Couldn't resist, phenomenal clip, imagine all the timing and work to make this exhibition and even the music is OK. Hilarious. Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of "This Too Shall Pass" off of the album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky". The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The "machine" was designed and built by the band, along with members of Synn Labs ( http://syynlabs.com/ ) over the course of several months. It's a .....read more »

This is just one video about a robot replacing humans. It does a terrific sorting job at high speed. I especially liked this video due to the music and the swift and good impression of the possibilties of robots in the workplce. There are many more at Singularity Hub We still picture plants full of human workers toiling to make our cars and furniture, just as we imagine our meat comes from animals in a barn. The truth is much more awe-inspiring, perhaps even frightening. The factories of today have some human workers, but huge portions of assembly lines are 100% .....read more »

This above mentioned website: Academy for Flm and Psychiatry is a website that wants to organize thoughts about the many ways that film and psychiatry intersect. You can discuss films, it already has some films discussed in relation to psychiatry. It also has some information on The Cognitive Neuroscience of Film. Thanks Shrink Rap No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

Presentation about new developments with maps by Microsoft. In this presentation you can see how they integrated even the sky and moon into the location on the map besides the 3D representation. Other possibilities are time traveling, flickr integration, and showing areas before and after earthquakes, just to name a few. It becomes an an interactive three-dimensional space. The technology is based on Seadragon, the visualization technology that gives it an amazingly smooth digital rendering and zoom capabilities. Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts .....read more »

it asks for your birth year and slowly fades out as it counts backwards through the years. Finally the page background goes to black, and a white line of text begins printing out. What it starts with depends on what year you were born but generally you’ll get a note about what movie was popular that year, and then a narrative that combines time-based facts with philosophical questions and reflections on life. This is just an small example of everything that happened in my birth year: In ####, the world was a different place. There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Researchbuzz.org, .....read more »

963. Atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before 200,000 supporters to call for racial equality, in what would become the defining moment of the African-American civil rights movement -- and a turning point in human history. On Martin Luther King Day this video of his famous I have a dream speech. No matter how many times you may have seen it, it always inspires and provokes. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

A good demonstration of google wave and a terrific overview of some of the highlights of 2009. Thanks Smarterware No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

The regular collection of modern painters, from 1905-1960 in the Centre Pompidou in Paris holds some beautiful paintings by Wassily Kandinsky. This picture is just one out of five or six nice paintings, colorful. Enjoyed them very much while visiting Paris, so check them out when you have the opportunity. You can find more on Kandinsky and syneasthesia on this blog. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

Snow is causing a lot of troubles on roads, train, and airports these days in The Netherlands. Even heard a spokesman compare these problems with the problems of Chicago in the winter as an excuse. "In Chicago these problems also exists in the winter". No one objects but comparing the weather of Chicago with the weather in The Netherlands is like comparing apples and oranges. The average Chicago winter produces 38.0 inches (94 cm) of snow. This is just an average; Chicago winters have produced between 9.8 and 89.7 inches (25 cm and 221 cm) of snow. In finding lame excuses .....read more »

As written elsewhere on this blog: Dr Shock is a musical omnivore. He likes hip hop, reggae but also Jazz. One of his favorite jazz musicians is Bill Evans. Mostly because the piano is Dr Shock's favorite instrument. Not that he can play the piano but these vibes get down all the way. Recently discovered a Dutch site written in English about Bill Evans. This site has an enormous amount of information about Bill Evans an his music, obviously written by a very enthusiastic fan, must be a physician. I tried Google but couldn't a better and more informative site .....read more »