Good: Biryani and rita eaten even though its one of my least favorite Pakisatni foods.Bad: Urdu play, for Japan, about Hiroshima. Moral of the story? Listen to your mother in law. Also do not sit on the imaginary kid you were holding. It will make people laugh.Good: Enola Gray – London Fields – Martin Amis. I might reconsider this author I love to hate.Bad: Cramps.Good: Connections that hopefully come through. Getting shit done.
I have been recently seeing a lot of examples of crowd sourcing.That is for example:
- Ad copy
- Community project Mostly it seems like its being used for brands as a marketing tool / viral / we are so hip and cutting edge tool.Here are some things I’m will think about regarding crowd sourcing as I drive home tonight:
- What are the key elements that actually make people interested in participating in this? For me personally, I’ve experimented with ConceptFeedback. I guess I like giving my feedback because I feel I know something about effective design. Yet as someone who doesn’t design myself; there isn’t a whole lot to keep me coming back to the site.
I remember Natasha saying once that when she was young her dream was to have an audience that would just listen to whatever she said.I really thought that was cute and funny. I DO not think any real person should actually have that power.Especially when you are going to talk about soap bubbles.Ok – I’m tired and my ability to be coherent is limited.
Sunset
Or uhh– thankfully not so mutant, not so ninja turtles.
Went to Sandspit beach this weekend and was lucky enough to be there for turtle egg laying season. We saw TWO turtles coming up from the ocean (those cuties are NOT as slow as you would think for a turtle and are really big) and we say them dig their hole and start laying the eggs.The local peeps who protect the turtles told us to keep away from the turtles until they start laying their eggs (otherwise they get afraid and run away aborting the turtle babies for the year). Once they started laying their eggs we got closer to take a look. It was amazing – right under their back legs is a surprisingly deep hole which had over two dozen eggs.Apparently each turtle will lay between 100 – 120 eggs. Once the turtles lay the eggs and go back to the sea the local peeps dig them up and move them to fenced off location where they are safe from predators like dogs and of course humans. We either saw the Green Sea Turtle or the Olive Ridley Turtle. My bet is that it was the Green Sea Turtle which as supposed to be big ’cause these guys sure were. (I also kept referring to said turtles as guys, even though they are clearly the opposite.)We also got to see some of the baby turtles that had already hatches (they were probably a couple of weeks old) and released them into the ocean. Pretty cool!
More Turtles on the Beach - Photo Credit Danish Ghazi
Turtles laying eggs - Photo Credit goes to Sami