Our friends over at iFixit take us on a tour inside the recently released Boxee Box. This oddly shaped box manufactured by D-Link houses media player hardware that runs the popular media management software. It appears to be every bit as interesting on the inside as it does on the outside.
Matt Thomas of Roger Dodger Aviation (and Maker Faire Kansas City fame) designed and built this Moving Axis AirCraft Simulator, which is a flight simulator that tilts and shifts you as you fly a virtual plane.
OK Go’s latest video, “Last Leaf,” employs pieces of toast as the canvas for a laser-etched, illustrated stop-motion music video. After watching the multitude of different shapes, textures, and shades of toast pass before my eyes (15 pieces of toast per second), it begins to remind me of watching an old reel-to-reel film in elementary […]
This month, the iotaCenter, an organization devoted to experimental screen arts, is hosting the Live Visual Performance 2010 (LVP2010) festival, in collaboration with Los Angeles Video Artists (LAVA) and Barcelona-based mad-actions. The festival is described as “a celebration of animators, VJs, and other artists who create and manipulate visuals in front of a live audience,” […]
And although it remains to be seen if XtraNormal’s business model is going to survive the rising groundswell of interest in the technology, the advent of their ubiquitous text-to-movie software lifts the very last remaining entry barrier to indie movie-makers, which is itself a significant milestone. There can be little doubt we’re going to see a huge explosion of these robo-cartoons in the near future, and correspondingly rapid improvements in the emotive abilities of the speech synthesizers. I’m curious, too, about what the new noun is going to be/already is. Has anybody heard it yet? [Thanks, Maya!]
If you’re used to shooting video with a video camera and are having a hard time adjusting to shooting with a DSLR lens, then you’re probably looking for a cheap follow focus for your kit. If you’d like to save a couple of grand and forgo any personal aesthetics, you can try this snazzy DIY follow focus pieced together from K’nex by prippman from Bootleg Productions.
With a motion-control camera, a printout under glass, and some gaffer’s tape. It’s one of several completely nerdilicious photos from a new book called The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by J. W. Rinzler. More pics and anecdotes over at Vanity Fair. I especially like the long shot of the iconic Luke-I-Am-Your-Father scene that shows the big pile of mattresses on the floor in case Mark Hamill falls. [via Core77]
