02.03.2010

christopher.slaughter

In case you haven't seen it already, the pop band OK Go  (they of "treadmills video" fame) have created yet another fantastic music video.

The Rube Goldberg machine was built by Syyn Labs, a group of "...creative engineers who twist together art and technology... (and) build interactive installations that encourage strangers to play together by lowering social barriers."

Rube Goldberg | OK Go | geek | amusing | Cool | funny | master shot | music

31.05.2009

christopher.slaughter

Brilliant stop-motion animation here from Tomas Mankovsky... very cool technique, sticking a stills camera to the ceiling.

amusing | stop motion animation | interesting | fun | video | geek

05.03.2009

christopher.slaughter

I officially started my career in media by running the projector in Miss McDougall's fourth grade class, and carried on as an A/V geek all through high school (Mr. Guptill's 3/4" videotape player) and college (antique carbon-arc projector in Durango, 16 and 35 mm in Boulder).   I can't begin to tell you how happy these guys make me:

For more than a decade, we’ve been rescuing old 16mm school films from dumpsters and obscurity and showing them to folks like you.

They claim 22,000 films, with such  fascinating titles as:

Body Care and Grooming (1948)

Explosives - Tool for Progress (ca 1970s)

Kingdom of Plastics (1945)

Good Table Manners (1951)

...just to name a few.  And then there's Journalism (1940)... check 'em out.

archive | film | historical | geek | video | interesting | Cool Websites

29.01.2009

daniel.clarke

 I'm a big fan of Quicktime VR and I've made a few panoramics of Lamma Island and other scenic Hong Kong spots but this really takes the cake.

David Bergman has made a 1474 Megapixel image of the inauguration.  He goes into detail about how he made it on his blog. 
It's fascinating zooming in and looking for details.There's a guy in a wheelchair and you can read the serial number off the back. Can you find it?

obama | pixel | Quicktime VR | geek | speeches

18.01.2009

christopher.slaughter

So many different ways (besides Hungarian) to say "My hovercraft is full of eels"....

(-- via Chris Glass)

geek | hovercraft | eels | translation | language | slaughter | Monty Python | amusing | blogroll

07.01.2009

christopher.slaughter

As with most questions, the answer is out there somewhere, if you really want to know. 

And apparently, Norwegian organometallic chemist Martin Lersch really, really wants to know about "molecular gastonomy and the science of cooking."  Which is cool... in a totally geeked-out organometallic sort of way. 

 So here's his formula:

Enjoy.

food | science | geek | eggs | cooking