Category Archives: Video
How could you hack open subtitles?
The Miro open subtitles project just got funded at kickstarter. The promise is an open source of subtitles for video. Now the subtitles won’t be restricted to the people who made the video. They are anticipating use for the hearing impaired and for translations. Why am I excited? The project is also designed to make [...]
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Professor Robb Willer and the Golden Apple
The group of misfits I grew up with has turned out pretty well. One of them, Robb Willer was my debate partner for a while. He’s gone on to be a professor at Berkeley. Robb won the Golden Apple award for being an awesome teacher. How awesome? Robb’s got intellectual groupies! Berkeley put up Robb’s [...]
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How to install Add-Art
Steve Lambert put up a nice helpful walkthrough video on Add-Art, the project I’ve been working on recently. Take a mo’ and check out the project and the video. Introduction to Add-Art from Steve Lambert on Vimeo.
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I am a strange, sordid loop
I am reading Douglas Hofstadter’s amazing and brain churning I Am a Strange Loop, so I’m noticing loops and recursion everywhere. This dog machine loop is fascinating, I think it is a way for tennis balls to become soaked in saliva. Maybe it is a way to generate dog orgone? Perhaps it is a dog [...]
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It’s not just vandalism, is it?
Grafitti isn’t just a bunch of crap tags scrawled out on a building. Sometimes it is much better. This is where talk about property rights becomes more interesting. Look at the cross-section of folks who stop to look, photograph and enjoy the street art Banksy put up. How much jail time should he serve for [...]
This is the only time this has ever happened.
How fortunate that someone was there that single time to film it! Watch to the end and relish the beauty of the last sentence. Via Boing Boing.
Congratulations Sraedi!
A big congrats to my ol’ buddy Sraedi for winning the Skull A Day dance video contest!
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Money: What happened to the markets in August
I’ve been looking for a simple way to explain what happened to my friends, and I think Statler and Waldorf here nail it.
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Project Idea: Render Images with Dice Rasterization