I saw this at siggraph about ten years ago. Thing is effing loud as all get out. Also, you had to wear a welding mask to operate it.

If you listen to the director's commentary (I saw him talk at Siggraph 2012), he basically agrees with you up until the point where he quits his job. The director says that the main character is being a wimp and hasn't done anything to deserve the woman until he shows the courage to really go after her.

Of course, that's just the fairy tale logic. Yes it's a bit stalkerish and impulsive.

>> ^Mojofreem:

If this was made by a German university group, why is it tagged Asia? Last I checked, Germany was still in Europe. Just sayin'.


First lines of the credits:

Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera
an Emerging Technologies demonstration at the
SIGGRAPH Asia 2011

(SIGGRAPH = Special Interest Group on GRAPHics, this is a convention of theirs)

I'd say you're right and the originating group is probably more important than where it is being demoed, but I think that (possibly plus the music) is the "why" on the Asia tag.

One thing that is clearly missing in the demo is animated objects. It's all static data, only the camera is moving. Also if they want some street cred they need to submit it to the next Siggraph, like this guy.

Nothing political. I just wanted to throw in a book review. I was only fooling. I think it's funny how crazy people are about that book (on both sides).


In reply to this comment by HaricotVert:
[EDIT] Oh, I get it now. The first video is some retarded internet user's redubbing of the original SIGGRAPH short (which did have the sound effects and McFerrin music, identical to the audio in the one you posted), and thus is still an incorrect titling and labeling, while the one you posted is the theatrical short that all the movie-going audiences saw.

By the way, you can keep your political commentary out of our conversation, since it is entirely unrelated to the reason I claimed dupe and downvoted. Thanks.

In reply to this comment by deedub81:
Whoopsie. Look before you leap.
That video has some lame dubbed music. This is the remastered copy with the original Bobby McFerrin.

Thanks anyway (for the downvote).


That other video that you linked to is kinda like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Looks fine on the surface, but once you really dig in you find it's nothing more than a crock.

In reply to this comment by HaricotVert:
dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/Pixar-Classic-Short

[EDIT] Oh, I get it now. The first video is some retarded internet user's redubbing of the original SIGGRAPH short (which did have the sound effects and McFerrin music, identical to the audio in the one you posted), and thus is still an incorrect titling and labeling, while the one you posted is the theatrical short that all the movie-going audiences saw.

By the way, you can keep your political commentary out of our conversation, since it is entirely unrelated to the reason I claimed dupe and downvoted. Thanks.

In reply to this comment by deedub81:
Whoopsie. Look before you leap.
That video has some lame dubbed music. This is the remastered copy with the original Bobby McFerrin.

Thanks anyway (for the downvote).


That other video that you linked to is kinda like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Looks fine on the surface, but once you really dig in you find it's nothing more than a crock.

In reply to this comment by HaricotVert:
dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/Pixar-Classic-Short

Hey, DJ,
Hope all is well. Got an email back from the folks at RabbitHoles - the price is not shocking, I guess, but I was hoping for a little less.

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Hi Kev,
Thanks for your enthusiastic interest in RabbitHoles! The images that you are familiar with from our website and at SIGGRAPH are indeed for sale, I've attached a pricing guide for those products.
If you are interested in purchasing pieces from the Gnomon Gallery you can go to the online store at http://www.gnomongallery.com/store.html or contact them directly by phone at (323) 466-6663 or by e-mail at info@gnomongallery.com.
Let me know if you have any further questions.

-Carey
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I haven't uploaded a file in a while and don't have any webspace at the moment, so I tried a random site - let me know if you can get at the attachment via this link:

http://www.justupit.com/get.php?id=0cfcab9f509a064a1bdf2f266de1b872

Got an email back from the folks at RabbitHoles - the price is not shocking, I guess, but I was hoping for a little less.

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Hi Kev,
Thanks for your enthusiastic interest in RabbitHoles! The images that you are familiar with from our website and at SIGGRAPH are indeed for sale, I've attached a pricing guide for those products.
If you are interested in purchasing pieces from the Gnomon Gallery you can go to the online store at http://www.gnomongallery.com/store.html or contact them directly by phone at (323) 466-6663 or by e-mail at info@gnomongallery.com.
Let me know if you have any further questions.

-Carey
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I haven't uploaded a file in a while and don't have any webspace at the moment, so I tried a random site - let me know if you can get at the attachment via this link:

http://www.justupit.com/get.php?id=0cfcab9f509a064a1bdf2f266de1b872

Tags for this video have been changed from '3d, motion, holograms, rabbitholes media, gnomon' to '3d, motion, holograms, rabbitholes media, gnomon, siggraph, 00s, quebec, exhibition' - edited by Eklek

oh, and check it out.
the rest of the sifts that came up, on the check-for-possible-dupes page:

http://www.videosift.com/video/One-Laptop-Per-Child-introduced-at-TED-Talks
http://www.videosift.com/video/One-Laptop-Per-Child-XO-Prototype-Demo-at-Siggraph
http://www.videosift.com/video/Yves-Behar-Talks-About-the-100-Laptop
http://www.videosift.com/video/One-Laptop-per-child
http://www.videosift.com/video/Dont-Make-The-Indian-Cry

Well, I think the trolly problem is perfect for engineering. It's specifically addressed in engineering ethics. People are happier to use technology to kill. It's technology relevant. It's a moral dilemma, but one with a technological context. To me, that's one of the points of it being harder to push a person that a button. But it's your video, and I wouldn't overrule you. (I never took anything out of any channel so I could put it in engineering, but there was plenty of room in the trolly video).

I have a special button to throw things OUT of my channel, but none to put it in that I know of.

All those sound engineering relevant to me. I just got tired of puting htings in...

And thanks for the congrat.


In reply to this comment by jonny:
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
*engineering

I took the trolley problem vid out of engineering since it doesn't really have any engineering connection. There's not even supposed to be one on the train. Seriously, though, it's a moral dilemma question in the context of a psychology experiment.

I've added some others though - the killacycle vid, the Kurzweil TED talk, and the space shuttle take-off. Obviously, if they don't belong, go ahead and knock them out.

There's a few others I wasn't sure about:

Coyote definitely knows the agony of engineering
Pinky's discussion of Edison and AC (engineering ethics?)
cool software engineering in the SIGGRAPH clip

Oh, and I think there's supposed to be a special button for channel owners to include/exclude vids from their channel, without having to use an invocation.

Congrats on the diamond and your new channel! It definitely fills the void left when the tech collective went away.

In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
*engineering

I took the trolley problem vid out of engineering since it doesn't really have any engineering connection. There's not even supposed to be one on the train. Seriously, though, it's a moral dilemma question in the context of a psychology experiment.

I've added some others though - the killacycle vid, the Kurzweil TED talk, and the space shuttle take-off. Obviously, if they don't belong, go ahead and knock them out.

There's a few others I wasn't sure about:

Coyote definitely knows the agony of engineering
Pinky's discussion of Edison and AC (engineering ethics?)
cool software engineering in the SIGGRAPH clip

Oh, and I think there's supposed to be a special button for channel owners to include/exclude vids from their channel, without having to use an invocation.

Congrats on the diamond and your new channel! It definitely fills the void left when the tech collective went away.

this was also shown at Siggraphs 2007, Computer Animation Festival of shorts
http://www.fpsmagazine.com/blog/2007/08/bring-siggraphs-computer-animation.php

Should consider creating a SIGGRAPH category for videosift, great to see how popular it is on here

Oh ! I have to look for the procedural grass !

(btw, I've found a video repository here : http://www.siggraph.org/publications/video-review/sig2007/156.shtml ... but the videos aren't streamed).