Did you know that Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail had some ‘lost’ animations? These animations were found on bits of negative that had been left on the cutting room floor. Listen as Terry Gilliam gives a great grumpy old man narrative to the his ‘lost’ work that was cut by ‘envious members of the group trying to restrain a young, talented animator”. Great stuff.
“Shogyo Mujo” is a giant traveling art installation. It’s a projection mapped art project skull that appeared at Adobe MAX BASH, Siggraph 2015. Developed by BARTKRESA design and Josh Harker.
Eric Standley uses hundreds of layers of laser-cut paper to create these unbelievable works of art.
What do you do if you’re classically trained on the centuries old shamisen – but want to rock like the young people you are?
The Tsugargu Shamisen Girls show you.
I’ll be doing the talk on Intel’s Graphics Performance Analyzer this Thursday in San Francisco! Perhaps I’ll see some of you there?
Recently I took the Coursera Machine Learning course from Stanford and got to implement a lot of these kinds of algorithms (HIGHLY recommend the course). This guy took it a step or two further and added some clever visualizations and additional training tricks. Very good work – especially considering it was done by a seaming amateur implementer.
It’s fascinating how we can now write small neural nets like this and very quickly train our computers to do work not only as good as us, but in growing numbers of cases, better than the BEST humans in the world could do. The implications are staggering…and somewhat disconcerting. What happens when we have enough compute and enough data that our racks of machine learning systems can do all the analysis and optimization of every facet of our society? What does that leave us to do, and how does our economic system work when many of these thinking jobs go away?
While this has been argued all the way back to the industrial revolution, there is some growing work by more respected people that we are turning a tipping point (http://www.businessinsider.com/technology-is-destroying-jobs-and-it-could-spur-a-global-crisis-2015-6). Or more interestingly, do we go through another era much like the industrial revolution in which broad swaths of the population become cogs in a bigger machine until we re-adjust. Much food for thought and social rumination…
Microsoft nails it with the Hololens on Minecraft. Great work guys!
Leo Burnett, a designer for Samsung’s Argentinian corporate office, comes up with this brilliant idea to promote road safety.
What happens when you mix water slides and led lights? Awesomeness. This is what:
I took the hour trip out to Astoria, Oregon where the Goonies was filmed – 30 years ago this month. I went to all the usual sites and got my picture taken with the original Fratelli’s ORV.
