Mark Whiting
About: I love to go new places, and not speak the language. I love to work with great people on projects that effect a large population in a positive way. I am really interested in working with systems ideas and thinking about design problems in new ways to get advantageous and more appropriate outcomes.
I want to do my part to make the world a better place and to make a better future come sooner.
Blog Posts
11-11 11:11:11
--From Da ZaiMe in Da Zai, we were in a mountainous hotel in room 1111 is my favourite number which makes November 11th my favourite day. I know this...
Writing to be translated
--With Google Reader's recent new feature, being able to translate all one's feeds into a language of their preference, using Google Translation Tool...
Things that start tomorrow
--I have not been blogging much recently because I have been travelling and working and not doing this. In any case, I think I mi...
Why are most Australian movies bad?
--Does anyone else agree that most Australian made movies end up being relatively bad? It is almost like a trademark of the local industry ...
eewBay
--My first eBay purchase because my phone stopped working recently.Why is eBay so ugly and why is the user interaction in almost every aspect of thei...
TinyTop
--TinyTop For fun I modelled something I want to buy. Feature low at the moment... I have a feeling that this mock up, and the real produc...
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No CGI used in Toshiba's Timesculpture commercial
Shared by Mark Whiting
Pretty neat add.
Nicely executed advert to promote Toshiba's new upscaling technology. The ad spot was made using a specially designed rig with 200 Toshiba Gigashot camcorders mounted to it, 20,000 gigabytes of video data was captured and I'm sure there were a few nights of lost sleep in post production to take the Bullet Time Effect developed in Matrix to the next level.
Checkout the making of Timesculpture here.
(more...)Monty Python's YouTube Channel
“For 3 years, you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them up on YouTube...” Genius comedy group Monty Python (from the BBC program Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which started in 1969) now have their own official YouTube channel. The channel aims to collect better organized, higher quality videos – like of Bicycle Repairman – than what was previously posted to the site. [Via Friendfeed.]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Monty Python's YouTube Channel | Comments]
[Advertisement] Google books at eBay: background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more...
Use Your iPhone As A Wireless Numeric Keypad
Shared by Mark Whiting
This is totally cool. PS I think we need to have a future casting session. All the things that we think of as space age are getting made.
NumberKey: Use Your iPhone As A Wireless Numeric Keypad | Mark’s Technology News
Here’s a neat solution for both on-the-go number-crunchers and gamers alike. Called the NumberKey, it is an iPhone App which displays an elegant numeric keypad and wirelessly transmits touchscreen keystrokes to your MacBook or MacBook Pro.
NumberKey was developed by Balmuda Design for people who require the numeric keypad omitted on MacBooks. For the wireless connection to work, you need to install their NumberKey Connect software on your laptop (only macs at the moment) so that it can interpret the information sent by the App Store Application on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Digital Industrial Design
Can we visualize a new kind of Industrial Design education - called for a bit “Digital Industrial Design Education”?
Where the process of design is:
1. Primarily digital - so its not then about hand drawing, or workshop practice.
2. Independent of ‘manufacturing’ priorities - and so is significantly ‘form’ and ’shape’ orientated.
3. Similar to graphic design in that it lives in the computer environment.
4. Similar to set and ‘fantastic’ object design - like design is for Syd Mead and the other designers who do not take current reality as a constraint.
Do you think such a picture is scary or soul-less? But keep this thought in your mind for a bit and then speculate on the good things that can be done in design with this orientation.
Would you like to see a program in Digital Industrial Design?
Sometimes you need more than a model
Shared by Mark WhitingLayOut 2 is:
Great features for midlevel designers in small consultancies.
1) included with SketchUp Pro 7
2) out of Beta
3) available today!
What's LayOut? Well, it's like this...
Say you've got kids (like I do) and they've snookered you into working on a design for the new playground at their elementary school. "No problem!" you say, and you whip up a a great design and model it like a pro in SketchUp. Project done, right? Well... now the Principal would like to see the design, as would the president of the PTO. And then the fund raising committee would like a nice picture to display at the bake sale. The well-meaning contractor needs to know what it looks like, and wants to get the landscaping started today. They all think your model is great, and they all want a copy of it. Right now.
What you need is LayOut: the easy-to-use documentation tool for SketchUp models. With LayOut, you drop your SketchUp model into a pre-built document template (with professional titleblock and everything), generate a quick set of scaled drawings for the contractor, and a nice presentation perspective for the bake sale. And when you're done, you email a PDF file to everyone on the project and give the Principal a polished slide presentation in his office from your laptop.
Funds are raised, the playground is built, the kids are heroes with their friends and everybody's happy! In fact, everything is going great now, except the kids (inspired by your success with the playground) would now like you to get them a puppy. You're on your own with that one...
Posted by John Bacus, Product Manager
Google Hosts 10 Million Historic Time-Life Photos [Google]
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Cool but what about the license
Google announced today that they're now hosting around 10 million photos from the LIFE photo archives on Google Image search. You can search the photos—which range from the 1750s to present day—directly from the LIFE photo archive start page, or you can simply include source:life with any Google Image search query. If you give it a spin, share some of your favorite photos in the comments.
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