De nieuwe wijsheid van Semler Ricardo Semler pleit voor het inside the box denken. Vanuit zijn indrukwekkende landgoed toont hij de kijker een nieuw spectaculair vergezicht. We zijn slimmer dan ooit. Maar zijn we ook wijzer geworden? De economie is totaal ontregeld, het kapitalisme heeft nergens geleid tot gelijkwaardigheid, de 6 grootste bedrijven ter wereld zijn meer waard dan de 60 armste landen samen. Eerder zagen we in De kapitale kracht van geluk hoe de schatrijke Braziliaanse topondernemer Ricardo Semler geluk en liefde centraal stelde in management en bedrijfsleven. Toch blijven we in het bedrijfsleven en overheid vasthouden aan de angst voor chaos en blijven managers en tussenmanagers benoemen om de angst te verzachten. Tegenlicht daalt wederom af in de wereld van Ricardo Semler, een wereld waarin wijsheid, intuïtie en inside the box denken meer dan ooit tevoren een centrale positie zouden moeten innemen.
CALL FOR ENTRIES */ ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 2013 The 9th edition of the International Festival of Digital Arts & New Media of Greece, Athens Video Art Festival is here! Athens Video Art Festival 2013 will take place on June 7-9, in the Historic and Commercial Centre of Athens. Athens Video Art Festival 2013 attempts to activate both visually and creatively a journey in one of the most debatable and charged city areas, by making the best of the diversity, the versatility and the colour of the city. From Theatre Square and the much awaited Romantzo to Kotzia Square and the neo-classical CAMP, street screenings, artistic interventions and collaborations will be setting the tone of a throbbing and ever evolving community of artists. Nine years ago, Athens Video Art Festival initiated a broadly creative dialogue with Academic Institutions, Organizations, International Festivals and internationally acclaimed artists. Artists may send/ submit their work to any of the categories below. For more information: www.athensvideoartfestival.gr
Gary Hamel: Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment Watch Gary Hamel, celebrated management thinker and author and co-founder of the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), make the case for reinventing management for the 21st century. In this fast-paced, idea-packed, 15-minute video essay, Hamel paints a vivid picture of what it means to build organizations that are fundamentally fit for the future—resilient, inventive, inspiring and accountable. "Modern” management is one of humanity’s most important inventions, Hamel argues. But it was developed more than a century ago to maximize standardization, specialization, hierarchy, control, and shareholder interests. This video is an excerpt from the University of Phoenix Distinguished Guest Video Lecture Series.
Record from your web cam in Linux with GUVCView - Recently I have had to do some video tutorials. I tried recording these tutorials with Ubuntu's default Cheese Webcam Booth, but unfortunately the combination of my Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, Ubuntu 10.10, and Cheese didn't want to record video in any usable FPS. So I had to look elsewhere. My search turned me to GUVCView and I can't tell you how happy I have been with the results. Not only is this tool as easy to use as Cheese, it's far more flexible, and renders much better video. What is it? GUVCView is a GTK+ front-end for the capturing of video from devices supported by the UVC driver. Installation Installation is simple. Open up the Ubuntu Software Center.Search for guvcview.Click the Install button associated with GUVCView.Type your sudo password.Accept any dependencies (if applicable). Let the installation complete. Usage Figure 1 The basic usage of GUVCView is simple. In this same tab you can select various options for your video recording. Do the same for audio in the Audio tab.
Enkele lijnen herschilderen en files dalen spectaculair Door een aanpassing van de wegmarkering en door het omdraaien van pijltjes boven het wegdek - die wijzen nu naar boven, niet meer naar beneden - staan we ‘s ochtends op de ring van Antwerpen de helft minder lang aan te schuiven richting E19 en A12. Op de Antwerpse binnenring bij Antwerpen-Zuid werden in maart vorig jaar de wegmarkeringen herschilderd. Net na de afrit Berchem telde de Antwerpse binnenring drie doorgaande rijstroken richting Gent/Kennedytunnel en twee naar de E19 en A12 richting Brussel. Maar het verkeerscentrum kwam tot de conclusie dat tijdens de spits veel meer mensen richting E19/A12 rijden dan richting Gent. Eenvoudig maar doeltreffend Door die eenvoudige ingreep daalde het aantal voertuigverliesuren op de binnenring voor Antwerpen-Zuid in de ochtend met 44 procent, op de E313 naar Antwerpen tussen Ranst en Antwerpen-Oost met 23 procent. ‘We lijsten momenteel alle verzadigde punten op de Vlaamse snelwegen op.
19 ffmpeg commands for all needs Getting infos from a video file ffmpeg -i video.avi Turn X images to a video sequence ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg video.mpg This command will transform all the images from the current directory (named image1.jpg, image2.jpg, etc…) to a video file named video.mpg. Turn a video to X images ffmpeg -i video.mpg image%d.jpg This command will generate the files named image1.jpg, image2.jpg, … The following image formats are also availables : PGM, PPM, PAM, PGMYUV, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, SGI. Encode a video sequence for the iPpod/iPhone ffmpeg -i source_video.avi input -acodec aac -ab 128kb -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200kb -mbd 2 -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 320x180 -title X final_video.mp4 Explanations : Source : source_video.aviAudio codec : aacAudio bitrate : 128kb/sVideo codec : mpeg4Video bitrate : 1200kb/sVideo size : 320px par 180pxGenerated video : final_video.mp4 Encode video for the PSP Extracting sound from a video, and save it as Mp3 Convert a wav file to Mp3 Convert .avi video to .mpg
6 Photographers Asked to Shoot Portraits of 1 Man... With a Twist Canon recently conducted an interesting experiment on the power of perspective in portrait photography. They enlisted the help of 6 photographers and asked them each to independently shoot portraits of a man named Michael. But there was a twist: each photographer was told a different thing about Michael’s background. Here’s a taste of what the 6 resulting portraits looked like through 6 different perspectives of who Michael is: Fisherman Alcoholic Millionaire Convict Life Saver Psychic “A photograph is shaped more by the person behind the camera than by what’s in front of it,” Canon says.