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A Homemade Electric Car – Youtube Video

Feb 25, 2020

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in environmental, social conscience, Uncategorized

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn one side of the Channel, you have people like Colin Furze building fun machines that have the fatal flaw of having an internal combustion engine. On the other side of the Channel, you have people like Marc Gyver building an electric car with easily bought components. The video below shows the…

Four Practical Jokes to Play in a bunker

Sep 10, 2019

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richard

in fun, social conscience

Reading Time: 2 minutesSock on the door In US films a sock or other object on a door handle implies that there are two or more people enjoying bedroom sports. As a couple were in one room I took the opportunity of speaking about doing this joke and then doing it. It’s harmless fun in…

Mental Health and Social media

May 23, 2017

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richard

in social conscience, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking, tech related

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is a lot of discussion about Mental Health and social media because most people are not social media natives. They are either Luddites who do not appreciate playing with technology. They see themselves as users rather than participants and then there are extroverts and other people who see Social Media as…

Shark Reporting.

May 7, 2017

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richard

in environmental, environmentalism, Scuba Diving, social conscience

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the age of drones this is how shark reporting should be done. The Coast guard or local surfing schools should fly a drone around and check to see whether there are any sharks present. If and when they spot a shark or groups of sharks they could temporarily close the beach…

Black Mirror – A television series

Dec 4, 2016

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richard

in reviews, social conscience, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, tech related, Uncategorized

Reading Time: 2 minutesBlack Mirror – a television series Black Mirror is a television series that was broadcast by Channel 4 a few years ago and made available to Netflix audiences recently. The series explores a variety of topics and issues to do with technology from death to crime and existentialism. It also explores themes…

A satirical look at music festivals as a form of psychological torture

Jul 25, 2016

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richard

in Post-university life, social conscience, summer holidays, Switzerland

Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen we’re 14-28 years old the idea of going to a music festival to see the artists we spend our free time listening to is fantastic. Imagine all that drinking, that mud, that food, those opportunities to seduce and best of all that ambiance. The prospect of going to a music festival…

A Nonverbal Autism Video Interview

Jul 19, 2016

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richard

in short film, social conscience, tech related, Video, youtube

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI saw Horyou share a link to Speechless with Carly Fleischmann. This is a Nonverbal Autism Video InterviewÂ carried out via typed words on a tablet. Â The text isÂ read out electronically.Â The interview is warm and convivial. ItÂ stands out because it does not use a fast talking or energetic host. The interviewer does…

Sharkwater – a documentary worth watching

Apr 17, 2016

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richard

in Documentary, environmental, environmentalism, reviews, social conscience, travel, Video, youtube

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSharkwater – A documentary worth watching. If you have one and a half hours of free time I recommend watching this documentary. It discusses the anti-whaling work by the Sea Shepherd, the work it did to combat long lining around the Galapagos and it touches on the shark finning mafia and…

Thoughts on the New York Times Article about Project Aristotle and its findings

Mar 4, 2016

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richard

in observation, Post-university life, social conscience

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I read this article I can’t stop thinking of the Prototyping sessions at Lift 2016. Teams from big corporations worked together to collaborate on exploring new ideas and developing new projects. Some had to work on a video, others had to work on models. Others had to create 2d representations. One…

Film and Video archiving

Oct 30, 2015

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richard

in social conscience, video archive, vimeo

Reading Time: 2 minutesFilm is Fragile – Film needs your help! | BFI Trailer from BFI on Vimeo. Recently I spent more than a year working as a video archivist for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. During this time I digitised several decades of documentary films and news stories. In the process I…

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