Tag: video

Condensing video

Condensing hours of security footage into seconds

condenses all footage of things that moved throughout the day, overlapping a time stamp on everyone from gardeners and delivery people to package thieves

Senior songs

You're so engaging, but we're both aging

At age 99 Alan Tripp wrote a poem called “Best Old Friends” to celebrate the many new friends he made at Beaumont at Bryn Mawr, the Pennsylvania retirement community where he lives. As a gift for Alan’s 100th birthday, his younger friend and neighbor, 88 year-old Marvin Weisbord, set the poem to music. That was the spark that launched Senior Song Book with this dynamic songwriting duo, and inspired a whole community to sing, dance and perform along with them

Gorbachev Pizza

In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued. It’s dangerous for leaders to outlive their countries. Whether they move on or become obsessed with returning to power, they cannot escape their role as symbols of a vanished world—a condition fraught with both nostalgia and danger. Nobody knows that burden like Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union. Since his involuntary retirement, Gorbachev has raised money for worthy causes, attempted to make a comeback in Russian politics, and, notoriously, made an advertisement for Pizza Hut.

Levitating 3D Pixel

Imagine that 1 of the pixels on your monitor could jump right off of the screen, and float in front of your face. Just 1 pixel wouldn’t be much use for conveying information. But imagine if that pixel could then zig and zag through the air, fast enough that it could draw letters or images you can read.

Prison advice

“How you going to beat up a man gifting you handmade seasonal accessories?” Excellent advice on all the things you should definitely not do on your first day in prison.

Primal

Insanely brutal fight scene from animated series Primal

Primal is an American animated television series created and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. It premiered on October 7, 2019 on Adult Swim. Primal follows a caveman (named “Spear” in the show’s production notes and voiced by Aaron LaPlante), a formidable hunter at the dawn of evolution, and a female Tyrannosaurus (called “Fang” in the show’s production notes) on the brink of extinction, brought together by tragedy into an unlikely partnership as they fight to survive the violent creatures that also live in the prehistoric world.

Paris in 1900

Thanks to incredible archives restored and fully colorized, this film presents a previously unseen journey through time and space. Discover, Paris in 1900 at the time of the Exposition Universelle and the very beginning of modern art and cinema. The City of Lights became a showcase city, displaying the latest technical and scientific inventions, and also boasting avant-garde art galleries, lively cabarets, the ultimate in high fashion, and… the Parisiennes. The myth of “La Belle Epoque” reigned supreme.

Disco Elysium

a detective RPG of improbable depth. It’s part Planescape: Torment, part police procedural, part psychodrama. Your fatally hungover detective peels himself off the carpet, naked except for a pair of soiled underpants, and begins the laborious process of piecing his broken mind back together, while simultaneously attempting to solve a gruesome murder on the wrong side of the tracks.

Natural produce isn’t

Most of the foods found in the grocery store at one point were much smaller, bitter, sour or unpalatable, comparing supermarket produce with the wild ancestors they were cultivated from.

Entrepreneurial Space

Zubrin observes the new entrepreneurial approach has caused an entrepreneurial surge in nuclear fusion development. Nuclear fusion rockets can be more impactful and useful than nuclear fusion for energy. Nuclear fusion for energy is displacing alternatives for energy using solar, wind, coal etc… Nuclear for energy has to achieve lower cost to develop major new energy advantages. Nuclear fusion for rockets can enable entirely new capabilities like travel up to 10% of light speed.