Crikey!
With AR on Google, you can meet eight life-sized Aussie animals up close and bring them into your backyard, living room, classroom—or take them on your adventures. Just search for koala, kangaroo, quokka, wombat, platypus, emu, kookaburra or echidna on your mobile browser (Android or iOS) or in the Google App and tap “View in 3D.”
I really enjoy Google’s super-cheeky internal discussion list, Terrible Ideas. Folks are celebrating one whale 🙄🤷🏻♂️ of a terrible idea, executed 50 years ago today. Behold, the exploding whale of Oregon:
Update: OMG, they’ve actually renamed the park “Exploding Whale Memorial Park.”
TL;DR: High quality storage will no longer be unlimited, but this won’t happen for a while; free storage remains a generous 15GB (more than enough for most people); and 100GB of storage costs two bucks a month.
Beginning June 1, any new photo or video uploaded in High quality in Google Photos will count toward your free 15 GB storage quota or any additional storage you’ve purchased as a Google One member. To make this transition easier, we’ll exempt all High quality photos and videos you back up before June 1. This includes all of the High quality photos and videos you currently store with Google Photos. Most people who back up in High quality should have years before they need to take action—in fact, we estimate that 80 percent of you should have at least three years before you reach 15 GB. You can learn more about this change in our Google Photos post.
Does this thing seem like the absolute best use of BMW’s R&D resources? Uhh… but hey, check out some wild camera angles & dramatic fly-bys:
Design Taxi writes,
The electric wingsuit is equipped with a rig on the chest, which provides an output of 15kW. This delivery is then split among two 7.5kW carbon impellers that can spin at the speed of 25,000 RPM and produce a thrust for around five minutes.
Remember the scene near the end of Swingers where Vince Vaughn’s character makes flirty baby faces at a woman—only to realize she was actually flirting with her actual baby?
Nata Metlukh brilliantly captures that kind of awkward moment in this series of charmingly animated vignettes:
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No AI can give me rhythm… or can it? Check out how the ‘Dobe is working to help synchronize body movements with beats:
I’m really pleased to see my last team’s engine (which is already powering makeup try-in in YouTube) getting put to good use:
L’Oréal Paris is also releasing one “exclusive look” on Google Duo, making it the first beauty brand to be used directly within Google’s video conference system.
It’ll be interesting to see how the market for digital makeup & apparel evolves in a more socially distant, WFH world.
I’m no connoisseur of the Grateful Dead or of NBA & sportscasting great Bill Walton, but having stumbled across this trippy hour-long doc the other night, I have to salute the good-hearted goofiness of both.
Bonus Waltonian goofiness:
Brief, beautiful choreography intertwines with particle effects in Barnaby Roper’s collaboration with dancer Kendi Jones, memorializing Elizabeth Eckford’s historic walk to school in 1957:
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With so many of us being nervous wrecks from election-related stress, I thought you might enjoy this small thing of beauty from the land of my ancestors. And may God hold us all in the palm of His hand.
Amazing Grace 🇺🇸 from across the Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland pic.twitter.com/b9wOiNZmwA
— Patrick Dexter (@patrickdextervc) November 3, 2020