A well done detailed walk through of the finer points of shooting a dialogue scene.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Carriers
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Carriers
The goal of the BATMAN project is to create a much lower overhead and more dynamic method of collecting routing information at run time. Beyond the BATMAN routing protocol, there have been discussions about applying machine learning to add predictive routing with information from Android’s accelerometers, gravity sensors, gyroscopes, and rotational vector sensors to predict where it can find the next node in the network.
Initial testing is promising. Each smartphone in the network can operate up to about 100 feet away from its nearest neighbor. VoIP works over up to 5 hops. Initial tests with 30 nodes did not reach the limit of the number of channels supported by 802.11, but developers expect to find one when a larger number of nodes are employed, and hope to solve it with a new routing »
When Good Design Isn’t Enough
[People talk about] the product is so good it sells itself. That is simply wrong. There is a lot to learn from how companies like Facebook, Airbnb and Yelp got their start.
You need to think about a distribution strategy as carefully as everything else.
– Peter Thiel
Video of a meteorite exploding over the southern Ural Mountains, Russia.
Bangkok Post reports property damage, no casualties.
“A meteorite exploded above the Chelyabinsk region (of the Urals). The shock wave blew out windows in several places,” but no meteor fragments hit the ground, an emergencies ministry spokesman told the Interfax news agency.
“According to the preliminary information, four people were injured by flying glass,” the ministry added.
An agency report spoke of several injuries.
Witnesses cited by news agencies spoke of hearing loud explosions which led to panic among residents.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
I love this video we shot last year at Reed College’s Renn Fayre. I was fortunate enough to be given the angle in the pit. Which was as hot and glorious as it looks in this video.
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks
The hope is that, through improved compression techniques, H.265 will enable publishers to stream 1080p video with about half as many bits as required today. That should make true streaming HD video available not just in broadband households, but on mobile and tablet devices, using networks that are a lot more bandwidth-constrained. Doing so could make online video more widely available in markets with poor connectivity or mostly mobile connections.
It won’t be much longer until we’ll be streaming 4k video from revolutions around the globe as they happen. The future is crazy.
Beyond Instagram: Should photographers accept the risks inherent in social networks?
The question should be: can we fight these advances and the millions of people who are consuming images in that way? Or should we accept this new form of consumption and instead look at how we can bring them closer to us, how we can interact and benefit from them. We need to put ourselves in their shoes, accept their rules and, down the line, monetise them. We might be the authors of our work, but without an audience, we’re nothing.
Photos embody this problem the most. They’re traditionally seen as objects. Things that are tangible. But Instagram is the boldest example of how easily that can change. I personally think this will apply equally to other media as the technology and culture evolves, and we’re only seeing it first with photography.
Gorilla Sales Skyrocket After Latest Gorilla Attack
Reports confirmed that gorilla sales have historically risen sharply in the immediate aftermath of a major gorilla attack, most notably after the 2010 tragedy in the small town of Logan, NM, where 14 people, including two 5-year-old children and a 92-year-old woman, were viciously beaten to death by a 12-year-old gorilla who spontaneously attacked patrons of a crowded grocery store.
The Onion is in perfect form here.
Listening to 20-something YouTubers talk about online video
Listening to 20-something YouTubers talk about online video
workingwithwebseriesproducers:
Seriously.
There used to be a support group for the two dozen of us who were embedding RealVideo and .AVI files to blogs a decade ago. It was called the Yahoo Videoblogging Group and it was filled with the arcane, crazy ways we’d get video from our cameras to the internet.
I lurked through so many threads from that group. never felt smart enough to post anything but I learned an awful lot about frame rates, containers, compressors, and formats. Good times.
“My film is not a movie. My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It’s what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was very much like the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle. There were too many of us. We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and, little by little, we went insane.”
– Francis Ford Coppola at the Cannes Film Festival, 1979
On paper the sentence “It is Vietnam” is utterly ridiculous, and is a common reference among some film friends of mine. But when you see it in context with his delivery I remember why I immediately admired him in my teenage years. Coppola’s ego was huge, but he was honest enough to express exactly how he felt. Which, is all you »
The huge clouds of matter thrown out a century and a half ago, known as the Homunculus Nebula, have been a regular target for Hubble since its launch in 1990. This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys High Resolution Channel is the most detailed yet, and shows how the material from the star was not thrown out in a uniform manner, but forms a huge dumbbell shape.
This image consists of ultraviolet and visible light images from the High Resolution Channel of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. The field of view is approximately 30 arcseconds across.