2010 TED Prize Wish: “I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.”

Watch his talk at TED.com: Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.

Quite a TED performance. Personal. Political. Passionate. If we’re going to make lasting changes in our society, we HAVE TO directly challenge “conventional wisdom” and those powerful interests who want to keep things exactly as they are. Some of what comes out of a challenge like that is going to be uncomfortable. It’s going to come with ridicule. Probably some ruthless assaults from the “free-marketeers.” But to fix our ills, we’ve got to hit ‘em head on.

I enjoyed this video by El-P from Pitchfork’s Surveillance series (from last year’s ATP). Nice to see a little keytar action these days.

UPDATE: Strange coincidence that the day I post this video I also see rumors of El-P’s label, Definitive Jux, possibly going out of business. Let’s hope its not true.

I don’t know what it is about time lapse videos, but I dig ‘em. The one above “Another Cloud Reel” by Ben Wiggins was shot, for the most part, around San Francisco. If you can get past the music it is a pretty amazing piece of video. Since I live here, I find this of particular interest. The part at 3:34 with the airplanes landing at SFO really trips me out. I found this video on the Illusion360 site, where if you search for “time lapse” you find a bunch of pretty good stuff.