Left Brain and Right Brain

When taking a photo very interesting things happen in your brain. Your left brain (or hemisphere) tries to operate the digital camera. You right hemisphere tries to make a pretty composition. The left hemisphere operates serially, linearly and methodically, is about past and future and thinks in language. The right hemisphere is a parallel processor, thinks about the present, the right here and know, and in pictures.

To get a better understanding of the differences between the left and the right hemisphere, please take a look at the video of dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. She is a neuroanatomist and suffered a stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. She studied what happened with her brain during her eight year recovery.

Augmented Reality

Take a look at the latest on augmented reality filmed in February at the Ted 2010 conference. Taking stitching to the next level! First you stitch photos into a panorama. Then you stitch photos, videos and panoramas into an augmented reality. But of course it is much more than stitching…

Exposing the Supernatural – James Randi

Videos of one of my heroes James Randi speaking on TED have been released on Youtube.
Part 1 is above, part 2 and 3 are at the end of this post.
James Randi is well known for debunking charlatans like Uri Geller and Peter Popoff. James has spent much of his life explaining to people not to believe everything you see or hear. But it seems that people like to be fooled because shows like Char and the New Uri Geller Show seem to be popular (at least in the Netherlands).
Please take a look at parts 2 and 3 where James explains why mediums are dangerous.

About Creativity

A wonderful talk by Sir Ken Robinson about creativity and how Gillian Lynne found out what her talent was.

The next 5000 days on the web

Here is another favorite TED video of mine. In 2005 Kevin Kelly talked about the next 5000 days on the web. We are right in the middle of these 5000 days!