Friday, May 10, 2013

Top Classical Music


#1. Beethoven - Symphony No. 5: I (1808)



#2. Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (1880)



#3. Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Allegro (1787)



#4. Bach - Toccata And Fugue In D Minor (1707)



#5. Rossini - William Tell Overture (1829)



#6. Pachelbel - Canon In D (1694)



#7. Strauss - Blue Danube (1866)



#8. Orff - Carmina Burana: O Fortuna (1936)



#9. Strauss, R - Also Sprach Zarathustra (1896)

 

#10. Offenbach - Orpheus In The Underworld: Infernal Galop (1858)



#11. Handel - Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus (1741)



#12. Bizet - Carmen: Les Toreadors (1845)



#13. Khachaturian - Gayane: Sabre Dance (1942)



#14. Beethoven - Symphony No. 9: Ode To Joy (1824)



#15. Elgar - Pomp And Circumstance March No. 1 (1901)



#16. Grieg - Peer Gynt: In The Hall Of The Mountain King (1875)



#17. Ponchielli - La Gioconda: Dance Of The Hours (1876)



#18. Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (1847)



#19. Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream: Wedding March (1842)



#20. Rimsky-Korsakov - Tale Of Tsar Saltan: Flight Of The Bumblebee (1900)



#21. Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue (1783)



#22. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (1801)



#23. Ravel - Bolero (1928)



#24. Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker: Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy (1892)



#25. Rosas - Over The Waves (1884)



#26. Bach - Air On The G String (1723)



#27. Mozart - Magic Flute: Queen Of The Night (1791)



#28. Beethoven - Für Elise (1810)



#29. Fucik - Entry Of The Gladiators (1897)



#30. Delibes - Lakmé: Flower Duet (1882)



#31. Dukas - Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897)



#32. Copland - Rodeo: Hoedown (1942)



#33. Wagner - Die Walküre: Ride Of The Valkyries (1856)



#34. Bach - Cantata 147: Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (1723)



#35. Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker: Waltz Of The Flowers (1892)

Friday, April 12, 2013

Time


Thursday, March 28, 2013

Filmography photos

Filmography Photo Project











Wednesday, March 27, 2013

3-D printing

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Friday, March 15, 2013

Test For Creativity


1. Alternative Uses
Developed by J.P. Guilford in 1967, the Alternative Uses Test stretches your creativity by giving you two minutes to think of as many uses as possible for an everyday object like a chair, coffee mug, or brick. Here’s a sample brainstorm for “paper clip” uses:
·         Hold papers together
·         Cufflinks
·         Earrings
·         Imitation mini-trombone
·         Thing you use to push that emergency restart button on your router
·         Keeping headphones from getting tangled up
·         Bookmark
The test measures divergent thinking across four sub-categories:
·         Fluency - how many uses you can come up with
·         Originality – how uncommon those uses are (e.g. “router restarter” is more uncommon than “holding papers together”)
·         Flexibility – how many areas your answers cover (e.g. cufflinks and earrings are both accessories, aka one area)
·         Elaboration – level of detail in responses; “keeping headphones from getting tangled up” would be worth more than “bookmark”
Try it yourself:
How many uses can you think of for a spoon? You have two minutes…


2. Incomplete Figure

Developed in the ’60s by psychologist Ellis Paul Torrance, the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) sought to identify a creativity-oriented alternative to IQ testing. One of the most iconic elements of the TTCT was the Incomplete Figure test, a drawing challenge that’s like a game of exquisite corpse.
You’re given a shapes like the below, and then asked to complete the image.
 Try it yourself:




A couple more templates for the development of imagination and creativity, as well as honing skills of the artist. The inscription on the transfer form "Come on, Doris." American illustrator David Dzheblou made ​​of this elementary exercise personal art project .









 Try it yourself:



3. Riddles

“A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. What is it?” asks Bilbo Baggins in Tolkein’s The Hobbit. Riddles pose a question to which initially there seems to be no answer until, suddenly, the answer arrives in a flash of insight: “Aha! It’s an egg!”
Psychologists use riddles to measure creative problem solving potential, orconvergent thinking. Unlike the Alternative Uses Test, the goal here is to arrive at a single correct answer (rather than as many answers as possible).
Try it yourself: see here

4. Remote Associates

The Remote Associates Test takes three unrelated words, such as “Falling – Actor – Dust,” and asks you to come up with a fourth word that connects all three words. In this case, the answer is “star,” as in “falling star,” “movie star” and “stardust.”
You won’t have much luck solving this type of problem by methodically going through all the compound words and synonyms for ‘falling’ ‘actor’ and ‘dust’ and comparing them to each other. As with riddles, the solutions typically arise as a flash of insight. 
Try it yourself:
Time – Hair – Stretch
Manners – Round – Tennis
Ache – Hunter – Cabbage
(in order): Long, Table, Head.

5. The Candle Problem

The Candle Problem is a classic test of creative problem solving developed by psychologist Karl Duncker in 1945. Subjects are given a candle, a box of thumbtacks, and a book of matches, and asked to affix the lit candle to the wall so that it will not drip wax onto the table below.The test challenges functional fixedness, a cognitive bias that makes it difficult to use familiar objects in abnormal ways. 



The solution is to empty the box of thumbtacks, put the candle into the box, use the thumbtacks to nail the box (with the candle in it) to the wall, and light the candle with the match.





Friday, March 8, 2013

Arepo Simulation of Galaxy Formation



Ben Gazzara Performs Charles Bukowski’s Poem

Ben Gazzara performs Charles Bukowski’s poem “Style,” from Marco Ferreri’s film Tales of Ordinary Madness:

Style is the answer to everything
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous 
thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable
to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style, is what
I call art
Bullfighting can be an art
Boxing can be an art
Loving can be an art
Opening a can of sardines can be an art
Not many have style
Not many can keep style
I have seen dogs with more style than men
Although not many dogs have style
Cats have it with abundance
When Hemingway put his brains
to the wall with a shotgun, that was style
For sometimes people give you style
Joan of Arc had style
John the Baptist
Christ
Socrates
Caesar
García Lorca
I have met men in jail with style
I have met more men in jail with style
than men out of jail
Style is a difference, a way of doing,
a way of being done
Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,
or you, walking out of the bathroom naked without seeing me

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Google Employee Creates ‘memorable’ Googleplex Rap Video




Google likes to let us all know that it is a fun place to work. The company, and its employees, do it all the time. There is even a company policy which states that its employees only have to work 80% of the time, and can spend the rest of the 20% doing whatever they want. Well, we hope this rap by Google employee Andrew Fink is what they do with that 20% of free time over there, because it is both the best and worst thing we have seen (and heard) in a long while.
Andrew Fink works out of the New York City Google office, and we guess this is how the employees spend their time. It’d be amusing if this rap was part of their 80% and not their 20%, and that this kind of thing is officially sanctioned work integral to the Google business model, but that’s unfortunately probably not the case.
Perhaps the most amusing part of the song is that it takes a cue from actual current popular raptrends. Namely, some traits of cloud rap — such as the deep voice synthesizer, and the slow, trippy background music. Granted, there weren’t any lyrics involving various types of “drank,” but there was this guy dressed up as Popeye, so that makes up for most things. The Android mascot also got down and funky.
Source: Geek-CeteraNews

Google's Vint Cerf explains why Facebook's real-name requirement is flawed




When he's not theorizing about chatting with aliens over the internet, computer science visionary Vint Cerf maintains a day job at Google as a vice president and the company's chief internet evangelist. The "father of the internet" was recently asked about Google's stance on real-name authentication, a system that requires users to publicly go by their proper name on the internet. Thus far Google has gently pushed users to display their real name on Google+ and the company's other services, but it hasn't backed away from traditional usernames / pseudonyms, either. Cerf thinks that's the right approach. "Using real names is useful, he said in a recent interview with Reuters. "But I don't think it should be forced on people, and I don't think we do." That's a slightly different strategy than the one Facebook has pursued; the world's leading social network has gone so far as to defend its real-name-only policy in court.
"Anonymity and pseudonymity are perfectly reasonable under some situations," Cerf said, citing oppressive, violent regimes like Syria as an example where real names could put individuals in jeopardy. Even so, Cef believes that authentication brings an inherent sense of trust to online communications. "What I'm looking for is not that we shut down anonymity, but rather that we offer an option when needed that can strongly authenticate who the parties are."
Source: Reuters, Yahoo news

Apple considered calling iPhone the ‘Telepod’, ‘Mobi’, ‘iPad’, or ‘Tripod’, former Apple ad man reveals

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At an event at the University of Arizona’s Department of Marketing, former Apple advertising lead Ken Segall has shared some additional details into the naming behind Apple’s massively popular smartphone. While Apple ended up calling its industry-changing smartphone the “iPhone,” Apple considered a few other names.

Our own Scott Buscemi was on the ground at the event, and he has shared the details for this article. In addition to iPhone, Apple considered “Telepod,” “Mobi,” “Tripod,” and “iPad.” More details below:


“Telepod:” According to Segall, Apple considered calling the device “Telepod” because it sounded like a futuristic twist to the word “telephone.” The “pod” part of the name also makes sense in context of Apple’s then-extraordinarily-popular iPod line of music players. Perhaps this name would have made more sense if Tony Fadell’s “iPod-phone” project beat out Scott Forstall’s OSX/iOS work.
“Mobi“: According to Segall, this potential name is a play on the word “mobile.” The shortened version of “Mobile” seems to be a creative name with a personality.


“Tripod:” While this name did not win out, it did make a big impact on Apple’s original presentation and marketing for the iPhone. “Tripod” stems from the iPhone being a combination phone + iPod + internet communications device. Indeed, Apple heavily marketed the original iPhone as such. As we know today, with the App Store and other new Apple apps, the iPhone platform is so much more than just a phone, internet communicator, and media player.
“iPad:” While the iPad ended up being the name for Apple’s tablet computer, that name was also under consideration for the smartphone. As the iPhone has much of the same functionality as the iPad that we know today, that name may have been sensible. This name also makes sense in terms of Apple’s iOS device development process: Steve Jobs previously revealed that Apple worked on the tablet before the phone, but ended up prioritizing the iPhone in its long-term product roadmap.

When the iPhone first launched, its name was a bit controversial because Cisco owned the “IPHONE” trademark for its IP-based phone system. The two companies ended up striking a deal for both to use the name. As seen in Apple’s iPhone enterprise software support, Apple and Cisco ended up partnering up on projects as part of its “iPhone” name deal.

Source: www.9to5mac.com