todbot blog » video http://todbot.com/blog Random experiments, circuits, code, rapid prototyping, sometimes things to buy, and the odd tune by Tod E. Kurt. Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:06:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise http://todbot.com/blog/2009/09/24/not-a-sunrise-but-a-galaxy-rise/ http://todbot.com/blog/2009/09/24/not-a-sunrise-but-a-galaxy-rise/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:42:58 +0000 todbot http://todbot.com/blog/?p=681 This is one of the greatest bits of youtubery I’ve ever seen, and I generally dislike auto-tuned stuff. Carl Sagan’s Cosmos was one of the most important things to happen to me as a child. This video & song gives me the shivvers. And makes me miss Sagan all the more.

I love the song’s chorus created from cut up Sagan quotes: A still more glorious dawn awaits Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise A morning filled with 400 billion suns The rising of the milky way

(via jwz)

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You can see the post about this episode of Make:TV, or watch it here:

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I watch movies on my Mac. I’ve been ripping my DVDs to DivX or h.264 to my hard drive simply because it’s easier to double-click a file than hunt around for a particular configuration of atoms. I used to use VLC for any files that Quicktime Player couldn’t play, but I’ve recently come across a better solution.

NicePlayer — “Quite simply, the nicest media player for Mac.”

Perian — “The Swiss-army knife for QuickTime.”

Perian is a collection of common codecs encased in a Quicktime component so any QuickTime application can view DivX, Xvid, FLV, AVI, etc. files. This [...]]]> http://todbot.com/blog/2006/10/09/better-video-on-os-x-niceplayer-perian/feed/ 4 If I could make music videos… http://todbot.com/blog/2005/09/03/if-i-could-make-music-videos/ http://todbot.com/blog/2005/09/03/if-i-could-make-music-videos/#comments Sat, 03 Sep 2005 19:30:40 +0000 todbot http://todbot.com/blog/archives/2005/09/03/if-i-could-make-music-videos/ they would all look something like this. (18 MB MOV)

The lighting, the digital compositing, the motion graphics effects… all just perfect. And the hot milfs are nice too.

[from green towel and via the tween blog]

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skat.mov skat-r.mov

Totally worksafe. No, really.

Update (2006-Feb-12): Trying out YouTube.

!vb:yt,dgItRT1GpHY,1!

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