The Prestige: Hiding In Plain Sight

Really loving the stuff that Nerdwriter1 has been posting on to YouTube. This time he talks about The Prestige – a movie I thoroughly enjoyed and have rewatched several times – and its director Christopher Nolan: The Prestige demonstrates a unique capacity of film without compromising the audience’s suspended disbelief. The complex narrative structure is …

How To Lose Weight In 4 Easy Steps!

If you are going to watch only one movie today, make sure it’s this one. Great stuff, even if you’re not looking to lose any weight at all: 3.) HAVE YOUR HEART BROKEN And not just broken; shattered. Into itsy bitsy tiny little pieces, by a girl who never loved you and never will. (via …

Atlas, The Next Generation

Boston Dynamics is at it again with new version of Atlas. It’s great to see how much it has evolved when compared to the original Atlas, announced back in 2013 (which itself was an updated version of Petman, announced back in 2011) A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It …

Extracting Looping GIFs From Videos

Finding and extracting well-looping segments from a movie requires much attention and patience […] To make things easier I wrote a Python script which automates the task. This post explains the math behind the algorithm and provides a few examples of use. Fuck yeah, math! Or, as the author states: Yet another big problem of …

Exif.js – JavaScript library for reading EXIF image metadata

Following up on yesterdays “Read EXIF thumbnail from JPG image using JavaScript” I stumbled upon Exif.js, a library which reads EXIF meta data – and not just the thumbnail – from JPEG images. Usage is simple: EXIF.getData(imageElement, function() { alert(EXIF.pretty(this)); }); It’s also possible to get single values: EXIF.getData(imageElement, function() { var make = EXIF.getTag(this, …

Always Must Go

Astronautalis, a touring musician who’s been on the road for quite a long time now: I do enjoy being home. But I am at my most comfortable when I’m gone. He doesn’t necessarily loathe being home; he wants to disconnect, escape the day-to-day life. That’s where his motorcycle comes in the picture: When you get …

Re-thinking reading on the Web

When we were introduced to the team at The Atlantic they were creating a series of articles about “Population Health”. They wanted to tell these stories in an interactive and visual way. The challenge was to create interactive visualizations based on industry concepts and make them accessible to both healthcare professionals and the a casual …