vinz's blog — things to remember

And Everything Was Alright from Placeholder Films on Vimeo.

will be back in a couple of days doing the holiday thing.

November 9th 2007 – November 13th 2008
one year on foot – 4646km through China
unlimited beard & hair growth
thelongestway.com
musical score by the kingpins ( myspace.com/theoneandonlykingpins ) and zhu fengbo

MIT Professor Missy Cummings (a former F-18 Hornet Navy Pilot), and her team of 30 students and undergrads, have successfully demonstrated how an iPhone could be used to control an unmanned area vehicle, or UAV.

As part of their work at MIT’s Humans and Automation Lab (HAL, heh), the team thought about ways to improve on the suitcase-sized controller that soldiers must currently lug around to control hand-thrown Raven UAVs.

The iPhone app they developed sends GPS coordinates to the craft, which then in turn can send photos and video back to the iPhone.

We had the idea in June,” Cummings told Danger Room. “In six weeks, we went from the idea to a real flight test,” using MIT’s indoor robot range. (See video.) The total cost? $5,000 for a new, commercially available, quad-rotor robot – plus the cost of iPhones for her crew.

[Wired Danger Room] DoD photo by Tech. Sergeant Russell E. Cooley IV, U.S. Air Force.

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Wes Anderson, Director of The Royal Tenenbaums is set to release a stop motion animation of The Fantastic Mr Fox later this year. What with Jarvis Cocker to have written a couple of songs, Henry Selick as animator-in-chief and a familiarly impressive cast, it doesn’t look set to dissapoint any childhood memories of Mr Fox (George Clooney), Badger (Bill Murray) or Farmer Bean (Michel Gambon).

By sweden ljudbilden. “made this so that the people in gothenburg shouldn’t forget that biking is indeed a great way to go from A to B and B to anywhere…”
Director/animaton/AD: Kristofer Ström
VFX/animation: Eric Buchholtz
Producer: Nicholas Wakeham
Music: Douglas Holmquist
Agency: Frank&Earnest
Studio: Varelsen
Behind the scenes on “upptäck cykeln igen” check out below.

“A year in the life of Muinty Bikes, come join the team as they travel around the world in search of the best spots. ”

Filmed and edited by Joe Simon, available in September 2009 on DVD and Blu-ray.
Shot with the HVX-200, 5DMKII, Scoopic 16mm and Canon 814XLS Super 8mm.
Song is Moksha By Caspian

a project by nosigner, Hiroyuki Ando, Junji Watanabe and Eisuke Kusachi, let you feel what’s happening on the screen. They placed a small vibrator on the fingernail and by tracking the position of the finger with the touch screen, the user can get some tactile feedback.

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Western Preview of “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea” – [HD] trailer
Hayao Myazaki’s latest offering, Ponyo, has a new trailer out. The dubbed version of the audio track for the film is used, but at least we get some nice quality footage a little more info about the characters / plot of this new animated adventure.

Wrigleys 5 Gum – Augmented Reality Music Mixer

The technology
The Wrigley 5 Gum project utilises Releas3D^TM, which combines:
- Flash
- Papervision 3D
- 2D video technology and workflow
- Augmented Reality technology
- An Entity/Resource Management system
- Video Capture and Encoding system

Features
- 15 music tracks to create your own mix
- 3 animated flavour orbs
- Control volume and add effects: distortion, bit crusher, echo
- Record, add to gallery and share your mix
- Vote for your favourite mixes
- No software downloads
- No security warnings
- No browser restrictions
- No platform restrictions