http://www.researchanddevelopment.org.uk A Journal Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:18:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A deserving impossible project. I wonder how much the equipment cost to "acquire". An astounding title sequence. I love how clouds are made. And the rest. A nation not worth fighting for? http://www.researchanddevelopment.org.uk/2009/01/20/impossible-is-titles-clouds-and-suburbia/ "And it does!". We still haven't got to the same level of flexibility. A amazing resource: Folk Streams.  The secret Russian space station program. "Diamond". 100 million times better. http://www.researchanddevelopment.org.uk/2009/01/20/the-greatest-demo-of-all-time-folk-streams-secret-stations/ TV-B-Gone is one of the best inventions of the past decade - Mitch Altman explains why he open-sourced it. The Thief and the Cobbler, a never completed gem by Richard Williams, the man behind "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". From my ex. Selecting is where it has always been. Coxsone Dodd and King Tubby would tell you ... http://www.researchanddevelopment.org.uk/2009/01/19/tv-b-gone-the-thief-and-the-cobbler-and-from-my-ex/ Does exactly what it says on the tin. I actually made a costume like this for Comic Relief back in the day. This made me think of the infamous JWZ rant on Netscape source swearing. http://www.researchanddevelopment.org.uk/2009/01/19/flying-fish-cabbage-hat-and-what-twitter-was-made-for/ Getting meta. Meta is one my favourite words of the moment. Along with Tek. Reminds me of the classic, "Musican enters look a like content of themselves and comes second" meme. The idea of a light cone is amazing, I am sure you could build a new religion around it. You ... http://www.researchanddevelopment.org.uk/2008/12/09/musicians-getting-meta-light-cones-and-augmented-reality/ A Triumvirate of wonder about the universe. Courtesy of TED. This kind of thing gives me hope - I wonder if the luminaries of the Enlightenment would look upon the modern world and despair or rejoice? Bill Stone explores the Earth and space. Patricia Burchat: The search for dark energy and ... http://www.researchanddevelopment.org.uk/2008/12/09/bill-stone-patricia-burchat-and-brian-greene/ Daito Manabe is an artist from Japan. He caught my attention recently with his facial animations and new take on body popping. A wealth of videos are available at his YouTube site. Y'all so stupid is the creation of Devin Flynn. The intro graphics alone justify admittance. Finally, PTAM (Parallel Tracking And ... http://www.researchanddevelopment.org.uk/2008/12/01/daito-manabe-yall-so-stupid-and-ptam/ George Smoot on the shape of the universe. Mindbending scale, multiple magnitudes of beauty. Thinking of dark matter as invisible matter is a much better analogy. As he says in the talk, "Matter just follows where Dark Matter goes". Franco Sacchi on the third biggest wood after Holly and Bolly. Finally, a ... http://www.researchanddevelopment.org.uk/2008/11/23/george-smoot-franco-sacchi-and-stewart-brand/ I have always been obsessed with putting myself in the moment, and through my work, other people. It's a very powerful thing to see people forget about their everyday lives and come back to now - which is all we really have. The world keeps throwing up places that seem ... http://www.researchanddevelopment.org.uk/2008/11/20/teahupoo-travis-pastrana-and-anthony-mccall/ Wabi-sabi is a Japanese concept, based around the beauty and perfection of the natural imperfection of nature, and how to incorporate that into man made objects, buildings and places. Lateralisation of brain function is the concept of the left and right sides of the brain having divided functionality - something as ... http://www.researchanddevelopment.org.uk/2008/11/18/wabi-sabi-lateralisation-of-brain-function-and-77boadrum/