Q-Links

Q-Links? Yeah!

The meaning of "Links" is evident. It's all about my favourites. Absolute favourites? No. Surprising, nice to know or remember, good idea, great logic, splendid design ... These are the kind of qualifications that make me bookmark websites on this blog. For what sake? Memory support and ease. To whose benefit? Primary ... mine! Secondary ... with no extra effort ... I serve everyone with the same interests, but with less time or patience to find the pearls in the sea we call the internet. Be invited to explore my treasury and feel free to react on the comments. 

So the "Q" stands for "Qualified" or "Quality"? No ... but who cares? Have fun and grow wise, 

Henk

The science of happiness

Harrisson Owen about self organization and open space

Visualisations that make no sense ... no nonsense!

It's said that a picture may tell you more than a thousand words. Indeed ... a good picture has this power. Sometimes however an image can be totally confusing. That's very clumsy when that image is made to be an informative visualisation. Watch these "Visualizations that make no sense" and have fun. 

Space Saving Furniture

Time line software

This Ecudemic blog advocates the top five time line software programs and platforms.

Smile or die, a clarifying lecture

Attraction, the shadow theater from Budapest

They became famous by the Britain Got Talent shows. They won with a very surprising mix of dance and applied technology. An excellent and very entertaining way to tell a story.

Set your goals ...

A short inspirational movie ...

Ook een kwestie van "omdenken": BE DO HAVE

Marshmallow experiment en creativiteit

Onze educatieve systemen elimineren onze aangeboren creativiteit ... een schokkend verhaal dat wordt verteld door George Land. George Land is bekend vanwege zijn theorie "grow or die" over achtereenvolgende s-curven en kritische (omslag-)punten die het verschil maken tussen succes en mislukking.

 

Het marshmallow experiment

Door "omdenken" van Berthold Gunster ben ik op het spoor gebracht van Tom Wujec. De TED-presentatie spreekt voor zich:

Maar daarmee zijn we er nog niet ... Er zijn meer conclusies te trekken!

Poetic Typography

What a touching combination of written en spoken language ...

Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.

The 'X' model of employee engagement - BlessingWhite © 2012

Blessing White seems to embrace some very qomic ideas about employee engagement.

They also have developed a splendid way to share these with you:

Doodlers, unite

De Nederlandse Stripgeschiedenis

www.lambiek.net biedt een gedetailleerd overzicht van de Nederlandse stripgeschiedenis. Leerzaam en amusant.

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

An amazing overview of Visualization Methods. Check it out. 

Gapminder

Gapminderis unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.

Hans Rosling says there’s nothing boring about stats, and then goes on to prove it. Watch the one-hour long documentary.

Or see for yourself by using this amazing software to crack tons of data ... thank you Gapminder.org

MoMA about Joseph Kosuth's "One and Three Chairs"

In relation to qomic thinking the Kosuth chair project (1965) is one of the most powerfull artifacts ever.

MoMA | The Collection | Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs. 1965.

Sisalin ... Als Klee en CoBrA zoekend naar het kind, maar dan eigentijds.

Sisalin ... De site van Linda die met veel liefde en plezier schildert en hoopt nog heel veel mooie dingen te mogen maken. Misschien wel iets voor u?

 

QR-Code Generator

QR-Code Generator.... Of het werkt? Test het zelf. Onderstaande QR is door hen gegenereerd. Hiermee moet je gelinkt worden aan www.qomic.com.

Arizona State University

Bruce Mau Design made this video for the Arizona State University. It has an inspiring form and content.

Rise to the challenge from ASU Foundation on Vimeo.

Khan Academy

The Khan Academy has loads of knowledge driven video. The most important thing you can learn from them is probably how the future of education looks like. The following key note speech might be your eyeopener ...

e-motion

e-motion is the title of the art book and the related DVD of artist Shiho Sakamoto. It's a nice example of multi platform publishing and marketing of art. 

Teaching Entrepreneurs How to Tell Their Story

In short the important key of the message is: Get Storied!

Otl Aicher, designer

Otl Aicher from Ian Crombie on Vimeo.

color vision and more

handprint is a website with impressive content on several fields of knowledge like:

Color vision (including detailed color theory), watercolors (from artists to chemicals), human evolution (about us) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (in critical context). A very interesting and powerful resource with a low tech (but steady) interface. 

Five More Ws for Good Journalism

Worthwhile, WOW!, well, we! & watch .... Five More Ws for Good Journalism

Value shop

A value shop is the typical business model of an organization designed to solve customer or client problems rather than creating value by producing output from an input of raw materials.
Compared to Michael Porter's concept of the value chain, there is no sequential fixed set of activities or resources utilized to create value. Each problem is treated uniquely and activities and resources are allocated specifically to cater to the problem in question.

Stephen Covey and the Cult of Educational Effectiveness

Part of Covey's success is without doubt that he appeals to most people's frustrations that came along with not achieving ambitious targets and full yield of talent. He provides for hope by pointing out a personal effectivity program. Which is a "good" thing as it might serve people to "grow". 
However ... the effectiveness of the book grows once you studied the critical analysis of Covey's writings. The critic "The Cult of Educational Effectiveness" places Covey's ideas in an enlightening broader mindframe. It helps you to understand what Covey means, his intentions and presumptions. It learns on what issues you should keep some reserve and find your own way. And is such finding an authentic attitude towards a world full of prescriptions for life in fact not also one of the habbits he advocates? If you like Covey's works ... Read it! If you don't ... Read it too!

Pioneer Plaque

Fascinating demonstration material for about every essential aspect of human knowledge and communication: Pioneer plaque explained by wikipedia.