Using the ultra hi-res RED One Digital Cinema camera, British photographer, Robbie Cooper captured the faces of children while playing video games.  Pulling stills from the video, the project is aptly named "Immersion."  The video is equally fascinating if not humorous.

Money... we all have some (well at least those of us who read blogs through expensive pieces of silcon hardware).  Most of us want more money (I know I do).  A lot of us have more than we think (including me).  And, a few in our world actually have more than some countries' entire GDP (not even close).  But what is this thing called money?  The latest issue of Colors opens with the sentence, "Money is an illusion, a psychological relationship between an object and a value that has been given to it..."  If you can look past the fact that Colors is one big advertisement for The Benetton Family (who own and operate numerous clothing brands including United Colors of Benetton and Killer Loop), you'll find some facinating editorial.

Since launching last Friday, Noah Briar's newest venture has gotten over 80,000 hits.  Another Web 2.0 experiment, Brand Tags is a simple application that allows people to enter words they associate with specific brands.  It actually feels more like play than it does research.

The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people's heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is.

This concept would be interesting to overlay onto church life. 

"WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness."

This is actually a fun simple site.  You can run searches on words to see where they rank... your name for instance.  Because you can see the words before and after it's actually quite amusing when you see which ones are connected.  In keeping with American politics, I found these for instance...

Brian Grazer, the Oscar-winning producer of The Da Vinci Code, American Gangster and A Beautiful Mind, is looking for a personal cultural attaché to keep him in touch with the world beyond Hollywood.

Grazer is offering to pay an assistant £40,000 ($80,000) a year to read books for him, accompany him on his private jet and fix interviews with everyone from Buddhist monks to mafia bosses. No previous experience of the film industry is required.

Technology companies are eliminating assigned space for open floor plans. Cisco Systems, Google and Sun Microsystems have already knocked down partitions. This month, Intel began testing alternative floor plans at three locations — creating open work areas with clusters of armchairs, library-style tables with laptop plugs, electronic white boards where inspired doodles can be transferred to e-mail, and a variety of conerence rooms when privacy is needed. It is not just the high-tech firms that are becoming cozier.