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[8 Jun 2009 | 5 Comments | ]
Love Story Meets Viva La Vida by Jon Schimdt – Beautiful Music

This beautiful arrangement was created by Jon Schimdt’s for his daughter. His daughter loved the song “Love Story” by Taylor Swift especially a particular transition in the song. Jon Schimdt thought it would transition really well with Viva La Vida by Coldplay so he created this arrangement. It’ll make you feel incredibly good. Just listen.

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[27 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]

Latest Viral Video: These aren’t all that recent, but still worth a quick look.
Did you Know Video?
This “Did you know” video covers some of the latest statistics in regards to the growth of the information age and the incredible speed of globalization. The video starts with some incredible statistics on the growing population of China and India, then starts to touch upon how quickly our world is changing in terms of information, careers, and the way we communicate. Check out some of these statistics covered in the video

1 in 8 …

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[22 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]

Twitter Fail Whale – Twouble with Twitter
What is Twitter?
Twitter is known as a micro-blogging site. It is a place where a person can create a Twitter profile where one can post entries or “tweets” of 140 characters or less. Friends and Strangers alike can follow your tweets just like anyone would follow a blog. Twitter is one of the most well known social networks today.
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Below are two fun viral videos that pokes fun at Twitter and the type of info that …

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[17 Apr 2009 | 3 Comments | ]

Susan Boyle – Britians got Talent – I Dreamed a DreamWhat are Viral Videos?
Viral Videos are online video’s that gets spread around very quickly. People like the video and send the links to their friends who send to their friends and so on. Typically when people say a video goes viral, it means millions of people view it within a span of several days. Companies all dream of having one of their videos go “Viral”.
Periodically as part of the creativity series, I’ll post some videos that have gone viral. …

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[8 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]

Gracepoint Fellowship Church – GLive Opening Video
Gracepoint Fellowship Church, a Christian Church located near UC Berkeley, recently had a large scale performance called Gracepoint Live or “GLive”. This production occurs every 2 or 3 years where 100s of college students who are part of one of their affiliated Christian campus groups perform several skits and musicals tackling life questions. About 1900 were in attendance this past weekend.
This year their theme was “UNDO: Can you delete the past?” discussing the regrets we have or will have about life. Below is their …

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[19 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
Obama Pro-life Abortion Video?

The images of a baby fetus.
The heart beats, the baby moves.
“This child’s future is a broken home.”
“He will be abandoned by his father.”
“His single mother will struggle to raise him”
The baby continues to grow…
A pro-choice video, we assume..
Then in a twist of fate,
“This child, despite the hardships he will endure, will become the first African-American President.”
Images of Barack Obama triumphant on election night.
“Life. Imagine the potential.”

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[17 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]

Children Influencing Culture through Media?
We always talk about media influencing children and culture, but how about children influence culture through media!?
A creative speech video that has been making the rounds a few months ago is the video of a young Canadian 12 year old Lia who chose the topic of abortion as her topic for a school speech contest. Her teacher wanted her to pick a different topic but she chose to continue. As you’ll see below she was an excellent speaker and crafted her arguments with thought and …

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[4 Mar 2009 | 18 Comments | ]
Creativity: Amazing 3D Building Art

3D Building Chalk Art
Following are some incredible 3D Building Art drawn on the side of buildings and other large structure. The 3D paintings look fantastically real forcing those passing by to stop and gaze in awe, of course if they even notice it!
I’ve also added one more 3D Chalk Art below due to it’s popularity on this site. Enjoy!
3D Building Art – Building Tunnel
3D Building Art – Building Tunnel
This 3D Building Art is by far the most intricate and my favorite. Amazing details and the depth of the 3D work …

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[9 Feb 2009 | 6 Comments | ]
Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part II

The Long Awaited! 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part II!
This batch of 3D Chalk art is even more amazing then the ones you saw in the previous post. Huge list of amazing pictures below. Pick your favorite at vote at the bottom!
3D Chalk Art – Batman & Robin
- How in the World…
3D Chalk Art – Batman

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[30 Jan 2009 | 16 Comments | ]
Creativity: 3D Chalk Art in the Streets Part I

This is the first of four posts highlighting the beautiful 3D chalk art of Julian Beever and other famous chalk artists. Julian is famous for his incredible 3D chalk art he draws in the streets…

It’s stunning. Check it out. Links to all the wonderful posts after the jump!

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[29 Jan 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

It’s that time of the year again. Superbowl! Though most people don’t care too much about who wins the big game, everyone wants a reason to get together and enjoy some good food and good company.
Another tradition of the Superbowl is the million dollar TV commercials in between the coverage. Advertisers spend several million dollars and pour hundreds of man hours try to capitalize on the large Superbowl viewer base. Due to the expensive nature of these TV Commercials, these TV advertisements get critiqued and scrutinized on how creative and …

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[19 Jan 2009 | No Comment | ]

The following videos are service ads shown on TV or other mediums in order to send a social message. Each of these TV spot videos are done in slow motion to enhance the message. The first video has to do with fire arms. The second video has to do with slowing down driver speeds in residential areas and the last is promoting the use of seat belts. Each of these videos use some powerful imagery to shake people into thinking about these issues.

Bullet Slow Motion Video

Disclaimer: I am going to …