Rob Bliss is amazing. Bliss, who is a college student at Grand Rapids Community College, has brought remarkable events to Grand Rapids, including the Zombie Walk, the Chalk Flood, and the paper airplane (actually 100,000 paper airplanes) launch. Now he has raised money to build the longest inflatable waterslide in the world. And this weekend, Grand Rapids tried it out.
Set up on the Lyon Street hill, which runs through the campus of Grand Rapids Community College, the waterslide attracted over ten thousandriders who, in some cases, waited for over 2 hours to ride the slide. These pictures were taken around 8:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning, and the line already stretched a long way.Tag: Cool Stuff
Time Lapse Video of Flight 1549 Pulled from the Hudson
Fascinating time lapse video of the recovery of Flilght 1549 from the Hudson River.
Posted on Kontain.com [Time-lapse Footage of Flight 1549] from David Martin on Vimeo.
Eagle Eye – A Bird’s Eye View
From the BBC, what would be like to fly like a bird?
What Did You Eat on Thanksgiving?
The New York Times ran an interesting interactive infographic that showed state-by-state foods served on Thanksgiving Day. http://bit.ly/6cUQ81
How to get people to use the stairs
How do you get people to use the stairs instead of an escalator? Make it fun!
Thanks to Dan Pink for pointing this out.
A Demonstration of Wireless Electricity
Eric Giller, CEO of MIT-inspired WiTricity, demonstrates wireless electricity at TED Global 2009.
8-Bit Trip
Stop action tribute to video games using Legos.
Sarah and Rodney’s Awesome Segway Tour of Grand Rapids
Sarah, a summer associate in our office, and I took a tour of downtown Grand Rapids today on Segways. It was a blast! Here are some videos:
Bobby McFerrin Plays the Audience
In June, Bobby McFerrin was a panelist in at the World Science Festival. The panel explored whether our response to music is hard-wired or culturally determined. Here is a clip from the Festival where McFerrin gets the audience to improvise a song to demonstrate the universality of the pentatonic scale: https://vimeo.com/21536636
The whole conference can be seen at: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/video/notes-neurons-full.
Thanks to David Pogue of the NYTimes for directing my attention to this.
Stop Action Video Created by Linking Printers
Here’s a quick little video that I saw on the How Blog at http://tinyurl.com/m8o4eh. According to How, “Two currently-seeking-work creatives in London, Tom Wrigglesworth and Matthew Robinson, created this fantastic stop-motion animation by sync’ing HP printers.”
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HP – invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.