Colliding Particles - Episode 1: Codename Eurostar
The first in a series of films following a team of physicists involved in research at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. Join our Vimeo group: vimeo.com/groups/collidingparticles
Gavin, Jon and Adam have a cunning plan to find the Higgs Boson, an elusive particle which physicists have been trying to find for over 40 years.
One of the main aims of the the LHC is to discover once and for all whether the Higgs actually exists or not, and ‘Eurostar’ might just hold the key to finding out…
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Hip-Hop Medley on the Stylophone Beatbox
Beautiful tactical response ad meant for M&C Saatchi whose Dixons ads caused uproar
Introducing astrotags
Astrotags are a new way to label your astronomy photos with their celestial subject and its location.
This short film, made by Jim Le Fevre and Mike Paterson for the Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition, shows you how.
So have a watch, then astrotag your pictures at the Astronomy Photographer of the Year group on Flickr. If everyone joins in we can make a beautiful and accurate map of the night sky… so pass the word on.
You Are Here
Our solar system in the Milky War galaxy. We can only clearly see a tiny fraction of our galaxy. There are around a hundred billion galaxies in the universe.
RFID Porn: The Ghost in the Field
This video is about exploring the spatial qualities of RFID, visualised through an RFID probe, long exposure photography and animation. It features Timo Arnall of the Touch project and Jack Schulze of BERG.
More here: http://www.nearfield.org/2009/10/immaterials-the-ghost-in-the-field
Site: www.berglondon.com
via @Floheiss
Meet the dog
Losing To The Social Web: Visualized
Feathers
Make your own tracks with The Sound of Orange Rockcorps
During the past couple of months I’ve been working on this Poke project for Orange. It’s an amazing feat of web technology where you can record your own sounds and have them mashed up with your friends into songs.
We built this project using a Django backend, Sox, lame, ffmpeg and aubio for audio processing, amqp-js for realtime communication between flash and the server, red5 and an IVR system for note recording and lots of glue in the form of RabbitMQ.
For the song playback we use Standingwave, an open source AS3 library for sequencing and synthesising sounds.
Be sure to check out the auto tuner and phone recording, it’s special. =)
The nitty gritty!!
Can you believe this iconic ad only ever ran on one billboard?
Nike: Wayne Rooney. Tactical poster by W+K London.
2 Girls, 2 Cups
The girls from Lulu and the Lampshades do some pretty impressive things with cups. This is a version of their song “You’re Gonna Miss Me.”
