Cheesy video for AT&T's Frame Creation Terminal, a 1982 graphics workstation. The Bell Labs-produced Frame Creation Terminal (FCT) was an all-in-one graphics system designed to generate the types of pages used by the Viewtron system. Price: $34,000 in 1982 dollars, or about $81K today. The first customer for this system was Viewdata Corporation, the company jointly owned by AT&T and Knight-Ridder. More about the system here, and more awesomely cheeseball videos in the AT&T Tech Channel on YouTube. Early wildlife recordings - Environment and nature. Long description: Recordings in this collection can be played by anyone. This collection presents an assortment of species and habitat recordings that were produced during the first half of the twentieth century when wildlife sound recording was still in its infancy.
The majority of these recordings were originally released on gramophone records, presented in box sets and accompanied by illustrated literature that provided the listener with information about the animals they were hearing, possibly for the very first time. Material from two pioneer wildlife sound recordists, Ludwig Koch and Carl Weismann, dominate this selection of sounds. Ludwig Koch 1881 - 1974 Ludwig Koch was one of the greatest pioneers of wildlife sound recording and many of his recordings are featured in this collection.
In 1928, the German branch of recording company EMI offered him the chance to oversee a new cultural section of the gramophone industry. During the Second World War, Huxley introduced Koch to the BBC. Kill Bill Extended Look. Sonny Chiba - The Bodyguard. REVOLUCION CULTURAL. Este blog nace de la inquietud de un grupo de gente que busca difundir material alternativo, material que no esté al servicio del capital sino al servicio del pueblo. Esto lo entendemos tal cual Lenin entendía sobre el cine: "Para nosotros el cine es la más importante de todas las artes". Así en medio de toda la vorágine de cine alienante que se nos presenta en las cadenas de cine comercial tenemos que bregar por una cultura que nos haga reflexionar, ser críticos y no solo eso, sino, luchar por transformar esta sociedad caduca por una sociedad mejor donde reine la prosperidad y la explotación del hombre por el hombre sea superada.
En este camino de transformación social el medio audiovisual tiene su rol de educar a las masas, pero, este arte no es determinante en la transformación social sólo es un medio más por el cual a las masas se les ira difundiendo las nuevas ideas de cambio social y que se quiere lograr luchando; dándoles una utopía científica por la cual luchar. And now, Robocop watching a woman take a shower. "Ultimately its all in the brain" In some sense it's not true though, is it? Our bodies are producing various hormones and other chemicals that constantly impact brain function. (Not to mention the role of our nervous system outside our heads, which is still somewhat mysterious.) We'd be completely different entities if most of our body was gone. Physical illness alters mental function and people have been in accidents (with no head trauma) that completely changed their personalities. A cyborg who's more or less a head on life support?
Well his life support system may keep his brain on several drug feeds that essentially turn those parts of his brain off. They might do this so effectively he doesn't even remember or understand the experiences of his memory. As you say, we've never done this so we don't really know what to expect. "use it or lose it" probably applies. That too I suppose. The World's Most Interesting Installation Art. Melted Ice Cream Truck Installation In 2006, this amazing melted ice cream truck was installed in Adelaide as part of the Australian Sculptures by the Sea fair. Artist Orest Keywan constructed the Dali-esque dripping truck with steel, sandstone and limestone and ultimately won the grand prize.
The Artwork of Mark Jenkins Mark Jenkins’ disturbing and realistic installations have been known to cause many 911 calls. Using the city as his canvas, Jenkins litters the landscape with sculptures of headless and faceless humans, dead or sleeping bodies, often to provide a social commentary on how homeless people are dehumanized by the masses. Videos mencionados por Open Culture. WordPress Arena: A Blog for WordPress Developers, Designers and Blogger. Hollywood black and white era take you back to the glamorous days of Hollywood during the 30′s and 40′s. There is something special about Black and White images, Imagine yourself posed perfectly, bathed in glamorous lighting, illuminating your best features while looking these beautiful pictures. You will feel beautiful, confident and alive. A video compilation of every single creative influence "borrowed" for The Matrix. That's the point. the series is not supposed to say it's bad that art is based on things done before, it just points out that it is.
And has to. It's not nitpicking, just analyzing. We stand on the shoulders of Giants. I think you got the wrong idea, as FrankN.Stein pointed out. It never really mattered that the Wachowskis borrowed heavily from other influences, what mattered was the end result, which rocked. Too bad they couldn't keep it up at that level for the next two movies (and I say that as a guy who actually likes all three Matrix movies (Matrices?)) Personally, what i'm seeing is a lot of inspiration for The Matrix. So much of the video shared has nothing to do with "borrowing" but instead has to do with likeness between two works of art.
All creative efforts will always have a source of inspiration. Now it should be noted. . . Pixar before Pixar | Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation. Anyone interested in the history of computer animation and the roots of Pixar is in for a treat. Headlining this post is a forty-year-old video created by Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull and classmate Fred Parke at the University of Utah. The animation of the hand, which is among the earliest examples of rendered 3D animation, was reused in the 1976 feature Futureworld. It was the first use of computer modeled animation in a feature film. The backstory of who had a copy of the entire film and why it’s posted on Vimeo is also fascinating and worth a read. Next up is Vol Libre by Loren Carpenter. The film is considered a classic of early computer graphics and caused a huge stir when it debuted at SIGGRAPH in 1980. In fact, Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith walked up to Carpenter after the screening and offered him a job on the spot in George Lucas’s Computer Division, which eventually became Pixar.
Carpenter has been with the studio ever since. The software didn’t exist four decades ago though. Nerdplusart.com. This is really neat. It's a very very early digital 3D rendered film (family lore is that it's the first, ever). It looks old because it is. It was created in 1972 by Ed Catmull (the founder of Pixar) and Fred Parke with a little help from my dad. I also think that this is the only digital copy of it. The best part of this film is not even the 3D rendering itself, but the outtakes and "making of" footage that has been interwoven throughout, including footage of a plaster replica of Ed's hand onto which he is meticulously mapping the polygon vertices that make up the three dimensional model (around 1:30). The film fell into my hands because Ed and my dad were good friends and office mates at the University of Utah in the 1970s where they were both pursuing upper graduate degrees in computer science.
A couple of years ago, Ed was speaking at the University of Utah (giving, I believe, some version of this talk) and ran into my uncle. A few months later we took a plane to SFO for the tour.