“This is not just about a park!
This is about freedom
This is about the abuse of state power
This is about media being censored
This is about minorities not being protected
This is about all that we had for years as citizens
This is about all the lies from the government “in the name of democracy”
This is about the wish to end the dictatorship of Tayyip
This is about being heard
This is about being alive!”» View from the Ataturk Cultural Center rooftop on Sunday.
voa occupygezipics
Milton Friedman interrupted by left-wing activist at the Nobel prize ceremony (by mathriok)
On 26 March the citizens of Bogotá (Colombia) will take over the public spaces, creating 100 temporary urban actions. It’s a spontaneous initiative born to enable change and participation and to make people aware of their role within the city government. Join in.
I, Pencil – lovely little film about how everything is connected. Because, as Charles Eames famously noted, “Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects… the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
The future belongs to the few of us still willing to get our hands dirty.
Interactive dirt poster poster by Roland Tiangco.
Found on Designinspiration
“We are all designers.” Journalist John Hockenberry tells a personal story of how a pair of flashy wheels in a wheelchair-parts catalogue showed him the value of designing a life of intent.
TED Talk of the Day: A young entrepreneur named Colin Robertson attempts to deliver a three-minute TED talk about crowdsourcing solar energy solutions when his presentation is suddenly halted by every TED speaker’s worst nightmare: The infamous “spinning beach ball of death.”
Considering Robertson is really Eugene Cordero, an ImprovEverywhere agent who isn’t so much a young entrepreneur as a merry prankster, the “nightmare” doesn’t quite end there.
[ted / thanks charlie!]
