March 2012
21 posts
WatchSheer awesome?
theatlanticvideo:
Terrifying Flying Robot Quadrotors Perform the ‘James Bond’ Theme
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev and Vijay Kumar, demonstrate the agility of their autonomous quadrotors by programming them to plunk out the James Bond theme music on a room full of...
February 2012
41 posts
Watchdownton glitchin’
lowindustrial:
If you’ve finished watching the second season of Downton Abbey on PBS, check out this lovely and oddly affecting encoding glitch from the finale’s British broadcast.
Watchwarning: hard core cabin porn
theatlanticvideo:
A Photographer’s Return to 19th-Century Tools and Life in a Cabin
John Coffer, a tintype photographer, has spent the past 25 years living a Thoreauvian existence in a cabin in New York. This beautifully shot documentary is one in a series of short films, This Must Be the Place, which explores the idea of home and the connection between people and...
WatchThese guys are pretty amazing.
theatlanticvideo:
The ‘Pixar of the iPad Age’ Goes to the Academy Awards With Its Short Film
Moonbot Studios has been turning heads with its imaginative and exquisitely crafted iPad applications for kids, and now a spinoff of one of these apps, a short animated film, has been nominated for an Academy Award.
In “How to Build the Pixar of the iPad Age in...
WatchMmmmmmagnets! Love this video installation by Hunter Longe, channeling Nam June Paik.
theatlanticvideo:
Hunter Longe’s Psychedelic Art Bends Video With Magnets
Hunter Longe’s video installations use magnetic fields to scramble and warp VHS video feeds, erasing information stored on the magnetic tape. The technique dates back to the early work of Nam June Paik, at least, but Longe takes...
