Via Scoop.it – Intel Free Press
Just prior to his keynote at Computex 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan, newly named Chairman of Intel China Sean Maloney talks with Intel Free Press leading Intel through a rapidly evolving mobile computing industry. Show original
I shot and edited this interview inside Intel headquarters, and although my production skills were lacking (poor audio, lighting…) I was beside myself as Maloney focused and delivered answers to some tough questions.
I later tuned in for his keynote, which can be seen here or highlights below, and was truly in awe at his expresiveness, passion, charm and twinkle that often shined from his eyes.
He has been so devoted to Intel for decades, and that determination has helped his recovery from a severe stroke that pulled him out of work last year. He lost his ability to speak, but worked with experts to retain his brain and when I was shooting this video and watching his Computed keynote, I couldn’t help but keep smiling. Maloney is a leader who leads by example, by doing and participating.
This list was crafted by a gifted young guitarist from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, as I asked for some insight into the incredible Paraguayan guitarist Agustin Barrios.
Here is the lovely Ana Vidovic performing “La Catedral” from Agustin Barrios:
Preludio Saudade.
Andante Religioso.
Allegro Solemne.
Our summer 2011 classical guitar listening list:
Music of Spain by Julian Bream (or anything by Julian Bream)
Sharon Isbin has a wonderful Website with song samples and videos, including this one of her performing Augstin Barrios Mangore’s “Walt Opus 8 #4” in 2002.
These are curation tools for publishing – in other words, not just curation as in filtering information for yourself, but curation in order to blog about some particular “story” or present content in a visually interesting way for other people to look at. For all of these tools, you pull content from your social streams and arrange them in a particular way, like… Show original
To rev up for the centenial Indy 500 race this weekend, I spent time with a real motor racing fan, Don Bowden. I’ve known Don for over a decade, since I joined Intel. He’s a legend corporate demo god who has gone on stage with top execs to show and explain new technologies in front of thousands of people.
He’s been a member of iRacing.com for years and even works with the simulated multi-player game owners to sponsor events and to use iRacing at Intel events like CES and even on technology breakthrough demonstrations like the recent future tech demo of 3D 22-nanometer transistor processors by Intel.
I spent an afternoon with Don to learn about why he loves iRacing and to take it for a spin myself — wow! I shot and produced this video, which gives a good sense for the control, authentisity and thrill of the iRacing.com experience. Below is a short post that leads to the story I wrote for Intel Free Press, which features an interview with iRacing.com, insights into the tech behind the simulation and why iRacing is critical to the future of motor sports fans. Follow iRacing on Twitter during the Indy 500 and future races.
Below is a short article with quotes, photos and video of vintage footage shot on the the Golden Gate Bridge opened 74 years ago today.
Here is a cool video I found that fuses personal video with some historic “making of” the bridge video.
Via Scoop.it – San Francisco’s Life
Welcome to San Francisco. It’s May 27, 1937 and the Golden Gate Bridge is open for business. You could be one of the 200,000 people streaming across the new structure that day (above), or maybe you just glance over from time-to-time from your apartment at what had once seemed impossible. Either way, chances are you were filled the feeling of “the technological sublime,” as the historian David Nye calls it.
Americans have a peculiar desire for the technological sublime, Nye argues, finding “essentially religious feeling” in our own creations. Technology serves the role in this country what religion does in less pluralistic societies. It binds us together through ritual pilgrimages to the sites of our collective achievements, achievements like the Golden Gate Bridge. Show original
Via Scoop.it – Movin’ Ahead
It’s “A Bug’s Life” meets “WALL-E,” except this other-worldly creation is no product of Pixar Animation. It’s the real deal. Show original
Above is the introduction for story I produced for Intel Free Press. What started out as a short story assignment quickly evolved into a more personal and technical expose of wonderful young engineering student from the University of Arizona, Matt Bunting.
After connecting with Intel Embedded team’s Stewart Christie, I learned that Bunting’s hexapod was appearing on the cover of the Linux Journal and that EE Times was honoring Bunting for prestigious ACES Award, naming him Student of the Year. That’s what brought him to San Jose, where I got to meet him and his mom, who actually helped me while I was shooting the video interview with her son. She even prompted some chuckles and emotional responses from her son while the camera was roling.
The video evolved over a few days of editing, as Christie and Bunting helped me collect photos and video that helped put visuals to Bunting’s words. The story took an artisit turn — blending art and science — when Bunting saw a piano at the Fairmont Hotel, and calmly sat down and dropped into a moody melody that I used at the beginning of the video. That music, mixed with the Spanish guitar music Bunting shared with me, along with sounds from the motor movements of the robot, infused some chilling excitement into the video, a feeling that many people get when they see the hexapod live for the first time.
What an inspiring and kind person. I let Bunting know that my son was moved by the hexapod story so much that now my son wants to be a robot maker. Bunting replied, “It is always wonderful to hear when I have inspired a young mind.”
Now I’m hooked! I’m cheering for Bunting and his University of Arizona research team as they build the Cheetah Project, funded by DARPA, which is an attempt to build a robot that can run as fast as a real four-legged cheetah and eventually a create the world’s fastest two-legged robot.
Here are some photos on Flickr I took with my Canon Rebel X and others collected from Bunting and Christie.
Via Scoop.it – Movin’ Ahead The route the lens executes out-of-focus points of light brings bokeh and quality of the blur gives the image more stunning and glittering show. This is the distinguishing form pg photography called as Bokeh photography and in this … Show original
Movin' Ahead 