Entries tagged with 'video'
A talk from the dean of Pixar University
Pixar University's Randy Nelson explains what schools must do to prepare students for jobs in new media. I swear to god, he's like Mark Bolas' long lost twin separated at birth, because this lecture sounds almost EXACTLY like the stuff... (permalink)
Pure Entertainment
My WoW machinimist friend released another couple of films that I wanted to plug here. They're entirely entertainment pieces, so you don't have to bring your thinking cap for these... Joust Venture is a foray into using an 8-bit game... (permalink)
Azeroth: red or blue?
With over 11 million players online, Azeroth -- the world in which Warcraft is set -- would be the 8th largest state in the US. This is one of the more fascinating videos I have seen in a while. This... (permalink)
Dynamic Architecture
This video is quite old, but I had never seen it before and it's relatively interesting, even though the spinning buildings feel a little like a cheap (or maybe really expensive) gimmick. Dynamic Architecture building to be built in DuBai.... (permalink)
Air Hockey Robot
Robot that can play air hockey. Good defender, not so good at offense. But the most interesting thing was how it plays completely differently from a human. Because a human would be moving their paddle back and forth depending on... (permalink)
Pacmba
Roomba Modded into a Pac-Man. Now he just needs to build a big maze and fill it with glow in the dark dust-bunnies.... (permalink)
Creating objects that tell stories
Another TED talk! I love TED so much. Creating objects that tell stories. This one is from designer Yves Behar, who designed some stuff I don't recognize, but apparently are somewhat iconic in our new millenium... Leaf lamp, Jawbone headset.... (permalink)
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
This is a relatively old video, but definitely worth a viewing if you haven't already seen it. Besides being humorous, Sir Ken Robinson is particularly adept at putting things in perspective, which makes his talk a fantastic one for such... (permalink)
ChatScape
Kind of delayed posting this, but better late than never, right? :P This was my textscape project for 534. ChatScape is a chatroom visualizer, so each stick figure represents a real person in the chatroom and they wave their arms... (permalink)
Content Aware Image Resizing
This is kind of old, but still really cool: Content Award Image Resizing. As if it weren't already easy enough to Photoshop things. O.o... (permalink)
Signs of Godhood
When you can play Tetris like this guy, you are either a god or have way, way, way, WAY, WAAAAY too much time on your hands. Maybe both. Make sure you stick with watching it... it might be a little... (permalink)
Shadow Puppet Mastery
Raymond Crowe, to A Wonderful World. Hahahahaha, so cool. :D... (permalink)
CDRC story in full
Hopefully you've all seen the Thriller remake done by prisoners of the Cebu Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Phillipines. Someone found this video for me, which I just had to link, which gives a lot more background. The link... (permalink)
Perpetual Mario Machine
For all the old school Mario players: Perpetual Mario Machine.... (permalink)
Don Hertzfeldt's "Rejected"
A link to "Rejected" on YouTube, because no one in my 541 class (staff included!) seem to recognize what it was. :( Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected. (Uh. It was just suggested that I stick a NSFW warning on that video link... (permalink)
What I should have said
Yesterday at the IMD grad orientation, Scott asked us to introduce ourselves and talk briefly about what interests us and/or what we've been working on recently. I defaulted to talking about my senior thesis project, Voices -- a kind of... (permalink)
