This month
DMesh, Triangulation Image Generator
DMesh, designed by Dofl Y.H. Yun, is a custom creative application that turns images into techy artwork. It works by analyzing an image and generating a triangulation pattern for a beautiful finished product. To build the program, Dofl employed a groundbreaking mix of computer vision technologies to make DMesh for someone without any design background.
auduno/headtrackr · GitHub
(via)headtrackr is a javascript library for real-time face tracking and head tracking, tracking the position of a users head in relation to the computer screen, via a web camera and the webRTC/getUserMedia standard.
For a demonstration see this video or try out some of the examples with a laptop that has a camera and a browser that has camera webRTC/getUserMedia support (for instance Opera 12). For an overview of browsers supporting the getUserMedia standard see http://caniuse.com/stream.
How to download whole YouTube music playlist with YouTube to MP3 Converter.
YouTube is undoubtedly the most popular video service in the world. But while hosting billions of uploaded videos, YouTube offers no standard way to download music or clips in bulk. And getting them one by one is way too dull and tedious.
Our YouTube to MP3 Converter brings up the magic you need to download an entire YouTube playlist to your disk 100% automatically and hassle-free, no matter how many videos are in there. Here is a quick step-by-step.
April 2013
I Love Your Work · An interactive film by Jonathan Harris
by 1 otherI Love Your Work is an interactive documentary about the private lives of nine women who make lesbian porn.
It consists of 2,202 10-second video clips, taken at five-minute intervals over 10 consecutive days.
The full interactive website is limited to just 10 viewers per day, and tickets cost $10 each.
March 2013
Vimeo On Demand: Sell your work, your way on Vimeo
Vimeo On Demand is direct-to-fan distribution done the Vimeo way — with all the power of Vimeo’s best-in-class video player, easy-to-use tools, and passionate audience. Creators of all types can distribute their work online, find and connect with audiences, and make more money with a 90/10 revenue split.
Amanda Palmer: The art of asking | Video on TED.com
Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan.
February 2013
Eli Pariser nous met en garde contre "les bulles de filtres" en ligne. | Video on TED.com
Alors que les compagnies internet s'efforcent d'ajuster leurs services à nos goûts personnels (y compris l'actualité et les résultats de recherche), une dangereuse conséquence, involontaire, émerge : nous nous retrouvons piégés dans une "bulle de filtres" et ne nous trouvons pas exposés à l'information qui pourrait remettre en question ou élargir notre perception du monde. Eli Pariser argumente avec force qu'au final cela s'avérera mauvais pour nous et pour la démocratie.
The Wabi House | Dwell
Go behind the scenes of the photo shoot for "The Hidden Fortress," a feature story in our September 2011 issue that covers the Wabi House, a Japanese-inspired design in Carlsbad, California, by Sebastian Mariscal Studio.
January 2013
Twitter launches Vine iPhone app | Technology | guardian.co.uk
by 1 otherTwitter has launched a standalone video-sharing app for iPhone called Vine, which enables users to share clips up to six seconds in length, which play on a loop within tweets.
Investigating Investigative Journalism - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 01/14/13 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
Investigating Investigative Journalism
John Oliver discovers that pretend news is the media world's sole remaining home for intrepid investigative journalists.
REGARDS SUR LE NUMERIQUE | Quand votre trajet quotidien devient un conte interactif
On vous avait parlé récemment d'un dispositif low-tech très ingénieux pour enchanter un peu notre quotidien, en jouant avec le paysage visible à la fenêtre des bus ou des trains.
Voici maintenant son équivalent high-tech : le projet Touch the train window, du collectif audiovisuel japonais Salad repéré par The creators project, emploie une Kinect et un vidéoprojecteur pour faire apparaître des objets à la fenêtre d'une simple pression du doigt.
December 2012
Packard plant | Video Library | Detroit Free Press
by 2 othersOnce a symbol of industrial might and now ground zero for rustbelt blight, the Packard plant in Detroit has become an urban explorers' delight, graffiti artists' canvas, scrappers' cash in a city beleaguered by decay. BRIAN KAUFMAN/Detroit Free Press
November 2012
Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music Video Sensation - Max Fisher - The Atlantic
Beneath the catchy dance beat and hilarious scenes of Seoul's poshest neighborhood, there might be a subtle message about wealth, class, and value in South Korean society.
Best of the Web - Framework - Photos and Video - Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times
The MIT Open Documentary Lab and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam’s project, “Moments of Innovation,” documents the process of documentation. The project spans from the 17,000-year-old cave paintings to modern-day virtual reality.
October 2012
Destricted | Home
"a multi-purpose, beautiful and smart experience that appeals to your head and your lap in equal measure"
JESSE PEARSON, EDITOR IN CHIEF
VICE MAGAZINE
Clayton Cubitt Every Day : Hysterical Literature
“The black-and-white video begins with a woman sitting at a table with a book in front of her. She looks into the camera and states her name, the name of the book, and begins to read. It seems she’s overwhelmed by the words — there’s a slight twitch, a smirk, a straightening of the back, a desperate breath in — and she struggles to continue reading.”
September 2012
iPhone 5 website teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and <canvas>
Every new Apple web presence does new things using the web platform.
D. B Weiss nous plonge dans les "Vidéo Games" le 18 octobre prochain – Critiques littéraires : Actualité livres | MyBOOX
Le scénariste de la série culte Game of Thrones D.B Weiss publie Vidéo Games, un "grand roman générationnel sur les jeux vidéos" à paraître le 18 octobre chez Sonatine.
A quoi un scénariste occupe-t-il ses journées lorsqu’il n’écrit pas un pitch de série télévisée ? A "geeker" sur sa console bien sûr ! Créateur de la saga culte Games of Thrones, adaptée des romans de George R-R Martin, et spécialiste des jeux vidéos, l’auteur américain D.B Weiss publie le 18 octobre prochain son premier roman, Video Games, à paraître chez Sonatine.
Life and death in Aleppo (PHOTOS) | GlobalPost
Earlier this week, I was filming a feature on life on the frontlines of Aleppo, Syria. I was camping out with the men of Noor Den al-Zenke batallion, who man a two-block stretch of back streets that now forms the final line between government troops and opposition forces.
July 2012
June 2012
How To Directly Tether Your Camera To An iPad By Lee Morris | Fstoppers
Update: There is now a new way to tether your camera to the iPad that does not require jailbreaking the iPad. Check out the new video here.
Are you a photographer and an iPad owner? If so, you are really going to love this. Are you a photographer who swore you would never buy an iPad because it’s just an over-sized iPod Touch? Well you are about to change your mind.
