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 13, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 3 Comments
MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That’s fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects.
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Posted on December 11, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
This True 3D display technology, developed by Burton, uses a laser to creates luminous points of light at desired locations in air or underwater. It works by focusing laser light, to produce plasma excitation from the oxygen and nitrogen in the air.
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Posted on November 29, 2011 in Outtakes | No Comments
Some innocent couples want to take their seat, but the theater is filled with 148 bikers… How will they react? Carlsberg stunts in Belgium finds out in this social science experiment.
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Posted on November 1, 2011 in General Screenwriting | No Comments
In this final episode of Stephen Fry’s BBC documentary about language, Planet Word, he celebrates the power and glory of storytelling. It has been with us as long as language itself and as a species, we love to tell our stories. This desire to both entertain and explain has resulted in the flowering of language to describe every aspect of the human condition.
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Posted on August 30, 2011 in Lighting | No Comments
This checker shadow illusion was developed in 1995 by Edward Adelson, a professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. It demonstrates that ou
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Posted on August 26, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 2 Comments
Are you one of those people that search the interwebs looking news, photos or video of an anticipated upcoming release or do you avoid spoilers so you can see it “fresh.” If you’re the latter, new research suggests that the tension of not knowing what comes next actually detracts from our enjoyment.
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Posted on August 9, 2011 in Off Topic | No Comments
“What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do is ship,” says bestselling author Seth Godin, arguing that we must quiet our fearful “lizard brains” to avoid sabotaging projects just before we finally finish them.
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Posted on July 27, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Selling Your Script | No Comments
Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for and increasingly controlled by algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can’t understand, with implications we can’t control.
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Posted on July 19, 2011 in 3D Graphics | No Comments
The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes them to appear creepy. Researchers at University of California, San Diego have scanned the brains of individuals visiting the “valley” to try to understand why they freak us out.
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Posted on July 12, 2011 in Cinematography | 1 Comment
Vimeo user Darren Levine explains the relationship between sensor size, lens types and depth of field.
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Posted on June 14, 2011 in Outtakes | No Comments
Vimeo user Chris Abbas assembles a beautiful and striking experimental film from the images captured from the Cassini Solstice Mission which entered Saturn’s orbit on June 30th, 2004.
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Posted on June 14, 2011 in Effects and Stunts, Off Topic | No Comments
We have done lots of DIY posts here on IQ, but this one is a little off topic (maybe more than a little). Although, we really hope someone can find a way to use this cool effect in their film.
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Posted on June 10, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Fiction Movies, scientific inaccuracies, and his years-long battle with James Cameron.
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Posted on May 17, 2011 in Off Topic | No Comments
Richard Feynman was a physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world.
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