2012
Remote Controlled Ornithopter Flight Video
An ornithopter is a machine that flies by flapping its wings. It’s pretty amazing to watch this bird like object flap through the air and then glide down into the hand of the operator. The original Sean Kinkade (SK) Park [...]
2012
A Yurt By Any Other Name Would Keep You Warm & Dry
Watch a Mongolian family assemble their yurt in fast-forward video The nomadic people of Mongolia don’t stay in one place for long. That’s why they live in gers (which American’s know by the Russian name, yurt), a home that is [...]
2012
Could This 10 Second Spot Be A Teaser For Ferris Buller’s Day Off II?
Could this really be a Ferris Bueller sequel? Rumor has it that the full trailer will air during the super bowl. I can only imagine that Ferris probably did really well during the first dotcom boom, and now has the [...]
2012
Needle Felted Terrarium
File this under projects that I think are cool, but am too lazy to actually create. I’ve been obsessed with terrariums for a few years now and have been wanting to make one in a lightbulb or something clever to [...]
2012
Bird Flies on Stage at Doyle Lawson Bluegrass Festival – Magic Happens @ 1:30
Yes, there is a bluegrass song called Mordechai. No it’s not about your uncle Mortie. Josh Williams sings Mordecai at the Doyle Lawson Bluegrass Festival at Denton Farm Park in Denton, NC on May 5, 2011. During this song, a [...]
2012
Record Player Modified to Play Cross Sections of Trees
Bartholomäus Traubeck, was born in Munich, Germany in 1987 and is currently living and studying in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Linz, Austria. For his project entitled “Years”, he took a record player and modified it to analyze the various properties of [...]
2012
Single Camera Vs. Multi-Camera Sitcoms – A Salon Review
Salon has an awesome article that explores the difference between a multi-cam sitcom and a single cam sitcom. It’s something I’ve never consciously pondered before, but it is a very noticeable point once you think about it. Take shows like [...]
2012
MIT’s Exploratory Cute Robot Boxie
Meet Boxie! He’s a robot cinematographer that is a project of the responsive environments group at the MIT media lab. Boxie is a mobile interactive robotic camera built with the goal of actively capturing stories about its environment and the [...]
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