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This clip is from this year's World Science Festival, and it shows Bobby McFerrin "harnessing" our inherent sense of music through pentatonic scales - have a look to see what it means.

Well, it proves one thing to me as a programmer that despite all the differences in the world, manmade or otherwise, we all belong to the same base class..

This awesome stuff is from the talented hand of Jonathan Jarvis. More info here.

Seriously though, if possible I next want him to visualize the Middle-East mess! The generational short-sightedness and lack of understanding can do with a big-picture reflection - which a visual such as this can provide, to perhaps some benefit.

The other day, I mentioned how we developers are artists in every right - well, below is artistry of another kind, one you just have to tip you hat to..

This was done on the streets of Buenos Aires and Baden by an amazingly talented artist named Blu. In the video above, titled Muto, each frame was drawn and photographed sequentially with with some added animation. For me the character-art is mind-blowing, the scale staggering, but what impresses the most is the patience and vision exuded by its creator.

On a related note, here is a little food-for-though I picked up from Robby Ingebretsen's blog post:

[Design] involves creativity in the way doing a crossword puzzle involves creativity. You need some imagination and knowledge. I think of artists as creative because they have to invent something out of nothing. I think designers design because they can't invent something out of nothing.