February 2012
38 posts
Watchyes. sheer awesome.
faketv:
Sheer awesome?
theatlanticvideo:
Terrifying Flying Robot Quadrotors Perform the ‘James Bond’ Theme
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev and Vijay Kumar, demonstrate the agility of their autonomous quadrotors by programming them to plunk out the James Bond...
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Watchdrumshow (prototype 5)
I added another trigger form, multiple “explosion” forms. I moved them around some too and added particular colors.
I think the next step is to add the sound back in.
As I was recording, I realized playback wasn’t mirroring, and I needed to rotateY(). Unfortunately, PeasyCam doesn’t make it super easy to just change that around. So I need to figure...
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“GitHub wasn’t supposed to be a startup or a company. GitHub was just a tool that...”
– @defunkt (via brycedotvc)
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Watchdrum show study 3 - playing with speed and figuring out whether or not mouth movement would be visible enough. Ended up feeling ‘meh’ about those ventures, but the creepiness of the vid makes it feel somewhat successful.
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WatchDrum Show study 2 -
got a bit of auto-zoom going on. playing with resolution, strokeWeight(), and pixel density. Getting some actual beats out too :).
My next goal is to get a different shape. perhaps a cylinder
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WatchDrum Show (prototype) 2-16-2012
“Hardly anyone “surfs” the Web anymore.”
– Evgeny Morozov in “The Death of the Cyberflâneur”
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Hesitation is a film where dancers are responding to the architecture of a distorted spacetime. In creating the work, the performers were shown a real time video system that distorted the place and timing of their movements. The video is a composition from the experimentation. A metaphor for the formation of relationship, Hesitation depicts two individuals encountering one another in a space...
“It strikes me that the current fetishization of analog technology has less to do...”
– Carina Chocano, NYTimes, via mediology
