"videos" entries
Burning Man Time Lapse Video
Burning Man, the Nevada art festival, is in an amazing, flat desert. The video above is a time lapse of the week. It's impressive to watch the city grow and then burn. Here's Phil "pEEf" Sadow's , the creator, description of his work: I was originally asked by Tom Price to do this timelapse, and I thought it was…
Ignite Seattle 4: Startup Talks
At Ignite Seattle 4 we had fifteen great talks (all available on YouTube). As usual the talks were on topics that we felt geeks would appreciate. Two in particular contain sage advice for an entrepreneur. The first video is Leo Dirac's explanation of Venture Capital Term Sheets. The second is Dave McClure's talk on Startup Metrics (after the jump)….
Post Secret Shares a Video
Frank Warren dropped us a line letting us know that he has made the first Post Secret video. On Post Secret Frank posts images of anonymous postcards that have secrets on them. He's made a beautiful four minute film that shows some striking images and gets into some of his thinking. It reminds me of the great Post Secret…
Botanicalls on Good Morning America!
Botanicalls is a system that allows plants to call their owner when they need more (or less) sunlight or water. It works by placing moisture and light sensors in plants and then wiring them to an Asterisk (OS phone system) backend. Kati London, one of the creators and a member of the 2008 ETech program committee, was on Good…
ASC: Using LADAR Captured Images To Create 3D Model
Advanced Scientific Concepts makes a LADAR (Laser Detection and Ranging) camera that captures enough data in a single shot to make a 3D model. The resulting model can be spun around and can be used to make measurements (as is done in the video above). I saw examples of images taken in smoke and fog; it was amazing how…
Wii for Second Life
The video above shows a man using a Wii controller to control Second Life. He's using it with a treadmill. Most systems like this cost several thousand dollars, but with a Wii (multi-use) and a Second Life account you can have one in your home. Id-media, a creative agency, produced this video and are the sponsors of the Open…
Animations Using Open Street Map Data
The image above was made using Open Street Map (OSM) data. This past weekend at the OSM Conference State of the Map Barry Crabtree showed off several experimental animations. If you look at the image closely you'll see that there are shadows. It's a still from a short video that shows an online map as the sun moves across…
Ant Simulation in Second Life
Tectonic has created an ant simulation in Second lIfe. The video shows a simulation of how ants find food, leave a pheromone trail for recruiting, and occasionally run into dead ends. It's a short, pretty interesting video to watch. Second Life's scripting language and avatar creation tools make it ripe for this type of simulation/instructional video. Are there any…
Everyscape: A 3D Worldviewer Made From 2D Photos
Everyscape aims to be able to show you the whole world — both inside and out — from its website. It plans to do this with normal 2D photos. Using proprietary technology Everyscape will stitch these photos together and 3D-ify them. The result is a pan-n-scan world accessible through a Flash viewer. When looking at their viewer you are…
Are You Blogging This? A Web 2.0 Song.
It's a cheap trick, but it works. At least till it's over-exposed. David Lee King, a librarian from Kansas, has put together a clever music video called "Are you blogging this? A Web 2.0 Song" Of course, that frank appeal is a one-time stunt, but it shows how people are fishing for an angle that will get them noticed, exploring…