In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D'Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together -- and...
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CAPTAIN T&T (2013) - A Short Film from Christopher Guinness on Vimeo. I can still remember back when the local movie theatre in my hometown ran a Saturday Double Feature for youngsters like myself. Often, those double features were both from the same director. Those were...
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I'm not quite old enough to remember the Wright Brothers first successful attempt at flight. That took place even before my time. I have seen the filmed footage of the event though, such as it was. I was fortunate to live through the late 1960's...
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THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace from The Glossary on Vimeo. In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn't become widely known until 3 years later,...
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Sources from several Web hosting services this week raised an all-out alert: WordPress was under attack with at least 90,000 IP addresses involved to brute-force crack credentials of WordPress sites. The attacks, they said, are worrying in that they are on an unusually large scale,...
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Anthony Jacobs, the founder and chief pilot for Perspective Aerials (perspectiveaerials.com), became the first person I know of to fly a Canon 1DC with a drone rig. The 1DC is a camera I have some very mixed feelings about, as I have already stated in other...
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KILLING ME SOFTLY -- A CANON 1DC SHORT FILM from Andrew Wonder on Vimeo. When God designed lobsters he built them very different from humans, so it's hard for us to imagine how they perceive the world. Where humans are the dominate species on land,...
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Dog Schidt Optiks 'Flare Factory 58g' (Green Tint) Taking Lens + Iscorama 36 from Melting Bloke (Richard Gale) on Vimeo. From the "Just When You Think You've Seen It All" department comes a UK company with the unusual name Dog Schidt Optiks. This innovative company brings to...
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Filmmaker Interviews: Rick Gershon from Canon Pro on Vimeo. MediaStorm’s Director of Photography, Rick Gershon, brought the C300 to Angola to shoot their documentary “Surviving the Peace,” which follows the progress of the Mines Advisory Group as they clear unexploded ordnance. Watch as he shares his...
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If there is one man's words I will spend the rest of my life trying to feel, they are those of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Yes, I said feel, as from my hours of study I find Cartier-Bresson unique in the world of photographers. Like few others...
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You may love Led Zeppelin or you may hate them, but they were a major part of my younger years and my generation. You may also ask what purpose posting a story like this has on TheCameraForum.Com. I could do a quick duck and...
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When I Grow Up from The Academy on Vimeo. Colin Hesterly recently created "When I Grow Up," his latest short film that explores a young boy's dreams for the future. While possibly intended for children, as with all great stories it has even deeper meaning for adults....
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This #1 AdWeek rated Super Bowl commercial this year was not directed by Cecil B. DeMille nor did it star Clint Eastwood. Chrysler's RAM Truck division, by way of The Richard’s Group's Jimmy Bonner, struck out on a road less traveled. In place of one...
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Featured Photographer: Steffen Jahn My good friend Steffen Jahn is a very lucky guy. He gets to shoot some of the finest automobiles ever made, and gets paid to do it. Talk about a dream fantasy job. But as with all pleasures also comes a great...
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Blue Moon, Blue Maine from Jon Roemer on Vimeo. As we look at options to add video capabilities beyond what mirrorless cameras or DSLRs are capable of producing while maintaining our wish to leverage our investment in expensive lenses, the choices become somewhat limited. One of...
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By Jim Quinn Light modifiers are where you find them. Today I found one in my local Walgreens drug store. My wife, who loves the idea of packing away small umbrellas “just in case,” spotted a display of Totes Skinni Mini umbrellas in a variety of colors....
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