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Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”.

No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.

Watch the making-of video to learn about how the video was made and the various technologies that were used to capture and render 3D data.

For more information on data visualization (and how you can download it),  you can click on Google code page. It is interesting that this video is published under the mixture of copyrights/lefts: the code is open source licenced to Aaron Koblin, and the data (not the music)  used to produce the House of Cards music video is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

I hope that this wonderful Radiohead song and the video will inspire and gather other visual artists and IT people to use various technologies in making something innovative in the future.

Month of May, month of May -everything is lovely and gay. Culture in Serbia is meeting cold turkey (heard today one landed in Belgrade right from Ireland?!?) and more in preEuroTrash called Eurovision (contest for the best EuroSong). It’s not the fact that the official web site for Eurovision Belgrade 2008 is quite hideous but also the words of ignorance I came across yesterday of P. Schofield (British Broadcasting Corporation) at this Facebook group, where the creator is contemplating EuroSong contest “in Elbonia or wherever it is this year” (even more hideous for someone working in media, no?). Anyway, as I’ve missed this years Belgrade’s Design Week and lectures I wanted to attend ( Ascan Mergenthaler, CH, Herzog & de Meuron – Flowing into Landscape and Daniel Libeskind, US, The Architecture of Memories). But, what I won’t miss is the 5th Museum night (last year was organized through whole Serbia, and this year will be the same) and early drawings of Picasso, Air and Space Museum, History of computers exhibition, video installation, computer animation in Jewish Museum, Italian design in Superspace, Museum of Science&Technology and many other places through the city. Over 63 spots on May 17th from 6pm until the dawn, check the program and enjoy! I’m coming to take you to the Museum: )

I don’t use Russian language, but I really liked what global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi (Moscow) created for Google. Their promo video for Gmail suppose to attract more Russian people to use Gmail. This is how looks local version for global web service. Share & enjoy!

Since I will be far, far, far away trying hardly to use my mobile gadgets, I have the question:

Can you manage to get completely analogue and turn off your computers for the Holidays? Frankly?

credits: Randall Munroe

Have a great Holidays performance!

Trailer information and good news that soon all Serbian (and beyond) bloggers will gather at one place. Preliminary Blogowski announced gathering of the bloggers from Serbia and it should take place in Novi Sad, November 10th 2007. This would be the first bigger bloggers gathering with many interesting speakers and guests world wide. For more information – the official web site (it will be soon updated). Also if you are local or belong to Serbian blogosphere or write about it in any existing language, you can join group BlogOpen at Flickr. This would be great opportunity to talk about some current issues in Serbia on information society, e-communication infrastructure, the usage of the internet in education, as information tool for development and interaction in so called democratic society. Beside lectures on digital culture, communication, design, blogging, there will be workshops, and guests and visitors would have a chance to interact and exchange experience and talk about some problems. Interesting and rich autumn events are on the way. Beside the International Conference on Pedagogical Fautlines Amsterdam, and my session on open knowledge and education in digital era, later on the following event is the GA eIFL meeting in Belgrade.

Those who are in Amsterdam these days, let me know so we could meet as I am going to meet with my old friend Vesna, advanced course trainer and IT expert at Ripe, and remind ourselves of crazy the 90′s Belgradian days, as well as colleague IT wiz.and teacher Ad, from our European conference meetings. You can follow me via twitter these days or IM/email me if something important.

And yes, tomorrow’s Belgrade and Beyond blogoversary at WordPress platform (1st year @WP). You will be informed on some changes to another domain, as I am trying to make/find decent design solutions. Any suggestion, support is welcome! Thanks to all readers who are taking their time to read my posts- in the future expect interesting posts that cover a bit different topics and as always unexpected ones.

Here is the list for recently published texts and articles, readings in the next few days for those who are curious and want to entertain their grey cells:

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Media Anthropology Network is discussing working papers about socio-cultural aspects of media technology uses within the scope of e-seminars via the Network’s mailing list. Some of these papers and discussions address internet technologies from a range of different perspectives. The website of the Network also provides annotated bibliographies, information about media anthropology events, and selected discussions from the mailing list as PDF documents.

Another is on social networking via Wired, here as well. More on Facebook via Smart Mobs. Also, very interesting post that will lead you to the International Journal of Communication’s recent special issue on Net Neutrality with entire collection of scholarly articles.

For those who are more alike multimedia, recently released documentary Zeitgeist Movie, official release full film, more about this at the official web site.

And for graphic, design interactive oriented readers, enjoy in this web page.