New favourite Klezmatics tune:
New favourite Klezmatics tune:
Ubiquitous computing demo video from 1995 demonstrating seamless creative collaboration across devices and space: http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/quicktime/UbiCompTeaScene.qt
Their acting isn’t great but the technology is impressive.
I gave my brother my old MacBook this Christmas, first thing he did was get Final Cut Pro and start making things:
The snailshell collecting is in aid of @jwentomologist’s experiments with this rather cool solitary bee: youtube.com/watch?v=V0uuTiov-w4
Lots of good, if a little bizarre, #gurdy playing in this video (fr):
Enjoyed a pre-preview screening of HEILD by Trailerpark Studios — beautiful film work by an inspiring artist. Also great to meet some folks from @sfembassy — enjoy the rest of your stay in Iceland!
HEILD trailer:
Whether or not you like the song, the photos in this video of The Devil Went Down To Georgia are hilarious. There’s even a catbus at the end!
This honest and frankly terrifying short film about the side effects of 3D printing has changed the way I think about the future:
@benwerd nice one! I’m currently working on video post-by-email. It almost worked here, next time should work flawlessly.
The nice thing about using email to post videos is that it’s asyncronous — I can send the email and then go do something else, instead of having to either wait for it to upload or do the “if I switch apps now will it stop uploading argh what do I do” dance.
Testing posting #indieweb videos via email and the iOS camera app:
Aw, the upload worked but embedding didn’t. Here it is:
Some of my favourite humour comes from the dissonance created when maths and dry, scientific language is used to analyse creative license. This is a classic example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muVfidujxRg
I love trying to introspect humour, attempting to articulate exactly what it is about something which makes it so funny. In this case I think it stems from the fact that the source material was intended to be passively consumed. At first, the presenter defies this intention by deconstructing the physics involved — a form of intense seeing.
This on its own might be moderately amusing, but instead of simply saying “this is not possible”, he actually acknowledges the original intention and assumes that it must be possible (“I saw it on TV, it must be true!”).
I think the humour here comes from the fact that, despite clearly having the skills to debunk the animation, he barely even acknowledges that he has that choice, and instead changes his own understanding of the show to make it fit (e.g. the ponies are made of dark matter).
Sjómannadagur timelapses with #gurdy accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-llMLfE56-k
Two timelapses I took whilst on a boat trip on Sjómannadagur (Fisherman’s Day) 2013-05-03 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Soundtrack is my hurdy gurdy and some ambient sounds.
Sound effects CC licensed from freesound.org by inchadney, juskiddink, IEDLabs and Eelke — thanks!
Aaron Parecki woah, brilliant! Love the fact you're self hosting video too — what’s your workflow for that? I was thinking of building a mandrill-backed email inbox for photo and video upload so I can post from iOS really easily
Turns out the closest instrument to the #gurdy trompette is not the snare drum as I previously thought, but the dot matrix printer (9:30 in):
Currently #watching: Will Wright and Brian Eno on Generative Systems:
Erin Richie thanks for the recommendation, I’ll give it a go! RE strange choice in music: try one of my favourite experimental #gurdy pieces out:
Some cracking fiddle playing from this supremely talented, weird “baroque” group:
Optimal video-splitting workflow on a mac:
I’m somewhat surprised there’s no easy, simple way to splice a video into multiple parts on a mac.