Datawake, techno-ship

I've blogged earlier projects of my old friend Steven K. Roberts. This is his biggest project yet, a high tech yacht, the Datawake. This guy is awesome.

A short TV bit about an earlier project from the early days (relatively) of the Net:

Wisdom of thirteen

"That is one of the advantages of being thirteen. You know so much more than you did when you were only twelve." -- Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Delreves dancing on the side of Danish church (updated)

This is great.
(Thanks to Miro who was there.)



Update:
Photo by Miro:

Kumiko The Treasure Hunter

"Kumiko The Treasure Hunter". Independent movie about a Japanese young woman, lonely and miserable, who goes looking for a buried case of cash she has seen in the movie Fargo, believing it to be real. It is a very unusual movie, tragic but somehow uplifting and humorous at the same time. I liked it a lot.

The new drone aesthetics

 Watch this compilation of kewl drone footage. Full screen recommended.

Film Hasselblad vs digital Leica

A comparison of a film Hasselblad image with the same view from a new digital Leica.

Just a little mock-up

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The Bucket Redemption

There was an old maid from Nantucket
Who liked to wee in a bucket
"My bathroom was good
"With walls made of wood
"But when I got rich I thought fokkit"

 -- Stobblehouse

Nerds and TBBT

I was wondering why The Big Bang Theory is such a huge hit. Oh yes, it's brilliant, but so was Arrested Development and that only survived for two seasons.

But I think I figured it out: all the millions of nerds in the public like that the show makes fun of people who don't understand nerds. And all the rest likes that it makes fun of nerds.

Train noise art happening

In the nineties I lived right next to the central Copenhagen train tracks, a bunch of tracks side by side, very busy. (Funny enough one stopped hearing them after a couple weeks, maybe because the sound was not actually unpleasant. Lucky because while outside the city they'd built expensive noise barriers, in the middle of the city, no such thing.)

 One night after midnight, a special kind of train passed on the tracks, very slowly. It was making a SPECTACULARLY LOUD noise. Insane. I rushed down there and looked. I was just a few meters from the train, separated only by a fence and a line of small trees.

 It turned out it was replacing the rocks between and under the actual tracks! This was happening with lightning speed; I have no idea what kind of device could suck up fist-sized rocks maybe a dozen per second, but it did, and replaced them with new ones as fast, I don't know why. You can maybe imagine what kind of noise this made.

 I was fascinated and exhilarated. This experience was like a huge art happening: the slowly moving, dark train in the middle of the night, with lights on it, the supernatural noise, and the rocks moving up and down like in the elevators of hell, it was amazing.

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Aha: the crushed rocks (the ballast) are not always replaced, often they are cleaned to avoid vegetation growth. 

Making Whoopee

Michelle Pfeiffer and the Bridges brothers celebrate The Fabulous Baker Boys, great flick.



Music of Making Whoopee:


... And the great visual (sadly the sound on this one sucks like a baby baboon)

That seems like a pretty crucial conjunction

Just to explain my new blog tagline...



And because it's a very funny film, with innovative visuals. The Emperor's New Groove is not exactly Beauty And The Beast (no tweener love story, no musical-songs).