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Hi I'm Brad Maier. I'm 25. I live in Chicago. I run Uncharted Ventures. I'm also co-organizer of Jelly Chicago. In past lives I’ve spent a bit of time as community manager for thepoint.com and I helped to create a pretty cool non-profit called Sails For Sustenance which is also worth a look. Twitter, Flickr, or LinkedIn. |
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Mark Twain in the lab of Nikola Tesla, spring of 1894.
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“British artist Stephen Wiltshire is currently attempting to draw the Manhattan skyline from memory. since Monday October 26th. Wiltshire began filling in an 18 foot canvas at the Pratt institute, Brooklyn. The drawing is expected to be complete by Friday. You can follow his progress through the live webcam here.
Wiltshire diagnosed with autism at the age of three displays an unusually powerful
photographic memory that he has applied to rendering city scapes. He can look at the subject of his drawing once and reproduce it accurately with photographic detail, down to the exact number of columns or windows on a building. He memorizes their shapes, locations and the architecture.” - Design Boom (via scottnot, quelowat, gregenemy, theamazon, & maybeitsallok, amyyy:peterwknox:)Yes, he is incredible! If you get the chance, you can also come by and see him working at the Pratt Campus, Juliana Curran Terian Design Center from 10-5pm all week!
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Jonze had never written a movie script before, but to him this seemed no impediment. “I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really,” he reasons.
“Those are the situations that I find the most exciting. It’s most fun just to decide, ‘Okay, I’m going to choreograph this. I’ve never choreographed before, I’ve never really danced before, but I know what kind of dancing I like, so I’ll do that.’ ”
It seems to him that such resolutions are less leaps of grandiose self-confidence than a way to reprise the unworried and unfettered creativity of childhood. “Like, if you were going to make a fort in your backyard,” he says, “you’re not going to go, like, hire someone to make your fort or go buy plans. You’re just going to have an idea for it and go make your fort.”
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"I sometimes meet people who say, I’m going to be this and I’m going to be that. You feel kind of bad for them because they’re limiting themselves. It’s different from having an enthusiasm for something and seeing where life takes you. I feel lucky to never have planned to go into what I did. I always just said, “All I want to do is make things, whether it’s drawing or writing.” If I’d said, “I’m going to be a director,” it probably wouldn’t have happened."
Tim Burton
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Mythical Creatures: intersection of species
via thegooglymoogly, via Gawker
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Mysterious Tubular Clouds Defy Explanation | Wired Science | Wired.com
Seeing these is on my to do list
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Peter Cooper built the first train, installed the first telegraph cable across an ocean, ran for President, founded and endowed a free world class university, brought peace between Native Americans and western states, and invented Jell-O.
What’s your excuse?
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![Permanent Camping in Australia
With a footprint of only 3 square meters [just over 30 square feet] this 2 story copper clad building is set in the middle of sheep station in central NSW. Brilliantly, the cladding of the building on the ground level opens up to reveal glass windows with panoramic views for hundreds of kilometers.](http://5.media.tumblr.com/cSDAz06HVr31nga7TRi6A9Zro1_500.jpg)
Permanent Camping in Australia
With a footprint of only 3 square meters [just over 30 square feet] this 2 story copper clad building is set in the middle of sheep station in central NSW. Brilliantly, the cladding of the building on the ground level opens up to reveal glass windows with panoramic views for hundreds of kilometers.
