MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
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Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#2This is really fascinating and reminds me a lot of the feeling I get sometimes when I code something.
Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#3Note the unique presentation style - story with flashing images. It's surprisingly appealing. Even simple slides like "Anyway." that stay for just a second or two keep the viewer from getting distracted.
The whole "less words more pictures" philosophy has become really popular lately, and it seems this has taken it to a new level.
Bonus points for style and execution.
Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#4Note the unique presentation style - story with flashing images. It's surprisingly appealing. Even simple slides like "Anyway." that stay for just a second or two keep the viewer from getting distracted. The whole "less words more pictures" philosophy has become really popular lately, and it seems this has taken it to a new level. Bonus points for style and execution.
Eventually, media and computers are going to change our language from a verbal one to one where instantly synthesized sounds and images will directly portray many of the ideas we now communicate using word abstractions.
I'm not the originator of this idea. David Brin had uplifted dolphins doing this in his books. Since they could "see" through echolocation, dolphins could synthesize "images" for each other by mimicking what would be the return reflections of imagined objects and directly beam them into each other's heads.
It will take many advances in interfaces, but we will eventually get there. Already, cameraphones and video cameras and media are starting to effect the way we communicate about the past.
Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#5Note the unique presentation style - story with flashing images. It's surprisingly appealing. Even simple slides like "Anyway." that stay for just a second or two keep the viewer from getting distracted. The whole "less words more pictures" philosophy has become really popular lately, and it seems this has taken it to a new level. Bonus points for style and execution.
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Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#6Note the unique presentation style - story with flashing images. It's surprisingly appealing. Even simple slides like "Anyway." that stay for just a second or two keep the viewer from getting distracted. The whole "less words more pictures" philosophy has become really popular lately, and it seems this has taken it to a new level. Bonus points for style and execution.
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Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#7Adam's wife must be a very understanding woman.
Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#8Note the unique presentation style - story with flashing images. It's surprisingly appealing. Even simple slides like "Anyway." that stay for just a second or two keep the viewer from getting distracted. The whole "less words more pictures" philosophy has become really popular lately, and it seems this has taken it to a new level. Bonus points for style and execution.
It's great, but I think I'm going to be pretty sick of it by the time I've seen the tenth presentation on web programming that's been done in the same style.
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#9Wow. I find that when I start projects I have his sort of obsessiveness but as the project continues I start to loose it.
Oh ADD you've cursed me.
Re: MythBusters Co-Host Adam Savage on Obsession
#10Note the unique presentation style - story with flashing images. It's surprisingly appealing. Even simple slides like "Anyway." that stay for just a second or two keep the viewer from getting distracted. The whole "less words more pictures" philosophy has become really popular lately, and it seems this has taken it to a new level. Bonus points for style and execution.
It's great, but I think I'm going to be pretty sick of it by the time I've seen the tenth presentation on web programming that's been done in the same style.
When you have 50 pictures in a presentation about web programming, about half of them tend to fall into the lolcat category. Of course that grows old quickly.
But in a presentation about the dodo every picture is both relevant and interesting. The 60th picture is as engaging as the 3rd.
In other words, with web programming pictures are used because text is boring and the presenter wants the audience to know he doesn't work at IBM.