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Is genius always hidden in the obvious? Japan by Eric Testroete

This is without doubt the most engaging piece of content I have seen so far this new year. It's nothing that special yet it's so personal (just look at the amount of comments and 'likes' it's generated) yet so enlightening, giving you such a wonderful chronological visual insight to quite literally the whole of Japan and ultimately I am sold on now going there. It's by Eric Testroete.

It is so obvious and yet such a common occurrence. Anyone who travels with a camera, visual records their journey in some way, but not in such detail and such beauty. I watched it to the very end. An achievement for anyone consuming content in these fast moving, speed, feed reading times. The great soundtrack helped, the track is LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends from Sound of Silver and the photos are all here on flickr too. It has inspired me, giving me a idea which I will hopefully share at a later date. 
Hap tip to Ed Cotton at Influx Insights
This is Japan! from Eric Testroete on Vimeo.

Twitter Love

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Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void articulates the strengths of twitter against the other new communication platforms. I always thought it would be the perfect communication tool at a music festival where you could effectively mass text message all your friends at once but I have seen the light and see how it's a platform clearly populated by influencers, social media marketeers. A great platform to spread the day to day but also links of interest. Here's Shel Israel's insightful post on twitter at SXSW.

Here's Twitter in plain english from the wonderful common craft blog.

Deputy Dog - Blog of wonderful oddities

Deputy Dog is a wonderful blog that deserves a mention for it's great photographic and web video list of weird and wonderful things. DD calls itself 'a website dedicated to showcasing incredible examples of the world’s most fascinating architecture, inspirational design, phenomenal natural oddities…'

Much like the latest private cinema post pic above. He's drawn up the strangest elevators and my favourite was all the most unusual runways, most of which are crazy web videos of planes landing on mountain sides and beaches, all fascinating to watch.  Here's a crazy landing at Courchevel mountainside runway below.

Here's some of the best posts. 13 worst fake accents. ,11 phenomenal images of earth, top 9 unique structures soon to be built, interesting elevators, the steepest streets in the world, 10 of the best natural phenomena

Enjoy. Well worth bookmarking or adding to your reader.

UPDATE - Had to add these two pics of this Portugese runway which underneath is a car park...

Blogs in Plain English from Common Craft

The great Common Craft blog has made this web video explaining blogs true impact in the world.