Sebastian Cadenas » People

Behaviors of mobile calls

scadenas — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:22:03 +0000

Interesting map by M.I.T. Senseable City Lab, I.B.M. Research and AT&T Labs Research. Below are the behaviors of mobile calls in the U.S. As shown, the most performed within the state and/or city. Although, you can see high cross connections between Florida – Los Angeles and South Cal – Midwest.

Lessons for Life

scadenas — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:04:50 +0000

Lessons for Life is a project started by a friend from Los Angeles, her name is Snow White Bui. Yeap, her real name is Snow White Bui and is not a caricature from Disney.

Lessons for Life is a project to share life´s greatest lessons. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could have a wide-range of people from any culture, background or age sharing the three things they wish they knew when they were younger?

Few weeks ago, she asked me to share her project with some people that I knew and I asked her if I could post about her project on my blog. She agreed, so know everyone who is reading this post is invited to participate .

If you want to participate just:

Download and print the template to share your three things.
Hand-write the template (yeap there’s just something about the human touch that could not be replicate by any font yet).
Mail it: Lessons For Life Project, P.O. Box 4718, Culver City, CA 90231, United States. If mailing it is too difficult, you could try scanning/emailing to Snow White Bui
Check every Tuesday http://lessonsforlifeproject.com/. She´ll post up what others have written.

Thanks and cheers,

Pills against pain of others

scadenas — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:56:59 +0000

In the first world, if you are in pain there´re pills to mitigate almost any pain. But … What if it hurts you it’s pain, the pain of those who do not have pills to cure their suffering?

A Spanish NGO created pills against pain of others. They are sold exclusively on pharmacies and they donate profits to Doctors with out borders. The total cost of each of the boxes of pills is 9 cents of euro and they are sold for 1. Doctors without borders distributes net income to fund projects of Malaria, Tuberculosis, pediatric AIDS, Chagas and Kala Zar.

Check out their video, to understand better how it works.

The Wrong Stuff

scadenas — Sat, 28 May 2011 07:55:16 +0000

In this Ted, Kathryn Schulz, shows how wrong we are when we don´t see the wonderfully side of the things that we do wrong. Realizing when we do things wrong is a step up, is evolve and grow and it´s interesting see how we behave when we find we have been wrong, and how our errors change us.

She´s the author of “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error,” and the “The Wrong Stuff” if you want to go deeper in the subject.

Film festivals and Banff

scadenas — Thu, 12 May 2011 01:04:46 +0000

Few weeks ago I attended the BANFF Mountain film festival, they showed 15 amazing cortos and they mentioned that some more were listed in their website. I took a look because there was one that I wanted to send to a friend in Buenos Aires and I found that some which were not presented in the festival were pretty cool.

Summer Pasteurs was one of them, it shows something that probably most of us will never see, nomad people in eastern Tibet, in some ways they remained me the gauchos, especially when he puts his knife into his belt.

Film festivals have a hard responsibility to select the best cortos to be showed. BANFF did a great job this year, but because is one of the best mountain film festivals in the world, most of the movies, which were not showed during the festival, were still excellent.

Hope you enjoy the best cortos of 2010 and summer pastures.

The photo from his belt is from Todd Carroll