Design, Interaction, Stories

Hitchens in fine form. Recorded at Hart House Debating Club, University of Toronto in 2006.

Watch Part 1 and Part 2.

Years ahead. (via)

The solitary struggle with problem-solving, depicted with wry comedy. Written and directed by Steve Simmons.

(via Silent London)

First episode of a new three-part documentary about creative programming languages.

(via Hello World!)

Music fans can listen to Laura Marling’s fourth album, Once I Was An Eagle, ahead of its release next Monday.

For a limited time, all 16 tracks are being streamed for free. Head on over to Guardian Music or listen here using the SoundCloud widget. The recent single ‘Once’, below, is a taster.

‘Once I Was An Eagle’ is out 27 May in the UK (Amazon) and 28 May in the US (iTunes).

Jay Silver, exuberant inventor, entertains the TED Salon audience with ketchup, pizza, bananas and other seemingly absurd but infinitely fun computer interfaces and game controllers.

(via TED)

In a nutshell:

We succeed, and then we get stuck.

‘The Plateau Effect: Getting from Stuck to Success’ (Amazon, Foyles) is an intriguing look at why people in all kinds of pursuits will succeed to a point and then be unable to improve. Book co-author Bob Sullivan explains.

Illustrator and editorial designer Francesco Muzzi’s flowing composition lends the above twenty-second advert for Italy’s leading financial newspaper, Il Sole 24 Ore, a playful ingenuity.

(via Francesco Franchi)

Excerpt from Mick Gold’s Europe After The Rain, 1978, Arts Council of Great Britain — an in-depth, if somewhat curious documentary of the work of the leading exponents of Dada and Surrealism.

See for yourself here.

Cassandra Brooks, a marine scientist currently blogging from the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer in Antarctica’s Ross Sea, condenses her incredible two-month experience into five mesmerising minutes.

(via Creative Applications Network)

Introduction to the activities of agit-art movement Situationist International.

Watch Part I (above), Part II and Part III.