Happy Birthday YouTube!
Posted on May 21, 2012 in Internet | No Comments
YouTube turns 7 today. And now the statistic is 72 hours of video uploaded every minute.
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The Engineering behind CCD cameras
Posted on May 17, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
Bill Hammack takes apart a digital camera and explains how its captures images using a CCD (charge coupled device). He also shares how a single CCD is used with a color filter array to create colored images.
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Married with Children – Around the World
Posted on May 1, 2012 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
The Bundys have graced American airwaves for 25 years, but other countries are catching on, remaking the off-beat working class family sitcom.
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Grandma Carries Disabled Granddaughter Over Mountains to School Everyday
Posted on April 9, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
Xiang Yuncui carries her disabled granddaughter Tan 10km over mountain roads to school every day. I hope this helps put your Monday into perspective.
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Elizabethan Pulp Fiction
Posted on April 6, 2012 in Outtakes | No Comments
Thy Pardon, did I break thine concentration?
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Rear Window Timelapse
Posted on April 4, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
By combining the shots from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” Jeff Desom creates a timelapse of what you could see from the titular window.
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Mad Men: The 8 Bit Nintendo Game
Posted on March 21, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
Mixing 80’s nostalgia with 60’s chic, the Fine Bros blend a create a cocktail fit for a Madison Avenue advertiser.
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Citizen Kane makes it’s debut in Hearst Castle
Posted on March 19, 2012 in Off Topic | 2 Comments
Seventy one years after “Citizen Kane” premiered, Orson Welles’ thinly veiled character study of a mogul resembling William Randolph Hearst is finally getting a screening at the real life version of Xanadu. As part of the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, the film will be showcased on a 5 story tall screen at Hearst Castle on March 9, 2012.
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What is Shame, and How It’s Preventing You from Achieving What You Want
Posted on March 17, 2012 in Off Topic | 3 Comments
Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people confront their shame head-on. Her own humor, humanity and vulnerability shine through every word.
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Khan Academy: The future of education?
Posted on March 12, 2012 in Off Topic | 2 Comments
With the backing of Gates and Google, Khan Academy and its free online educational videos are moving into the classroom and across the world. Their goal: to revolutionize how we teach and learn. Sanjay Gupta on assignment with CBS News reports.
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Animated GIFs – Birth of a Medium
Posted on March 9, 2012 in Off Topic | 1 Comment
Gifs are one of the web’s earliest image formats. They became passe quickly but artists and meme creators adopted the animated GIF as an artistic medium.
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Researchers capture first-ever images of atoms moving in a molecule
Posted on March 8, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
Pictures of atoms have been physically impossible to take because they are smaller than the wavelengths of visible light. But that hasn’t stopped researches in Ohio, who devised a unique way of coaxing atoms to reveal themselves.
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There is no Pink Light
Posted on March 7, 2012 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
As professor ROY G. BIV would tell you, the colors of the visible spectrum are: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. But where’s Pink?
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The 1902 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz looked extremely unsettling
Posted on February 15, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
Frank L. Baum’s “Wizard of Oz” was conceived at the beginning of the mass media era so it should be no surprise that this beloved fantasy has been made and remade over the years. But Baum’s first musical production may actually be something closer to the stuff of nightmares…
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David Lynch’s Organic Coffee
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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