Matthew Epler’s Grand Old Party data visualization project has to be seen to be fully appreciated. I like his series of abstractions: poll numbers that form a graph become outlines for a three-dimensional model that is then fabricated into, er, a useful object. (Hmm.)
Posts Tagged: video
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Apr 12
Caine’s Arcade. A nine year old boy in east Los Angeles built an arcade entirely out of cardboard in the front of his father’s auto parts store, with his dad cheering him on. A filmmaker stumbled across the store and befriended the boy. Then he invited the internet to show up — because none of the boy’s schoolmate’s believed him. I’m wiping the tears from my eyes now. (Many thanks to John Gruber.)
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Mar 12
Hitchcock on happiness. A clear horizon. Indeed. What troubles me is how much can clutter one’s view of the horizon.
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Mar 12
Alan Lomax on The Colbert Report
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Jan 12
The Coming War on General Purpose Computing
I like Cory Doctorow’s principled, long view of things.
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Dec 11
WTF Wednesday: Rick Perry
This one has to be seen to be believed: Rick Perry on how gay people apparently undermine America.
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Dec 11
BBC Biography of Steve Jobs
The BBC put together a nice profile of Steve Jobs, featuring a number of my favorite British actors. It’s an hour, so grab yourself a beverage first, then watch it.
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Dec 11
The Computer History Museum has a terrific video of Steve Jobs talking in the late seventies, early eighties about computing. Nice work.
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Nov 11
Time Lapse Video of Painting
I am always on the lookout for videos to share with my daughter that are both interesting to watch in and of themselves but give us a place to begin conversations:
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Oct 11
Japanese Tsunami Viewed from a Car
There’s an amazing video of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan as seen from a camera mounted inside a delivery vehicle. (Okay, you probably need to think about the fact that the camera was there to monitor the driver for a moment, which makes its presence creepy.) Once you get past that, you get a glimpse into how the progression looked, and felt to some degree, to people going about their everyday lives. The earth shakes. The sudden appearance of floodwater. The water keeps rising.
What captured my attention after a while, as you watched the cars bob about as the delivery vehicle itself bobs about, is both the quantity and diversity of the flotsam. The driver, Yu Moraga, was clearly in something of an industrial area because there are a great number of palettes floating about — all painted green, I should note, which is either the preferred color for palettes in Japan or marking the palettes as belonging to a particular company. (I would be curious to note which is the case.)
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Oct 11
iPhone 4S Video
Benjamin Dowie has a short video (1:25) up on Vimeo that he shot using an iPhone 4S which is, well, it’s just amazing how good the video is. And it was shot on a phone. Now, obviously there are obviously a lot of other things that make for great video, especially sound, as I have noted before, but in terms of the creative possibilities, I am just delighted. More importantly for someone like me who works with students to document folk culture and everyday life, it just hammers home how much great equipment is already in their hands. What we need to do, what I need to do, is simply to use it to greatest effect. (Maybe that’s what I’ll do tomorrow in class.)