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Posts Tagged "video"
The Imaginative Automata of Dug North
Dug North makes some seriously freaking amazing automata. The ones featured in this video are playful, beautiful, and incredibly complex.
9-Year-Old Girl With Helmetcam Psyches Herself Up Before a Ski Jump
The next time I get nervous about doing something, I’m going to have this young girl’s voice in my head. This, THIS kind of stuff is why I freaking love the Internet.
Lilyhammer: A New York Gangster in Norway
Frank’s one demand is a strange one: he wants to be relocated to Norway. When asked why he chose Norway, he responds: “Didn’t you see the Olympics of ’94? Clean air, fresh white snow, gorgeous broads… it was beautiful.”
Frank gets his wish, and is transported to Lillehammer, Norway. The show gets its name from Frank’s mis-pronunciation: he calls the town Lilyhammer. As you can imagine, his new life doesn’t go as planned.
Quadrotors: A Series of Amazing (And Slightly Disconcerting) Videos
Part of me is in awe at what we can achieve, through math and technology. Another part of me is just waiting for the day when an evil scientist puts some time towards these guys, and pulls off the first robotic bank heist or robotic assassination. And there’s yet another part of me that thinks all of this is fun and games, until the Singularity arrives.
This Is My Home
Departure | Arrival Films (Kelsey Holtaway and Mark Cersosimo) created a short film about a man and his home.
The City of Samba: Tilt-Shift Video of the 2011 Rio Carnival
I’m not a huge tilt-shift fan, but this is a preface I tend to use every time I post up one of these videos. This one though, I found particularly exceptional.
Created by Keith Loutit and Jarbas Agnelli, the video captures a wide range of moments during the 2011 Rio Carnival.
Julie and Bob, En Route to Florida
Julie, shooting video and sending it via her new Android phone. Posted for posterity! Bob and Julie are currently en route to Florida in my car, which we loaned them thinking it would be more comfortable than Bob’s truck. They’re visiting family along the way, but Liz and I are headed to Florida soon to…
32 Hours, 7 Minutes, Revisited Eight Years Later
Phil came by my desk yesterday morning, asking if I remembered a link I had sent him many many years ago, back when we were still at the Merchandise Mart. It involved cars and a cross-country race, but neither of us could recall the actual title. Funny thing – we both remembered the website being…
Mark Jenkins: Packing Tape Sculptures
Using something as innocuous as tape, Mark Jenkins is able to incredibly lifelike figures. His public installation pieces are whimsical, funny, and even a little unsettling.
The Amazing Tape Art of Max Zorn
Max Zorn does some amazing things with some ordinary tools. He’s able to make incredibly textured and detailed images using just plexi-glass, tape and a plain razor. He then places these works high above the street, using street lamps as both a canvas and a source of illumination.
Clay Shirky Video: Why SOPA is a Bad Idea
Shirky does a remarkable job articulating the history and the problem of copyright violation, and why measures like SOPA/PIPA are incredibly problematic. He is clear, concise, and is able to summarize a complex topic and make it digestible. More than that, he’s able to describe the inherent problems way better than anyone else I’ve read or heard.
Lionel Richie’s “Hello,” Set To Movie Dialogue
Matthijs Vlot does a masterful job stitching in dialogue across tons of movies, all to the lyrics of Lionel Richie’s classic 80’s song Hello.
Recursive Google Image Search, Starting with a Transparent Image
Sebastian Schmieg found a novel way to use Google’s Image Search: he started with a transparent .png file, asked Google to return similar images, and kept feeding the top result back into Google for another search. For those who don’t work with image files every day, a transparent .png file is comparable to a pane of glass. It is nothing more than a square of transparency… which makes the search results all the more fascinating.
TED: Luis von Ahn on CAPTCHAs and Massive-Scale Online Collaboration
Whenever you’re filling out a CAPTCHA (those blurry, wavy words they sometimes force you to type on web pages), you should think of Luis von Ahn. He was involved in the early days of CAPTCHAs, but ended up starting a company called reCAPTCHA that revolutionized this seemingly mundane task.