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.
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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.
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.
From @elonmusk, “What it feels like to ride a rocket.”
SpaceX’s Grasshopper takes a 12-story leap towards full and rapid rocket reusability in a test flight conducted December 17, 2012 at SpaceX’s rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas. Grasshopper, a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (VTVL), rose 131 feet (40 meters), hovered and landed safely on the pad using closed loop thrust vector and throttle control. The total test duration was 29 seconds. Grasshopper stands 10 stories tall and consists of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage, Merlin 1D engine, four steel landing legs with hydraulic dampers, and a steel support structure.
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“No? Nobody? None… the word would be?”
Samuel takes a potentially awkward question and flips it on Hamilton, producing a moment that sheds light on what’s going on in our culture better than I could ever explain.
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I snuck into the Merkelettes studio over the holidays for another Christmas Night session.
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Great 2 minute spot for The Guardian.
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A clear explanation of the difference the Blackmagic Cinema Camera is going to make by making the jump to 12-bit depth.
Which becomes quite clear with math:
The bit-depth simply refers to the different combinations of ones and zeros that is possible (with color images having three channels of bit-depth). The more bits and values possible, the better the final quality will be.
8-bit — 256 different values
10-bit — 1024 different values
12-bit — 4096 different values
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A random goofy little project that was filmed back in January in an afternoon, finally finished and online. Truly a sideshow of a sideshow.
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Movie Trailer of the Day: The first full trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams. It’s scheduled for an October 12th release, unless someone at the Celebrity Centre steals all the prints.
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Jonathan Zittrain on Memes & Society
There needs to be a class on The Real Internet. This video would be required viewing.
This is incredible, better understand the internet with an hour long of youtube. You’ll have a clearer understanding of what the hell it is that is actually happening on these tubes.
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Spielberg on Kubrick (1999)
This is the uncut version of an interview with Steven Spielberg about Stanley Kubrick. It originally aired on British television, excerpts from it were used on the Eyes Wide Shut DVD.
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Have you ever eaten sushi? If so, the phenomenal growth in demand for sushi has come at a cost: overfishing has led to depleting fish stocks, which in turn has threatened the balance of the ocean’s ecosystems. Is the current sushi trade sustainable? What can be done to ensure that the prized Blue Fin Tuna exists for future generations to come? This timely documentary – winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival and the Audience Award at the 2012 San Francisco Green Film Festival – poses some important questions that all sushi lovers should give thought to before placing their next order of sushi.
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For your consideration.
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Check it out! I’m a Nike celeb!
The profile piece on Ryan I shot is now online, let me know if you have any feedback.
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The Show is returning. 2012 gets better and better.
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OK, I didn’t get any of this from their excellent production diary Tumblr, but I’m entirely sold on Looper.
I have a total director crush on Rian Johnson.
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“Boy meets girl” – World Order with Genki Sudo
best choreography of 2012.
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Aaron James Draplin, dropping knowledge.
Favorite line so far “Dude free since 2003.”
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