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Bicycle Sidewalk » Blog Archive - 242nd Post
Bicycle Sidewalk » Blog Archive - 242nd Post
Video of a Chinese man balancing on tubes, pretty impressive.
This blogger uses greenscreens so he can give an in-person commentary.
Obese Zombie Vincent D’Onofrio provide creative services for braaiins
Obese Zombie Vincent D’Onofrio provide creative services for braaiins
A good opportunity to help out a small start-up business.
Screw Google - HassleHead News #2
Screw Google - HassleHead News #2
Google made video from the US National Archive available online in a proprietary format. Here’s how you can release it from its chains.
VIRTUAL REALITY BOMBERMAN GAME ROOM - The Last Boss
VIRTUAL REALITY BOMBERMAN GAME ROOM - The Last Boss
This is awesome. You play a computer game by moving about a room. A camera tracks your movements because you are wearing a brightly coloured hat. The video gives a pretty good idea of how they did this.
style.org > Parsing the State of the Union
style.org > Parsing the State of the Union
See here’s another one and this gets closer to to just aggravating me than the first. The guy says that rather than discuss style or presentation he just wants to show a couple of things that are easily measured. OK, so fair enough. But just because you measure [...]
The State of the Union in Words: A Look at the 34,000 State of the Union Words Delivered of George W. Bush - New York Times
The State of the Union in Words: A Look at the 34,000 State of the Union Words Delivered of George W. Bush - New York Times
Visualisation of word use in Bush’s State of the Union addresses. This is fun, but does it actually tell us much that is useful? Maybe seeing things laid out in [...]
DVblog » Man Man - Banana Ghost
DVblog » Man Man - Banana Ghost
This is a pretty cool music video, quite beautiful actually. Not sure I’d even like the music were it not for the animation, but it’s certainly growing on me as I listen to it for the second time.
Chinese Whispers
I’ve been playing with Babelfish trying to see what happens when you run a phrase through it multiple times. Right now I work on versioning learning content into Irish from English, so the whole translation process fascinates me. We have particular problems with colloquial phrases and idioms that just don’t translate well.
One I had [...]
Momentshowing: VIDEO: Skin Puzzle
Momentshowing: VIDEO: Skin Puzzle
This is gross and completely brilliant. This is a video of a guy with a really, really bad fungal infection peeling skin off his feet as they heal.
If we’re really having a media revolution, THIS is what it’s all about.
Steve Garfield’s Video Blog: Hide and Seek: Unofficial Imogen Heap Music Video
Steve Garfield’s Video Blog: Hide and Seek: Unofficial Imogen Heap Music Video
This is a really simple video made using stills. The pictures were shot at a pumpkin festival in Boston and edited together. It’s quite stunning.
