Take a trip down memory lane - 'The Beyond Within', a BBC documentary from 1986 about LSD (Vimeo)
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From the Vimeo video page:
The Need 4 Speed: The Art of Flight
A collection of shots from flights made during the 2009-2010 season by the talented group of wingsuit basejumpers, while flying the V3, Hybrid LD2/Trango rigs and testing several new V-series wingsuit prototypes around Europe.
The weirdness of the web, put together by The Institute of Internet Studies.
Their 'meme team' (no, really) looks back at some of the greatest memes of 2010, including:Epic Beard ManF*cking Magnets, How Do They Work?Bros Icing Bros
World Cup VuvuzelasSad KeanuDeal With ItDouble RainbowInterior SemioticsAntoine Dodson / Bed IntruderForever Alone Guy
Video by Mobile Future: mobilefuture.org.
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"2010 was the year mobile connected the world. With stunning statistics, facts, and visual cues, this video takes a tour of key consumer and technology mobile trends across an eventful year. Some highlights of the video include: Massive increase in apps downloaded:
- FIVE BILLION apps downloaded - up from 300 million in 2009
- Whopping expansion of location-based services: FIVE MILLION Foursquare users, up from 200,000 users in 2009
Surge in mobile social media platforms
- 347 PERCENT growth in Twitter mobile usage
- 200 MILLION mobile Facebook Users
- 100 MILLION YouTube videos played on mobile devices everyday"
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Why's everybody acting funny?
Why's everybody look so strange?
Why's everybody look so nasty?
What do I want with all these things?
Here's a video version
www.demoslam.com | 3 animators. 3 days (sort of). 3 Locations. 1 Google Doc.
Turn up the volume, go full-screen.
Download the original Google Doc here.
This is the most awe-inducing, ineffably brilliant film I have seen for a long time. This has been a 'Year of Space' for me (one of the best books I read all year was Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery).
This film is a detailed exploration of the moment The Shuttle (or, more precisely, the STS) takes off, mostly displayed in ultra HD 400fps slow motion film, taken from the dozens of mostly 16mm cameras that surround the Shuttle launch site to monitor the lift-off. The narration throughout describes exactly what we're seeing and why it's happening.
It's both beautiful and somewhat overwhelmingly intense, at the same time (you forget you're watching 400fps too easily). I remember seeing the first Shuttle take off on grainy colour TV, a week after my ninth birthday (I think we had just finished watching some pirated VHS videos on my neighbour's VHS player, which was a novelty in itself). I still think it's a shame it ended up taking cargo to the Space Station versus building a launch platform for something more ambitious, like a manned trip to Mars). Anyway . . .
Here's some more detail from the YouTube page:
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Photographic documentation of a Space Shuttle launch plays a critical role in the engineering analysis and evaluation process that takes place during each and every mission. Motion and Still images enable Shuttle engineers to visually identify off-nominal events and conditions requiring corrective action to ensure mission safety and success. This imagery also provides highly inspirational and educational insight to those outside the NASA family.This compilation of film and video presents the best of the best ground-based Shuttle motion imagery from STS-114, STS-117, and STS-124 missions. Rendered in the highest definition possible, this production is a tribute to the dozens of men and women of the Shuttle imaging team and the 30yrs of achievement of the Space Shuttle Program.The video was produced by Matt Melis at the Glenn Research Center.
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From the video page on YouTube:
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This is a graphical interface inspired by the movie "Minority Report". It
uses the Kinect sensor from Microsoft, and the recently released
libfreenect driver for interfacing with the Kinect in linux. The
graphical interface and the hand detection software were written at MIT
to interface with the open source robotics package 'ROS', developed by
Willow Garage (willowgarage.com). The hand detection software showcases the abilities of
the Point Cloud Library (PCL), a part of ROS that MIT has been helping to
optimize. The hand detection software is able to distinguish hands and
fingers in a cloud of more than 60,000 points at 30 frames per second,
allowing natural, real time interaction.
Code available at:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect
http://www.ros.org/wiki/mit-ros-pkg
Work done by CSAIL's LIS Group (http://lis.csail.mit.edu/) and Robot Locomotion Group (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/)
