Here’s a quick video I helped make with friend JJ Yosh for Tastemade… tasty and fun! Had a great time flying the Yuneec Q500 Drone for aerial footage, and cooking tasty fried chicken.
Category: Video
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Shanghai Built Knockoff Ghost Towns Copied from Around the World
China is certainly weird. On the outskirts of Shanghai, China they’ve built a number of knockoff towns, copying styles from around the world. I explored a few of them, and was thoroughly weirded out.
More on my explorations of Shanghai – Modern Ghost Towns, Racecars, and Skyscrapers in Shanghai
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Getting Hitched at the Shanghai Marriage Market
During my exploration of Shanghai, China, I stopped by the Shanghai Marriage Market – and almost got fixed up! Here’s my experience…
See everything I did on this trip to Shanghai: Modern Ghost Towns, Racecars, and Skyscrapers in Shanghai
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Tour The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Field Camp, Antarctica
This season working at WAIS Divide Field Camp, Antarctica was busy, with days of hard work and rough weather. However, there were a few moments of free time and good weather, and during those moments I shot a few short clips.
In this 40-minute video, I take you on a personal tour of most of the facilities of WAIS Divide Field Camp, including a camp overview, full tour of the DISC Drill Arch, Tent City, the inside of my personal tent, and the center of camp. I also take you inside an Antarctic ski plane, and show you our medical, dining, recreation, comms, and mechanical facilities.
Enjoy!
For more tours of Antarctica, be sure to click over to my tour of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
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The Illustris Project is Simulated Beauty
The Illustris Project just released their preliminary results, and it’s nothing short of incredible. Although their simulation is massively complex, I particularly love checking out the fantastic graphics they’re able to generate from the data, available on their media page.
Explore the Illustris Simulation Data
More on Illustris:
Motivation & Big Ideas
The standard model of cosmology posits that the mass-energy density of the Universe is dominated by unknown forms of dark matter and dark energy. Testing this extraordinary scenario requires precise predictions for the formation of structure in the visible matter, which is directly observable as stars, diffuse gas, and accreting black holes. These components of the visible matter are organized in a ‘Cosmic Web’ of sheets, filaments, and voids, inside which the basic units of cosmic structure – galaxies – are embedded. To test our current ideas on the formation and evolution of galaxies, we strive to create simulated galaxies as detailed and realistic as possible, and compare them to galaxies observed in the real universe. By probing our successes and failures, we can further enhance our understanding of the galaxy formation process, and thereby perhaps realize something fundamental about the world in which we live.The Illustris project is a set of large-scale cosmological simulations, including the most ambitious simulation of galaxy formation yet performed. The calculation tracks the expansion of the universe, the gravitational pull of matter onto itself, the motion or “hydrodynamics” of cosmic gas, as well as the formation of stars and black holes. These physical components and processes are all modeled starting from initial conditions resembling the very young universe 300,000 years after the Big Bang and until the present day, spanning over 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution. The simulated volume contains tens of thousands of galaxies captured in high-detail, covering a wide range of masses, rates of star formation, shapes, sizes, and with properties that agree well with the galaxy population observed in the real universe. We are currently working to make detailed comparisons of our simulation box to these observed galaxy populations, and some exciting promising results have already been published.
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Climb THIS: Ice Climbing Competition Structures are Architecture From The Alterverse
Crazy structures for the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup, including all sorts of overhanging, free floating barrels, and convoluted shapes. We got to see a few of these recently in Ouray, Colorado.
Via Gizmodo: Ice-Climbing Structures Are Mind-Blowing Experimental Architecture
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Jerry’s Map
Love this video.. such dedication, so wow.
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The Coldest Place in the World: Dome Argus, East Antarctica
NASA recently revealed that a spot in Antarctica just hit a record -135.3 degrees F below zero – that’s cold! In my time at the south pole, the coldest I experienced was -60F – not even close to the record.
This image shows the location of record low temperature measurements for Antarctica. From NBC News. Ice scientist Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the new record is “50 degrees colder than anything that has ever been seen in Alaska or Siberia or certainly North Dakota.”
“It’s more like you’d see on Mars on a nice summer day in the poles,” Scambos said, from the American Geophysical Union scientific meeting in San Francisco Monday, where he announced the data. “I’m confident that these pockets are the coldest places on Earth.”
Here’s a quick explainer video.
Me in the South Pole Ice Tunnels
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How To Keep Your Bitcoins Safe As It Goes Mainstream
When Bitcoin starts being accepted at major real world brick and mortar stores, how are you going to ensure that your Bitcoins stay safe? Bitcoin is not like a physical currency – it exists only in the digital world, and your ownership of your digital store of Bitcoins is dependent on you keeping, and keeping secure your private keys to your walled. As Bitcoins become more mainstream, security will become more and more critical for this digital currency. To help lock it all down, new startup Trezor is making a physical Bitcoin security computer, shaped like a key fob. Here’s the details:https://vimeo.com/68092369
My Bitcoin BTC Address: 1Li4nEywPj42YeW5oGLg96vvPqTW5uvtcW
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An Intense Look at Consumerism.. In High Speed
https://www.vimeo.com/57126054
From Vimeo:
La surconsommation désigne un niveau de consommation situé au-dessus de celui des besoins normaux ou d’une consommation moyenne.
Image provenant du film Samsara : Samsara est un mot tibétain qui signifie la roue de la vie, un concept à la fois intime et vaste, qui définit l’âme de chacun.La surconsommation from Lasurconsommation on Vimeo.
La surconsommation désigne un niveau de consommation situé au-dessus de celui des besoins normaux ou d'une consommation moyenne.
Image provenant du film Samsara : Samsara est un mot tibétain qui signifie la roue de la vie, un concept à la fois intime et vaste, qui définit l'âme de chacun.
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A Tour of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica
After living and working at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station during the summer 2012-2013 season, I’ve had the chance to see most parts of the station. Additionally, I also worked as a tour guide for the various tourist groups who visited the station. Here’s a brief narrated video tour of both the elevated station as well as the buried service structures. Shot on the Sony RX100.
For more on my time in Antarctica, be sure to see my Antartica Blog.
Be sure to check out my tour of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Field Camp.
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Video: Hurricane Sandy – A View From Above
The New York Times posted this incredible timelapse video of Hurricane Sandy’s roll through NYC. Incredible footage..
Watching the hurricane from the 51st floor of the New York Times building.
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Explainer Video: The Story of the First Ultra Modern Phone Cable Ship – AT&T Archives
Great explainer video from AT&T, going over the first phone cable ship. Interesting!
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Go To The Moon With The Apollo Astronauts in Documentary “For All Mankind”
For All Mankind is a simply stunning documentary covering the Apollo missions to the Moon. Stunning on all fronts. Scored by Brian Eno. Enough said.
This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours. Al Reinert watched all the footage shot during the missions–over 6,000,000 feet of it, and picked out the best. Instead of being a newsy, fact-filled documentary. Reinart focuses on the human aspects of the space flights. The only voices heard in the film are the voices of the astronauts and mission control. Reinart uses the astronaunts’ own words from interviews and from the mission footage. The score by Brian Eno underscores the strangeness, wonder, and and beauty of the astronauts’ experiences–experiences which they were privileged to have for a first time “for all mankind.”-Scott B. Fisher
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Run with the Salomon International Running Team
Great video today, sent to me by friend Charles G. Run with the Salomon international trail running team as they travel around the world competing. Makes me want to get out of the city and run! Good thing I’m already wearing my Salomon XA Pro 3D Ultra 2 trail runners!
https://www.vimeo.com/36955133
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Falling Into Black Holes with Sixty Symbols
Sixty Symbols is one of my favourite science-related YouTube Channels. Today, they update us on what would happen if you fell into a black hole:
Be sure to stay up to date with the Sixty Symbols YouTube Channel.
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What if the Earth were Hollow?
I love subscribing to the Minute Physics YouTube Channel for a few new bits of basic physics every so often. Here’s one today titled “What if the Earth were Hollow?”
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Yankees vs Reds
Friday night, Jill and I went up to Yankee Stadium to see the Reds lose badly to the Yankees. Still a fun game!
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Jacob Sutton’s LED Surfer
Quick video today from friends over at NOWNESS.
Jacob Sutton’s L.E.D. Surfer on Nowness.com.
From Nowness:
Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton swaps the studio for the slopes of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France, with a luminous after hours short starring Artec pro snowboarder William Hughes. The electrifying film sees Hughes light up the snow-covered French hills in a bespoke L.E.D.-enveloped suit courtesy of designer and electronics whizz John Spatcher. “I was really drawn to the idea of a lone character made of light surfing through darkness,” says Sutton of his costume choice. “I’ve always been excited by unusual ways of lighting things, so it seemed like an exciting idea to make the subject of the film the only light source.” Sutton, who has created work for the likes of Hermès, Burberry and The New York Times, spent three nights on a skidoo with his trusty Red Epic camera at temperatures of -25C to snap Hughes carving effortlessly through the deep snow, even enlisting his own father to help maintain the temperamental suit throughout the demanding shoot. “Filming in the suit was the most surreal thing I’ve done in 20 years of snowboarding,” says Hughes of the charged salopettes. “Luckily there was plenty of vin rouge to keep me warm, and Jacob’s enthusiasm kept everyone going through the cold nights.”
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Friend Matt Clifford Speaks about Opportunities in an Era of Abundance at TEDx
This past summer my friend Matt CLifford hosted TEDx at his amazing place in LaJolla, California. In addition to hosting, he also got to do an interesting talk on Opportunities in an Era of Abundance.Matt Clifford Is a self professed tech geek, personal development aficionado, and positive psychology scholar. He is the Co-Founder of Vie International, an education foundation challenging students to achieve greater results. He works with students and creative youth to inspire action and create positive enterprise through technological innovation. Matt is the VP of Finance at BUMP.com a platform that allows users to connect online and offline via unique identifiers, including license plates, mobile phones and online profiles. Matt frequently speak at conferences, workshops, and universities about the challenges and opportunities, students and businesses will face, and how to navigate the uncharted waters of living in a world of free, on-demand information.
TEDxLaJolla-Matt Clifford-Opportunities in an Era of Abundance – YouTube.
This summer I was Matt’s roommate for a bit out in LaJolla. Blog post from Relaxing in La Jolla.
