general interest
general stuff, politics, interesting, but a little off topic perhaps
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Are the iDEA students sane..or insane??? *evil chuckle*
A collaboration between the iDEA 4D class and the Sociology department led to the creation of one of the more involved shoots of the semester. The craziness began when Prof. Peter Bill was approached by Noel Shearer, a psychology student at WNMU, about making a film for one of her class projects based on David…
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Are you a REAL person?
a funny video collaged together in After Effects using what looks to be lots of found images; asking the existential question of the day: are you a real person, or perchance a spambot, or someone completely different from who you say you are?
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playing for change
Playing For Change Day, 2011 is going to be an amazing day of music and community: 200 events on 6 continents to choose from Nearly 6000 registered to attend Over $30,000 raised (before the first note has been played!) http://playingforchange.org/news/detail/announcing_the_1st_annual_playing_for_change_day_on_september_17th The organizer at WNMU, Maria Dominguez, has graciously offered to donate $100 toward playing for…
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will social media save us?
in a rapidly evolving culture, where families/regions/nation states seem to be disintegrating before our eyes, can social media become the glue that holds us together? or is it the enzyme that finally brings a true global revolution?
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Color Wheel in a Nutshell
www.paper-leaf.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ct_1440.jpg
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Easy way to download videos from YouTube
Just go to savevid.com, enter in the URL for your YouTube video, and then select the file format you want. Pretty handy! Thanks to Ivan for showing me this today. Sometimes footage is protected, and then it doesn’t work. savevid.com
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against path dependence- it's time to bushwack!
i generally find brooks incredibly boring, and an milquetoast enabler of the crazies on the right, but today he was right on: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/opinion/29brooks.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&ref=davidbrooks&adxnnlx=1301508125-mpUh9itm4Mit/7Q7sB0u4A path dependence is why we are stuck (right now) using internal combustion engines instead of (sustainable)electric- we have invested 100 years in building the infrastructure and innovation that surrounds our hotrod obsessed…
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are cell phones the next cigs?
the radiation is logarithmic, so just hold yer iphone away from yer head, every inch counts… from wired: Cell phones emit ultra-high-frequency radio waves during calls and data transfers, and some researchers have suspected this radiation — albeit inconclusively — of being linked to long-term health risks like brain cancer. The new brain-scan-based work, to…
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history is always written by the victors
if mordor could tell its own story, or Lord of the Rings from an oppressed orcs perspective: http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer/index.html
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here is the pixelate vid
so- we need story board, and i like the location down in the ditch…
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the dirty secrets of Search Engine Optimization
a good article about how companies game search results: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html?src=me&ref=business
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sweet valentynes stop motion
from my man VJ pixalot, finding frozen hearts deep in icy snowdrifts greenpoint side…
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