THIS IS THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY – ALL MOVING!

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AWESOME MOVING PHOTOS FROM…. From Me To You Tumblr photography blog.

THIS IS THE FUTURE

Through my new friends at tumblr headquarters I’ve recently come in contact with a very talented new photographer named Jamie. She and her fiancée create these unique images she calls “cinemagraphs” – more than a photo, but not quite a video.

Mark my words friends, this art form is the way of the future.

The girl with the bow dress
Rosie for Katie Ermilio

It’s Friday! I hope you design yourself a beautiful weekend!
Designer Gretchen Jones in NYC at her Trunk Show

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EnJOYing life

Busy day in Manhattan… but there’s always time for the paper.

Who wants to lick the bowl?
Photos at home in the kitchen with Loren Brill for The Daily

Breathless… Have a weekend full of sweeping moments.
oh-so-coco:

On The Armoire.

Here is another of the lovely images Jamie created at my apartment last week. Gown by Oscar de la Renta.

Showtime.
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SHOW REEL
A moment captured in my living room by Jamie. Dress by Oscar de la Renta.

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My personal favorite… doesn’t it make you uncomfortable when she looks right at you?!
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WHO’S WATCHING WHO?

Cinemagraph by Jamie, shot in my apartment last week.

“Coco takes Manhattan” in Oscar de la Renta
Watching Coco come alive in front of our camera lens was beautiful performance art. She gives you a million moments in such a fearless way and through her talent she made our work greater. Thank you Coco for spending this time with us, you set the bar ridiculously high… and I love it.
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Evening is coming in Savannah

Shave and a haircut…
Images of a Spring Weekend, 71st and Lexington Avenue

Meet me at the bar…

Have an adventurous weekend!

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Gone With The Wind... on a plantation home in Savannah

How he passed the time

>O2 THINKING AHEAD >> Taking a backward step on looking into the future

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Backwards step on looking into the future

Scientific journals can be as bad as newspapers in preferring eye-catching stories to negative findings

Ben Goldacre

Last year a mainstream psychology researcher called Daryl Bem published a competent academic paper, in a well-respected journal, showing evidence of precognition – the ability to see the future. Instead of designing new studies to see whether people could consciously tell you about the future, he ran some classic psychology experiments backwards.

In experiments on subliminal influence, participants are presented with two mirror images of the same picture. They are asked which they prefer, and are likely to choose the images where a subliminal negative image is flashed up for milliseconds, before they make their choice. In the Bem study, the negative images were flashed up after they made their choice, but participants were still less likely to choose the image on the side with the nasty subliminal image. This was all pretty kosher, and statistically significant, and I wasn’t very interested, for the same reasons you weren’t.

If humans really could see the future, we’d probably know about it already; and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, rather than one-off findings. There’s plenty of amazing stuff in our infinitely distracting universe and I’ll pay attention to the cheesy precognition stuff when the evidence is good and replicated. Now the study has been replicated.

Three academics – Stuart Richie, Chris French, and Richard Wiseman – have re-run three of these backwards experiments, just as Bem ran them, and found no evidence of precognition. They submitted their negative results to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, which published Bem’s paper last year, and the journal rejected their paper out of hand. We never, they explained, publish studies that replicate other work.

This squabble illustrates two problems facing all of science, which have never been adequately addressed. The first is the problem of context: these positive results may have happened purely by chance, against a backdrop of negative results that never reached the light of day. Researchers and academic journals, just like newspaper journalists, are more likely to publish eye-catching positive results.

We know that even if you analyse one study’s results in lots of different ways, you increase the likelihood of getting a positive finding purely by chance. So replicating these findings was key – Bem himself said so in his paper – and keeping track of the negative replications is vital too. For clinical trials, there is a system of registering your trial before you recruit participants, to reduce the risk of negative results being buried (it’s imperfect, as I’ve written, but it exists).

Outside of trials, people tend not to bother, which puts whole fields at risk of spurious positive findings: Wiseman has set up a register for people to declare that they were attempting to replicate Bem’s work. But the second issue is how people find out about stuff.

We exist in a blizzard of information, and stuff goes missing. Publishing a follow-up in the same venue that made an initial claim is one way of addressing this problem (and when the journal Science rejected the replication paper, even they said: “Your results would be better received and appreciated by the audience of the journal where the Daryl Bem research was published.”)

The New York Times ran a long piece on the original precognition finding, New Scientist covered it twice, the Guardian joined in online, and the Telegraph wrote about it three times over. It’s hard to picture many of these outlets giving equal prominence to the new, negative findings now emerging, in the same way that newspapers often fail to return to a debunked scare.

The most interesting problems around information today are about how to cope with the overload. For some eye-catching precognition research, this stuff probably doesn’t matter.

What’s interesting is that the information architectures of medicine, academia and popular culture are all broken in the exact same way.

With a bit of precognition, you’d have known I was going to post again on this topic, and with a lot of precognition, you’d have known I was going to post today (stat.columbia.edu)
Response Precognitive dreaming should not be dismissed as coincidence (guardian.co.uk)
Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence? (psychologytoday.com)
The Top 5 Mad Scientists In The World (talesfromthelou.wordpress.com)
Can you really learn to be psychic? (mirror.co.uk)
New proof of time travel/precognition [Fritzworth] (minx.cc)

>O2 THINKING AHEAD >> PLANET FORWARD > ENERGY (video)

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Are there any new energy innovations out there to help us kick our petroleum habit?

The answer might lie in a microscopic single-cell plant, a landfill or an iconic building.

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>Are We Entering the Post-PC Era?

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Michael J. Miller

Are we ready for the post-PC era?

Representatives of AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Polycom, EMC, and Azure Captial Partners discussed the topic in a breakfast round-table called “Hardware Beyond the PC,” at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference over the weekend.

Most agreed with a statement from Jen-Hsun Huang, cofounder and CEO of Nvidia, that we were now going through unprecedented times in the industry.
Huang said that people have been talking about a post-PC era for at least 15 years, but it hasn’t really changed the industry: Though the Web runs on all sorts of devices, it has run best on a PC, because it has required the computational ability of PCs. Over time, a number of “subtle changes” that happened together became discontinuous, resulting in the iPad and smart phones that now have processing power better than that of a PC from 10 years ago and thus great devices for accessing the Web.
He did make a distinction among devices used to create content and those used to enjoy content, and said that the latter market, which mostly includes devices based on the ARM architecture, were the fastest growing part of the computing market. In that world, said Huang, backward compatibility wasn’t important. Even though Nvidia makes 99 percent of its revenue from the PC, it now recognizes we are entering the post-PC era.
Ahmed Mahmoud, Senior Vice President and CIO of AMD, believes that the big change was when companies integrated the CPU and the GPU together, thus placing an increasing emphasis on graphics. But he said compatibility was very important.
Mike Kwatinetz of Azure Capital Partners remarked that every trend lasts 30 years—and that while we might be entering the post-PC era for consumers, we’re not for business now, and may not for another 10 to 15 years. While the cloud is the platform for consumers, the corporate environment is just starting to evaluate this, and it will take years for a large-scale migration.
Next up was Mark Lewis, president of the information Intelligence Group at EMC. He declared that even in the enterprise market, we are seeing a movement away from IT control; he expects a changing delivery model for applications, so that in 3 to 5 years, most people will be spending most of the day on a non-PC device. He saw a world where data primarily resides in “cloud storage” but is cached on the “edge.”

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These different points of view led to some different views of how the market would look going forward.
Mahmoud said the market was growing, with room for everything: the phone, the tablet, and the PC. “The question is how will they work together.” He thinks bandwidth will always be slower than the content created to use it, and that coming applications such as face recognition, vivid graphics processing, and high-end imaging will require a tremendous amount of computing power. So the issue is delivering that performance at the right cost with the right power draw.
Huang said every ARM-based implementation was working on that, and while “nothing goes away… what will be relevant is growth.”
Peggy Johnson, Qualcomm Executive Vice President for the Americas and India of Qualcomm, believes the big issue is the need for lower-power devices, particularly for use in emerging markets where electricity delivery is spotty. She also said there was not enough wireless spectrum available for all the data bits, so figuring out what to optimize was going to be a big issue going forward.
According to Lewis, a big advantage of the cloud world is that there is a single implementation of each application, which is much easier to maintain than traditional enterprise applications. He sees a big market in “big data and big analytics.”
As for me, I wondered about the thought that new applications are going to be Web-based and platform-independent. We’ve seen lots of “apps” written for mobile devices, and even cloud-based applications tend to be written for specific server platforms. It would have been interesting to have folks from the PC vendors, or Intel and Microsoft, in the discussion as well. But it is clear that that more and more people will access the Web and applications from “post-PC” devices, and that trend does presage an exciting time in computing.

For more on Michael Miller’s take on technology, read his blog Forward Thinking.

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>O2HUB PERSPECTIVES >>> Is Time In A Real Hurry?

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by Marcelo Gleiser

A competitor trains ahead of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 at the 02 Arena, in ea

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Time keeps on flipping into the future.

Well, is almost over. To me at least, and I bet to most of you, it went way too fast. On average, it was a year like any other, with some new things to celebrate and others to lament. (I’ll abstain from listing them. Each person has her own list.) But it’s hard to shake off the feeling that everything happened faster, that time seems to be in a hurry to get somewhere. Sometimes, people ask me if it’s possible, from a physics perspective, for time to be passing faster. It can’t.
According to the theory of relativity, time can slow down but not speed up. There are a few ways to do this. For example, you may move faster than other people. If you get to speeds close to the speed of light, time will slow down for you relative to the others. Hard to do, as the speed of light is a whopping 186,400 miles per second, in round numbers. Or, you may go live on the surface of the Sun. Time there would tick slower than here as well. But that’s really not what people have in mind when they wonder about time. The question is about our psychological perception of time. And I am sure many of you would agree that sometimes it does feel like time is on a roller coaster.
Time is a measure of change. If nothing happens, time is unnecessary. So, at a personal level, we perceive the passage of time in the changes that happen around and within us. What’s interesting is that—as anyone who has tried to meditate knows—even if you shut off all your senses, time keeps ticking away. As our thoughts unfold, our brains give us time. To “quiet the chatter” is the big challenge for going deeper into a meditative state, to be in the now.
The passage of time is about the ordering of events, things that happen one after another. Numbers, some say, are devices that were created to help us order time. Maybe, although counting chicks is also very useful if you are a hen. However, if we are to order events, we must remember them. Ergo, the perception of time is deeply related to memory. If our memories were to be erased, we would revert to the wonder of babyhood, where time extends forever. The more we have to learn, the more memories we make, the slower time passes. Routine, sameness, makes time speed up. Since routine is not usually equated with fun, this seems to go contrary to the “time flies when you’re having fun” dictum. What’s going on here?
The answer may be in the level of mindful engagement, that is, in how tuned-in your brain is to what you are doing. Newness, as in fun newness, works as a flood of information and places the focus on the immediate. There is no ordering between events yet and not sense of the passage of time. I have felt this disengagement when lost in a calculation for hours or trying out a new trout stream with my fly rod. This is the opposite of routine, where new memories are not being made and the now is all there is. But maybe someone will prove me wrong.
In physics, things are simpler. Time is a fundamental quantity, something that cannot be defined in terms of anything else. There are some issues with this, that we will address some other time. (Sorry…) The second is the universal unit, and it’s defined as 9,192,631,770 oscillations between two levels of the cesium-133 atom. Very different from the tick-tack of old mechanical clocks, which are not very reliable.
Einstein had a colloquial definition of the relativity of time: by the side of a pretty girl an hour feels like a second; if you burn your hand on the stove, a second feels like an hour. His special theory of relativity showed that the simultaneity of two events depends on how they are observed: what may be simultaneous for one observer will not be for another moving with respect to the first. Be that as it may, even in physics the ordering of time is essential: that’s causality, causes preceding effects so that the present vanishes into the past and the future becomes the present.
At the cosmic level, there is a well-defined direction of time: the expansion of the universe, which has been going on for 13.7 billion years, pointing resolutely forward. Link it to our own passage through life, and we have a well-defined asymmetry of time, what’s sometimes called time’s arrow . There is not much we can do to escape this at the physical level. But at the psychological level, to slow down time we have to engage our minds, create more memories, absorb knowledge. Perhaps I will leave my guitar aside for a while and start playing the piano.

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>The Pedigree of Emerging Leaders

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Key points for spotting emerging leaders:

individuals who consistently deliver ambitious results for the company
individuals who consistently demonstrate the ability to grow, adapt, and be more flexible than their other top performing peers
individuals who ask for opportunity and expand their capacity of operation and influence
individuals who take things to the next level (ie: imagination, creativity, product futures etc)
individuals who have strong powers of observation, judgment, reactions that are spot on, and EQ
individuals who are clear thinkers and have a point-of-view that may be counter to the trend, and finally
individuals who ask questions that are insightful that get the thought process into a creative frenzy.

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>The Pedigree of Emerging Leaders

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Key points for spotting emerging leaders:

individuals who consistently deliver ambitious results for the company
individuals who consistently demonstrate the ability to grow, adapt, and be more flexible than their other top performing peers
individuals who ask for opportunity and expand their capacity of operation and influence
individuals who take things to the next level (ie: imagination, creativity, product futures etc)
individuals who have strong powers of observation, judgment, reactions that are spot on, and EQ
individuals who are clear thinkers and have a point-of-view that may be counter to the trend, and finally
individuals who ask questions that are insightful that get the thought process into a creative frenzy.

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>The Pedigree of Emerging Leaders

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Key points for spotting emerging leaders:

individuals who consistently deliver ambitious results for the company
individuals who consistently demonstrate the ability to grow, adapt, and be more flexible than their other top performing peers
individuals who ask for opportunity and expand their capacity of operation and influence
individuals who take things to the next level (ie: imagination, creativity, product futures etc)
individuals who have strong powers of observation, judgment, reactions that are spot on, and EQ
individuals who are clear thinkers and have a point-of-view that may be counter to the trend, and finally
individuals who ask questions that are insightful that get the thought process into a creative frenzy.

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>The Pedigree of Emerging Leaders

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Key points for spotting emerging leaders:

individuals who consistently deliver ambitious results for the company
individuals who consistently demonstrate the ability to grow, adapt, and be more flexible than their other top performing peers
individuals who ask for opportunity and expand their capacity of operation and influence
individuals who take things to the next level (ie: imagination, creativity, product futures etc)
individuals who have strong powers of observation, judgment, reactions that are spot on, and EQ
individuals who are clear thinkers and have a point-of-view that may be counter to the trend, and finally
individuals who ask questions that are insightful that get the thought process into a creative frenzy.

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