Yale’s Shane Frederick gives a fascinating, lightning tour of just how susceptible our minds are to context—answering questions & evaluating people totally differently based on simple re-orderings, etc. Give it a quick listen; I think you’ll be glad you did.
Paul Trillo worked with Nokia to rig up 50 Lumia 1020 cameras & capture dizzying slices of New York life, complete with snatches of audio.
Here’s a peek behind the scenes:
Elsewhere Jonas Ginter made a 360º tiny planet using an array of six GoPro cameras:
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This new utility promises to help iOS developers “get colors, shapes, font styles, text, PNGs, dimensions and coordinates.”
“Are you ringing?” my wife asked as I began watching this.
As TechCrunch writes, “Make sure you stick around ’til the end. SURPRISE GUITAR SKILLS!”
Watching this I couldn’t help wishing that SNL’s Stefon was there to chronicle New York’s hottest new club, Whoooosh!, currently descending onto a barge in the East River…
The aesthetic of Metronomy’s new video instantly casts me back to the early ‘80s, learning to draw sunsets at my cousin Sarah’s dining room table:
Can you turn a square Instagram pic into an interesting landscape? Bryan O’Neil Hughes shows you how:
“Pockets” offers three tight minutes of FX fun, exploring what would happen if we could reach through others’ pockets:
Meanwhile “Doxology” gets surreal with six-handed simul-grooming & much more. Good, weird, fun:
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Snickers teamed up with USC computer science prof. Hao Li to have some real-time fun with passersby:
Reminds me of Adobe’s great bus stop prank from last year:
And, what the heck, here’s the Carrie telekinetic coffee shop stunt (no CGI, just good fun with hidden wires):
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