Posted on February 3, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
Is the master of surreal film going all Coppola for a hearty mocha? If by that you’re asking if David Lynch is launching his own brand of organic coffee than the answer is YES!
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Posted on February 3, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
March of 2011, Billy Cohn & Bud Frazier, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, successfully replaced a dying man’s heart with a ‘continuous flow’ device they developed, proving that life was possible without a pulse or a heart beat.
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Posted on January 26, 2012 in 3D Graphics, Off Topic | No Comments
This is a demonstration video showcasing Artist Scott Garne’s interactive still life project. It involves a motion-senstive frame that feeds realtime tilt data to a 3D scene.
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Posted on January 24, 2012 in Editing, Off Topic | No Comments
In the 90s, colorizing old cartoons seemed like a no-brainer, what could distract little tykes better than a swatchful of color? In 1992, Ted Turner, on his colorization bender took a batch of old black and whites, shipped them to South Korea where they were hand traced, colored in and reshot.
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Posted on January 6, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
In 1941, Charles A. Ridley repurposed “The Triumph of Will” to create what was one of the first political remix films ever made.
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Posted on January 5, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
Kien Lam quit his day job and spent a year traveling around the world. 17 countries and 6237 photos later, he put together a 5 minute series of timelapses that documents his journeys around the globe.
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Posted on January 1, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
Whether you’re done partying or just starting – here’s the most important tip to keep the hangover blues away…
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Posted on December 29, 2011 in Off Topic | 2 Comments
You may be hard pressed to find a difference between the North Korean Megalomaniac and a Hollywood executive (assuming you overlook the diminutive dictator’s role in the death of millions of his countrymen) but when Kim Jong Il died, the world lost one of the greatest wanna-be-filmmaker around. Amazingly in a country whose chief export is border tension, they still have enough resources to put on a first rate production of a state funeral…
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Posted on December 23, 2011 in Off Topic | No Comments
Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack: They don’t let you fully experience music yet. At TEDMED, Limb reviews the state of the art and the way forward.
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Posted on December 19, 2011 in Off Topic | No Comments
He’s making a list, checking it twice. Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice… But enough about Dennis and his enemies list let’s take a look at the Brief history of Santa Claus.
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Posted on December 19, 2011 in Off Topic | No Comments
Thousands in Prague and many more around the world mourn the loss of Velvet Revolutionary Vaclav Havel, who has died at age 75. A playwright who led a bloodless uprising in 1989 that broke Czechoslovakia free from the shackles of Communism.
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Posted on December 16, 2011 in Off Topic | No Comments
“Batman” was attacked and pushed around by police agents at an impromptu checkpoint while trying to reach the house of Chen Guangcheng, the famous blind political activist, who has long been under house arrest.
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Posted on December 16, 2011 in Off Topic | 1 Comment
Love him or hate him, the late Christopher Hitchens was a masterful rhetorician with fiery wit. In this video homage by Vanity Fair,you can view a mere sampling of his brilliant ripostes. As he says, “one wouldn’t be doing one’s job if one didn’t itch to prick.”
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Posted on December 15, 2011 in Off Topic | No Comments
Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation — a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness.
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Posted on December 9, 2011 in Off Topic | No Comments
Charles Osgood covers the history of the eye-conic CBS logo which has graced the network since 1951.
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