Social Hallucinations

Every Day Events

This drawing made me smile. The beauty of every day, which is filled with amazing moments we tend to overlook...we should be better to memorize in pictures every day moments to rediscover their beauty.

Via Indexed

People Do Anything to Get High

apparently...human inventiveness in this matter is invaluable

Via: Medical Billing

 

Internet Memes - what, how and where?

What makes us laugh? What makes talk? What is worth sharing? The overview of internet memes.

Via: Online University

 

Transforming the Space

Space is a precious commodity as we populate cities. The more people, the less square meters. Many people struggle today with the housing problems as their families grow. The problem seems to be very difficult to solve, unless you've met Gary Chang - the domestic transformer. He gives the real meaning to the expression "small is the new big" .

This is very inspiring video showing the process of how Gary Chang transformed his 344 sq. ft. apartment into 24 rooms residence. Such solutions will be unavoidable in the near future in majority of cities. Exploiting the space. Optimizing it and making it sustainable. After all we just don't need vast space to live in, what we need is the functionality of the domestic surroundings.

(Don't) Hold a meeting

It is a good post to start the Monday and hopefully change something this week. Stop meetings for meetings sake. Meetings have become the solution. We have problem on agenda let's meet.

Meetings can be good if only everyone is prepared and there is clear plan on how to follow up. So don't waste this week and all the upcoming weeks on fruitless meetings. Let's do something.

Via Johnnie Moore

 

What's your favorite working space?

Can you imagine this is the real working space!? Someone is really sitting there and working. Amazing and so calming.

What I love about it, is the lack of ditractions around and the omnipresent calmness. This is you and your thoughts. Wonderful. I wish I could spend there a few working days. I imagine that it is impossible to get stressed out in there :) Idyllic.

Here is my working space. I like being surrounded by things I like and things where I can bring inspiration. Quiet and safe. It means a lot to me where I work, though the best ideas come to me while I am walking.

What's your favorite working space?

Taming the City

The cities are growing. We get surrounded by the constructions of concrete, steal and glass. Urban landscape we learn to thrive in. Inhuman and cold. Unmoved and inflexible. Humans against concrete. The architecture is the form of culture that tames human lifestyle nominating the paths we should follow. It describes the boundaries of human movement. Pedestrian crossings, bicycle lanes, pavements, doors... The city can have a completely different meaning. Let's take freerunning - the way to tame the city. It is a take over of immovable urban space. Freerunning defines it in the new way, turning it into utility, challenging the way we move and live. 

Empathic Civilisation

Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society. Must see...two things may surprise you: there is no empathy in heaven and Bible was right - we are descendants of Adam and Eve. 

Via Johnnie Moore

Some Thoughts on Social Media....

... by Marcus Brown who is awesome dude. Tune in to his Vimeo channel broadcasted directly from the toilet

 

 via Charles

The Art of Choosing the Right Chart

Useful and inspiring guide for choosing the right chart

Pic by @labnol

Via SwissMiss

How to Live to 100

This is definitely something one must share :) Great and not so surprising tips

 

via BabyCreative Blog

Color outside the lines

Being creative is what gives advantage today and allows to differentiate from the mass of me-too products and people. Creative meaning novelty and utility. Sometimes to get an attention you deserve you need to color outside the lines and find inspiration other places...Like this packages.

You have something what seems to be a carton of McDonald's chips on the right but is in fact celery and blueberries packaged as medicine. 

   
 

via BabyCreative blog

Dictractions foster creativity

It was good to read this article in Wired:'How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive' that breaks the army of voices who present how distracting Facebook and Twitter can be and how much loss they generate for companies. This is just a one side of story as "social networks are particularly well suited to stoking the creative mind"

 
From my own experienced being focused for 8 hours on power points slides or excel sheets doesn't take me really productive. On the contrary it imprisons me in the fast tracks of routine thinking. There is nothing more inspiring than sharing thoughts with other people, finding impulses from completely different and not really connected with the problem you are working on sources. Our minds need to be kept fit and challenged to work properly.So stay connected and never stop exploring, sharing and learning. Play. Create. Share.

Photo by Adrian Wallet

"little humor, many happiness"

Time flies, projects flows - strategies, ideas , solving problems...everything seems comples and then out of the sudden I stumble into something as simple as...

...grassy page marker

 

Moving from boring thing like a book marker into something that is not only functional but beautiful and adds value without being too pompous. Simplicity is what makes difference. 

"little humor, many happiness" 

Love it!

The 6 types of ideas

via Tom Fisburne