[nonostantement #224] - windshield wiper / everything everywhere / accessible social
Now with MORE horses of Iceland!
Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with special, exhilarating, and sacrilegious stuff found all over the Internet.
Hello there, I'm Joele and this is the Sunday email where I put everything interesting I found around during the week. You don’t like it? So sue me! You do like it? Forward it to your friends!
Soundtrack? Stefano Bollani - Eravamo Un Manipolo Di Eroi (Live Casa Del Jazz 2006), Nightmares on wax - Damn and Portishead - Requiem For Anna (Un Jour Comme Un Autre - Anna)
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The NASA logo is having a moment
It’s the rare fashion emblem you can find everywhere. Walmart and Target offer T-shirts, swimsuits, sippy cups and ugly Christmas sweaters covered with it. Coach put it on bags, shoes and sweatshirts priced at hundreds of dollars apiece.[Video] - The Special Effects of Karel Zeman: Movie Making Animation
Karel Zeman is a Czech animator who moved from poster design to filmmaking in the mid-forties. In his work he has frequently combined live action, models, puppets and almost every kind of animation imaginable, blending them in most imaginative ways to create a world that is uniquely his own.[Video] - Oscar Winner Animated Short Film 2022 | The Windshield Wiper
Academy Award Winner for Best Animated Short Film, this anticipated short film from animator Alberto Mielgo is a collection of vignettes surrounding the question, "What is Love?"[Video] - Wild Dolphin does something unbelievable!
Freediving with an amazing Dolphin off the West Coast of Ireland![Video] - We're attempting something quite ambitious...
to save the world from itself by popularizing critical thinking and understanding.The west misses the point of Everything Everywhere All at Once – it gets the Asian psyche
Failure to understand the film’s message is just another example of the way Hollywood continues to dismiss Asian achievement and stories.Future of Work: ‘The office as we know it is over,’ Airbnb CEO says
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky believes the future of work may mean the death of the office in its current form as more people opt for remote arrangements.OutHorse Your Email
Disconnect from work and let the horses of Iceland reply to your emails while you are on vacation. (Seriously) Did we really teach the horses of Iceland to type on a giant keyboard? Yes, we did.What is the environmental cost of war?
The destructive impact of war on the environment is often left unspoken. But it affects greenhouse gases, wildlife and essential infrastructures – sometimes irreversibly damaged.
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Where the Metaverse Can Take FinTech
We are at an inflection point. The beginning of the next chapter for the internet. An opportunity to break down barriers and democratize access to and ownership of goods and services. The metaverse will transform the way people connect, businesses grow, and creators make a living.
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Accessible Social
[…] a free resource hub for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, and everyday social media users. If you want to discover how to make your social media content accessible, this site is a great place to begin learning.8 WAYS SOCIAL MEDIA DISTORTS REALITY
In our last newsletter, we unpacked why technology is never neutral. Social media is no exception. Social media doesn’t simply reflect society; it shapes society. The world we see through social media is distorted, like looking into a funhouse mirror.TikTok to surpass YouTube in US—and come after other apps in the process
The forecast: US TikTok users will spend more time with the social media platform this year than YouTube users will spend on YouTube. This difference will be just about a fraction of a minute but will expand in years to come.How I Trained My TikTok
While the pandemic raged I would often relax into a comfy position and lose track of time watching one video after another on TikTok. The portal into other people’s homes and minds was entrancing, without the commitment of long-form TV.
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