Posts Tagged: video


15
May 12

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.)


14
May 12

It’s Never Too Early


11
May 12

HD Video Explained: Why 720p is Better than 1080i.


11
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.)


22
Mar 12

Hitchcock on happiness. A clear horizon. Indeed. What troubles me is how much can clutter one’s view of the horizon.


12
Mar 12

Alan Lomax on The Colbert Report


8
Mar 12

Rocket!

This one is for my daughter Lily and especially her friend Ian.


2
Jan 12

The Coming War on General Purpose Computing

I like Cory Doctorow’s principled, long view of things.


21
Dec 11

WTF Wednesday: Rick Perry

This one has to be seen to be believed: Rick Perry on how gay people apparently undermine America.


16
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.


14
Dec 11

The Computer History Museum has a terrific video of Steve Jobs talking in the late seventies, early eighties about computing. Nice work.


20
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:


18
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.)


18
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.)


19
Aug 11

Thank You, Molly Ivins