Ethan Goldhammer - In the pocket

In the Pocket (Rhodes and Moog Light Paint) from Ethan Goldhammer on Vimeo.

What can I say? Ethan Goldhammer has really nailed it with this one. Rhodes, Moog and light paint - there's your recipe for one hell of a music video.

Dokum FTW!

In the summer of 2008, my friend Tobias had an idea: Let's go out on a weekend night, with a camera, a tripod and a microphone, interview a couple of people about their night and then, all of sudden, ask them some enormously complicated philosophical question. This was the birth of Dokum. Since that hot summer night, we've made three more episodes, inerviewing random people on the streets of Stockholm about more or less philosophical stuff.

Check it out! (All the interviews are in swedish)

It's fun to annoy people.

Daniel Dennett in Oslo

Dennett in Oslo (w/ english subtitles) from Speldosa on Vimeo.


Last Ocotber, Daniel Dennett visited Oslo and while I'm no big fan of him, I still had to go to see it. With me I brought my camera and my over enthusiastic friend Fredrik, who traveled to Oslo primarily to see Dennett and secondary to see me.

Chemistry lesson

I find this video surprisingly good. Yes, it's humorous and funny to watch (I guess the latter really is a consequence of the former) but it also says something about education in general. Often, people seem to think that in order to be serious about something, one also has to be serious about it.

Talk

Talk from Brett Russell Dougherty on Vimeo.


This here is really a pretty ordinary video, but still it isn´t. I found it on Vimeo when I just browsed around for some intresting content, and intresting it was (Ok, I´m starting to sound like Yoda here).

It´s really just a simple portrait of something we probably do to litte. Talk. And I don´t mean idle talk among our friends. We´re perfectly fine at doing that. No, I rather meen talking to strangers. People we don´t normaly communicate with in our own neighborhood, on the bus, at the store, in the park or whereever you go during the day. We´re meeting more people during a single day then most people did during a whole year a hundred years ago, but still I can´t shake the feeling that we´re becoming more and more isolated from eachother. Sure, most of us probably have big circle of acquaintences but what about all the other outside of our realm of familiar faces? One could argue that you can let those people mind there own buisniess, which is partially true, but we´re still working on a common project - forming an society together with them - which meens we can´t ignore them all together.

All this is of course very utopic when applied to the population as a whole. It would be really great if everybody had this mindset I´m talking about, but unfortunately that´s not the case, and frankly I don´t think it will be either. However, from a pure subjective point of view, I don´t think that that´s relevant to the behaviour of the single individual. You can gain a lot just by making this your own reality, no mather what other people are doing.

Well, anyway. This video made me feel good.

Mark lives in IKEA

I saw this guy on the news this morning and it made my day. Or at least my morning. Well, the first ten minutes of it anyway. You see, I descided not to go to sleep this night in an desperate atempt to sync up my diurnal rythm to the rest of the world now when the school starts up again after the holidays. With that said, nothing really stays in my head for more then a couple of minutes today. Anyway, that's not the point. The point is...I forgot. No, got it. The point is that I thought this was hysterical. Or...Well, let's pretend I thought it was hysterical. That sound better than moderatly funny and pretty clever.

Anyway. Mark is some kind of comedian/filmmaker/lunatic who obviously like to get everybodys atention. Apperantly he is famous for that he, and I cite right of his homepage here, "visited and consumed purchases at all 171 Starbucks locations in Manhattan in one day". Well, since I'm not New York based I haven't really heard about him before, but when he commits to his next rather bizarre project, living at IKEA for a week, he's bound to get some atention here in Sweden. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about doing this myself. Who hasn't?

Randy Pausch

I stumbled upon this video when it came out about half a year ago and it fascinated me. It's the last lecture of Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon. The reason it's his last is that he's going to die from pancreatic cancer in the very near future. So, what he tries to do is to sum up his life and at the same time pass something on. The theme of the lecture is "Achieving your childhood dreams", something Randy himself confidently states that he did.

I like this video. Allthough the serious circumstances, Randy is so optimistic you almost get suspicious. Kinda makes you think.

As far as I know, Randy is still alive, and you can follow his progress on his personal site.

Update: On the morning of July 25th, 2008, Randy passed away.