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≡ Category: Life, Technology | ≅ 2 Comments
The gender stereotypes might be backward-looking (we’ll make up for it later in the day), but the technological vision is on the mark, right down to email, e-commerce and online banking. Of course, these weren’t the only people imagining an electronic, connected world during the 1960s. In 1964, the futurist Arthur C. Clarke peered into [...]
≡ Category: Music, Technology | ≅ 12 Comments
Neil Young made headlines last week when he appeared at the Wall Street Journal’s “D: Dive Into Media” conference and voiced his disapproval of the way music is being heard these days. “We live in a digital age,” Young said, “and unfortunately it’s degrading our music, not improving it.” Young is deeply dissatisfied with the [...]
≡ Category: Google, Science, Technology | ≅ 1 Comment
Last week, Google hosted a gathering called “Solve for X,” which brought together entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists interested in finding technological solutions to the world’s greatest problems. These solutions weren’t small in scope. No, they were all “moonshots,” ideas that live in the “gray area between audacious projects and pure science fiction; they are 10x [...]
≡ Category: Film, Technology | ≅ 5 Comments
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance — Godfrey Reggio directed the 1982 film, and Philip Glass composed the music. Later, Reggio said that the film is wide open to interpretation, that “the viewer can take for herself what the film means.” “For some people it’s an environmental film, for some people it’s an ode to technology, [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Technology | ≅ 4 Comments
It starts with Leonardo da Vinci’s famous sketches of flying machines, then moves to the first hot air balloon launched by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, the gliders created by Sir George Cayley (1804), and the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. These great moments and others all get covered in this Animated [...]
≡ Category: Literature, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
On February 18, 1994, Charles Bukowski had a fax machine installed in his home and immediately sent his first Fax poem to his publisher: oh, forgive me For Whom the Bell Tolls, oh, forgive me Man who walked on water, oh, forgive me little old woman who lived in a shoe, oh, forgive me the [...]
≡ Category: Film, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
Before Jim Henson joined Sesame Street in 1969, the great puppeteer took on various projects during the 60s, sometimes creating experimental films (for example, the Oscar-nominated short Time Piece), other times producing primers on puppet making, and then pursuing the occasional commercial project — like the one just uncovered by AT&T. Back in 1963, Henson was [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Media, Politics, Technology | ≅ 1 Comment
Some of the big websites are going black today to protest SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, that has been winding its way through Congress. We’re going to handle things in our own way — by illuminating the matter with a little intelligent media. Backed by the Motion Picture Association of America, SOPA is designed [...]
≡ Category: MIT, Physics, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
Think of it as the ultimate slow-motion movie camera. Researchers at M.I.T. have developed an imaging system so fast it can trace the motion of pulses of light as they travel through liquids and solids. To put it into perspective, writes John Markoff in The New York Times, “If a bullet were tracked in the same fashion [...]
≡ Category: Art, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
French photographer Tanguy Louvigny created this time-lapse film of bucolic Normandy and Brittany using High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging techniques. From forest floor to setting sun, Louvigny’s shots render fine detail across an extremely wide range of luminosity. To achieve this he used the auto-bracketing feature of his Canon EOS 400D and 60D cameras to create three [...]
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