Forms Installation at the National Media Museum from Nexus Productions on Vimeo.

‘Forms’ is a multiscreen digital artwork commissioned by the National Media Museum for the exhibition In the Blink of an Eye: Media and Movement, which is part of the Cultural Olympiad programme. Forms responds to the human body in motion. It focuses exclusively on the mechanics of movement, using footage of world-class athletes to illustrate human movement at the extremes of perfection. Videos of athletes were processed through custom software to create evolving abstract forms that explore the relationships between the human body and its movements through time and space.

This generative animation and interactive installation will display at the Museum from 9 March – 2 September.

Read more at: the thecreatorsproject.

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From edyong209

An electron microscope operates in a vacuum, firing a beam of electrons at the object under observation. Staved of air, bombarded by electrons, a tick does fine, thank you very much. When it was all over, it walked away to infest some poor chap, maybe taking its revenge on the researcher.

Read more at: discovermagazine

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From interbartolo

At lift off, the shuttle burns over 1000 gallons of liquid propellants and 20,000 pounds of solid fuel every second to generate nearly seven and a half million pounds of thrust. What does all this sound like? This video is shot from the solid rocket booster perspective and here’s what it would look and sound like if you were able to ride the shuttle while sitting on one of the rocket boosters.

It’s fascinating to watch the speed increase to 2963 mph and the rocket reach the 28 miles height when the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) separate and tumble back to Earth. Soon thereafter, at the 5:04 mark, the External Tank (ET) separates and we watch it fall back and splash into the ocean. From travelling at more than 2000 mph, parachutes deploy at around 210 mph [6:47] and the ET finally splashes into the sea at around 50 mph [7:22]. Then it just floats there waiting for recovery — and the cameras keep ticking and you can see one of the SRB fall into the sea nearby. [wikipedia]

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This video will feature in the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle DVD/BluRay to pay tribute to the shuttle program:

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From smfbstats

To launch the iPad version of the IKEA-catalogue in Norway, advertising agency smfb created a new IKEA product called “BERÖRA”. It’s a sewing kit with a special conductive silver thread to sew into the index finger of your favourite gloves or mittens. It is the silver thread that conducts electricity from your finger to the touch screen of the iPad. No need to remove gloves or mittens to operate the iPad now. Or your digital camera equipped with touch screen LCD. Brillant! 12,000 kits sold out in 2 weeks. Only in Norway. Hopefully we’ll see this campaign in N.A. and elsewhere in the world (wherever IKEA stores operate) soon.

Here’s a free tip to IKEA marketing dept.: why not start a (free) “Learn Swedish” kit? I am surprised that with all the traffic that IKEA gets in its stores and online that more of us have not learned a smattering of Swedish yet. Simple words like Thank-you, Please, Right, Left, Help, etc.

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Mapping the Infrared Universe: The Entire WISE Sky - courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

NASA used the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to catalog the entire infrared sky, showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects. WISE launched Dec. 14, 2009, and mapped the entire sky in 2010, collecting more than 2.7 million images. It took images at four infrared wavelengths of light, capturing everything from nearby asteroids to distant galaxies.

In all, more than 15 trillion bytes of data were processed and the individual WISE exposures have been combined into an atlas of more than 18,000 images covering the sky. In addition, a catalog lists the infrared properties of more than 560 million individual objects found in the images. Many of them have never been seen before.

Read more at: NASA.

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From getolympus

The Olympus Road to Whistler video contest gives entrants a chance to win a trip to the TELUS Ski and Snowboard Festival where they will compete for a chance to win a grand prize of up to $15,000, plus a brand new Olympus OM-D E-M5 digital interchangeable lens camera and 12-50mm lens. Two teams consisting of a videographer and up to two additional crew members will be chosen by Olympus to win the trip to Whistler.

The week of March 26, 2012, the top two videos will be selected by Olympus judges. The team members (up to three individuals) will be flown to Whistler on April 12, 2012 for a five-night trip to compete for up to $15,000, plus an Olympus OM-D E-M5 digital interchangeable lens camera, and a stage to showcase their talents. The selected videos will then be featured on www.getolympus.com and shared with the world through Olympus’ social sites.

The Road to Whistler video contest takes place now through March, 26, 2012. For consideration, entrants must visit http://bit.ly/OlyWhistler

Comic author Rob Reid pokes fun at the music and entertainment industry’s claim of billions of dollars lost due to content theft. In this video, he unveils “Copyright Math (TM),” a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists. Prepare to LOL.

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From CambridgeUniversity

This is not your everyday video and you probably won’t be able to take it unless you were a researcher at Cambridge University. There is a war in our body and this video shows a killer T cell of the immune system attacking a cancer cell. T cells are just 10 microns in length: approximately one-tenth the width of a human hair.

The original footage shown was made by Alex Ritter, a PhD student on the NIH-OxCam programme, in the laboratory of Professor Gillian Griffiths at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and the Department of Medicine of the Clinical School of the University of Cambridge. The images were acquired using an Andor Revolution spinning disk system with an Olympus microscope.

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