Doppler Passbys & Moves at Various Speeds
1. Drone footage is a visual medium, but it doesn't have to be that way.
"From a sound designers perspective I LOVE the idea I can control & perform movements with this swarm of angry bees, so the first idea I am pursuing is to capture a library of sound effects, much as I would for a vehicle for a film. I am capturing a lot of variations of quadcopter start, take off, away, hover, approach and land, as well as doppler passbys & moves at various speeds. While the resulting library will be useful for practical purposes it will also be rich source material for manipulation & processing…."
"In the book I aim to engage in a kind of empirically colored speculation, a study of What-ifs that builds upon the latest research without staking the validity of the thought experiment on its details. My treatment of cetaceans represents my modus operandi in general: to try to be as precise and informed as possible while also taking metaphors seriously as paths to insight. For me the metaphors used to describe dolphins are also markers of media history. The history of inquiry into dolphin communication is also a history of postwar media, from tape recorders to the internet. The latest innovation in dolphin communication research is predictably the use of Big Data techniques for discerning patterns among their high-pitched vocalizations; the technology used in Google Glass is also now used in human-dolphin communication devices. Dolphins are one of several biotechnical frontiers today (including humans)."
3. A step-by-step guide to secret communications in the post-modern world.
"Today I’m going to explain in precise terms how to do that. I’ll take techniques NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden used when contacting me two and a half years ago and boil them down to the essentials. In a nutshell, I’ll show you how to create anonymous real-time chat accounts and how to chat over those accounts using an encryption protocol called Off-the-Record Messaging, or OTR."
4. What it was like to road trip around California in the early 20th century.
"In 1915, just two years after the Los Angeles Aqueduct was completed, Julius Goodwin Oliver and William Henry Frick packed up their Ford Model T and drove north from Hollywood to see where their water came from. Frick lovingly photographed the 250-mile trip and collected the images in a photo album that we found in the Huntington Library’s archives. It is a delightful time capsule—a series of stills laid out like a prospectus for a silent movie—chronicling the landscape; the new infrastructure of the aqueduct, reservoirs, and roads; the men themselves; their home in LA; and, of course, their car. The album even has a soundtrack. 'The Little Ford'—a 1915 song that humorously recounts a series of hazards endured by a Model T—is listed among the credits on the last page."
5. Maybe there is a more elegant solution for comments on web sites.
"When a user submits a comment, echochamber.js will save the comment to the user's LocalStorage, so when they return to the page, they can be confident that their voice is being heard, and feel engaged with your very engaging content. It does not make any HTTP requests. Since LocalStorage is only local, you and your database need not be burdened with other people's opinions."
On Fusion: If there is one piece of technological etiquette all should follow, it is this.
1. disquiet.com 2. lareviewofbooks.org 3. firstlook.org | @matthew_d_green 4. boomcalifornia.com 5. github.com | @fredbenenson
Doppler Passbys & Moves at Various Speeds