Posts Tagged: fast company
What a World
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What If You Saw A Rhino Hanging Upside On A Rope From Helicopter?

| November 10th, 2011

"These photos and video are from the latest rhino move, where 19 of the creatures were taken by WWF, Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency, SANParks, and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife on a 1,000 mile journey across South Africa to reside in a new location in the Limpopo province. They're the latest of 120 rhinos to be relocated by the WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project in South Africa." —They drug the rhinos, tape their mouths closed, tie their ankles together and then hang these 3,000-pound creatures upside down from a flying helicopter. It's like a Roald Dahl book meets a Beastie Boys video or something. And terribly important—as [...]

Culture and TV
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Stop, Hey, What's That Sound? And Why Do I Feel A Sudden Urge To Buy Something?

| February 22nd, 2010

Interesting if slightly creepy article at Fast Company about "addictive sounds." Author and "neuromarketing" consultant Martin Lindstrom's collaborated with Elias Sound productions on a study that "wired up 50 volunteers and measured their galvanic, pupil and brainwave responses to sounds using the latest neuroscience-based research methods."

Things to Watch
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Have You Seen The Video Of All The Old TV Stars Lip-Syncing "Let It Be?"

| December 6th, 2010

You have? Then how about this one, made by the same Norwegian pop-culture nostalgia show, Gylne Tider ("Golden Times") a couple years ago, focussing more on one-hit-wonderish musical stars, and using "We Are The World?"

What a World
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Oh Ooh Oh, Oh Your City Lies In Dust

| February 11th, 2010

"Dirty flags advertise rock-bottom discounts on empty starter mansions. On the ground, foreclosure signs are tagged with gang graffiti. Empty lots are untended, cratered with mud puddles from the winter storms that have hammered California's San Joaquin Valley." That's the Times' Timothy Egan reporting from the town of Lathrop, where median home prices have fallen from $500,000 to $150,000.

The ruins of past civilizations come to mind, like Pompeii or something from the Amazon.

Opinion
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TED: Just Admit It

| August 12th, 2010

The September issue of Fast Company contains a breathless look at TED and the viral-video nature of clips featuring its flagship conference's 18-minute lectures — known as TED Talks — by Anya Kamenetz. I spent a good part of this afternoon trying to figure out why this piece, which calls the network of conferences and videos "the new Harvard" in its URL but curiously backs off that claim in its actual headline, got my outrage-o-meter popping. Let's find out!

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Public Art: These Days, the Bigger the Better. And the Shinier.

| September 24th, 2009

Fast Company has a nice-to-look-at and informative "trend watch" photo essay about large-scale installation art. I like Anish Kapoor's tower of shiny metal balls at London's Royal Academy of Arts best. (I love his famous shiny metal bean in Chicago.)