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Some days, it feels like it can be difficult to get people excited about space exploration. It's space! It's the universe! Get excited already! Which is why NASA, being the lovable nerds that they are, have decided to use Peter Cullen, AKA the voice of Optimus Prime, to get you pumped about the Hubble's successor.

So sit back, relax, and listen as the sultry voice of Peter Cullen shows how the James Webb Space Telescope will transform and roll out...for science!

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years ago when i got promoted into the ranks of management at my university IT job, i made the very clear decision to continue, on most days, to dress the way i did as a developer. this included continuing to wear my many, assorted, colorful vans. often mismatched.

i knew at the time that this might be perceived to mean i wasn’t to be taken seriously, or that i didn’t know how to play grown-up, or that i wasn’t getting with the program.

perhaps all valid. but i felt that my effort should matter more than my shoes. i work hard and i deliver, i should be able to wear what i want. the results should speak for themselves.

naive? maybe. but when i later got promoted into the director-level ranks, i was promoted wearing my red shoes.

recently a colleague i’ve worked with for years ran into me at an event. he said, “i hope this doesn’t sound strange, but i’m really glad to see that you still wear your red shoes.” i was a bit confused and he continued, “they didn’t change you. you didn’t become one of them.”

since then i’ve thought of all the ways that my simple decision to wear what i liked had subtly influenced things around me. how it “meant” something in ways i’d not intended, but that still might be true. then this morning bombtune posted the harvard business school article, “The Manager in Red Sneakers”, and i can see that my small choice can be read as a bold statement.

a statement not intended… but still, true.

there’s a re-org happening in my department. there’s a strong possibility i may be promoted again. i started to consider if maybe i need to re-think my personal dress code. maybe i’m hurting my teams’ credibility. maybe…

but no. if they’re going to promote me, they know who i am. and i’ll be wearing my red shoes.

This is a comic from my upcoming book about running.

Polish designer Zuzia Kozerska creates laser-engraved wooden rolling pins that print designs onto cookie dough. She has a number of standard designs available over on Etsy, but creates customized pins to order. (via Laughing Squid, swissmiss)

I love everything about these portly characters beating the stuffing out of each other in this animated short from Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels. Titled Fight!, the stop motion project was selected as the trailer for the National Animation Festival 2013 in Bruz, France. If you liked this also check out a preview for another short, Oh Willy. (via It’s Nice That)

© Julio Lucas. Bradenton, FL United States. 1st Place / 2014 Photographer of the Year.

© Jose Luis Barcia Fernandez. Madrid, Spain. 2nd Place / 2014 Photographer of the Year.

© Jill Missner. Ridgefield, CT United States. 3rd Place / 2014 Photographer of the Year.

© Michael O’Neal. San Francisco, CA United States. 1st Place / Animals.

© Coco Liu. Illinois, United States. 3rd Place / Architecture.

© Felicia Pandola. Providence, RI. 1st Place / Nature.

© Juana Chaves. Madrid, Spain. 2nd Place / News & Events.

© Terry Vital. Windham, NH. 1st Place / Others.

© Hector Navarro. Zapopan, Jalisco Mexico. 3rd Place / People.

© Coco Liu. Illinois, United States. 1st Place / Seasons.

© Little Su. New Taipei City, Taiwan. First Place / Sunset.

It’s amazing to see the stories we’re now capable of telling with a device that fits in our pocket containing a camera about the size of a dime (or maybe it’s even smaller now, I’m running out of currency/technology scale comparisons). One of the primary champions of photography taken with iPhones is the iPhone Photography Awards which just announced the winners of their 2014 competition. This is the 7th year of the IPPAWARDS, a global contest for photographs taken only with iPhones. This year includes 54 photographers hailing from 17 countries who competed in 17 different categories. Seen here are the top three winners and some of my own favorites, but you can see much more on their website. (via Tim Cook)

This has been shared far and wide around the web over the last week, but if you haven’t seen it yet take a quick gander at filmmaker Philip Bloom‘s (previously) visit to Koh Yao Noi, one of the least developed islands in Thailand. Bloom shot the piece while on vacation using a GoPro camera and a Quadcopter, the details of which he goes into over on his blog. It’s nice to see Bloom making use of technology to quickly establish such a strong sense of place. (via Coudal)