Thought In Process – The blog of Gabriel Rinaldi
The blog of Gabriel Rinaldi, a fool’s heart (not mind) in processArchive for March, 2008
Blackooogle
For those who wish to do something about the environment/energy crisis, here’s a very simple solution that won’t take any time, effort or money from you. You just use this version of Google for searching (http://www.blackooogle.com/us/).
Monitors displaying predominantly black colours use around 20% less energy than those displaying a predominantly white screen. By using this special black search page instead of the default white service, you will be saving energy and doing your bit for the environment every time you search the internet. |
Ed Burtynsky – Manufactured Landscapes
I don’t know if you guys already know about him or his work, but I thought it would be great to share this video, when he won the Ted Prize 2005. His work is a document of humanity’s impact on the world. It’s a great lecture on sustainability and compassion. Check it out.
Photoshop Disasters
Check this website out (http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/). It’s a blog on the failures of digital postproduction. There you’ll see current commercial pieces (print ads, magazines, catalogues, etc) where retouching flaws can be seeing. It’s amazing how much artificiality has been brought up into the conventional wisdom of what our reality shows. It’s getting harder and harder to convince people of truthfulness and true representation of products when obviously “perfect is better than honest”.
The Sad Truth About The Typical American Relationship
Here’s an ironic masterpiece on relationships. Please don’t be this way.
Photo Shoot
Yesterday I photographed the founder and CEO of JetBlue, David Neeleman, for the cover of the brazilian magazine Época Negócios. He’s a really cool guy to meet. He was born in Brazil but lived most of his live in the US. Despite the heavy accent, he has this great combination of humility and ADD. He was clever when starting the company, he decided to start a company of customer service rather than an airline transportation service.
Stuff White People Like
Take a look at this blog. It’s hilarious. It’s all about the little cultural intricacies of white people from a very sarcastic point of view. Check it here (http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/).
The Rasterbator
I know it sounds quite sexual, but this is actually a very interesting upscaling/pixelating image process. What it does is to take a small image and turn it into billboard sized images ready to be printed from multiple letter size paper (or other paper sizes) ready to assemble. It deliberately looks “pixelated”, or rasterized in more proper words. You go to their website (http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/), upload your image (under 1mb), choose some options and in a few minutes you have a print-ready file pdf. Take a look in their sample gallery to see what people have done. It’s pretty cool.
Ryan McGinley’s video for NYT Mag
This is a beautiful behind-the-scenes video done during Ryan McGinley’s photo shoot of Oscars nominees for New York Times Magazine.
TED
This is where I really started changing my perspective on everything from global issues, culture, technology, design, so forth. For those who I have mentioned about it, I’m sorry for talking about it again. For those who don’t know what TED (www.ted.com) is, take a look at this video and see for yourself the impact of it.
This is a lecture by Ken Robinson. He talks about the importance of creativity in today’s educational process.
TED is a conference held every year in Monterey, California. They gather incredibly gifted people from all over the world to talk about issues mentioned above. Besides the knowledge that you gather from them, the lesson I took from watching hundreds of these videos is this: passion. They are all extremely passionate about what they do, what they say. It seems to be one of the many traits of successful people. Not just for recognition, worthiness, financial returns, but because they love what they do. Passion is a motivational drive that not only makes you achieve your dreams, but to do it feeling damn happy.
To see more videos from TED, you can go to their website (www.ted.com), youtube (keyword tedtalks), you can download it for free as a podcast on iTunes so you can watch it on your iPod, iPhone or whatever. From time to time, I’ll be posting some videos that I find it incredible. Enjoy.
Uncle Dirty
What better way to start this blog then to show some images. This is truly what it means to tell a story with pictures. You cannot fully describe or understand Uncle Dirty if you had just read about him. Thanks Nina for the link. Click here to see the story, photographed by Mike Belleme
