I’ve become obssessed with watching Ted.com over the last few months. I watched this video today about passion. The speaker Isabel Allende embodies all the qualities of a public speaker I wish I had. Her message is also fantastic. She speaks of how women need to be empowered and the world would be a better place. You can check out her talk here. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

I found a drawing I did a few months ago when we were working on The Inukshuk. I really miss drawing, I’m going to have to start making more time for it.

This was my term 3 flash project. I took perlin noise and I used the color data that it creates to turn and rotate the balloon. The goal was to create organic movement within flash. I still haven’t worked out some of the bugs. The movement isn’t as fluid as I would like and the balloon stops floating at a certain point when it should keep being put back into the image. I was pretty pleased with this project overall. It definitely challenged my abilities in flash. I now have more love for flash than hate.

This guy is amazing. He pulls data from blog posts, flickr, livejournal, etc. and makes rad visualizations of the data that he receives. A few of his projects are We Feel Fine and I Want you to Want Me. You can check out his talks on Ted. Enjoy!

I happened upon some awesome videos on creativity today. You can check them out here. The first one is better than the second, but they are both worth checking out.