I cannot adequately express how much I want to do this. Really fun use of 3D scanning and 3D printing by Disney here, and only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the future of toys. As this sort of thing drops in price, it’ll be available at every Toys-R-Us.
Guests attending Star Wars Weekends at Walt Disney World this year will have a chance to be captured by Darth Vader, frozen in carbonite, and mounted inside Jabba the Hutt’s lair – or at least a notch or two short of that.
Here, in a time-lapse by Steven Alvarez, is 3 minutes of why we live here in Sewanee. Man, is it beautiful.
The Light from Stephen Alvarez on Vimeo.
Client: University of the South
Music by Boy Named Banjo
http://boynamedbanjo.bandcamp.com/
24 hours on the campus of the University of the South.
The original page for the video is
http://give.sewanee.edu/thelight/
There is no video in this video.
I shot 27,000 images in the course of 3 weeks. Around 5,000 appear in the finished video.
Everything was shot as Canon raw, converted in Adobe Lightroom and edited in Apple Final Cut Pro.
Motion control is with a Dynamic Perceptions Stage Zero Dolly.
Cameras were Canon 5D MK II, the MK IIIs didn’t fit into my workflow.
lens are all Canon
16-35mm L 2.8 model 2
24mm L 1.4
34mm L 1.4
50mm L 1.2
70-200mm L IS 2.8
85mm 1.8
300mm L 4
Check out Cubify, a 3D printer for the non-hacker among us. Complete with wifi printing, cartridge-based printing media, and a design that is less hacker and more modernist architecture.
Remember all those talks I gave over the last few months talking about a data explosion because sensors were getting so cheap that they will soon be ubiquitous and allow us to measure everything and anything?
Yeah. So that’s happening.
tōd:Connect Real World Actions to Mobile Devices and the Web by Rowdy Robot
I know how dangerous that laser is, and I still want one.
I was lucky enough to be the guest on the Dquarium Bibliotech podcast earlier this week, and had a great time talking to Kayhan, Erin, and Doug. We talked about library technology, the Librarybox project, ebooks, and more. Listen in, and if you have any questions feel free to drop them in the comments.
On two days in May I will be doing a workshop for ALA Techsource called Gadgets in the Library: A Practical Guide to Personal Electronics for Librarians. If you or your library is interested in managing tablets, ereaders, or other gadgets for staff or patron use, and if you’re interested in hearing about where I think gadgets in libraries are going in the next 2-3 years, spend 3 hours with me. I’ll help you get comfortable with gadgets and try to give you options for how to deal with them.
When: May 10th and 24th from 2:30pm until 4pm Eastern time
Where: Online! Listen from your desk?
Who: You! Or if you’ve got a handful of people that are interested, get a discount with the group rate.
Why: Because you want help with managing personal electronics in the library
How: Register here.
Preorder your very own Chocolate 3D printer! That is, a printer that uses chocolate as the print substance, NOT a printer made from chocolate.
Just so we’re clear.
Very interesting new model for flight, like nothing I’ve ever seen.
