December 2008
49 posts
Photographer: Nazif Topçuoğlu
Nazif Topçuoğlu
WatchWishing You a Merry ‘Vintage’ Christmas! on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Nikon Face-Recognition Ad
“The Nikon S60 detects up to 12 faces.” Look closer.
Campaign conceptualized by Euro RSCG Singapore.
Los Angeles - Nikon’s Creepy, Funny S60 Ad Campaign - Style Council - LA Weekly
musical fish for the blind
Researchers at Georgia Tech are working on a system to track the motion of fish in their tank in order to make music from their movements.
[Go here to watch it.]
It works through a camera that uses recognition software that tracks objects based on their shape and color. The software then links each movement to different instruments that change in pitch and tempo as the fish patrol the tank....
WatchGovernor Blagojevich quotes Kipling and grandpa on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
by James Darling
Prisoner Escapes Jail by Mailing Himself out in a... →
A prisoner in a German jail remains at large after placing himself inside a box destined for courier pickup. Trucks arrive at this jail weekly to pick up products made in its workshop, and the prisoner apparently took advantage of this security breach.
Anthony Trollope's Daily Routine
Every day for years, Trollope reported in his “Autobiography,” he woke in darkness and wrote from 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., with his watch in front of him. He required of himself two hundred and fifty words every quarter of an hour. If he finished one novel before eight-thirty, he took out a fresh piece of paper and started the next. The writing session was followed, for a long stretch of time, by a...
“Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography.”
– Paul Rodriguez
WatchMis-fortune Cookie - directed by Duncan Skiles of Waverly Films
Saul Bellow's Routine
Janis Bellow on Saul Bellow’s daily routine:
That’s not to say that the writing always came easily or that the work went on uninterrupted. By early June Saul had begun turning the yellow pages into manuscript. I remember hearing the sound of the typewriter one morning, and feeling a thrill that his breakfast forecast—“I think I’ve got something here”—was...
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WatchBeyonce - Single Ladies - directed by Jake Nava
The song aside - the look of this music video is super cool.: the lighting changes and pre-programmed camera movements and very natural perspective cuts. It must be awesome to direct a music video with the budget they throw at these things.
Watchstreeter:
Here’s something weird!
I was in this goth outfit for another project and happened to be singing and talking about Dave Matthews. That seemed like a funny idea and we shot it in about 15 minutes. Pardon the horribly off-key high note in #41. You’ll hear it.
Watchjakeandamir:
Interpreters
“I’m following you” / A compliment on Twitter / Not so in real life”
– @jbooyah - twitter
“A wandering ghost / My dead father cries “Uncle!” / I must have revenge.”
– @bardfilm - twitter - Hamlet in Haiku
Woody Allen's Upper East Side Apartment
Living Room: Library: Bedroom - Writing Desk:
Woody Allen: Homes: architecturaldigest.com
Clive Thompson on Real-World Social Networks vs.... →
by Clive Thompson
Benjamin Waber has a grim piece of news for managers and CEOs: You’re out of the loop.
Waber, a PhD student in MIT’s Human Dynamics Group, studies the way groups interact socially — based on who’s talking to whom. But unlike most social scientists, who simply ask people about their behavior, Waber and his colleagues measure it. They outfit employees with...