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
A great photo of a toddler thumbing a Blackberry put in context with a personal anecdote expands on the Intel Free Press story, “The Touch Generation,” which explores how many parents today are sharing with their young children touchscreen smartphones and tablets, often making people marvel at how tech savvy these tikes seem as they dive right in these devices like they know what they’re doing.
This post by Film315 sparked a handful of people to weigh in with their take, some concerns and some interesting observations.
Via Scoop.it – Movin’ Ahead By popular demand: when we compared the D7000 with the 7D last week, we received a lot of comments saying that it would be more appropriate to compare it to … Show original
Via Scoop.it – Intel Free Press PORTLAND, Ore.—There were more 1,000 of them from all over the world; Intel researchers and scientists chatting and sharing knowledge and information about transistors, systems, software, validation, voltage, augmented reality, power—and perhaps… Show original
For Mother’s Day this year, I spent some time reaching out to five tech savvy mothers I have followed on Twitter or have known for many years through my work at Intel.
Movin' Ahead 