CreativeCow: Barco presents brand-new line of Series-II digital cinema projectors.
3D projection tech may be coming to your next industrial show.
Discover: Fly over Mars!
Dramatic, I suppose, but I agree with one of the commenters. Might have been better served to simulate a Mars Rover trip, something to give scale. We see enough 3d animations nowadays to lose our wonder over these sorts of sims.
AE Portal News: Can You Legally Use H.264 for Professional Video?
YouTube: 3 guitars and a tractor!
Who needs a drum machine? Via my wife’s Facebook feed.
ReadWriteWeb: Does HTML5 Really Beat Flash? The Surprising Results of New Tests.
”Here’s what this all means in layman’s terms: Apple isn’t allowing Flash to become more efficient on their Mac OS X/Safari platform (or their iPod/iPhone/iPad one, either) by not providing the access to the hardware it needs to reduce its CPU load. Adobe is waiting and watching to see if they do, but, as Ozer says ‘the ball is in Apple’s court.’” Sadly, not in wider public perception, but I think Jobs’ remarks are (as evinced by this and other articles) going to backfire on him. Reality had to punch through at some point.
Vimeo: MTV Rocks! - Ident Series.
Wonderfully weird.
Vimeo: Airborn Intro.
Vimeo: Mountain safety.
I’m not responsible if this one makes you snort your coffee.
Vimeo: Instrumental Video Nine.
If you’re bored,
take a look at some of the vids I added to my Posterous blog over the past week.
Motionographer: Blind’s Heart of Stone.
YouTube: Natural gas commercial.
Will be entertaining to those who knit.
Motionographer: Javier Leon’s Mastery of The Miniature.
”The main challenge for me was to get away from a CG look, I think the look I had in mind really needed a realistic render.” Short, but to the point.
Vimeo: “Eye Candy” for Sony BRAVIA HDTV.
Discover Magazine: The Mother of all Rube Goldberg Machines!
Just wow.
MikeChambers.com: Relative Performance of Rich Media Content across Browsers and OS’s.
One of his observations: ”From these tests, Flash content does not perform consistently worse on Mac than on Windows.” That is my observation, as well.
Don’t like heights?
Don’t watch this.
FlashMobileBlog: Battery Performance with Flash Player 10.1 on Nexus One.
Counter to the nonsense being passed around, Flash ain’t so bad on Android. Neither is the recent against-Flash post about touchscreen devices accurate.
A side comment: Try running the debugger version of Flash Player sometime. You’ll realize how many sloppy Flash programmers are breaking your video experience. Even large site/services! Rather than bitch to Adobe, you might be better served to nudge the authors of the Flash content to debug their creations. Photographers’ sites are particularly bad about this; Flash is widely used by photographers as a technique to prevent right-click copying.
Pleix Blog: Piu.
More tweeters. Looks like Tobias’ birds got into his house (see the Kahunaburger link below).
Kahunaburger: The Birds.
Pixel Art: Beautiful and Creative Examples of Stop Motion Animation.
“It may sound very easy, but this process is always time consuming and the final result will not be as fluid as a captured video.” You can say that again. You’ll see a repost or two in here, but still a lot of fun contained within this article.
MacWorld: Google closes On2 acquisition for $124.6 million.
On2’s video compression is pretty sweet. Taking note of this.
Tate Intermedia Art: Latent Perceptions.
“Major figures in the history of video art and electronic media, the Vasulka’s have contributed enormously to the evolution of digital aesthetics through a prolific body of work exploring the malleability of vision, the manipulation of electronic energy and the interrelation of sound and image.”
O’Reilly: The Widening HTML5 Chasm.
“Every now and then something comes up so wrong that it’s time to put aside my pleasant retirement from the web standards process and get out the high horse again. This time it’s the spin that WHATWG folks have been pushing about ‘Adobe’s secret hold’ ...” Important read.
SilverlightHack: Top 10 Reasons why HTML 5 is not ready to replace Silverlight.
“This article aims to cover what is in HTML 5 (as of February 2010) and how some features in the spec are lacking compared to RIA like Silverlight. This is not a complete overview of HTML 5, nor is it a ‘HTML 5 vs. Silverlight’ article. Below is a quick list of items that I will be covering to try to prove my assertion that HTML 5 is not ready to replace RIAs like Silverlight ...” Good points that hold true for Flash, as well. I particularly liked the well-reasoned arguments in 5) Productivity.
