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- Tom Waits, via reddit

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I just found out about the Khan Academy in the news earlier this week and I think it’s one of the most inspirational projects I’ve seen in a while.

Salman Khan is a former hedge fund manager who single handedly created a whole library of YouTube videos to explain all manner of mathematical and scientific topics to kids in a way that’s easy to understand. He started doing them as a way to tutor his nieces and nephews. Now

…his 800-plus videos are viewed about 35,000 times a day, forming a virtual classroom that dwarfs any brick and mortar school he might have imagined. By using the reach of the Internet, he’s helped bring education to the information-hungry around the world who can’t afford private tutors or Kaplan prep courses.

I watched a few of them and I’m totally hooked! When I was in school I always learned just enough math to do well on tests, but then I’d promptly forget what I learned after a test was over. I wished I had someone like Salman Khan as a teacher…someone who made math relevant and interesting beyond a test and who spoke in plain english instead of abstractions.

He’s also got a series on economics and the financial system that I totally plan on watching since I know so pathetically little about how it all works.

There’s more about his project over here.

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“Check out this drum machine. It’s from India. I circuit-bent it!”

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An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube is an hour-long presentation that Prof. Michael Wesch gave at Library of Congress. Prof. Wesch researches digital ethnography at KSU and previously made the famous The Machine is Us/ing Us video in 2007.

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via reddit:

Ataque de panico! (Panic Attack!) Is a short film describing an invasion of giant robots. What is impressive is knowing that it was carried by two men from Uruguay in six months with $ 300 budget.

I used to have that awesome robot in the opening shot..

This film would have been scarier if it included this giant flame-throwing robot baby:

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Silent Library is a segment of Downtown no GAki no Taskai ya Arahende!! It is a little bit like Crickets Available Here, but played in a library.

This one involves no crickets, but does have a giant millipede:

This one involves spoons!

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via reddit

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From Wikipedia:

Alive in Joburg is a science fiction short film directed by Neill Blomkamp, released in 2005 by Spy Films. It runs approximately six minutes long and was filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa. The film explores themes of apartheid, and is noted for its visual effects as well as its documentary-style imagery.

link to IA page.

Alive in Joburg is being remade by into a feature-length film called District 9 that looks like it borrows heavily from Transformers.

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This weekend I went up to Downieville to race in the Downieville Classic which is the biggest mountain bike race in CA. It was so much fun! I’m happy to report that I still have all 4 limbs that I started with and they are in their proper place the last I checked. I shot the video above of the River Jump championships which happened after the cross country race on Saturday. I didn’t do that. These guys were nuts.

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Pink Saturday was amazing.. there were at least a trillion people there!

Peliom took this picture of TikiTV VJ’ing on the main stage at Castro and Market:

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The Knack is a surreal British comedy from 1965. I hadn’t seen it in a long time, and stumbled upon it on Hulu:

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Playin Donkey Kong with you:

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I went to bed at 2am last night. The alarm went off at 6am this morning . It was waaaay too early to do much other than check the internets, so that’s what I did, and found inbflat.net. This site is magic.

Eventually I realized I had to stop playing with it and do some work, but I wanted to keep listening. So I made the Bb Buddha Machine.

It probably doesn’t work in IE. It brings linux machines to their knees. But I listened to it for at least eight hours today. Enjoy!

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via reddit.tv

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OneEighteen, a ship pilot in Houston, has posted this beautiful timelapse he took during a six-hour run through the Port of Houston:

More info about the timelapse. CC by-nc licensed. Part 2 below:
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This is Auto-Tune the News #2. It gets awesome at 1m 23s:

Also, Michael Gregory’s other videos.

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Here are some old pics of Sam and Peliom vj-ing with the open source TikiTV software at the Timothy Leary Archives event at 111 Minna. Way fun!

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These are not your average Transformers fans:

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I’ve already made most of you watch this video of Maru the Cat, walking around the house with a bag on his head. It is maybe the most awesome video on the internet:

Well, here is the hedgehog version, via reddit:

Also, here is a video of Maru playing with a box:

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ffmpeg v0.5 just came out. it’s the bomb. it’s got tons of fixes and massive amounts of new codecs that it can read. for example, it can now decode my professional filmmaker brother’s “DVC ProHD” highly proprietary (and massive bitrate!) format! it can also decode flac and 24-bit flac. (encoding flac is disappointing though).

at any rate! macports is a great way to get it installed on your mac.
the current way of setting up macports and then doing
sudo port install ffmpeg
works fine on my PPC at work (oddly — pretty old computer now) but not my Air (intel x386)

So I set out to find the fixes needed to make it work. Here they are:

step 1: install macports — see http://www.macports.org/install.php

sudo port install x264 +noasm # for i386 (not needed for PPC)
sudo port fetch ffmpeg
sudo port checksum ffmpeg
sudo port extract ffmpeg
sudo port patch ffmpeg
remove “–enable-shared” from /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/Portfile
sudo port install ffmpeg

(and “ffplay” is pretty cool now! i am considering using it over mplayer, hmm….)

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I’m sure all of you have seen the amazing Trip Down Market Street, shot on a cable car in 1905. And you’ve probably seen the same route shot in 1906 after the earthquake (skip to middle).

But have you seen this footage shot from a Barcelona street car in 1908?

via reddit

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We had a fantastic live action demo of TikiTV last night at the reception party celebrating the launch of the Timothy Leary Video Collection. A lot of great people were asking about TikiTV, how it works, how to use it, how to get involved. This is the start of a good thing.

Add your TIKITV comments/questions below and we will hook you up!

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Hunter and I travelled from CA to D.C. to watch Obama’s Inauguration.
We stood in the very cold historic day for 5 hours (after 3 hours getting from VA to DC) but were THRILLED!
We watched from The Mall, at 12 Street, about 2/3 of the distance from The Capitol to the Washington Monument.

I made a 7 minute short video of our 70 hour trip 8-)

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TikiTV is an awesome open-source video mixing application for Mac OSX, developed by peliom and VJ Science. If you are a video nerd, you should check this out:

• decodes 6 full-quality 720×480 MPEG-2 streams at 60fps
• on screen preview of both 3-channel decks
• fullscreen output to second display (vga projector)
• rock solid 60fps output, no dropping frames
• requires MacBook Pro 2GHz or higher
  

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