The musical geniuses at Collective Cadenza, aka cdza, a team that makes viral videos about music, combined 26 songs spanning almost a century to make this three-minute medley. From Ennio Morricone to Foster the People, this video spans genres, featuring Eric Rivera “on lips,” Evan Shinners on piano, and Michael Thurber on bass. The video was directed by Joe Sabia, who talks about his career making viral videos in an interview with the Atlantic Video channel here.
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Disney researchers put gesture recognition in door knobs, chairs, fish tanks
Imagine a door that locks when you pinch the knob. Or a smartphone that can be silenced by a hand gesture. Or a chair that adjusts room lighting when you recline into it.
A team of researchers at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have come up with a system called Touché, which uses the same capacitive technology as a smartphone’s touchscreen to imbue everyday objects with body and gesture recognition.
Full Story: Ars Technica
Thanks to Peter Connolly
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So, apparently, many of my favorite songs are those that contain whistling. I never made the connection. Also, this is pretty impressive. Whistling accurately for several minutes is actually pretty difficult. I’m a good whistler, and I don’t think I could do this very well.
PS: I also dig their History of Lyrics That Aren’t Lyrics video. Good stuff.
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British team make first ascent of Amazon peak | Guardian
Cerro Autana in western Venezuela is one of the most remote mountains in the Amazon, revered by local Indians as sacred. On a truly epic expedition, British adventurer Leo Houlding and his team of climbers spent eight days of boat rides and hacking through virgin jungle to get to its base, and a further six scaling the east face of the 1,400m peak.
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Though an old problem, the highly regulated fisheries of New England present deep misconceptions and much ire among many interest groups.
The few fisheries that remain work closely with environmentalists, economists, food distributors, port cities, coastal planners, non-profits, churches, restaurants, family support groups, higher education institutes, advocacy groups, unions, scientists, state and federal regulators, and even international regulatory bodies. Each of these groups have varying degrees of interests. And no voice is more important than the next.
Working together to provide solutions is much tougher than eschewing one or more parties for ideological reasons.
The above PBS piece shows how a handful of groups worked together to create a new business model for fisheries. There are no universal solutions. But, this model has been adopted in communities up and down the east coast (I’m embarrassed to say that I’m not sure if this model has spread to the west coast or even Asian fisheries. The EU, though, is an entirely different story…).
The piece is 4:00 minutes, and well worth checking out.
See my other posts on fisheries.
