Since I mentioned Man vs. Machine, I’ve been waiting to see what came of their More4 work – and here it is. I love it, it makes me want to instantly go out and hire a workspace where I can chop things up and stick them together with other things, put an arduino board in the middle and hope it comes to life. But you get the idea, this stuff is just beautiful.

And this is the making of:

For anyone who’s never been to Deptford, it’s not an amazing place. It’s a rather intimidating region of South East London, but apparently not if you’re Bill Gates. He showed up there on Wednesday to give a talk at Deptford Green School where he shared the story behind his decision to give away his life-earned-worth.

It’s cool – but the best part about it is that was organised by the Speakers for Schools project, which sets up high profile speakers for public schools. This kind of inspiration is a huge part of education, especially in areas like Deptford. Outer London is prone to areas where ‘lower class’ communities lead to lower class education. I used to be a Student Ambassador for my college and we’d teach kids in some seriously rough schools, it makes you appreciate how lucky you are for the education most of us got.

Anyway, good for you Bill. I have this awesome vision that Speakers for Schools basically turns into a democratised TED, for kids – they’re the best listeners anyway.

Found on the BBC

I’ve just been trying to forward myself as an individual on the Cinema 4D front. Been playing around with a bunch of the tutorials on Greyscale Gorrilla and loving them, definitely worth checking out if you’re interested.

Anyway, this guy is a bunch of hair, lighting, render tests, lenses and all kinds of stuff, feels good just to be learning something.

With my move to New York hopefully nearing the horizon, so grows my curiosity as to what kind of living situation I’m going to find myself in. As the optimistic fellow that I am, I’d like to think it’s going to end up something like this.

A loft in Brooklyn has been converted into a super unique living space which even features it’s own interior back yard.

I do believe the setup is available on Air BnB, or at least it was, until the whole world saw it, it’s probably now booked up until 2018.

This is an awesome enough piece of C4D animation:

But this behind the scenes construction video has almost more beauty to it. The time and attention that goes into a “making of” – superb.

I found a spare 10 minutes and put this together – I think he looks funky. For those of you who don’t know, it’s taken from Shepard Fairey’s HOPE poster, and they did a fantastically open source job of releasing a vector version for people to play with here, courtesy of ObeyGiant.