Have you wrapped gifts in cloth, perhaps in scarves or other fabric items that are reusable? (It’s like giving the recipient a second gift!)
For some beautiful cloth-wrapping ideas, watch this how-to video demonstrating several furoshiki wrapping variations.
For other furoshiki folding patterns, check out the diagram in the Unconsumption archive post here.
[The video (by RecycleNow) also may be viewed here. Thanks, Green Thing — another great find!]
File under: Things I love.
The “Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter“ documentary, which premiered last night on PBS, is now available online.
If you’re not able to view the video above, click here to watch the film.
Via wnyc:
A beautiful Radiolab video, made by Everynone, inspired by the new Desperately Seeking Symmetry episode. Watch in 720 HD:
Today’s inspiration.
Via poptech:
Here’s an entertaining collaboration for your viewing pleasure - cellist Yo-Yo Ma and dancer Lil Buck caught on tape by Spike Jonze. Jonze explains:
The other day, I was lucky enough to be at an event to bring the arts back into schools and got to see an amazing collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and a young dancer in LA, Lil Buck. Someone who knows Yo-Yo Ma had seen Lil Buck on YouTube and put them together. The dancing is Lil Buck’s own creation and unlike anything I’ve seen. Hope you enjoy.
Fabulous interpretations — from both Mr. Ma and Lil Buck — of Saint-Saens’s The Swan. Love performances in intimate settings like this one.
If you haven’t watched the Organizing the Bookcase stop-motion video, or, like me, you have but need a visual and/or mental break from whatever you’re working on right now, take one minute and 29 seconds out of your day to watch it.
[Bonus: Rhythmic guitar music by Rodrigo y Gabriela!]
Unmasked: Meet the boy behind Darth Vader
Child actor Max Page talks about starring in the hit Super Bowl Volkswagen commercial and his battle with heart disease. He then uses The Force to lower the TODAY studio shades. VIDEOI love that he sort of looks like Mark Hamill, but has never seen “Star Wars” (too scary, he thinks).
If you like VW’s “The Force” spot, which has garnered an astounding 22.3 million views on YouTube since its posting last week, you’ll like this clip — released today and already exceeded 12,000 views — showing bloopers and deleted scenes from it. (hat tip to Scott Monty)
Via bestrooftalkever:
HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE.
100 Cats Set Loose In IKEA [VIDEO]
CATS! (The last :45 are touching.)
[spotted on Facebook, posted by the lovely Amber Naslund (@ambercadabra)]
Watch [video]: One of @OldSpice guy’s many responses to tweets, Facebook and YouTube requests, etc., this one to librarian @wawoodworth, in defense of libraries and the importance of the written word.
Read [story]: From ReadWriteWeb: How the Old Spice Videos Are Being Made
The story within the story of the Old Spice video mill, churning out content since yesterday morning.
[hat tip to @thebrandbuilder]
Today’s distraction,via newsweek:
The Mad Men School of Seduction
As anticipation for the upcoming season of Mad Men continues to grow, I thought I’d pay tribute to those lotharios of Sterling Cooper. This video features almost every pickup line uttered between seasons 1-3. Have you been having trouble with the ladies? Well, take a cue from Campbell, Cosgrove, Kinsey, and, of course, the great Roger Sterling, among others. In less than 3 minutes, you’ll have the skills to score any choice dame. Mix yourself an Old Fashioned, light that Lucky Strike, and enjoy!
Oh, for God’s sake. We’re sorry it took us so long to promote the brilliance of this, by our Ryan Jones.
Architecture matters:
Via geebirdandbamby:
Trailer for “Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs” (2010)
Adding the film to my must-see (eventually) list.
Reason #491 why I love the Internet: availability of clips from the Seinfeld coffee-table book episode.
(The subject of said episode was a topic of lunch discussion today. Now this is research, people.)
RSA Animate’s The Secret Powers of Time video, which has been circulating online for the past week or so, describes various ways in which individuals’ time perspectives differ and impact our work, health, and well-being.
Note to self: Keep tabs on the London-based non-profit RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) think tank’s projects.
