2013-05-21
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Howardena Pindell, Video Drawings: Baseball, 1973-1977, C-print (of video screen photograph with ink overlay) (via bluecatsredsox, notational)
2013-05-17
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Space Situational Awareness (SSA) (by AstriumTV, via stml)
A list of the text captions from the video:
- Debris must be monitored
- Complex systems needed
- Surveillance, Tracking & Analysis
- Conjunction Prediction
- Trajectories Prediction
- Imaging requires data policy
- Space Weather Surveillance
- Solar Eruption Impact
- Ariane Launch
- Adaptation: safe de-orbitation
- Active Debris Removal
- For a safer space.
2013-05-10
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“To be ready for the worst, so that the worst will never happen, America is now armed with instant electronic reflexes. The Sage computer made by I.B.M.”
(Source: youtube.com)
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Computers of NASA - 1960s (by luridplanet)
The vector graphics starting at 7’12” are yelling for an animated GIF treatment.
2013-02-19
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The most exciting is “Zoe” mode (from which the camera gets its name). Zoe lets you take full-resolution videos while simultaneously taking full-resolution still photos in burst mode. Shoot a video and the camera is taking photos for you.
“We invented a way of dual-path encoding where we would shoot still and video simultaneously with no data loss,” Whitehorn says. “We wouldn’t drop data yield down at all. We would bring in full-resolution video and full-resolution stills at the same time… What that means is you have this living asset, that moment will be alive — you can always scrub that moment and get that perfect smile.”
This is by far the most useful addition to a smartphone camera. You can return to a video and literally scroll through the images, select one and save it to your camera roll or share it. Instead of pulling a low-res screenshot, you can pull a full-res photo of the exact moment you want.
”2013-01-09
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I thought I’d posted the fantastic 1960s Automatic Fare Collection… And You film before, but apparently not. Enjoy.
2012-12-11
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In 2008, the German computer magazine c’t launched a competition to find the best program that could play Asteroids, the classic arcade game. It detailed the internals of the machine, and eventually chose from the entrants.
The winner, Helmut Buhler, was responsible for the video above. He realised that the random number generator at the core of the game was actually predictable, which means his code can fire shots before asteroids appear, or aim for both the asteroid and the smaller fragments that will spin off it.
If the sheer audacity of that doesn’t impress you, you may prefer the entry from Vladimir “Bleifuß” Panteleev, whose ship will scare the willies out of you as it slides at high speed just past vast rocks or the alien spaceship.
(Thanks to Paul Hammond for introducing me to these videos.)
2012-12-07
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Supercut: Helmet Oddity, by Keith Melton:
A tribute to all space helmets in cinema. Edited by Keith Melton.
Music: Ground Control to Eleanor Rigby-Mash up by ‘Daft Beatles’
There’s a list of sources both at the end of the video and on the YouTube page. Previously.
