Dani Wolf et Tal Moskovich ont pu imaginer pour leur études un faux générique d’ouverture pour un film qui serait réalisé par Ridley Scott et qui reprendrait l’histoire écrite de Kurt Vonnegut “The Sirens of Titan”. Une séquence aidé par la musique de Tomáš Dvořák.
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Kevin Twomey est un photographe très talentueux. A travers des clichés de différents styles, cherchant notamment à interroger la forme des objets et les comparer entre eux, des visuels de cet artiste collaborant pour des clients comme Audi ou Motorola sont à voir dans la suite.
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Commencé par Future Systems et fini par Shiro Studio, le projet de musée “Enzo Ferrari” à Modène en Italie se dévoile en images. Avec un design surprenant et contenant une collection impressionnante de voitures de course, ce musée est à découvrir dans la suite.
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Homeless Hotspots features profiles of some of the people carrying wi-fi signals, along with a suggested fee to be paid for the service. Screenshot from http://homelesshotspots.org
We love to be connected. Thanks to wireless 3G networks, it’s easier than ever to check email and Twitter, talk on the phone, pay your bills, watch videos and post pictures from virtually anywhere and at any time. But it’s not fast enough—wireless internet is still the fastest way to get online with a mobile smartphone or tablet.
Recently at SxSW, a project called Homeless Hotspots sparked a heated debate online. A great post at NPR linked to the flurry of media about the project, such as quotable quotes like Wired declaring it “like something out of a satirical science-fiction dystopia.”
The project had more prosaic goals, which was to update the analog practice of street newspapers as a source of revenue for those without homes:
Our hope is to create a modern version of this successful model, offering homeless individuals an opportunity to sell a digital service instead of a material commodity. SxSW Interactive attendees can pay what they like to access 4G networks carried by our homeless collaborators. This service is intended to deliver on the demand for better transit connectivity during the conference.
BBH Labs defended their project in a length blog post, emphasizing that the participants were compensated for their work. It’s a thoughtful post worth reading.
I started thinking about Liam Young’s Electronic Countermeasures project, which has been making the rounds on social media. Young’s project reflected on the need for constant connection through a more robotic means. The video feels like a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But this time, our alien friends aren’t delivering news from outer space: they’re bringing us the Internet.
In his video description, Young expands on the sci-fi nature of his work, which reimagines quadcopters as a pirate network of wi-fi routers that quickly disperse and reconfigure throughout cities:
We have built a flock of GPS enabled quadcopter drones from components that were originally intended for aerial reconnaissance and police surveillance to create this flying pirate file sharing network. The drones are autonomous and drift above the public spaces of the city as a balletic interactive aerial choreography. Part nomadic infrastructure and part robotic swarm we have rebuilt and programmed the drones to broadcast their own local wi-fi network as a form of aerial Napster. They swarm into formation, broadcasting their pirate network, and then disperse, escaping detection, only to reform elsewhere.
It’s a stunning image, these magic Golden Snitches that we desperately try to catch with our phones.
Le réalisateur Ridley Scott a dévoilé récemment une nouvelle bande-annonce de son film Prometheus. Le réalisateur du 1er film de la série Alien revient avec un trailer splendide, mettant en scène Michael Fassbender et Charlize Theron. Prévu pour juin prochain.
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Prismatica est une installation pensée par Kit Webster : une installation en forme de pyramide de cristaux apposés sur un écran LCD et illuminée, avec une animation géométrique programmé. Les animations donnent un rendu visuellement très réussi.
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Reader James submitted the following to Ask Unclutterer:
I’ve read productivity books and articles that claim checking email first thing at work is a bad idea. I have been burned by not checking it because my boss and clients sent me important messages overnight and I didn’t get them until two hours later. What is your take on checking email? Is my overall productivity worth the times I’ve been burned?
I can see the reasoning behind not checking your email right when you get to work — you run the risk of getting caught up in work that might not be extremely important to your job responsibilities at a time when you’re likely at your most focused and productive. It would be better if you could use your best brain power on your most demanding and core work.
That being said, I check my email first thing when I get into work. I don’t really address it, though, I simply scan all the “from” and “subject” lines to search for work-altering messages. If I don’t see any indicators that someone sent me an email that will change my most demanding and core work, I immediately close my mail program and wait until I need a break from my demanding work around 10:00 a.m.
If I click on a message, read it, and discover it didn’t affect my immediate work day, I mark the message as “unread” so it can hang out until I process email in a couple hours.
If I click on a message, read it, and discover it does affect my immediate work, I’ll process the email the same way I do when I’m really handling email. This means I’ll file it as Archived, add related next actions to my to-do list, and/or schedule any related information on my calendar. If I need to reply to the email, I do it at this time. After giving proper attention to the email, I’ll scan the rest of the inbox to see if there is anything else I must check. If I’m done with my quick search, I’ll quit the program and wait to address the other issues at 10:00 a.m.
I chose my times for checking email based on when I do my mindful and mindless work over the course of the day — scan at 8:00 a.m., full check at 10:00 a.m., full check after lunch around 1:00 p.m., a scan around 3:00 p.m., and then a final end-of-workday check at 5:00 p.m. I do not have my new message indicator light on my email program activated, and I actually completely close out of the program when not in use. If your job allows you to behave in this manner, I strongly recommend it. It significantly helps my productivity to not be tempted to check email constantly.
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Cette vidéo fait partie d’un projet de film en sténopé. Utilisant le principe de la Camera Obscura, des projections prennent place sur toutes les surfaces, avec un rendu intéressant. Un excellent projet tourné par le français Romain Alary à Paris à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite.
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The Vimeo iPad app features a beautiful full screen interface that allows you to view and browse for videos at the same time and even access your site stats. Screenshots by the author.
It’s always been the designer’s alternative to YouTube. With a cleaner interface and built-in communities, Vimeo may not have the powerhouse reach of YouTube but it hosts its own film festivals and offers a number of "Pro" features tailored for filmmakers, animators and design nerds. It’s always pushed boundaries and trends in online video, with early adoption of HD and Creative Commons Licenses.
Which is why I was excited to learn about Vimeo’s new iPad app, a much-needed release that builds off the strengths of its original iPhone app. Hot on the heels of the New Vimeo site redesign, the iPad version opens up in full screen glory, an extension of the already great site. The videos play in full screen and make for relaxing viewing on a couch. And if you hook it up with Apple TV (which I didn’t get to test out), you can even watch them on the big screen in your living room.
As designer Joseph Schmitt in the company’s blog post announcing the new app, “Mobile traffic to Vimeo has exploded (technically speaking, it’s tripled) since we first launched our iPhone app in early 2011, so we’ve renewed our focus to provide the best possible experience for Vimeo users on the move.” The new app is sure to drive even more traffic (and reduce eye strain!).
Each video features the standard “Like” and “Later” buttons, and you can login with your standard Vimeo account so it all syncs up. In this regard, the “Watch Later” feature makes a lot more sense–turning Vimeo into an Instapaper-like site for great video (though you still need to be connected to the web to view them). Below the video, you can get more information from the author, share it out with your friends (including an embed feature for WordPress), and even determine the CC license for viewing. You can even scroll for other videos while watching the current one.
The editing feature is clean and easy to use, with color-coded layers and a bevy of options, including transitions, audio (with easy access to Vimeo’s music store), and text.
The most intriguing element, and a vast improvement from the tiny iPhone interface, is the ability to shoot, edit and upload video. Taking advantage of the iPad’s built-in video camera, you can quickly shoot clips and either automatically upload them or create a new project.
Focus sur Efim Graboy et Daria Turetski, de véritables amoureux de la ville de Kiev en Ukraine. Armés de leur Canon 550D, ils ont filmé pendant 5 jours la capitale ukrainienne pour obtenir cette vidéo en technique time-lapse et tilt-shit réussie à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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