The next batch of Videos are up!!!

[dark seraph]

Nobody messes with the blue shell

[Logan Darklighter]

Biggs: "Luke, at this speed do you think you'll be able to pull out in time?"

Luke: "It'll be just? like beggar's canyon back home... "

[Foxboy]

I debated putting this in the WTF images thread, but it's a video, so...


Also this bit of art in progress timelapse:
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Jinx999]

[SkyeFire]

(okay, first time trying an embed in Yuku, lessee if I can pull this off)   (Edit2:  nope, I can't.  And now I have to remove all those stupid 
? by hand.  There's some web designers at Yuku who need serious re-training....)

But first, a bit of explanation:  This footage was shot about two/three weekends back, at Penguicon, an annual SF/Linux/Hacker/Maker/WhatTheHeckEver convention in Detroit. One of our regular attractions is the Con Chaos machine, which is essentially a set of kits from ChaosToy.  We set the parts out in a corner of the hotel and basically invite all comers to hack/whack/whittle/meddle on the machine all weekend long. I've always thought it would make a great time-lapse movie, and when I proposed it a couple years back, I got "volunteered" to get my James Cameron on. Last year was my first attempt (it's on YouTube), but frankly the machine didn't get much action in 2011 -- the machine was just in too cramped an area.
This year, however, I got asked to actually take charge of the machine. And was foolish enough to say "yes."  Still, this year we had a new hotel, new Machine location, and I'd gotten some more practice at doing the whole Time-Lapse thingy.  Still got a lot to learn, but it made a fairly decent movie, if I do say so myself.  The hi-res 200MB videos are up at my webpage at skyefire.org.  The fuzzier downconverted Youtube versions are here and here.
Tech notes:  original photos captured 1 every 60sec using a Canon Powershot A560 running CHDK.  File organizing and date/time overlay made using AutoIT and ImageMagick.  Still-to-video conversion done using mencoder.

And, hey, look! ?An embed!
(Edit: ? ooorrrr.... not. ?Weird, it shows up fine in the edit window....)?

[Bob Schroeck]

And, hey, look! ?An embed!
(Edit: ? ooorrrr.... not. ?Weird, it shows up fine in the edit window....)?

It was perfectly visible to me a few moments ago when I waswatching the video...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Jorlem]

How was Penguicon this year, anyway? I've been to the last few, but missed this year because I'm now in New England.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

[dark seraph]

I like thespeech.

[Foxboy]

Ahhh. Charlie Chaplin from The Great Dictator.

Edit to Add:
Vimeo vid, so no embed:
[video=vimeo]//player.vimeo.com/video/41930613[/video]
Disassembled, Marvel Comics fan animation.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[robkelk]

I debated posting this over in Fenspace... it's very clockpunk-Mad, but it's real.

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/wSuH9 ... 3&hl=en_US
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Jorlem]

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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

[dark seraph]

[Ankhani]

I find it quite amusing they didn't even try to make the Violin bow look like a weapon.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

[Sweno]

that took some serious work.

And I can firmly lay the cheesiness factor (what little there was) at skyrim's feet.

very cool.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Black Aeronaut]

I find it quite amusing they didn't even try to make the Violin bow look like a weapon.

In the hands of a good bard, that is a weapon. 

[SkyeFire]

And, hey, look! ?An embed!

(Edit: ? ooorrrr.... not. ?Weird, it shows up fine in the edit window....)?

It was perfectly visible to me a few moments ago when I waswatching the video...

Now I'm even more confused -- I *still* don't see the embed, logging back in days later.  But it shows up for you?  Weird.

[Ankhani]

Your video was embedded fine when I watched it. It has since disappeared, though.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

[Bob Schroeck]

What Ankhani said.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[SkyeFire]

How was Penguicon this year, anyway? I've been to the last few, but missed this year because I'm now in New England.

It was pretty good, I think.  Being "staff" for the first time made the convention a bit thin, to me, but I think that was just an effect of my distraction over keeping an eye on the Chaos Machine.  It was at the Dearborn Hyatt this year, a much larger venue than any previous, and overall it made a pretty good venue (the hotel restaurants were really expensive, though).  The usual problems with some function rooms being over crowded, and others being nearly empty, but that's just con life.  The ConSuite was packed into an undersized space, which is something that needs addressing next year.  But the local hackerspaces got to have an actual "lab" room with helpers and instructors where you could solder together things like the scrolling-LED con badges (which had to be purchased in the Dealer's Room, due to hotel rules), and get tutorials on Arduinos, basic sewing, some 3D-printing stuff, etc. Problem is, the Hyatt is undergoing a change of ownership and will almost certainly be too much in flux for us to plan on it for 2013.  So the new concom is going to have to find another hotel, which will be difficult for the size PCon has grown to.  

[Baseload]

Thought the Skyrim vid was cool too. But is it too geeky to think/realize they either mispronounced some words or at least sounded like they did through the blending of the guy's voice?
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Skyrim_Soundtrack

[dark seraph]

http://baitstudios.com/did-you-reboot/S ... w/NoLight/#

Not a youtube clip per say, but I think i can get away with sneaking it in.

[Black Aeronaut]

http://baitstudios.com/did-you-reboot/S ... w/NoLight/#

Not a youtube clip per say, but I think i can get away with sneaking it in.

(O_O)  *Completely floored*

[dark seraph]

http://baitstudios.com/did-you-reboot/S ... w/NoLight/#

Not a youtube clip per say, but I think i can get away with sneaking it in.

(O_O)  *Completely floored*

Good floored or bad floored?

[Black Aeronaut]

Very good kind of floored. Congratulations: You just found Teletha's song in Dear Sweet Kami-sama.

[SilverFang01]

Hilarious!
http://www.nerdist.com/20...d-the-star-wars-trilogy/