[_] new Radiohead video
AdrianShipp
Adrian at flagshippanimation.co.uk
Tue Jul 15 13:18:00 BST 2008
Tom Gidden wrote: >The new Radiohead video, "filmed" with frickin' lasers. > > http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/ > >Nice thing is, the raw data is available on Google Code. I wish I had >the time to do something with it. Lovely effect what really steps it forward is the artistic development of the concept using the dispersing effect on the data, very smooth. Nothing new in the technology though which is a shame, just unclean data from 3d scanners. Photo-geometrics is a nice tool to access. Shame they couldn't have developed a scanner that encircled the subject for the head shots, would have really got into those little creases behind the nostrils, as it stands the data for the head presents a limited z depth of detail, but maybe that was the style they were looking for, dirty. Wonder how much the system to capture the data set them back. Nice flash presentation of the data although it's a hefty wait for the animated sequences. Adrian Flagshipp Animation and Digital Media Production Mobile: 07957 573852 Email: Adrian at FlagshippAnimation.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: underscore-request at under-score.org.uk [mailto:underscore-request at under-score.org.uk] Sent: 15 July 2008 12:00 To: underscore at under-score.org.uk Subject: Underscore Digest, Vol 59, Issue 46 Send Underscore mailing list submissions to underscore at under-score.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.under-score.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/underscore or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to underscore-request at under-score.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at underscore-owner at under-score.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Underscore digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: 3g SIM IN 2g phone (Darren Beale) 2. Re: 3g SIM IN 2g phone (Peter Marshall) 3. Re: CPU/Motherboard combo for silent audio PC... (Stefan Goodchild) 4. Re: SEO vs Copywriting (Mark Chitty) 5. Senior Flash Developer (Jo Swift) 6. Re: SEO vs Copywriting (Joel Hughes (the elder)) 7. Flex 4 (Matt Kane) 8. Re: CPU/Motherboard combo for silent audio PC... (Steve Roome) 9. Light detection and ranging as a capture method for audiovisual appreciation (Tom Gidden) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:35:20 +0100 From: "Darren Beale" <bealers at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [_] 3g SIM IN 2g phone To: underscore at under-score.org.uk Message-ID: <580806e90807141435w4d8ef034gbf03c26df28efc33 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > I got a call from Three Customer Retentions this afternoon, offering > me ?10/800 minutes on an 18-month minimum BUT perpetual lower price > just to stay, as I'm one of their "elite customers". I have no idea > how I can be an elite customer, though, as my monthly spend up until > recently has been ?15. Saying that, I use less than 45 minutes of > talk a month, so I'm a cheap date for them. Could have done with one of those retention calls myself. In an effort to break out from the pointless and wasteful upgrade cycle in order to gain features I don't need or want, I recently signed up for a further 18 months @ ?15pm which will immediately save me ?540 over this contract period when compared to the original deal I had with them. Big steaming 4rse burgers that I can't use the SIM with my 6310i though, I should have checked first. db -- Darren Beale 07711 716 197 http://bealers.com ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:14:33 +0100 From: Peter Marshall <marshallp at sparkdata.co.uk> Subject: Re: [_] 3g SIM IN 2g phone To: "underscore at under-score.org.uk" <underscore at under-score.org.uk> Message-ID: <339FD33976920A41BABAD7DF0B612DF924C9AEC73A at zenda2.sparkdata.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I'm sure I've put 3 sims in other unlocked phones with no bother. And on other mob offers news, 3 rang up and offered me a free USB dongle with 5GB of data transfer for ?7.50/mth, which is pretty reasonable. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:28:38 +0100 From: Stefan Goodchild <underscore at stefangoodchild.com> Subject: Re: [_] CPU/Motherboard combo for silent audio PC... To: underscore at under-score.org.uk Message-ID: <5042B69C-DEFE-4DE4-B698-76DB1BE5A840 at stefangoodchild.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes On 13 Jul 2008, at 17:12, Oliver Humpage wrote: > On 12/7/08 10:59, "Stefan Goodchild" > <underscore at stefangoodchild.com> wrote: > >> I've got the Firewire 410 and to get it to make any noise I have to >> power down my laptop (not hotpluggable) plug it in. > > Drivers used to be terrible (would stop working after waking from > sleep, > etc), but they've gotten better recently. Agree about the annoying > *click* > as it powers up, though. Ahh, so after I've had the thing nearly five years it's now nearly usable! bargain ;-) ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:38:51 +0100 From: "Mark Chitty" <mark.chitty at thisliquidspace.com> Subject: Re: [_] SEO vs Copywriting To: underscore at under-score.org.uk Message-ID: <688267870807150138l18620914oc6d5e31e7cdddf56 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I think the point was that good copywriting for the web *does* take > care of the SEO *provided* I agree, but I am always interested in seeing what other people thing about this :o) > I've found I can't even read a book linearly any more without scanning > for links and bolded (emboldened?) words :-/ . I found have myself opening a book and thinking 'search' before having to resort to the archaic 'index'.... I think I might spend to much time on a computer... > Google also treats long articles differently to normal web content, > and makes allowances (currently, from what we've observed) for lower > keyphrase densities by measuring other attributes instead. > This IS interesting, care to elaborate further? At the moment, as far as I can see, SEO can be summarised as 'build it properly, write it properly, don't do anything naughty', but I'm sure there's more detail somewhere :o) thanks for your reply. mark -- Mark Chitty web: www.thisliquidspace.com email: mark.chitty at thisliquidspace.com mobile: 0777 3392821 skype: markchitty ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:36:45 +0100 From: Jo Swift <joanna at completecontrol.co.uk> Subject: [_] Senior Flash Developer To: <underscore at under-score.org.uk> Message-ID: <C4A22E3D.51C8%joanna at completecontrol.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Senior Flash Developer We are currently looking for a Senior Flash Developer to join our team. The successful candidate will have... * Expertise with OOP techniques, AS2 and AS3. * Expertise in working with working to tight design & interaction guidelines, flash filesize optimization and intelligent pre-loading. * Experience with a wide range of Interactive technologies/techniques including Papervision, Flash remoting, flash communication server, XML, javascript and HTML. * Meticulous attention to detail when working with designers on motion graphics, video and sound assets. * Knowledge of how to make ideas work across various OS and browser platforms. * Ability to lead other less experienced flash developers and designers and help them develop new skills. For more details please contact joanna at completecontrol.co.uk ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:38:12 +0100 From: "Joel Hughes (the elder)" <underscore at jojet.com> Subject: Re: [_] SEO vs Copywriting To: underscore at under-score.org.uk Message-ID: <487C7004.9080608 at jojet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mark Chitty wrote: > This IS interesting, care to elaborate further? At the moment, as far as I > can see, SEO can be summarised as 'build it properly, write it properly, > don't do anything naughty', but I'm sure there's more detail somewhere :o) I think that's a good starting point but "write it properly" needs to obviously encompass keyword research etc to make sure you add the right ingredients into the copy in the first place (i'd also say write it properly in light of how people read online as well but this is less of a direct SEO issue but, then again, perhaps it is not as if it is written engagingly it will have a greater propensity to be attractive to back links). IMHO SEO (and, ok the line blurs between it an SEM) can also encompass building/attracting good back links to the your content (as, obviously, with SEO a big (the biggest?) factor tends to be off page factors). I think a good copywriter is great to have - gives a site an excellent voice - howeve copy does need to be written in light of SEO, in light of the audience and in light of marketing call-to-actions, offers etc etc. Joel Hughes (the elder) ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:17:40 +0100 From: Matt Kane <ascorbic at gmail.com> Subject: [_] Flex 4 To: underscore at under-score.org.uk Message-ID: <B638A0E1-C421-4C49-9022-6D2DDF391E1F at gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Hi all, Adobe has just released the first public builds of Flex 4. They've also got some docs and videos showing some of the new features. I recommend Ely Greenfield's demo on Adobe TV, which shows how some of the really cool stuff in Thermo is implemented - and how some of the benefits can be used now without Thermo. Info here: http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1486 Matt -- Matt Kane, Lead Developer, CLEVR Ltd. http://www.clevr.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:45:32 +0100 From: Steve Roome <steve at pepcross.com> Subject: Re: [_] CPU/Motherboard combo for silent audio PC... To: underscore at under-score.org.uk Message-ID: <20080715104532.GB4901 at tv.internal.pepcross.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Thanks for all the replies and ideas folks... In the end (replying to my own post here..) I got a dual core Pentium (E2180). Yup, that's not as fast as the Intel Core 2 Duo's (not nearly), but it's fast enough for me. With the stock heatsink that comes with it it's quite quiet actually, and running FreeBSD for the last two days with the fan set to autospeed it's not gone above 30degC yet and idles at about 24 degrees. The motherboard I bought initially was the cheapest I could find at Novatech, but when I got it home I found out that it had already been used by someone else (heatsink paste on it and 6 bent pins on the LGA 775 socket - I've no idea how they managed to sell me a 2nd hand board or how someone could bend those pins...) I popped into PC world and bought a Gigayte GA-73VM-S2 Board for 49.99. It has no fans on and seems fine, the onboard graphics works okay. I do have an M-Audio sound card of sorts lying about somewhere but I've not got around to installing it. The drive I've got is fine (twas a spare from a rubberductions build) but I will look for a quiet >500GB drive as well. Ideally I would probably put the drive on the end of a fire controller in some other room and the graphics rather than onboard would be a HDMI card with a 20m HDMI cable. i.e. the CPU/fan/PSU arrangement would be in a different room. As for sound, again, in an ideal world I'd get one with optical digital output and get a quality audio ADC to sit on the desk with the screen. With the disks or the CPU remote and everything else done with longer cables (and digital) all my problems would be solved, but for now the cheap and easy options seem to be working quite well. Overall I've spent less than ??150 and have most of the things I want. Linux X2 (it's a game) runs fine at 1024x768 with the onboard graphics and the sound quality for a basic motherboard PC seems fine. (All Audio processing will be done on CPU anyway, no custom DSP is required here and I don't have one anyway...) Again, thanks for all your help and suggestions... Steve ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:48:42 +0100 From: Tom Gidden <tom at gidden.net> Subject: [_] Light detection and ranging as a capture method for audiovisual appreciation To: underscore at under-score.org.uk Message-ID: <8E7C8F43-E01F-4184-A631-4C1569F86035 at gidden.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes The new Radiohead video, "filmed" with frickin' lasers. http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/ Nice thing is, the raw data is available on Google Code. I wish I had the time to do something with it. Tom -- Tom Gidden http://gidden.net/tom ------------------------------ -- underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/underscore End of Underscore Digest, Vol 59, Issue 46 ******************************************