Media is a tool that can program and reprogram the human bio-computer. Stories pattern the imagination. Language helps us think about our thinking. Cinema can open up new vistas for our minds.

I hope that this film is a healthy nudge for people to shake up their lives a little bit. Jed's radical choice to quit his job and ride his bike across the world is a perfect challenge to the rest of us to get out of the routine and make some scary decisions. If you're afraid of a decision ahead of you, you're probably on the right track. Choose it.

Fun little gimmick to use augmented reality.

Bored with those traditional 2015 Calendars that just sit there on your desk, staring you in the face like you forgot some aunt’s birthday and it’s your fault she moved to Cincinnati? We are too. So we made the 2015 AR Calendar. Every calendar month is designed and built by the fine folks here at We Are Royale. Each month has an augmented reality experience you can access with the app that extends the card with interactive bonuses. It won’t bring your aunt back from Cincinnati - but it will entertain you more than those calendars with those inspirational quotes on them.

http://weareroyale.com/arcalendar

How much time we have in jellybeans?

Sandwich has become the most sought-after producer of videos for tech companies large and small.

These guys do put out some awesome videos.

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music" -Nietzsche

Here my concept of how instagram would look with material design. Material design is the next step in Google's design evolution for Android. Also, some animations transitions may be too much but it just there to showcase what can be and to showcase separation of elements.

An interview with one of my favorite artists. It's amazing he's been doing his sketches Monday to Friday for so many years.

Every Monday through Friday for the past 7+ years Pascal Campion had published his "Sketch of the Day (SOTD)." Every SOTD is a story that Pascal tells with his amazing talent. Pascal has thousands of fans following his SOTD, but if you ask him, he'll tell you that they are not fans, they are all his friends. That is just the type of person he is. This video is a glimpse into his process and his insight. Watch as he translates emotion into art.

http://pascalcampion.com

In his work at the Google Creative Lab, Robert Wong never imagined he would be influencing the future of scientific development—and yet he does just that, breaking down the boundary between art and science by creating stories that inspire engineers and the technology they build.

http://www.futureofstorytelling.org

Awwwards is a great place to get inspiration from some of the best designed websites around the web. Anyone can submit a website and the community votes on the best one of the day/month. "Our mission is to discover, recognize and promote the talent and effort of web designers, developers and agencies who create unique digital experiences that are useful, innovative, intuitive and beautiful."

Just finished watching the Aaron Swartz Memorial at the Internet Archive, very moving talks http://t.co/geS4Ou6C #openaccess #inspiration

Ask yourself. What would you do with your life if money was no object? An amazing lecture from the late Alan Watts.

This is a followup to the Caine's Arcade short film. 5 months later, the film has inspired a wave of cardboard creativity, the Imagination Foundation to foster creativity in more kids, and a Cardboard Challenge culminating in a Global Day of Play on Oct 6th.

http://imagination.is/awesome

An inspirational video from quirky.com my buddy Nefaur tweeted about , their doing some pretty neat stuff over there.

This presentation from Bret Victor is by far the best conference talk I've heard in a long time. Bret invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore's book (Our Choice), and musical instruments at Alesis. Bret's talk is on principles, but for many developers what’s really awesome are the software development tools he demos.

This talk was given at the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference CUSEC 2012. For more on Bret, see worrydream.com.

A 9 year old boy - who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad's used auto part store - is about to have the best day of his life.

If you follow me online, you probably know charity:water is my favorite charity. I respect how transparent they are, how professional their videos and photos are, and the care they put into their campaigns. They've been a big inspiration in starting Given Tree (sign up here for more info).

Kevin Rose sits down with Scott Harrison, founder of the non-profit charity: water, which brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.

Another great video from Devin Graham. The song is called Pacific Coast Highway by Wentworth & Mordemere. Check out his other videos Huge Bike Jumps and iSoccer.

It took 6 different 1/2 days of filming tarp surfing with riders, 1 evening/sunset for intro, 3 full days of filming surfers/waves, 2 days filming people just having fun/dancing, and 120 hours of editing. The entire video was shot on the Canon 5D Mark II, except for one slow motion shot with a Canon T2i, and a glidecam HD-4000.

Film made by Devin Graham. All the filming was done on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii. His friend Carolyn is the soccer player in the film, she's the head soccer coach at BYU Hawaii. Shot on the Canon 5D Mark II, a GoPro HD, and the shots were the camera looks like it's flying were done with a Glidecam HD-4000. Stephen Anderson wrote the score, the song is called "Nearer". Check out another great video from David, Huge Bike Jumps.

IBM, we've all heard the name, we know they are a massive computer company, many of us grew up with an IBM computer in our household, but how have they been around so long? Innovation. The following film features 100 people, who each present the IBM achievement recorded in the year they were born. It offering a whirlwind history of the company. Makes me proud to have worked at IBM. Check out the other great IBM Centennial Film: They Were There as well.