Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”.
Tha Making of “House of Cards”
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.
Today was my day off and when I have time to myself, I go hunting for new music. I use to troll used record shops on St Marks Place, talk with the staff at Tower Records and hit listening station at Virgin Mega store in Union Sq. Now my hunting grounds are music blogs, muxtape.com, itunes, Kexp.org and diva bar jukeboxes. The landscape has changed, but the hunt for new music has not gotten any easier. I will sometimes go three hours or so at time and not find anything that sparks with me. Today I hit several artist that awoke my appetite, one in particular, Sixto Rodriguez, aka Rodriguez made me dig deeper.
Rodriguez was born in Detroit on July 10 1942 to middle-class immigrants from Mexico. Rodriguez recorded one single - ‘I’ll Slip Away’ in 1967 and two albums - “Cold Fact”, in 1970, and “Coming from Reality” in 1971. Both albums were not very successful, Rodriguez gave up his music career.
In the mid 70’s Rodrigue’s albums were getting air play in Australia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Rhodesia. He played two tours in Australia in 1979 and 1981, then return to the states to raise his family.
But it was South Africa where a compilation album of Rodriguez’s work went platinum. unbeknownst to him. Rodriguez’s music and lyrics had also become a guiding light and inspiration to a generation of South African youth caught up in the Apartheid-era army conscription and subsequent Southern African Border wars. The music and message of ‘Cold Fact’ had become as important to them as that of Jimi Hendrix to the US troops in Vietnam.
Rodriguez has toured in South Africa in 1998, 2001, and 2005.
Now 9 out of 10 times, when I hear about a performance it is either sold out, the day of the concert or it just past. In this case with Rodriguez, its a lack of transport on short notice. Rodriguez will play his first-ever U.S. show this Saturday, July 26, at the Surf Lodge in Montauk, New York.
Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon. His “last lecture” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” was delivered at Carnegie Mellon in September 2007, a month after being told he had three to six months to live because of of pancreatic cancer.
Pausch, optimistic outlook and advice on how to accomplish your childhood dreams is one that is endearing and inspirational.
Pausch died today at 47, he is survived by his wife, Jai, and three children.
Our neighbors from Untitled Project needed shots of the monkey against a green screen, to be composited in photoshop. Monkeys can be tough to control on set, and this guy, with a bit of the hobo in him, well, he had a train to catch.
Blue Barn Pictures was hired to shoot videos for the Citysearch.com website. Here DP David Castillo shoots the How To Make Sangria video at Anima Italian Bistro in the Ft. Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn.
One of those wonderful moments when you have a camera at the ready, this pic was shot in Brooklyn rush hour traffic. He kept the bike steady and true, even if the dog might just weigh as much as his owner.
July 25, 2008 at 8:02pm
by Castillo 
Rodriguez was born in Detroit on July 10 1942 to middle-class immigrants from Mexico. Rodriguez recorded one single - ‘I’ll Slip Away’ in 1967 and two albums - “Cold Fact”, in 1970, and “Coming from Reality” in 1971. Both albums were not very successful, Rodriguez gave up his music career.
