Hi there I’m Jake and did you hear about the restaurant on the moon?
Great food, no atmosphere.
*drum sound* That was drumsound.net which is a great website for anytime someone makes
a terrible joke.
No offense pun.me, where I got that joke from.
Anyways those are both DONGs, things you can do online now guys.
How well do you know popular logos?
You see them all the time in commercials, billboards, and magazines but what happens
when you try to draw them from memory?
On Neal.fun you can test it out.
Let’s try McDonalds.
Draw in on the left and then when you finish reveal the real logo on the right.
Okay that one wasn’t too hard.
It’s not perfect but it’s clear that I had the correct one in mind.
Let’s try a harder one like Starbucks.
Like I know there's like a lady in it. She's maybe like a fish lady.
And she has like a trident or something. And maybe horns?
I don't really know. Ok well I got it terribly wrong which is kind of weird because there's
Starbucks on pretty much every street corner. So why didn't I know it
Well signs.com/branded-in-memory might give us some answers.
This site shows off the results of a study in which 156 Americans were given 80 hours
to draw 10 famous logos from memory.
As it turns out, not a very high percentage of them could get it that close to the real
thing is.
It was discovered that 80% selected the correct color pallete but when it came to the shapes
they had more trouble.
One possible explanation to these imperfect recreations is that the participants may have
conflated each of the changing logos over time.
And just as logos change over time so do populations. So check out
Human Terrain, a website where you can view the population in 1990 vs 2015 or both at
the same time around the world.
Look at Peru.
Here’s the population in 2015 and here you can compare it with 1990, or 1975.
There’s a lot of reasons why a population can fluctuate, such as civil war, mass migration,
invasion, or simply better sanitary conditions leading to more children surviving childbirth.
The show change feature is really the only sure way to see if there was an increase or
decrease in population.
A decrease in population will show up in red while an increase in population will show
up in green.
Ya know what else is green?
MONEEYYYYYY! This is me showering people with money.
On notable women with google we can look at money.
But that’s not all, because that would be boring.
The idea of this project came from Rosie Rios who wanted to put historic women on United
States currency.
She was invited by Google to speak about it and came out with a augmented reality project.
If you’re on a laptop you can still scroll through the 100 historic women and read through
their bios.
It ranges in alphabetical order from Abigail Adams to Zora Neale Hurston.
The accomplishments on this page are wide-ranging in categories from Advocacy to Science.
Oh look, Ma Rainey was a singer known as the Mother of the Blues.
This got me in a musical mood so let’s head over to
Sound Canvas.
On this groovy and artsy DONG you draw a picture with your mouse or your body using the webcam.
As you draw it will create music.
Let’s see what I would sound like as a picture.
Lemme just draw my head and now my eyes,
my ear, my other ear, add a little scruff right there
Maybe accentuate the cheek-bones
That looks good. Ooh look at that. Beautiful and totally accurate.
Also over here it tells you your position on the computer screen.
Try to get it to 50/50.
I think you can.
But more importantly, I PLINK you can
I’ll finish this episode with PLINK, a multiplayer music game.
You just click and hold and move it around to add to this glorious symphony.
WOW SO FUN
Plink is similar to another game we've featured on DONG
But this is kind of like a new updated version.
And it's really cool. Maybe you'll find us in there just dongin about. I don't really know
Ahhhh music to my ears.
You know what else is good for your ears. This last dong. And it's a long dong.
Kevin from VSauce 2 just made a new podcast called the create unknown.
And it's very nice. It's an inside look really into the lives and the creativity of some of your favorite youtube creators.
There's three episodes out right now. One with Destin from Smarter Every Day.
A lovely man.
The other is with Grandayy and Dolan Dark.
And then another one that's not as interesting with me: Jake Roper
So if you want you can check it out: Link down in the description.
Go give Kevin some love.
He's a very nice young man. He's like a little baby
Like a little cherub.
Give him a lot of attention or else he gets angry.
You know what happens Hannah??
He gets mad.
Ok. Yeah. I was hoping for something a little bit.
He's turns into a granola bar.
He shoulda known.
Cherubs turn into granola bars. It's Cherubble.
Links to all the dongs are down there as well as the podcast.
Dong Playlist.
And
As Always
Thanks for watching. alalalalalala