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“Jeff Hawkins has bet his reputation, fortune, and entire intellectual life on one idea: that he understands the brain well enough to create machines with an intelligence we recognize (sic) as our own.”
“One Of Us is a Soho based studio founded in 2006 by co-directors Tom Debenham, Dominic Parker and Rachael Penfold. The company ethos is one of creative intelligence applied through filmmakers’ sensibility, with a focus on design and collaboration.”
As well as doing VFX work, One Of Us have made the One-Cam, which was used by Jonathan Glazer to film “Under the Skin”.
The Making of “Voyeur”, an advert by Glazer for Nike.
An installation by Mike Woods of Framestore has certainly got The Next Web excited.
“…this has the potential to be the breakthrough for cg to take over all media…”
“…presence could tip the balance of the entire industry towards computer entertainment – and towards the pc…”
Here comes the Metaverse.
By two old friends, Kevin Atkinson and Ross Cooper.
Another new language, this time from Facebook: Hack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9rf9GmYpM
Cereal – A C++11 library for serialization.
Neil Kellerhouse has done practically everyone one of my favourite movie posters of the last couple of years, from Finding Nemo to The Social Network.
Useful visualisations of Git.
“Alan Turing’s ‘Morphogenesis’ Theory Confirmed 60 Years After His Death“
I can’t wait for Monument Valley.
Zach Gage on bravery and indie games.
I can’t wait for Hyper Light Drifter either. I love that final screen!
More amazing from Arca and Kanda.
Kyle is staggered that Microsoft is making us go through this again and I am too.
“Hey Pete, You wouldn’t happen to have ancestors in Denmark would you? Also, in what ways has improvement of tools used at Pixar over the years made your life easier, and in what ways harder?
Ja, my mom’s family hails from Denmark! Technology is a great inspiration to us creatively. Getting new software is like getting new toys — you immediately think, “What can I do with this?” And then our stories challenge the software folks to break new ground as well. As John likes to say, “The art challenges the technology, and technology inspires the art.””
Pete Docter on Interviewly (and therefore Reddit).
Telepresence is invading the business world.
Microsoft is working on a headset for Xbox, as well as Sony.
Google Wear is coming too.
Three amazing illustrators who are really future designers too:
Charlie Stross smashing The Singularity.
More good talks selected by Phil Gyford.
Charlie Stross smashing interstellar travel.
“Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents almost all crashes, and eliminates data races.”
A file based CMS called Kirby. Not cheap!
Behind the scenes of the “Looking Back” Facebook videos. An interesting blend of cloud engineering and graphic design.
“I’m just finishing my first novel to be written 100% inside Scrivener, but about the past four wouldn’t have worked properly without it.”
Charlie Stross uses Scrivener. I discovered this via two of my favourite sites of the moment: 1) the setup and 2) interviewly – both the future of editorial in my opinion. One is all based around that need to know about the tools that people use, and the other about skinning IAmA into a more readable format.
When asked about coding in the british classroom:
“Python or Scheme instead of BBC BASIC. Also: focus on updating the maths curriculum to support it, e.g. with boolean algebra, set theory, number bases, and so on.”