In SciShow Space news: dark matter may have originated before the big bang. Also, what’s a neutron star glitch and what does it tell us about how the universe works?
Dr. Becky considers the “WTF” star (AKA Tabby’s star) and why its strange dimming remains a mystery.
Entanglement was originally written “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn,” but the song was rejected by the film makers who thought it was too raunchy for their teenage audience.
Undeterred, Imogen recorded the song for Sparks and filmed what is her most intimate video to date. #sparksfacts
Here’s what Imogen’s boyfriend, director Michael Lebor had to say about it:
“Andy Carne, the art director for the Sparks box set shot some beautiful stills for the front of the Entanglement single and so Imogen and I discussed shooting something that tied in with that.
The picture on the cover looked like a loving embrace, perhaps after a steamy moment and so I wanted to work back from that. The end frame in the video is as close as I could get to the angle and lighting of the still that Andy took.
Imogen has lovely, big floor to ceiling 10ft windows in the house and so I wanted to shoot just using the natural light that flooded in. I had recently been testing a camera (Sony FS700) that had excellent quality slow motion and because we didn’t have a huge amount of time, I thought this would be a great way of shooting a simple video in an emotional and beautiful way. Imogen has great bone structure, great skin and a model like figure so I knew that if we got the right light, the rest would fall into place.
It’s essentially a love story but I wanted it to be unclear as to whether it was imagined or not. The video starts with Imogen on her own and perhaps she is remembering a moment with her lover or waiting for him to arrive, either way, it’s ambiguous as to who this person is, if he is really there or if this happened in the past.
I wanted to build a narrative around the scene but because of time constraints and Imogen’s desire to keep it simple, we stayed within the confines of her bedroom and shot it in a few hours. It is difficult to sustain such a simple music video for five minutes, but that was the length of the song so we had to make it work.
It was a very intimate shoot and I didn’t want anyone else in the room, so it’s just me and Imogen. This of course created a challenge when I was needed for the scene. I used a tripod for those moments but an extra difficulty was that the camera only recorded 10 seconds of ‘super slow motion’ at a time. This meant that after every take I would have to jump up and run across the room to press ‘end record’ on the camera, not wearing very much…
One of my favourite moments in the video is when Imogen looks at the camera and she looks truly in love. It’s something that can’t be captured on a busy set, so it was a magical moment for me.”
And here’s the video (can you tell how much I love Imie?):
Jane promoted the power of social networking tools in the workplace, of curation, and the need to let learners have more control over their learning.
I’m all for this. Unfortunately, my employer isn’t quite on the same page. Facebook is blocked, because ours is a production environment and pressures are mounting. Though Twitter is not blocked, our connection is so slow, in part due to the massive security measures we have in place, that it’s hardly worth the effort.
Though we have 2 internal Wikis with the capability to blog and curate, these tools are not promoted for use by our front line staff. Again, operational requirements make it untenable. The tools are mostly used to push information and email is still heavily relied upon as a means of communication.
We have SharePoint sites too, but again, for frontline staff, it’s used as any other Web page or site, as a means to push information, and not to engage staff in their own learning. All of this on our sprawling Intranet, which, while it’s had a facelift, is still an unwieldy beast.
Only when staff reach the advisory or managerial level do they have the flexibility to dip their toes in those waters, and then to do so means some serious workload juggling. Fortunately, aside from being the Learning Mutt, with a certain share of tenacity and feistiness, another of my workplace alter-egos is Shakti. Multiple arms do tend to make the juggling easier 🙂 I could always evolve into a land-squid.
Think, Write, Repeat is a wonderful post. I think I’m going to have to follow cpsrenewal 🙂 In his post, Nick Charney states that good writing and critical thinking are not only skills that can distinguish one in the workplace, but that they also support one another.
He offers a reminder: It’s a knowledge economy, stupid. Indeed.
Charney promotes blogging as a kind of living portfolio, and one that will serve the knowledge worker well. It’s better than a static resume that can hardly demonstrate any skill other than communication and editing.
Strong communities of practice and personal learning networks are also critical.
Once again, Writerly Goodness proves to be teh awesome (misspelling intentional) as a platform for both of my professions: writing and learning and development.
How has technology and the world of social media had an impact on your professional development?
