Impossible to Tune a Piano
I didn't realise this was a thing. Interesting...
I didn't realise this was a thing. Interesting...
Very cool project.
Finding Nemo is one of my favourite movies. This video walking through some of the challenges and the process of making it was a pretty entertaining and interesting watch.
These sure are pretty. I'm not sure I'd every drop a few hundred dollars on one, but still, so very pretty!
So much space news lately ... Thematically, I just read the Martian last weekend, which was a page turner.
I wonder if I'll see someone get to Mars in my lifetime. It seems plausible? Maybe?
Seems like an awful lot of work. But pretty neat stuff!
This was pretty captivating. Storm clouds are pretty impressive things, and it's pretty mesmerising to see them this way. Also, an excellent soundtrack!
I'm a pretty big fan of the work done by Ian Danskin (@InnuendoStudios). His "This is Phil Fish" video is fantastic and thought provoking. So I was happy to see some new content from him this past week. It turns out he's been hard at work on a series talking about GamerGate.
Six videos released daily this week are the result of this work. There's over an hour of content there, and it is well worth watching. It's a fantastic treatment of a difficult subject.
It seems to me that exposure to other ideas and points of view are essential to self development. Not everyone gets perspective on the inherent privileges they have. Heck, I'm sure I don't properly have perspective on mine. So I'm very happy videos like this are getting made, and I hope as many people as possible watch and think about them.
Pretty impressive set of tricks. There's a couple tricks there that made my jaw drop.
It's worth mentioning that all of the Penn and Teller "Fool Us" TV series is pretty fun viewing. There's some pretty imaginative acts to see, and it's always fun to guess how they did the tricks.
Pretty cute video
Continued good work by Derek and his Veritasium YouTube channel.
Pretty cool that ships can use this effect to become more efficient!
This video with Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Louis C.K. all chatting about comedy and some of their different approaches is entertaining and insightful. I like how they disagreed on each other's approaches.
Now to go and spend the next few days watching and rewatching their old shows.
It starts a bit slow, but I found this enthralling.
Slightly disappointing he didn't go on to blu-ray. I wonder what that looks like.
I'd go so far as to say this is a must watch. It's a fantastic visualisation of the death counts of World War II and how they compare to other wars.
Some of the moments in that video are eye-opening in a way I didn't appreciate before. In particular, the staggering number of Soviet casualties is jaw dropping when put into scale.
I guess the only slightly disappointing part of the video is it kind of felt like the author chose to spend too much time on Europe and kind of glossed over the Asia part. Maybe there will be more videos.
Videos like this make me incredibly jealous of people who can draw.
I find the development stories behind some of my favourite games to be pretty fascinating. Awhile back, the developer of Threes posted some of their emails showing the back and forth that was the development process of probably my favourite iOS game of all time.
Recently TouchArcade posted a fascinating glimpse of the development of another game I very much enjoyed: 10000000. The developer, Luca Redwood, went through quite an interesting path to get to the final product.
File this under the "it could be too good to be true" category. But the video sure makes this look cool.
I'll be interested to see if it works as well as the video implies.
I've been listening to a pretty cool podcast called Gastropod for a few months now. The hosts cover a variety of food related topics from a science perspective. Generally it is an interesting and entertaining listen, but this week's podcast on artificial and natural flavourings was particularly good. Worth a listen!
Destin's Smarter Every Day YouTube Channel tends to be very high quality, generally speaking. This video in particular grabbed my attention and wouldn't let go. These little clues into how the mind works is a pretty fascinating subject to me.
Whenever a new Engineer Guy video comes out, it is required watching. This one was pretty cool.