Topic: NEWS - on May 13, 2007 at 12:22:00 PM CEST
KartOO
is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm.
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Topic: TESLA - on May 13, 2007 at 11:53:00 AM CEST
CAUAC a tesla coil sculpture
Largest twin tesla coil in the world consumming 108 kva in this photo. Towers are spaced just under 40 feet apart and are 16 feet tall.
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Topic: ART - on May 13, 2007 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Works in the William Blake Archive
The William Blake Archive is pleased to provide the following information about its web site, in accordance with the recommendations of the MLA's Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies. (See that body's Draft Guidelines for Providing Web-Site Information, which suggests minimum standards for online documentation of Web sites "intended for use by students, teachers, and scholars in the modern languages.")
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Topic: food - on May 13, 2007 at 11:42:00 AM CEST
The Truth About Food Myths
A lot of food myths are explored here with little videos of each testing them out. The notion that what we put into our bodies is reflected on all levels is the basic premise here.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 13, 2007 at 11:39:00 AM CEST
Top 50 VFX Movies
A few weeks ago, myself and the other 1500 members of the Visual Effects Society voted on a survey to determine the 50 most influential movies from a visual effects point of view. Each of us was asked to pick our favorite 50 from a list of 400 visual effects driven movies, from Mary, Queen of Scots filmed in 1895 to the latest crop of 2006 including Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and a few others.
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Topic: TV - on May 13, 2007 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
TV anytime, anywhere? Sooner than you think
The launch of Joost could show why it's time the TV industry stopped fearing the spectre of free shows via the internet.
They may all be dipping their corporate toes in the online waters, but TV executives have nightmares about the havoc the internet could play with their businesses.
Imagine a world where anyone could watch any show free of charge at a time of their choosing. That could bankrupt the industry overnight, and it is a scenario that is drawing ever closer.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on May 13, 2007 at 11:29:00 AM CEST
The BBC man, the Scientologist - and the YouTube rant
A Journalist at Panorama, the BBC's flagship current affairs series, has been reprimanded for losing his temper and screaming with rage during the making of an investigation into the Church of Scientology.
John Sweeney has apologised for the outburst against a scientologist which was filmed and then put on the video-sharing website YouTube, prompting criticism of the corporation. The BBC held an internal inquiry but said Sweeney had not breached any guidelines.
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Topic: VIDEO - on May 13, 2007 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
Giovanni Sollima - Sogno ad Occhi Aperti (Daydream) PART 2
Awesome video and cellist, amazing composition.
Directed by Lasse Gjertsen Copyrights: Casa Musicale Sonzogno, Milan, 2007
This is a music video for the italian cellist Giovanni Sollima, on two of his compositions; "Terra Aria" and "Concerto Rotondo". Enjoy!
So this is the project I've been working on for the last 5 months, and here's how part 2 of it is made:
We went out into this very weird forest outside Milan, Italy, 5 in the morning to catch the morning fog. Then we just started filming, nothing planned except which song to play :P SO most of this is merely experimenting with angles and editing. People have asked me how I made the background. "Uhm, it's a real forest..?" Spooky atmosphere..
The part were the "camera" follows the bow is made with After Effects.
The last part was filmed at a concert in Italy.
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Topic: VIDEO - on May 13, 2007 at 10:56:00 AM CEST
Giovanni Sollima - Sogno ad Occhi Aperti (Daydream) PART 1
So this is the project I've been working on for the last 5 months, and heres how part 1 of it is made:
On the six arms parts, which by the way took most of the time to make, I filmed Sollima playing the different layers of cello after each other. I then edited the video frame by frame in Photoshop (remember, it's 25 frames per second of video), cutting his arms out from the other layers and pasting it on top, matching the movement of the cello. This was done ca 4000 times, by myself.
The clouds were actually filmed in my backyard, sped up 1250 times. The birds we're filmed in my town, Larvik, Norway on clear blue sky, so that I could use blue screen keying to put them on top of the clouds. It's hard to notice, but the birds are moving in half speed slow motion. I also had to stabilize the motion of the birds, since I filmed it with handhelt camcorder. The sequence was cut together using After Effects and Premiere.
The forest, river sequence was photographed in a forest in Arona, Italy. I took a picture ca. every five meters, and morphed the images together using WinMorph, matching the pace of the music.
The zooming sequence is very hard to explain. Basically, the first 8 seconds after it starts zooming and when you see Mr Sollima's face is real photos. The rest inbetween are "painted" in Photoshop by me.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on May 13, 2007 at 10:09:00 AM CEST
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
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Topic: FUN - on May 13, 2007 at 10:07:00 AM CEST
Free Online Flash Games
A collection of over 1,700 free flash games you can play online with your browser.
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