my favorite video at this year’s siggraph animation festival (the compendium of the special effect industry’s efforts over the last year) only one piece struck me as pure art: U2 and green day’s music video “the saints are coming,” featuring an alternate reality where the US troops in iraq were redeployed to new orleans to […]
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3d-blog
lately virtual environments have come under fire because they are not so good at any of the things that 2-dimensional interfaces do so well, like chat, marketing and organizing information. what are they good for? fun! since wolfenstein 3d virtual three-dimensional environments have been the ideal way to explore complex worlds and shoot nazis. i […]
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fearless learning
last week i needed to find out how to install an undermount sink, and i found a video at moen.com: today i heard about tufts medical center’s live webcasts of common surgeries: and i virtually assisted the inimitable don sadoway‘s introductory course on materials science (3.091) via mit’s open course ware: these videos are much […]
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war weave
while reading enlisting madison avenue: the marketing approach to earning popular support in theaters of operation (a handbook for ‘shaping’ the opinion of ‘indigenous’ populations in US-occupied countries) via chris c, i came across many failures and few successes. one of the biggest problems in US propaganda efforts is that many ‘shaping’ attempts find their […]
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self-edit
ever since google began offering on-line apps we’ve know that soon every software and storage would be off-sourced, but it remains surprising that video editing is the next big application to hit the qVGA screen – not photo editing or page layout but the most processor-intensive application of them all. and why not? since many […]
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