ENVISION: Step into the sensory box. Under this name hides
immersive experience available by Alcatel-Lucent to its customers as
the last Mobile World Congress. An experience-based video
mapping developed by the agency and the Department SUPERBIEN New Media
Agency \ Auditorium. The public was invited into a cube and
discover an artistic vision of the tagline of the event:
Transforming the mobile experience.

Fuck Alcatel-Lucent though, this thing they bought is fucking amazing.

Michael Langan Mugshot

Independent filmmaker and commercial director Michael Langan is serious about his dedication to multimedia. With a degree in film and animation from the Rhode Island School of Design and a professional background in theater, graphic design and music, the bi-coastal artist makes great efforts to incorporate all of these elements (and more) into each of his projects.

Found this director a while back. Glad to see he’s getting some recognition. I suspect we’ll see him going places. His website is Langanfilms. You can view select works there.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5DyBkYKqnM

If that’s not the craziest shit you’ve seen today (that’s not computer generated) …

via rachetcat and probably just about everyone else by now. Cuz an octopod thief getting taken on a joyride, man and beast in harmony is truly an amazing site.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcXtT3rZcqg

Watching skyscrapers tetris away, I mean, how does it get any better than that?

I was reading somewhere about the old guard of media. I think this proves that anything they could do, we can eventually on our desktops, and we can do it way fucking better. They have paychecks, we have passion.

Edit: Apparently I was completely fooled by the crap youtube quality, as my friend found the design company’s website. It looks like a small firm based out of Paris, but definitely not bound by old media standards. The video is an Atari commercial, but the concept is cool enough for all to be forgiven for the entertainment.

2nd update: was chatting with a friend on AIM when I came up with this gem: 5:16:13 PM n6ko: some atari exec is crapping his paycheck in delight

Just thought I’d share that with you. The video went from 370 hit yesterday to 190k+

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvA5r4LtVnc

Memristors are amazing. They can work with CMOS (your regular computer chips) and different scales, i.e. they can mix 100nm memristors with 45nm CMOS structures (intend to shrink to 5nm memristors with 45nm CMOS, as they are so awesome CMOS doesn’t really need to change any further to accommodate their awesomeness-imbuing powers), they can tolerate up to 20% failure rate. It’s damned near magic they way they work -- swapping oxygen atoms back and forth between a layer of TiO2 and TiO by changing voltage slighty, changing it’s resistive properties. The change is about .3nm thickness to either layer, depending on which way the voltage goes. And it will be much more efficient than regular transistor based computronics, you should be able to pull ten resistors out of a given design and replace them with one memristor. And as they’ll be able to pair 5nm memristors with 45nm CMOS, that means those ten resistors will actually hold enough space to put about 90 memristors. Holy crap, amirite? That’s a factor of 900X. Shittin your pants yet? This next decade is going to blow your mind.

Further reading here. Warning: deep nerd.

Sumo wrestling filmed in tilt-shift stop-motion. A yokozuna is there (dunno if there’s still more than one, there was for a while) – he’s the guy that comes out in the big white belt and dances for a while around 2 minutes in. The even have some comedy sumo. I know tilt shift is trendy and all the rage right know, but I enjoy it and this is a fairly unique subject matter for the format.

It is likely to heighten Fucking’s fame, which is something Meindl, the town’s mayor, isn’t happy about, given the trouble the name has caused it over the years. “Twelve or 13 town signs have been stolen. We’ve taken to fixing them with concrete, welding and rivets.”

The Bavarian towns of Kissing and Petting have the same problem, as does the eastern German town of Pissing. But so far, there are no plans to name a beer after them.

There’s a little brouhaha over plans to brew a beer called Fucking Hell in Germany. However, they got the go ahead. The first bottles of Fucking Hell (which apparently means light ale brewed in the Austrian town of Fucking but who’s counting?) should be available this winter in Germany. Gotta import some of those!

Glad the redesign was easy to do, as all I’m gonna wanna do around here now is spam the videos and pictures ya’ll love.

I will be spending my days reacquainting myself with Linux and various related systems for the aforementioned job. It’s gotten a lot more user friendly but you still gotta know what you are doing or you are gonna be lost (even with some googling you may be lost). Of course I’m checking out the server version in a virtual box right now. The desktop GUI version is even more friendly than the “console will make you grow man hairs” server version.

My compliments to Intel and the i7 processor. Watching videos, running a complete second OS under my first one, 16 or so tabs open in Chrome, Team Fortress 2 running in the background and it’s not even using the processors. I think I’m gonna start up a new virtual box and run ubuntu desktop, see if i can get them all up at the same time and talkin to one another.

Why? Dunno, cuz I can? To the downloadodrome!

Oh, and he plays guitar. Well. Better than you.

Better than quite a few people I’ve heard play live, with all ten digits.

The distribution of comet paths has suggested that a very large planet could be lurking at 25,000 AU, says WISE project scientist Peter Eisenhardt of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

No, it’s not coming to destroy us in 2012. But how cool is that? That there may be a whole large planet lurking out in our solar system that we have never seen. Just like that ginourmous new ring found around Saturn by the Kepler space telescope.

This is an interview with here – you can dig up more vids on the tube if you’re interested.

These measurements of the cosmic microwave background — a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe — put limits on proposed alternatives to the standard model of cosmology and provide further support for the standard cosmological model, confirming that dark matter and dark energy make up 95% of everything in existence, while ordinary matter makes up just 5%.

So this means that we’re going to have to re-think the Kardashev civilization scale. 95% of the Milky Way can’t even been seen except by inference with our current tools.

There could be a type 3 civilization all around us and we might not even know it. Actually, according to the Kardashev scale, there could be 19 type 3 civilizations – A type 3 uses the ‘average’ power output of a whole galaxy, which is just the 5% we can see….

A couple proposals.

Maybe Einstein was right when he said that everything happened in an instant, and time is just how we perceive that. Maybe that ‘hidden’ 95% is the rest of the history and future of the Milky Way, in time. Since currently we only experience time linearly, we cannot test this preposterous idea with our instruments.

Perhaps string theory is right, and that other 95% are in higher or lower dimensions we can’t see.

Perhaps ‘light’ matter/energy is just like bits of data on a ‘dark’ matter/energy hard drive platter or bits in a quantum computer (qubits). Any data that exists in your computer cannot perceive the computer existing around it, though it could infer that the computer was there (assuming such things are possible, anyway – just stretching for a metaphor).

Yeah, the singing robot was cool, but a talking piano? Now that’s tricky. The narration is in German but it’s caption-titled so you can get the gist of what’s going on. It’s a real, old-style mechanical piano, not a synthesizer. It requires a giant piano keyboard sized machine to play it. But really, how cool is that that it’s even possible?

It’s not perfect by any means but we’re already on our way down that slope. I gotta get myself ahold of this Vocaloid software so I can make music with computers singing love songs to one another.

Buy this company. Buy it now. Buy it for a beelyon dollars if you have to. Give a free copy to all Windows 7 installs, downloadable over Windows Update. Sit back, watch Apple cry in the corner.

Then the real strategy begins. Put the same thing on Xbox. Start a 3d widget/app store – this part is especially important – really get on the ones with virtual stock displays so you can watch bar graphs rise and fall in real-time 3d, or for server admins to have little morphing 3d representations of the health of their networks chilling in the corner where they can keep an eye on things. Wedge it into the business atmosphere as being able to provide representational situational data for their applications/monitoring systems.

Allow this program to be further advanced and support dynamic lighting, particle effects, etc. Sky’s the limit, the desktop is now a physics toy. You will drive the sales of touch screen devices, the manufacturers will be *blanking* your *blanks* in gratitude (I have no idea what corporations do for each other? Sending their flowers?).

Think of the commercials. It will be glorious. “Yeah. Mac – OS it’s pretty. It’s shiny. But can it do this?” *high speed montage of icons flying, blowing up when they hit the recycle bin in a shower of sparks, etc etc* (Get some music by Air or Kraftwerk) “I’m a PC” *cut to a shot of mac boy crying in the shower trying to scrub himself clean.*

You can preview/watch it below.

I don’t even think I made enough money to actually get paid, but it’s still neat to see that email sayin “son, you got paid.”

HD. Fullscreen.

Watch it again. How is that even possible? Why is this not an Olympic sport?