Via funnyordie:
Judd Apatow PSA
Jerry Seinfeld, Lindsay Lohan, Ben Stiller, Tracy Morgan and many more stars band together for AJWS.org.
Critic’s Notebook - ‘Sunflower Seeds’ by Ai Weiwei Hits a Snag at Tate Modern - NYTimes.com
Weiwei’s installation of 100 million hand-painted porcelain “sunflower seeds” would have been cool to walk on/experience before Tate officials made it off limits. On view at the Tate Modern until May 2, 2011. Details here.
Via utnereader:
“What we know is so vastly outstripped by what we don’t know.”- David Eagleman, PopTech 2010
Neuroscientist and best-selling author David Eagleman introduces the concept of Possibilianism, a new philosophy that simultaneously embraces a scientific toolbox while exploring new, unconsidered uncertainties about the world around us.
We’re always looking for emerging ideas, and this is the most emergent of the day.
Source: http://vimeo.com/16177455
Via austinkleon:
Benjamin Zander’s TED Talk: Classical music with shining eyesProbably a lot of you know the story of the two salesmen who went down to Africa in the 1900s. They were sent down to find if there was any opportunity for selling shoes. And they wrote telegrams back to Manchester. And one of them wrote: “Situation hopeless. Stop. They don’t wear shoes.” And the other one wrote: “Glorious opportunity. They don’t have any shoes yet.” Now, there’s a similar situation in the classical music world…Love this quote about playing piano, too:
“The trouble with you is you’re a two-buttock player. You should be a one-buttock player.”Really excellent. Watch it!
This presentation, which was made/recorded more than two years ago, should be on the must-watch lists of art organizations’ staff and board members.
Tubeless toilet paper — America’s next great product?
The 17 billion toilet paper tubes produced annually in the USA account for 160 million pounds of trash, according to Kimberly-Clark estimates, and could stretch more than a million miles placed end-to-end. That’s from here to the moon and back — twice. Most consumers toss, rather than recycle, used tubes, says Doug Daniels, brand manager at Kimberly-Clark. “We found a way to bring innovation to a category as mature as bath tissue,” he says. (Full story: Kimberly-Clark rolls out tube-free Scott toilet paper - USATODAY.com)
(spotted on Twitter, via Pauline Hammerbeck @pHammerbeck and Bruce Horovitz @brucehorovitz)
Meanwhile: What do some folks do with those ubiquitous tubes? Unconsumptioneers found a couple of examples.
Intriguing…