Links and write-ups about beautiful things from around the web!
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Dark Flash Photography
Another paper from the upcoming SIGGRAPH 2009 conference: Dark Flash Photography. The researchers have developed a camera flash that uses a combination of infra-red and and ultra-violet light to illuminate a scene before capture, and an algorithm to denoise and color-correct the otherwise dimly-lit normal digital photo, producing a low-light image that is both noise-free and sharp (no need for long exposure, so no worry about camera shake or the subject moving). Seems like a killer idea, and immensely useful.
The image above is the creepy-looking multi-spectral version – be sure to click through to their site to see the final photo compared with the noisy ambient light version.
(Via New Scientist. Photo: Dilip Krishnan, Rob Fergus)
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New Treewave EP: 10inch
New free EP ‘10inch’ available for the downloading from Dallas shoegaze/chiptune band Treewave! Haven’t listened to it all yet so I can’t compare it with their outstanding 2004 Cabana+ EP, but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt (and you can’t beat the price).
(Via Offworld)
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Anaglyph YouTube Experiments
Hmm, a Google employee is using some of his 20% time to add 3D viewing options to YouTube. Not in a fully working state at this point, but it’s a cool idea. The more people out there wearing anaglyph glasses the better, if you ask me.
(Photo by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rustybrick/ / CC BY-NC 2.0)
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STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo
Videos from the recent ART && CODE Symposium, featuring presentations by the folks behind Scratch, Processing, Max/MSP/Jitter, and other fun + education-leaning graphics tools.
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ANSI Art Generator from Drastic
Rad, there’s an online ANSI art generator! Relive the glory days of BBSes and dodgy w4r3z nfo files right in your browser. I remember wasting a lot of time back in junior high making colorful DOS menus using ansi.sys and batch files. Better than launching Windows 3.1!
Check it out, make some art: ansi.drastic.net (The drawing program seems to be broken for me under Firefox 3.5.1, but your mileage may vary)
(Via Waxy)
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Mad Dog McGree via YouTube Annotations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdDmLh9tDZU&feature=player_embedded
A great use of YouTube’s annotations feature in this funny game review / history. If you were an arcade rat circa 1991 you’ll get it. Think fast!
(Via GameSetWatch)
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LEGO NXT Sequencer
A fun LEGO Mindstorms NXT sequencer project from Damien Key of Domabotics. I like the simplicity of this design (and the whirring of the LEGO motor adds something to the sound, almost like the scratchiness of vinyl).
(Via)
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8-bit Animal Collective
Animal Collective’s “My Girls” in 8-bit form. Somehow this works pretty well as a pixellated chiptune song.
(Via)
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Its Weird to See How Generic the Times Were in
It’s weird to see how generic the times were in 1990: way more acid wash denim and pastel colors, but otherwise the clothing wouldn’t look too out of place at the mall today. The storefronts and water displays still have their decidedly 1980s look, though. ‘90 and ’91 were the formative years when I spent a lot of time at the mall during the summer, bothering the folks at Babbages (they had an Amiga set up to play Lemmings and LucasFilm Games demos!) and whatever comics / gaming stores were around back then, or wasting quarters at Tilt. PS: Terminator 2’s mall sequence was probably filmed not too far from one of these scenes, around the same time.
(Via)
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Hi-Res Scans of Walt Kelly’s “Pogo in Pandemonium” Comics
Some kind guy named Thom Buchanan has created a blog where he’s posting high-res scans of the daily and Sunday strips of Walt Kelly’s Pogo from the 1966 “Pogo in Pandemonia” storyline (one of the lesser-known and stranger bits from the comic, it’s set in a Lost World type locale instead of the usual Okefenokee swamp). Excellent. Now where’s that Fantagraphics set?