Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

Help me “Rhonda”

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

There's not much information about the video above on its website. But it is basically a 3D drawing tool called "Rhonda". Looks pretty mind blowing.  Rhonda is currently being developed for "various platforms" and you can enter to become a beta tester.

Quick Links: Beck and brain mapping

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "Run Run Run" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo. Beck covers the Velvet Underground & Nico album in one day. (via Brain Pickings) The NIH sets a goal to complete a region-to-region map of the brain in five years by encouraging collaboration among neuroscientists.

An attempted walk from Beijing to Berlin

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo. The man you see above, Christoph Rehage, wanted to walk from Beijing, China to Berlin, Germany, a 4,500 plus mile trek.  His journey ended after 2,900 miles in Ürümqi, China.  This short video shows a ...

Auto-tune the News 7

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

If you've never seen Auto-Tune the News, you're missing out.  If you push play and are thinking WTF, give it a few moments until your ears adjust to hearing popular media figures being Auto-Tuned -- (the vocal effect of the minute in hip-hop and rap) -- and you may find ...

Netflix official app to stream movies?

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Word around the interwebs is Netflix may come out with an official iPhone app allowing streaming of movies and shows from your "watch instantly" queue.  The downside is it will most likely only work over WiFi due to concerns that such an app would place too much strain on ...

Building Rome in a Day: Animated 3D model city built from Flickr

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

The University of Washington's Department of Computer Science and Engineering has reconstructed Rome in a day. By harvesting thousands of images from the web and then matching common points in the photos, they were able to compute 3-D visualizations.  All in the span of 24 hours.  I am vastly oversimplifying, so ...

Back to the ‘Back to the Future’

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Back To The Back To The Future from Eclectic Method on Vimeo. This one may have come to my attention via The Twitter.  Not sure.  Anyway, I can see how either this could annoy Back to the Future purists or totally delight.  It basically takes bits of the flick and mixes ...

‘Soul Power’ Trailer

Friday, July 10th, 2009

This is the Soul Power trailer. The film documents the 1974 concert in Zaire surrounding the Ali vs. Forman match and includes complete performances from B.B. King, Bill Withers, Miriam Makeba, and James Brown. (via Flavorwire's Daily Dose)

iPhone 3GS video comparison: emailed vs. iPhoto

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Click to view and/or download:  nighttrain Warning: Apologies if these auto-play; that option didn't want to turn off. This is a poor example of what video looks like from the iPhone 3GS. It is shot at night where the camera usually does not do well; could possible have the wrong dimensions; ...

On Documentaries: ‘Give a Damn?’ and ‘Capturing Reality’

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

I recently gave tweet to an ongoing documentary called Give a Damn? about "an idealist activist who convinces his friend who doesn't give a damn about the poor to go to Africa and try and live on $1 a day". So short of donating or buying merch, the only way I ...