1. The Insider (Michael Mann)
Why? Well because of everything. This is the movie that it is hard to find fault with anywhere. Michael Mann’s directing style is unique and this is the best in his repertoire. His use of low level lighting and tight angles is used to best effect here.
This is also arguably Russel [...]
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(This post is part of a series – the first being ‘My Gadgets‘)
1. Volkswagen Golf CL (Mk 1) 1985 – 89
Classic 1400cc blue go kart! Boy the fun I had in this car!. Don’t tell my mum (RIP) but this was just the best vehicle I ever drove – light but nippy it was perfect [...]
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I do want one, and I am in the target market, but as a colleague of mine pointed out, it’s not actually a Mac, it’s still the iPhone OS, so it retains the control Apple want.
In fact if I think about it too hard I don’t want one. That succinct marketing message stating that over [...]
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Here is the most down to earth, everyday, useful application of Augmented Reality (AR) I have seen to date. It’s not a quatum leap to see any type of instruction manual or DIY book using this kind of system. Yes right now the cost of the technology is prohibitive, but the usefulness outweighs the complexity [...]
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MOTOR / AMBIENT REEL from KU-SCHNEIDER on Vimeo.
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I couldn’t resist posting this amazing fireworks display from the opening of the half-a-mile high (yes, say it again – half-a-mile-high) Burj Dubai tower in Dubai.
What an amazing spectacle – truly science fictional – and something every boy dreams of: the worlds tallest building.
…and have a look at this amazing footage from a building contractor [...]
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This is a bit of a melon twister!
Google’s own great blog has an article on it that (the equally great) ReadWriteWeb blog has picked up, about the lastest use of anonymised GPS data.
Google’s amazing ability to crunch vast quantities of data is proving more useful than even the ‘real time web’. In this case they [...]
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I’d forgotten about this article until I saw a photo of Chris Morris in front of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and thought I’d dig the hole article out as a tribute to the madness of what has just happened in the media with the arrest of an alleged Al Qaeda member actually working [...]
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Tilt shift is an amazing post production technique applied generally to long term, fixed camera video, that makes the whole scene look like a model, or miniature world.
Here’s Wikipedia’s definition:
“Tilt-shift photography” refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt forselective focus, often for [...]
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OK so I’m selling it short by the title of this post as this is a truly amazing advance in technology.
Honda have developed a ‘Segway‘ like device that you jump up onto a sit on like a unicycle. It has an omni-directional wheel and automatically keeps you upright thanks to internal gyroscopes.
CNET suggest that it [...]
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