reality bytes - blurred lines between computer models & city landscapes

The "high art" installation view - Peter Greenaway relights Da Vinci.

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.

Every surface is about to become a billboard - expect more of this at Olympic Games opening ceremonies.


Now photographs & filmed footage captured can be aligned with existing 3D models - and then relit. Soon to arrive on your GPS Sat Nav or your Phone/camera?



Augmented reality TV - can you spot the gaps that have been interpolated? Do you care?

Die Kennedys

Die Kennedys, originally uploaded by One Thousand Words.

Bana - master of Fiction

"Fascinatingly, it turned out that he was known in Australia for being a standup, an impressionist and a sketch show turn on a programme called Full Frontal. Briefly, he had his own show. A lot of Bana's early comedy stuff is online, and I think it stands up well. Here's Bana's impression of Tom Cruise, being interviewed in split-screen by his own character-creation, smarmy TV host Ray Martin"

Hilarious - a Guardian writer mistakenly thinks Ray Martin is an improbable Eric Bana creation. And so say all of us.

Ironic Iterations

Presentation by Dennis Wingo on the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project at the 2009 Apple WWDC

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Presentation by Dennis Wingo on the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project at the 2009 Apple WWDC

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Elgato turbo.264 HQ uploads to YouTube

You don't have to get the HD version of Elgato's turbo.364 to add higher resolution videos to YouTube.

Use the Apple iPhone setting on your turbo.264 to convert your video.

The turbo's AppleTV settings create a higher resolution .mp4 file - just the sort that YouTube likes you to upload...

Apple TV Video:

H.264 Main profile, 3Mbps max, 800 x 600 max, 30 fps max.
Audio: AAC-LC, stereo, 128 Kbps, 48 kHz.

(Note: If the source movie is larger than 800 x 600, it will be scaled to fit within 800 x 600, preserving aspect ratio. Resolution is maintained if 800 x 600 or smaller. Frame rate is maintained when 30 fps and smaller.)

When using the Apple TV export, HDTV content will not retain its original resolution. HDTV content will be exported as 800 x 448.

When using the Apple TV export, SDTV content will retain its original resolution. 720 x 480 NTSC content will be exported as 720 x 480, for example.

Then upload it via your YouTube account page - do not use the built in YouTube options.

The uploaded video will then appear as a HQ version on YouTube - after it is processed.

Viewers will see the HQ version whenever their bandwidth allows and, when it doesn't, as a standard quality version.