Technology is Scary
The science of Deepfakes.
From WSJ – thanks to Cultural Offering and Execupundit for posting. This is a sobering application of technology.
Don’t believe everything that you see.
Going Green Should Not Be Hard
What do YOU do to reduce your footprint on this earth? Very interesting video, produced a year ago for Earth Day, and worth revisiting.
History of Frame Rate for Film
This is an interesting and (mostly) easy-to-understand explanation of the technical history of filmmaking through frame rate. Why is this important? Other than being interesting, there is a new unit if time launched by Facebook, called the “‘Flick” which will make it easier to align and standardize video and sound for smoother effect. Interesting how many different frame rates evolved along with the evolution of video.
This gets a little hairy (it is a technical narration, after all) and runs about 15 minutes, but it is worth the watch:
More information about the Flick:
Twitter: FB Launces Flicks
Technical Definition at Oculus: Flick-Frame-Tick
Hello? Is there anybody out there?
Very cool. ICYMI this latest bit of space technology news, NASA reported the discovery of 7 planets that have the potential to support life around a dwarf star 40 light years away. Stellar news.
Email from the 80’s
Wow – the Internet has changed a little since 1984. Here’s how you get email in the ’80’s:
Check out the password. And the “software transmission” at the end of the broadcast. Psychadelic.
Magical Timelapse -Europe
Be sure you click through the video to the Vimeo post to learn about all the places visited and the details of the photo shoots. Amazing.
Magical Europe – Timelapse from StanChang on Vimeo.