Peep this beautiful work from Future Deluxe:
Powered by Google’s machine learning platform – TensorFlow, Morphing Clay learns to recognise different human gestures and body movements, triggering the morphing of different pottery shapes and patterns in real time.
[Via Joost Korngold]
I’m so proud of Margot “Hollywood” Nack 😝🤘 and her team for helping make this happen! 🤖🔥 And if you’re a fellow Old, you might join me in marveling at Premiere Pro’s long journey from 90’-s has-been to industrial-strength collaborative platform.
Get an inside look from Director Tim Miller and the creators of Paramount’s Terminator: Dark Fate as they take you behind the scenes into their workflow & production for editing and creating visual effects using Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other tools inside the Adobe Creative Cloud suite.
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“When—not if—I die in a fiery crash on Highway 101,” I’ve long told people, “you’ll remember that I called it that I’d be rubbernecking at some awesome aircraft buzzing overhead.” I’ve always figured it’d be a Blue Angel or An-124 or something, but now I can imagine it being Uncle Larry (who helps fund electric-plane startup Kitty Hawk), softly zipping by in one of these chariots of future:
Sign me up for the last bit in particular:
Project Heaviside is Kitty Hawk’s latest high-performance electric VTOL vehicle. It is designed to be fast, small and exceedingly quiet, taking advantage of new possibilities to free people from traffic.
The Heaviside vehicle is roughly 100 times quieter than a regular helicopter. Once in the air, the vehicle blends into the background noise of a city or suburb, barely discernible to the human ear. Heaviside can travel from San Jose to San Francisco in 15 minutes and uses less than half the energy of a car.
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You might find this creepy as hell—and you might be right—but I guarantee you this will become commonplace, in one way or another (e.g. I walk into a cafe at work, know who all these people are, and know whom to talk to and why).
Velaga and Nefedov scraped photos of investors from Signal, a directory of venture capitalists in different industries, as well as Google Images. They declined to specify how many photos they have, though they said it is over 1,000. […]
When we tried out AngelFace at Vox’s office, the results were not impressive. The app didn’t recognize Casey Newton (not surprising) or Benchmark’s Bill Gurley (quite surprising). But whether it works is almost beside the point: peer-to-peer facial recognition software is still in its early stages and it’s likely to get more prevalent as time goes on. As Velaga said, “Anybody can make this technology — the tech we use, someone could figure it out watching YouTube videos.”
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Thrilling stuff for Honda’s celebration of the Japanese Grand Prix:
Campaign writes,
The ad covers Honda’s success on the racetrack through the years, from the RA272’s victory at 1965’s Mexican Grand Prix to Max Verstappen’s race-winning pass at this year’s Austrian Grand Prix. A giant animated bull also features as a nod to the brand’s partnership with Scuderia Toro Rosso and Aston Martin Red Bull Racing.
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…and got 3D-captured via Google’s volumetric scanning array. “Days of Miracles & Wonder,” part 9,217…
Or, if you prefer, duct-tape a drone there—or a 360º cam, or all three! Stewart Carroll shows off fun ways to simulate biking like a bat out of hell, at substantially lower risk to one’s health (if perhaps not to one’s gear):
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Facebook Research recently unveiled Fashion++, “An AI system that proposes easy changes to a person’s outfit to make it more fashionable.”
Not to be outdone, my extended team is rolling out a Google Lens feature called “style ideas”:
If you see a leopard print skirt you like on social media, take a screenshot and use Lens in Google Photos to see how other people have styled similar looks. See a winter coat that catches your eye in a store, but need some inspiration on how to rock it? Just open Lens and point your camera.
This remains, as always, “the strangest life I’ve ever known…” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Eight or so years ago, my little son Finn was fascinated by this animation. (As we laid in the dark at bedtime, he noted out of the blue, “The dream is collapsing.”) Now that he’s 11, we can enjoy the original film together & revisit the steampunk version together.
A peek behind the scenes:
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Pretty much like it says on the tin. Enjoy!
The 9-minute performance features 640 motorized LED spheres, an ancient Chinese weaving machine and a modern dancer. German motor winch producer KINETIC LIGHTS provided the vertical hoist systems for the LED spheres and control software. Russian RADUGADESIGN animated a complementing video backdrop and CPG Concepts from Hong Kong provided the dance choreography for British dancer Rose Alice.
