Sean Toohey

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:

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.

A sweet, free full length Surf Movie from Quicksilver:

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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 .

A Great video, from 3D artist Nigel Upchurch , with a Simple message to lower our carbon footprint by turning off office computers at night. Source: http://vimeo.com/15866184

The CellScope is very cool use of techonoly to help Doctors diagnose disease in remote areas using a cell phone camera and a portable microscope. University of California, Berkley, Professor Daniel Fletcher and his team had an idea that now helps to save lives. They took a microscope, a Nokia N95, and put them together. They call it the CellScope. A super-portable microscope imaging device, perfect for diagnosing diseases in remote areas in developing world countries. Images of cell samples can be captured then sent by MMS anywhere in the world for instant analysis. Brilliant. Also to showcase their Cellescop, the 'World's Smallest Stopmotion Animation Character' film shot using a Nokia N8 and CellScope technology:

This blog has always been about technology and media, but every now and then I watch a beautiful paragliding video and I want to share one of my other great passions. Thanks to my friend in flight, Jonathan Wreglesworth for sharing this with me. Enjoy, Verige - un univers du roche et de glace (Vertigo - a world of rock and ice) by Stéphane Boulenger Stéphane shot this while flying over the Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m) a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps.

Last night I watched a documentary on soviet era photography and today I found this cool example of HDR Video using 2 digital SLR cameras from Soviet Montage Productions. HDR Video Demonstration Using Two Canon 5D mark II's from Soviet Montage This video highlights several clips we've made using our new High Dynamic Range (HDR) process. Video is captured on two Canon 5D mark II DSLRs, each capturing the exact same subject via a beam splitter. The cameras are configured so that they record different exposure values, e.g., one camera is overexposed, the other underexposed. After the footage has been recorded, we use a variety of HDR processing tools to combine the video from the two cameras, yielding the clips you see above. HDR Video provides filmmakers with many exciting new opportunities. Not only can HDR video create interesting effects, it can also allow for even exposure where artificial lighting is unavailable or impractical. For example, when a subject i...

I've had an iPhone for almost a year now but I'm not a fan of paying for Apps, and I have only ever purchased one for Geocaching . But today I found that fellow Augmented reality proponent, James Alliban ,  has released a very cool and clever app for the iphone called Fracture . Fracture allows you to paint cubist style portraits using your own photos. Aesthetics employed by abstract masters such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque have been studied and recreated in this fun creative app. Simply use your camera or search your image gallery for 1 or more photos, adjust the settings to your specification and you are ready to start painting So if you a fan of Cubist paintings or just like to mess with photos on your phone, go out and grab a copy of Fracture on iTunes .

I first started creating digital artwork back in the mid 80s on my IBM PCjr in amazing 16 colours. In the 90s I switched to using Director and then Flash 3+ to create various pieces that I have long lost to the digital scrapheap. Last week at Gnomedex 10 in Seattle I watched artist/programmer/DJ & Googlite Scott Draves present 2 decades of open source artwork, and i wished I could recover some of my lost art.. but at the same time my work could never compare to the amazing and complex work Scott produces like the Darwinian AI Screen-saver Electric Sheep . Watch the video from gnomedex,  and ask yourself if androids dream of electric sheep. Here are my live tweets from the presentation: *10 @ spot #gnomedex 12:04 PM Aug 21st   Did he just Say 1 hr per frame to render!!! @ spot #gnomedex 12:03 PM Aug 21st @ paulbalcerak No explanation needed, just let it wash over you. 1...

Brain Solis gave the Keynote at Gnomedex 2010, he spoke about our role in building social media web. Brain was very engaging and i did very little live tweeting, here are some of his quotes: "Anyone who says they are social media expert, is fucking lying to you" - @ briansolis #gnomodex 9:36 AM Aug 20th via TweetDeck Chicks rule the Social web - @ briansolis #gnomodex 9:33 AM Aug 20th via TweetDeck #gnomedex http://twitpic.com/2gif56 9:31 AM Aug 20th via Twitpic RT @ ethernick : "Four degrees is the new six degrees of separation" (via @ briansolis ) #gnomedex 9:27 AM Aug 20th via TweetDeck RT @ thinkmaya : Everyone has a private life, public life and a secret life. Which one do you want to sh...