A friend of mine shared this video with me a while back, and it continues to draw me in. I am certain it speaks to many people ... and it is also just a well-produced video. Enjoy:
Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo.
When the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb, Little Boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945, it inflicted a huge number of casualties (~100,000 deaths) and completely leveled large portions of the city.
However, in the big scheme of nuclear warfare, this bomb and its cousin, Fat Man, which was detonated a few days later over Nagasaki, were relatively tame. Their explosive yield (15kt and 20kt, respectively) are a small fraction of the capability of the current American, Russian, or Chinese arsenals.
To give us all a sobering perspective on this, Alex Wellerstein created an interactive web site called NUKEMAP. Simply place the marker on your home (or any other location of your choosing), select a yield (or a specific bomb from the drop-down menu), and see the various damaging effects. Very interesting ...
And ... following up from my earlier post about Star Trek Continues ... check out this building designed to look like the USS Enterprise!
Following up my prior post about state's two-letter abbreviations (i.e., postal codes), here is a cool site that crowdsources the origins of airport's three-letter codes. For anyone who travels as much as I do, you might find this quite interesting.
I am a huge fan of "intelligent comedy", which sometimes requires the comedian to pause while the audience catches up with him/her. My timeless favorite is Abbott & Costello's "Who's On First?" routine.
I recently came across this late-night show performance by Gary Gulman, and I have watched it a gazillion times already. I think it is creative and hilarious. Just FYI ... here is the real story behind the two-letter abbreviations for the states.
Nine years ago, I posted a couple of cool videos from the band, OK GO. At the time, I did not realize how big they would get ... not just for their music, but mostly for their hugely creative videos. I thought I would post some of my favorites here (in chronological order).
This Too Shall Pass - 2010
I Won't Let You Down - 2014
Upside Down & Inside Out - 2016
