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 …
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The Worst-Designed Thing You’ve Never Noticed
Roman Mars is obsessed with flags — and after you watch this talk, you might be, too. In this surprising and hilarious talk about vexillology — the study of flags — Mars reveals the five basic principles of flag design and shows why he believes they can be applied to just about anything. Worth your …
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Which Way Did He Go? Lateral Character Movement in Film
The Simpsons Movie References
Star Wars: The Force Awakens VFX
The State of the Union Address as a Wes Anderson film
Nvidia Drive PX2
Some fascinating stuff by Nvidia: NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 allows the automotive industry to use artificial intelligence to tackle the complexities inherent in autonomous driving. It utilizes deep learning on NVIDIA’s most advanced GPUs for 360-degree situational awareness around the car, to determine precisely where the car is and to compute a safe, comfortable trajectory. …
How Art Can Transform The Internet
Maybe the aesthetic value of internet art is measured by its ability to help us see the internet, just as as a novel can help us see language. I really like the mentioned “rainbow effect” which we can see in satellite images, as it gives us an insight in how exactly satellite imagery works (which …
Star Wars: History of movie trailers
Mobile Continuous Delivery with a DevOps Mindset
Talk my colleague Patrick Debois gave at Velocityconf 2015. It touches a few of the same things I talked about in From Idea to App (or “How we roll at Small Town Heroes”) in a deeper way, along with a truckload of more information on how we do things at Small Town Heroes. This presentation …
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