Can’t Be Won I particularly like this one because it is the time approaching the festive period where every activity can lead to a dilemma or argument. Do I buy into the bullshit, or tell my son Father Christmas does not exist. Do I invite my parents around, or tell them that God does not exist.