On Martin Luther King Day, I decided to take Sebastian Schmieg’s Search By Image, Recursively project, and start with a seed image of MLK from Wikipedia.

After about a thousand images we arrive at the Hubble Deep Field. Interesting to compare to Sebastian’s project, where he very quickly arrives at the Deep Field when starting with a transparent image.

I took the code that Sebastian Schmieg made available on his Search by Image page and wrapped it in a loop. The modified code can be found here.

Update:

Here is the full 9 minute video. After crawling about 8500 images, the algorithm stopped after it couldn’t find any new related images. We skip the broken images, which leaves us with about 7000 frames:

And here it is with a soundtrack, as suggested by Aaron.
-raj

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This video was shot by an RC multipcopter at a race I did 2 weekends ago and is pretty awesome!

I noticed it hovering in the air that day and wondered what it was doing there. When I’m at a race, all I see is dust, dirt and gravel, so it’s pretty neat to see what it all looks like from above.

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By Madeon:

Also via reddit.

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It starts out pretty nuts, and then part 2 goes straight to plaid.

via reddit

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This is a great video about doodling and graph theory:

via reddit. Here are more videos of Mathematical Doodling by Vi Hart.

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I’ve never seen this video before.. It’s based on “Esther’s” by Amon Tobin. Found via this incredible MeFi post about Ninja Tune.

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Amazing auto-biographical sculpture made with 100,000 toothpicks over thirty five years:

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Ravi likes the Electric Car song by They Might Be Giants. Cute paper-cutout video too!

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A Ken Burns documentary on the San Francisco Coffee Wars

from Killing My Lobster

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Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

A dad and his son attached a video camera to a balloon, sent it up into space, and made this recording of the earth’s outer reaches.

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(works best in chrome but it’ll work in safari too)

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So I wanted to sit down in my updated home theatre and watch one of my favorite films, “Star Wars”. Problem is, I have two versions on DVD, and neither are ideal. The 2004 DVD version has remastered audio and video, but also added scenes and changes I really don’t like. The 1977 DVD version is a poor quality transfer and encoding.

So I combined the 1977 and 2004 DVDs into the highest quality 1977 version of the film! I show all my scripts and techniques here, too, so you can make the same version from your two DVDs, too!
http://www.archive.org/details/reremaster

star wars comparison of two films

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This is going to be at the Palace of Fine Arts on Wednesday and Thursday. It looks awesome. We should go!

Here’s a list of films that are playing (though I’m not sure which films are playing on which night).

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Karin Dreijer Andersson made it on to Resident Advisor’s Top 100 albums of the ’00s list twice, once for her solo album as Fever Ray and again for her collaboration with her brother as The Knife.

Here is an acceptance speech that Fever Ray gave at an awards show in Sweeden. It is one of the best acceptance speeches ever given:

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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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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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