tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83467428267570580272024-02-19T18:57:03.761-06:00 Paul BookerA sound formed in a vacuum may seem a waste of timeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.comBlogger508125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-74836585438061994592015-10-04T11:45:00.000-05:002015-10-04T11:45:31.858-05:00Simulated ExplosionsIf I knew more about coding I would love to get access to this technology.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rENyyRwxpHo" width="560"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-69213681133776767862014-05-19T13:24:00.000-05:002014-05-19T13:24:46.772-05:00A Supercell Forming in Wyoming<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VoO89cqDgJU" width="853"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-13306466780988305312014-04-27T13:12:00.000-05:002014-04-27T13:12:06.501-05:00How We Found the Giant Squid <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rXkOPv3wVZw" width="853"></iframe><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-36465274098512295792014-04-27T13:09:00.001-05:002014-04-27T13:09:11.866-05:00Advertisements Are Generic Canned Stock FootageI haven't owned a television set for twenty years and here's why. Something about advertisements upsets me at a core level. This video is a parody of the generic crap commercials you tend to see, but the irony here is that it's made by a company who licenses the generic crap stock footage you see in those commercials.<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/2YBtspm8j8M" width="853"></iframe><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-43071840860356484622014-04-09T13:11:00.000-05:002014-04-09T13:11:00.153-05:00What Does Sound Look Like? <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/px3oVGXr4mo" width="853"></iframe><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-57075529313264846402014-04-06T15:38:00.000-05:002014-04-06T15:38:53.006-05:00Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet For some time now I've wanted to see Edward Snowden speak to see what he had to say about his actions and why he released the documents. I have to say that I was impressed with the discussion. He is a very articulate champion of a free and open internet.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yVwAodrjZMY" width="853"></iframe><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-14654801699024842014-04-01T00:28:00.001-05:002014-04-01T21:49:44.805-05:00The Most Amazing Rock Climbing Training Video Ever... No Really...Ever...If he's not completely defying the laws of gravity, he is at least laughing at them...<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="450" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/66473915?portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="800"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/66473915">Jan Hojer Training</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user11628745">Jan Hojer</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-15340642714425303922014-03-27T00:51:00.001-05:002014-04-01T18:06:10.782-05:00La Dura Complete: The Hardest Rock Climb In The World Chris Sharma and Adam Ondra, the world's two top climbers attempt what is currently the world's hardest route (5.15c).<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/V1P97VVt6_k" width="853"></iframe><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-35648355468503563942014-03-16T22:14:00.000-05:002014-03-16T22:14:52.497-05:00The Life and Death of Mountains<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/87651855?portrait=0" width="800" height="341" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/87651855">The Weight of Mountains</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/studiocanoe">Studiocanoe</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-17700304494108424242014-03-15T15:26:00.000-05:002014-03-15T15:26:16.693-05:00HungerI saw this animation today on Dangerous Minds. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it. It's got a very unsettling plot line and the soundtrack is equally so, but what really interested me is the style of the animation. Created in 1974, it's an interesting example of early computer animation. It looks like very crude hand-drawn line drawings, but then the way the lines move is where the computer generation comes into play. All of the lines seem to explode and then reassemble into a different object or scene.
<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/38238456?color=ffffff" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/38238456">Hunger</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/thenfb">National Film Board of Canada</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-42714687968605897082014-03-01T18:20:00.000-06:002014-03-01T18:27:26.939-06:00My Sketchbook- Purse SeriesI was looking through my old sketchbooks today and came across this really intimate little series of pen and ink drawings that I that I did sometime around the mid 2000's. Some are more straightforward imaginings of coin purses, and others get downright bizarre. I thought they were interesting enough to scan and post here.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-67708986024657389382014-01-26T15:50:00.001-06:002014-01-26T15:54:29.498-06:00Loving Vincent: A Feature-Length Painted Animation<iframe frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/438026311/loving-vincent-bringing-van-goghs-paintings-to-lif/widget/video.html" width="800"> </iframe><br />
From <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/438026311/loving-vincent-bringing-van-goghs-paintings-to-lif" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a>:<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">What is truly groundbreaking about "Loving Vincent" is that every frame of the film is an oil painting on canvas, using the very same technique in which Vincent himself painted. And what makes it a great story to experience is the intriguing, tragic, and inspiring story of Vincent Van Gogh himself.</span></h1>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-74223844460406598352013-12-03T15:49:00.000-06:002013-12-03T15:55:16.350-06:00River of Clouds Inside the Grand Canyon<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="450" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/80832646" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="800"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/80832646">Grand Canyon Timelapse</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/paullettieri">Paul Lettieri</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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From <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/12/grand-canyon-temperature-conversion/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+colossal+%28Colossal%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo" target="_blank">This is Colossal</a>:<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 30px;">Last week on November 29th the Grand Canyon experienced a rare temperature inversion where cool air began to rise from the bottom of the canyon and met warm air above creating low level clouds. Apparently this type of thing happens once or twice a year, but almost never with clear skies which provided an unprecedented once-in-a-decade view of the canyon filled to the rim with fog. Several photographers were on hand including </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/101534493@N03/" style="border: 0px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ben Mayberry</a><span style="line-height: 30px;"> who captured some amazing panoramic shots, and </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/80832646" style="border: 0px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Paul Lettieri</a><span style="line-height: 30px;"> managed to shoot a timelapse of the event.</span></span></blockquote>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-84822291898503449162013-12-02T00:13:00.000-06:002013-12-02T00:13:29.114-06:00MATRON OF MORBIDITY<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="450" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/77748309?color=c60651" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="800"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/77748309">MATRON OF MORBIDITY</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/narratively">Narratively</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elinor Wrobel, eighty, isn’t your typical collector. At home, rooms are filled with art, costumes and objects, but in the heart of Sydney, Australia, Elinor spends her days preserving hundreds of human body parts collected from the Sydney Hospital Morgue. The Morbid Anatomy museum, housed in Sydney Hospital, is lined with glass jars showing the disease and suffering of bygone generations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A former nurse, art collector and curator, Elinor recovered the collection from a musty attic crawling with cockroaches and fought tooth and nail for the specimens to be restored and exhibited to the public. Several times, hospital administrators have sought to transfer the specimens elsewhere, or convert the museum into office spaces, but so far Wrobel has prevailed. She believes the hundreds of unique anatomical specimens from people dating back to the 1890s are not only an important resource for medical students, but also a “beautiful” reminder of our own mortality.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-74268648363411430022013-11-24T02:13:00.000-06:002013-11-24T02:13:49.553-06:00Apple - Chris SharmaRock climbing is not a well known sport and it receives little media attention outside its own inner circle. But among climbing fans, it does have its professionals... and then it has its superstars. Chris Sharma is easily the most well known rock climber in the world and he deserves it. There are only a few people who have sent the hardest routes that he has climbed.<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="450" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/9411730" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="800"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/9411730">Apple - Chris Sharma</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/coreyrich">Corey Rich</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-85945691307254353152013-11-21T17:06:00.000-06:002013-11-21T17:06:12.422-06:00'The Writer' AutomatonThis is the work of an engineering genius. The automaton was made by a clock maker 240 years ago. It is built from over 6000 moving parts and its hand actually dips a quill pen into ink and then moves over and writes a complete sentence onto a piece of paper. It could be thought of as a mechanical predecessor to the modern programmable computer.<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FUa7oBsSDk8" width="853"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-65270510543598018062013-11-17T18:47:00.000-06:002013-11-17T18:51:20.861-06:00Rebecca Vitsmun: I'm Actually An AtheistDo you remember that devastating tornado this past Spring in Moore, Oklahoma and the VERY awkward <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA2fRyllDSE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CNN interview</a> where Wolf Blitzer asked the woman who had survived the tornado but lost her house, "You've got to thank the lord, don't you?" And she replied, "I'm actually an atheist"... Well this video is a very moving interview with her months after the tornado and the Wolf Blitzer interview that went viral and changed her life.<br />
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What I didn't realize at the time of the original CNN interview is that up until that point she was in the closet as an atheist to her family, her extended family and many of her friends. So her decision to say, "I'm actually an atheist" on national television meant that now all of those people knew about her lack of belief in god, divine intervention, the afterlife, etc... And in a place as conservative and religious as Oklahoma (my entire extended family lives in Oklahoma, so I know), that is a truly brave thing to do given the potential fallout of relationships with friends and family.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-iUcD86YvlE" width="853"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-25958432814502481972013-11-17T02:12:00.000-06:002013-11-17T02:12:09.767-06:00Honda Illusions, An Impossible Made PossibleMy hate for advertising is the reason I haven't owned a television for twenty years...Which makes those rare commercials that are great worth sharing.<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UelJZG_bF98" width="853"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-9067443521427699542013-11-10T18:27:00.000-06:002013-11-10T18:27:53.955-06:00New Technology in BicyclingI've recently come across two unexpected and possibly revolutionary inventions for bicycles as the mode of transportation becomes a more and more viable way to commute around cities that are becoming increasingly dense.<br />
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The first is an "electric bicycle wheel", which fits on most bikes and turns any regular bicycle into a motorized rechargeable electric bicycle.<br />
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And the second invention is an "invisible" bicycle helmet. How it actually works came as a complete surprise to me, so I won't spoil it by describing. Just watch, it's amazing.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/43038579" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/43038579">The Invisible Bicycle Helmet | Fredrik Gertten</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/focusf">Focus Forward Films</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-43114825082901555622013-11-08T00:58:00.000-06:002013-11-08T01:06:53.430-06:00The Miracle of Flight: A Cutout Animation by Terry GilliamWhile we're on the subject of Terry Gilliam, I thought I would post one of his great <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=dada+collage&rlz=1C1GGGE___US509US509&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=c4p8UtrRHoi5kQechYGIBA&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=1467&bih=896#imgdii=_">Dada</a> inspired cutout animations.<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/LMpXUd_kesA" width="640"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-11972622220704539682013-11-08T00:49:00.000-06:002013-11-08T01:06:20.972-06:00Sarcastic Talking MasterpiecesOne of the best things I've seen since the old <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs7WaL44_Iw">Terry Gilliam</a> '<i>Monty Python</i>' animations.<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/l-7IV2qryiQ" width="640"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-57958911690271872952013-11-03T12:03:00.000-06:002013-11-03T12:03:17.433-06:00Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulbAnother bit of up and coming technology of which I was totally unaware.<br />
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From <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_every_light_bulb.html">TED</a>:<br />
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What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? At
TEDGlobal, Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that
could do exactly that. By flickering the light from a single LED, a
change too quick for the human eye to detect, he can transmit far more
data than a cellular tower -- and do it in a way that's more efficient,
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-2361902642578940822013-11-03T11:53:00.000-06:002013-11-03T11:53:55.838-06:00Erik Johansson: Impossible photographyThis guy is doing with photography and digital manipulation what<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span dir="auto"> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Ren%C3%A9+Magritte&client=firefox-a&hs=GL3&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=GYx2UsfFJYTw2gWXhYHoBA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1242&bih=932&dpr=1">René Magritte</a></span></span> </span>and <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=M.C.+Escher&client=firefox-a&hs=qN3&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=uYx2UuuuGNP62gW7soCwBQ&ved=0CL4BEIke&biw=1242&bih=932">M.C. Escher</a> did with drawing and painting. Pretty interesting stuff. I wish they didn't cut off his talk at the end, he was just getting around to explaining how he actually created these images.<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/erik_johansson_impossible_photography.html" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe><span id="goog_2142467641"></span><span id="goog_2142467642"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8346742826757058027.post-88672796480594419102013-11-01T11:03:00.000-05:002013-11-10T18:49:02.649-06:00Ponte TowerThe tower was designed to house high end luxury condominiums but has since fallen into a state of complete neglect and is now a vertical ghetto. The original intent for the architecture was to allow light into both the exterior and the interior sides of the condos, but so little light actually reaches the bottom that it feels like a dystopian nightmarish bottomless pit. At the ground level trash has accumulated over the years and has become a garbage pit almost three stories tall.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="337" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/51295174?color=ffffff" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="600"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/51295174">Ponte Tower</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/philipbloom">Philip Bloom</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069761989329277865noreply@blogger.com0