I think this will be the next addition to our home.  I mean how can you not love this thermostat.  It was created by the iPod Godfather Tony Fadell.  It’s connected through wifi which allows it to check the weather and adjust accordingly.  You can control it using your phone.  It saves you money when you aren’t home.  Love it!  The site is just as beautiful and goes into great detail. Will you be getting one for your home?

The video above gives you an in depth view of what goes on everyday at Zuccatti Park. It also helps that it’s well made. Now I know a lot of people have been asking, “What’s next?” or “Where Do We Go From Here?”. Well below is another video I found which hits that question right on the head.

I’ve been following the movement since it began about a month ago. I was lucky enough to visit the home grounds at Zuccatti Park in New York. It was amazing to be there in the middle of it all. I felt alive but clam. It felt right. Like this is what we should be doing. Democracy at its purest form… It was beautiful.

Here are some photos I took while I was there.

I know it’s early but this year The Sketchbook Project is going international! Before being cataloged permanently in the Brooklyn Art Library your sketchbook will visit 12 North American cities then head across the world. There are just under 40 themes to get your creative juices flowing. You also have the option to digitize your entire sketchbook for $20. For more information and project deadlines check out the official Sketchbook Project website.

Jurassic Park Theme (1000% Slower) by birdfeeder

And I thought you might want to refresh your memory so here is the original full length Jurassic Park theme.

Now here’s a little something for the electronic music lovers. As I was listening to the time stretched Jurassic Park theme song I thought to myself, “is how The Orb makes a lot of their music?” Check out their Resident Advisor podcast from January of 2009. You can download it here. 7 mins in listen… 44 mins in listen. Sounds like a song time stretched 1000%. What do you think?

Cheers.

I just came across this pretty amazing video today.  Some tech guru’s over at The Engineering Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI) Research Group  have managed to use the front facing camera on the iPad 2 to track your head in 3D space creating a glasses-free monocular 3D display.  Yeah… amazing!

-Apple

Interactive Display Window from Marcus Wallander on Vimeo.

Thank you Atomicdust for tweeting this link today.  Watching this video was inspiring and got my wheels turning.  This… is interactive.  This is something I want to do here in St. Louis.  Who’s in?

lynda.com

By far this is the best online software training.  Extremely easy to use and their library of lessons is endless.  It’s also quite cost effective for what you learn.  You can get anytime access for $25/month or  $37/month if you would like the exercise files included.  You can cancel whenever you’d like.

membership.thinkvitamin.com

This is site new to me but looks promising.  It’s definitely geared for everything web.  From front end designers to back end developers.  Subscriptions are similar to lynda.com starting at $25/month.

tutsplus.com

This is a vast network of useful tutorials that can show an old dog some new tricks.  These sites are updated often so there is always something fresh.

Build Anything from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.

I thought this was pretty creative and worth sharing if you haven’t already watched it. Our imagination is sometimes all we need. “Imagination?”, you say. Yep I’m sure it’s still there somewhere.

We are all kids at heart.

(UPDATE: This video has been removed from Vimeo as of Jan 2011)

The reason I am not embedding this video is because you must see the original on Vimeo to get the full effect.  This video is incredible.  I don’t want to give too much away before you see it so go take a look before you read on.

The other day a friend of mine sent me a link, “check this out”.  So I followed the link expecting just another cool video or website that might get a little laugh or “that’s neat!”.  When I hit play I was still in lets just say robot mode, but then, what, wait a min what’s happening?  The video just came out of the video.  No wait what happened to Vimeo?  The entire screen was video.  Pieces of vegetables were flying across the screen and then just like that the video was over and we were back in Vimeo.  The highly creative seamless transition from a everyday video on the web to a full screen 3D craziness was like getting splashed with a bucket of ice cold water.  I will not forget this advertisement and I’ll be willing to share, blog, talk about it for a long time.  I’d love to know who did this.  If you have any idea post a comment.  I’m sure these guys worked some crazy hours to make this happen.  It might become a new standard in advertisement some day.