Sean Toohey

A beautiful shot film that follows a young family as the travel in a 1971 VW camper van from California to Nevada and Utah and back to California via Arizona. Along the way they payed a visit to many of the beautiful State and National Parks like Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Valley of Fire, Bryce, Zion and the Grand Canyon.

Twenty Eight Feet: life on a little wooden boat from kevinAfraser on Vimeo . A beautiful short documentary about David Welsford, who has given up the luxuries of land in search for happiness and adventure on a 50 year old wooden boat he restored from a scrap heap.

It's been too long since I've been paragliding, and I'm missing it. Here is another great video from Jean-Baptiste Chandelier, enjoy:

I love old cameras, and used to collect them. Here is a great infographic from Visually on the History of Photographic Cameras. Source: http://visual.ly/short-history-photographic-camera

It has been fifteen years since I first read his book, and a year after his passing, but I still find inspiration in the work of Hillman Curtis. Hillman's pioneering work in Flash, was always a touchstone for me in my early career, and I still reference his books today, even though I rarely work in the medium. His books and his legacy will always be remembered. Hillman was a strong advocate of re-inventing ones self, and in his own career(s), he moved from playing music to graphic design to web design to flash and motion design and finally to filmmaking. I hope you find inspiration in his work as I do:

A cool film from IBM on making the World's Smallest Movie:  A Boy And His Atom Filmmaking at the atomic level is an novel idea, and I think the story behind the film is more interesting than the film itself.  Enjoy:

Internal Hack Days are great, not only for fostering ideas and developing new projects, but they are an excellent way to build an enrgised cohiesive team. I love the culture Shopify is building and the transparent nature of sharing by posting this video to YouTube.

Great message on the power of Gardening in the urban landscape. "If you aint a gardener, you aint gangster" Thanks Shawn O , for sharing this.

Audi taks a page from the show Top Gear in their latest viral video of two duelling RS 4 Avants shooting each other with paintballs. Who doesn't want an Audi with a 50 cal paintball gun mounted on the front? ~ Enjoy

'Connecting" is a great film from Bassett & Partners on of the future of Interaction Design and User Experience, Enjoy: The 18 minute "Connecting" documentary is an exploration of the future of Interaction Design and User Experience from some of the industry's thought leaders. As the role of software is catapulting forward, Interaction Design is seen to be not only increasing in importance dramatically, but also expected to play a leading role in shaping the coming "Internet of things." Ultimately, when the digital and physical worlds become one, humans along with technology are potentially on the path to becoming a "super organism" capable of influencing and enabling a broad spectrum of new behaviors in the world.

Today the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced that Internet advertising revenues set a new record of $8.4 billion in the first three months of 2012. “More online consumers than ever are taking to the internet to inform and navigate their daily lives—by desktop, tablet or smartphone,” said Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO, IAB. “Marketers and agencies are clearly–and wisely–investing dollars to reach digitally connected consumers.” “Digital media captures consumers’ imaginations, and marketers increasingly turn to interactive advertising to successfully speak to their customers,” said Sherrill Mane, Senior Vice President, Research, Analytics & Measurement, IAB. “The year-over-year growth between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012 sets quite a milestone,” said David Silverman, Partner, PwC U.S. “Moreover, a 15 percent increase over the comparable period in 2011 is a solid affirmation the internet is delivering on its promise to attract consumers and the advertising dollars t...

Revolutions and Citizen Journalism powered by the rise by Technology and the iPhone. Source: http://frugaldad.com :

A 4 min video from Google that explains some of the process behind Search and updates to their algorithm. Read the full post here: Official Google Blog: Another look under the hood of search

A sweet, free full length Surf Movie from Quicksilver:

‪RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us‬‏

This summer I've takes some time away from blogging to get outside and enjoy myself. I tell everyone that will listen, to stop working, disconnect and just travel. This is a great short film that embodies that spirt. ~ Enjoy MOVE by Rick Mereki .

Intel combines Facebook, Vanity and mood music to produce one of the best interactive online Ads I’ve seen this year. Using Facebook Open Graph to pull your data into a Flash movie that creates a Virtual Museum Tour of your online presence: It is both very cool and very creepy how much Facebook data is open to   3 rd party developers with a couple clicks of the mouse. Check it out here: http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm