I love the feel they got from this shooting technique – and think they’re really onto something.
Check out this great little video shot at a quaint bowling alley (Bryant Lake Bowl and Theater) in Minneapolis. Features some excellent and innovative drone-based camera movement.
Soon to be seen in rap videos near you? How about a 165″ diagonal screen TV that folds up and hides under the floor when not in use? If you’d like one, C SEED’s television will only set you back $400,000.
One should be cautious as this video is clearly just rendered – it’s not video of a real thing. Also, it’s actually 6 panels that fold together.
This kind of design isn’t new. The common problems are doing a really good job at hiding the seams between panels (maybe they can use colored led’s to help fill the crack?). History has shown the hardest part of these kinds of displays are balancing the brightness and colors between the panels – especially as the display panels age.
Still, it’s an interesting concept.
3D display created by stacking a bunch of transparent OLED’s. The build video is a little bit pretentious, but good write-up.
Pick up your own transparent 128×56 OLED display here (for $26)
A guy takes an electric skateboard, creates a simple frame to make the carpet surface, gets his Aladdin costume all set, and takes you on a magic carpet ride.
There is a making of video that showed they used an original Boosted Board. Maybe this will be my next Halloween costume?
I got to see Fr Guido Sarducci in Seattle once. He did a little of his set and then married a couple in the audience.
However, in the age of covid and social distancing, maybe we need to try out some of his ideas for confession during this Lent. Things like the ‘mass confessions’ could be interesting…
We know that if you talk after having inhaled helium, your voice goes up because of the lighter air density of helium vs nitrogen. But what about playing a wind instrument after inhaling helium?
Turns out the answer is yes – and comedically so.
Swing along to 14:45 to see the bagpipe action. (Recorder at 6:50, Saxaphone at 7:55)
It’s got everything – color, the hair, the sci-fi ambience, the rock music. I was so glad my childhood was in the 80’s.
Dr. Mildred Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from the Harvard Medical School, was a profound and prophetic woman. She is famous for addressing congress, her own medical profession, and culture at large. In one visit to congress, she laid out her feelings quite clearly:
I am at once a physician, a citizen and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow this concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged and the planned have the right to live.
Who were these expendable human lives? The unborn – and as time has shown – especially African American unborn. When Roe v. Wade was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1973, Dr. Jefferson was outraged. She saw the decision not only as a direct assault upon the unborn, but also upon the ethics of her profession. She later told the U.S. Congress that the decision “gave my profession an almost unlimited license to kill.”
Her words have proved prophetic – especially for African Americans. The CDC reports that 619,591 abortions occured in 2018 (most recent data) and has a breakdown that has stayed fairly consistent year over year:
| White | Black | Hispanic | Other | |
| Abortions | 135,328 | 117,626 | 70,195 | 26,975 |
| Abortion rate (per 1000 women of same ethnic group) | 110 | 335 | 158 | 213 |
This means that Black women are 3 times more likely to have their children aborted than whites, double that of hispanic women, and around 30% higher than all other minorities. Not only that, but these numbers mean that abortion deaths for African Americans far exceeds those via cancer, violent crime, heart disease, AIDS, police, and accidents. This is an astounding number – and is so bad in some areas of the US (such more black children are aborted than born alive. This data isn’t disputed nor are they anomalies, they’ve been consistently true for decades now.
This is also true even after you control for income and compare with all other ethnic minorities that experience discrimination – but still have much lower abortion rates. A fact that even the press struggles to find answers for, and some groups try to hide by saying the overall percentage of black abortions is less than white women (completely ignoring the fact that the black population in the US is more than 3 times smaller).
So, if you are interested in saving black lives – then the biggest silencer of their voices is abortion. This should make us want to ask some hard questions about policy, players, and the groups, that appear to be targeting unborn black lives – more than any other minority.
The world’s first and largest hotel built out of snow and ice. Icehotel Winter is reincarnated every winter for the last three decades, every year with brand new art to experience. During an intense period during November and early December every year, the empty space on the riverbank turns into a magnificent hotel made of ice and snow.
The Portland Winter Light Festival has been growing every year. What started as a very humble collection of eccentric artists has become a ever growing event.
Unfortunately, half of this year’s event occurred during our big snowstorm – the very weekend I was hoping to go out so I missed most of it. Bummer. However a few folks posted some video of this year’s event:
Also, here’s some collected photos from the event over the last few years to enjoy
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