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Automatic Supercuts With Open Source Python Script

Automatic Supercuts With Open Source Python Script

Artist and game designer Sam Lavigne has essentially created the cotton gin of supercut video production with an open source python script that automatically “searches through dialog in videos and then cuts together a new video based on what it finds.”

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Vehicular Hacking, From Art Cars to JEEPuters

Vehicular Hacking, From Art Cars to JEEPuters

While DIY automotive projects are nothing new, the options for modifying your vehicle are becoming increasingly diverse and accessible. As the Owner’s Manifesto states, “If you can’t open it, you don’t own it,” and this should apply to your manufactured vehicle as much as any commercial object.

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The Thingiverse Cube Gears Phenomenon

The Thingiverse Cube Gears Phenomenon

This video of Thingiverse user dougc314′s motorized cube gears caught my attention, this morning, on one of my co-workers’ blogs. It’s a modification of user emmett’s much-copied screwless cube gears which replaces one of the corner gears with a motorized pedestal that constantly drives the geartrain, endlessly folding and unfolding the shape.

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Street View’s embedded videos

Phil Clandillon has a cool new video project featuring Google Earth mashups with panoramic images of specific locations relating to the background of the music on The Editors’ new album.

To promote UK band Editors’ new album, In This Light And On This Evening, we’ve created a hacked version of Google Street View which allows users to preview the album in the areas of London which inspired it.

Users can travel to areas of the city where we’ve hacked in our own custom locations. The new additions consist of our own custom panoramic images, shot at night by photographer James Royall. Within each location the user will hear music from the album, which was inspired by the mood and magic of London at night. Each of the nine tracks on the album has its own location.

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