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Sunday, February 16, 2014

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Work Smarter, Not Harder: 21 Time Management Tips to Hack Productivity

The Creativity Post: A lot of folks in our society try to be hyper-productive.
You know — the people who scurry from task to task, always checking e-mail, organizing something, making a call, running an errand, etc.
The people who do this often subscribe to the idea that “staying busy” means you’re working hard and are going to be more successful.
While this belief may be true to an extent, it often leads to mindless “productivity” — a constant need to do something and a tendency to waste time on menial tasks.
Instead of behaving in this way, I choose to do things differently.


THE GAP by Ira Glass

THE GAP by Ira Glass from frohlocke on Vimeo.
Vimeo: I think it was at springtime 2012, when I came across David Shiyang Lius lovely piece of work about Ira Glass. It was the most inspiring and motivating video, I have ever seen in my life. I watched it over and over again, listened to Ira Glass' voice and told myself, that I am not the only person who is constantly disappointed about the gap between ones taste and ones skills. Later on in 2012 I decided to do an own filmed version of Iras interview - use my own language to tell his message. It took me about a year from concept to upload.


Coolest Movie Sets Ever: How They Filmed That 'Inception' Hallway Scene

Movie News | Movies.com: The rotating corridor and hotel-room fight sequence in Christopher Nolan’s Inception is one of the most unforgettable action scenes of this century – and it’s even more amazing after you watch this video demonstrating how the effect was achieved.
Done entirely in camera, the scene required a massive rotating cylindrical set built with steel and motors that would turn the corridor and rooms a complete 360 degrees – while actors and cameras were spinning along with it and creating movie magic. The effect, inspired by Kubrick’s work in 2001, is absolutely stunning.


Inside The Video Game Industry's Culture Of Crunch Time

⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community: Crunch time: the last-minute all-nighter, the deadline rush, the sweat and Red Bull and sleeping at your desk. For fledgling companies, it can be a perverse milestone--one which has become largely taboo. But there's one corner of the tech industry where billion-dollar products still live and die shamelessly by crunch time: video gaming.


TSA Ready Leatherman PS and Hail

Cool Material: Until we have actually taken one of these new stainless steel Leatherman Hail + Style PS through a TSA security checkpoint ourselves–or one of you has and you report back–we’re dubious about them being travel-friendly, but we’re willing to give them a shot anyway because of their feature set.



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