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.

From Wikimedia Foundation listserv officially comes happy news that Wikimedia Commons now has over two million files. Since March 2007,  Commons routinely have over 100,000 files uploaded every single month. It is becoming more and more common to have over 5,000 files in a single day, since Commons is still a very young project,  say administrators from Commons.

Now comes the exciting part. The 2 millionth file on Commons was an audio file. From the Commons database was extracted that the 2 millionth file on Wikimedia Commons comes from Serbian Wikimedian -Nikola Smolenski who uploaded this file on 03:34, 9 October 2007. Congratulations!

Just came back from Netherlands where I’ve spent great, useful quality of time talking, discussing with colleagues and professionals from different backgrounds, participating, exchanging information, sharing information. They all have in common new concepts and ideas of learning, using new media tools, as well as exploring institutional and cultural issues. Waag Society hosted two day conference on alternatives in education with four major groups of topics that lecturers, presenters, and participants have been discussing during intense programme – download full programme here with abstracts.

Since my 60 min.session was interactive and I asked from my participants to be active, prior to the session I created wiki page (shareslides here :: open knowledge and education at the new level of the web paradigm), as well as ‘starting topic questionnaire’ at wiki (guidelines through an hour). Wiki is open, everyone can participate in discussion, post some of the works, slides, or documents, thoughts, examples, unfinished thoughts on and from the session.

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Months, years, whole life is open source principle and since two days ago was Software freedom day.
Since my previous weeks, including this, and following ones, are open source knowledge and education days, weeks – Trebor posted interesting note (via Facebook) with  the link with software packages and teaching resources used in schools and academia. Many of them you already use, and others are very nicely classified. Share and enjoy! 

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.

Bora announced officially yesterday that registration for the 2nd annual Science Blogging Conference, is open. The conference will be held on January 19th, 2008 on the Sigma Xi campus in the TRP (Research Triangle Park), Durham, NC. For registration use this wiki page. For more information look around the Science Blogging wiki page, as well at Facebook where you can join the event and invite some of your colleagues or friends who are interested in discussing science communication, education and literacy on the Web.

I would rather say. And 24hrs is not enough to do all you want, have to. At least, not for me. For all readers who’ve been writing to me, either via IM or via social online networks or some other micro ways – I’ve exchanged short thoughts, information as I’ve been very busy (read www-> working wild woman), and still I am, but I’m trying to sort things out as there are lot to be done, to be learnt, and eternal question: what next?

For those who wasn’t ‘here and there’ while I was micro-blogging (via Twitter, Pownce, Stumble, etc.) here’s short list of links what have had happened/happening (following blogging will go back to normal – whatever that means) :

Tractis – digital signature and another online service that do business at internet speed (here invites), didn’t started yet as I don’t know who in my network is using Tractis.

Newsweek published recent article to read on Facebook expansion. While TechDirt blames Facebook for productivity losses due to “personal surfing” at work(don’t do it). !

Also comScore published the results of a study on expansion of social networks across thee globe, revealing the data on some major social networking sites and their growth in the past 12 months. Their press release center published also that Bebo is the most visited social networking site in UK.

William Gibson was special guest at Boing Boing interview here, on new novel.

Sky is the latest edition of Google Earth. You get a 3D view of all the constellations viewable from earth, over 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies are included. Isn’t that lovely? Download here.

Read, via, on the case of science blogger - PZ Meyers, biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris, who was sued for ‘unfavorable book review’.

And amusement during hot and humid summer days, here’s hilarious video “showing what a business meeting might look like if comments were enabled”.

What next? Some of the readings on internet marketing, advertising consulting and creative design …