Just prepped another podcast from the shoot for the 24×7 film experiment (working title iCollaborated), this one’s with Brad Templeton and Jerry Michalski. We filmed Brad and Jerry down in Menlo Park, it was a breakfast shoot at one of my new favourite hotels (outstanding management and staff, they really know how to deliver a [...]
Archive for November, 2005
Brad Templeton And Jerry Michalski
Posted in 24x7 FILM EXPERIMENT, PEEPS, Podcasts on November 26, 2005 | 1 Comment »
The Week In Review
Posted in HEH, POLITICS, REPORTAGE, TV & RADIO on November 21, 2005 | Comments Off
Good read in the in the NYT today, the Baudrillard Q&A. At 76, you are still pushing your famous theory about “simulation” and the “simulacrum,” which maintains that media images have become more convincing and real than reality. All of our values are simulated. What is freedom? We have a choice between buying one car [...]
The Cube Is Back
Posted in ARCHITECTURE & ART, HEH, Vlogs on November 18, 2005 | 3 Comments »
I was hiking to the east village this afternoon and was pleasantly surprised when I noticed the cube has returned from the restorers. Today was the first really cold day of the season in NYC however I was happy to peel off my gloves, grab my camera and shoot a quick video. Everyone I know [...]
Angstrom-level Resolution Helps Solve RNAP Ladder Mystery
Posted in GEEKDOM, LIFE SCIENCES on November 15, 2005 | Comments Off
Heh, until researchers at Stanford recently figured out an new implementation of optical force clamps, traditional optical trap resolution was insufficient to view activity in realtime at the molecular level. Upon sorting the problem and creating angstrom-level resolution (which is around the size of a hydrogen atom for those keeping score), they had a historical [...]
Sean Gullette
Posted in 24x7 FILM EXPERIMENT, PEEPS, Vlogs on November 3, 2005 | 1 Comment »
We all remember Sean from the flick he did with Darren Aronofsky, Pi (get Pi DVD here). But did you know Sean also had other stuff going on in Internet publishing? We did our shoot with Sean for the 24×7 film experiment in NYC. He had so much to say about so many things it’s [...]
Mouse Phermone Advertisement Songs
Posted in HEH, LIFE SCIENCES, MUSIC, PEEPS on November 2, 2005 | Comments Off
Yesterday it was monkey math, today it’s rodent rockers. As it turns out, a study of the ultrasonic vocalisations of mice mouse indicates they sing. Yep, singing male mice, singing to attract females. Timothy E. Holy and Zhongsheng Guo of the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology (located in St. Louis, [...]
Monkey Math
Posted in HEH, LIFE SCIENCES on November 1, 2005 | Comments Off
FWIW, a sort of semantic congruity appears to be at work in the brains of monkeys, responsible perhaps for a type of abstract numeric processing. Duke University cognitive neuroscientists have presented findings this week in Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science claiming the neural mechanism underlying numerical perception is evolutionarily [...]









