You Tube’s Exponential Growth!
Now Serving The Latest In Exponential Growth: YouTube! by David J. Hill May 25th, 2012 YouTube is growing exponentially thanks in part to mobile access. It goes without saying that YouTube has become the quintessential online video source for amateurs and professionals alike, but on the service’s seven-year anniversary, Google made quite a startling announcement: 72 hours of video are uploaded every single minute. That’s three entire days worth of cat videos, webcam rants, conference proceedings, news interviews, and company marketing fodder that is quietly swelling hard drives that already...
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100 Ideas That Changed Film by Maria Popova How the seventh art went from magic lanterns to state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery in 100 years. When a small handful of enthusiasts gathered at the first cinema show at the Grand Cafe in Paris on December 27, 1895, to celebrate early experimental film, they didn’t know that over the next century, their fringe fascination would carve its place in history as the “seventh art.” But how, exactly, did that happen? In 100 Ideas that Changed Film, Oxford Times film reviewer David Parkinson and publisher Laurence King — who brought us 100 Ideas...
read moreWhy We’re Wired for Science & How Originality Differs in Science vs. Art
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why We’re Wired for Science & How Originality Differs in Science vs. Art by Maria Popova “Every child is a scientist.” Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson may well be the Richard Feynman of our day, a “Great Explainer” in his own right, having previously reflected on everything from the urgency of space exploration to the most humbling fact about the universe. In this short video, Tyson contributes a beautiful addition to this omnibus of notable definitions of science and explores subjects as diverse as the nature of originality and the future of artificial...
read more10 Producers Who Will Change Hollywood in 2012
From THE WRAP Even Brian Grazer started with a little movie called “Splash,” starring a then-unknown Tom Hanks. True, that was a Disney movie, but the days when new producers can align with major studios are long gone. Now, to get a project off the ground, it takes workaday jacks-of-all-trades who spend their days scrambling to find projects and the money to finance them. And even when they taste success, they’re still juggling. “When ‘Margin Call’ won an Independent Spirit Award — and I have it on my mantle at home — it felt pretty great,” Neal Dodson, a...
read moreGames Beyond Entertainment: Applying Positive Psychology to Games
GAMES BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT: APPLYING POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY TO GAMES by Dennis Scimeca As found in Gamasutra “Psychology has had a very strange vision of the human condition,” said Dr. Martin Seligman at this week’s Gamasutra-attended Games Beyond Entertainment conference in Boston. “It comes from Schopenhauer and then Freud, and says ‘The best we can do in life, our highest aspiration, should be not to suffer, not to be miserable.'” Seligman, professionally renowned director of Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, challenges...
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