All the DAMAGEs in my life...

One of my favorite speech of all time:

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement

J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. (via harvardmagazine.com)

Vovô by Luiz Lafayette Stockler

Graduation film made at the University of Wales, Newport in 2010.

Awards -

Nominated for National Royal Television Society Award, UK
Winner - Royal Television Society Student Undergraduate Animation Award, Wales Region, UK
‘Best of the West’ Special Commendation - Animated Exeter, UK

Official video for Lovett’s Eye of the Storm directed by Christopher Alender, from the album, Highway Collection.

Within the first 20 seconds, I know this is something that would have a long lasting impact in my media aesthetics…

Highly recommended for all indie video/MTV producers.

Found this on Facebook the other day:

This is a real exam paper on physics taken from a local high school. The posting received over a 100 likes within a day and lots of positive comments. While my first impression was “IP infringement”, the point to note is: how high school teachers can find a way to get kids interested and engaged in learning a subject.

Obviously if a teacher were to use this as a classroom example, she will likely to get a lot of attention from the class. And why not? It’s fun, popular, and it’s something kids will talk about after class. It might even get kids to think about the real “physics” behind the game next time they are playing the game. While the question posted here is only derived from the initial levels in the game, one can get more advanced with the higher-level birds (e.g. find the blast radius of the exploding blackbird and determine whether or not the blast contribute sufficient force to knock down a concrete wall reinforced with an adjacent wooden plank…). I think that’s another great way to play Angry Birds all over!

Hey, come to think of it, if Rovio publishes a full volume that compiles every level in the game into real physics/math quizzes (i.e. with answers explaining the calculations etc), I will buy it without second thought! Here you go Rovio - put some thoughts into this if you haven’t already XD!

P.S. And regarding the IP rights, I believe it’s exempted if it’s for educational purpose… of course, certain limitation applies.

Spotted a Fiddler Crab along the Mangrove marsh (Taken with Instagram at Hong Kong Wetland Park)

Exercise in the nighttime - an artwork by a student in CUHK (Taken with instagram)

By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something… there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

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—	Samwise Gamgee in The Two Towers