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video tuesday: Listen to the planet, an internet of things

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: June 29, 2010
— from the video description: Video fea­tur­ing from IBM: Mike Wing, Andy Stanford-Clark and John Tolva. Over the past cen­tury but accel­er­at­ing over the past cou­ple of decades, we have seen the emer­gence of a kind of global data field. The planet itself — nat­ural sys­tems, human sys­tems, phys­i­cal objects — have always gen­er­ated an enor­mous [...]
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The SX-70 explained by the Eames Office

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: November 18, 2009
Loved my SX-70. Find­ing this video on the web actu­ally made me a bit sad. This cam­era cre­ated a paradym shift in pho­tog­ra­phy. Instant and high qual­ity the SX-70 was a joy to use. This film made by the Eames Office to explain the tech­nol­ogy and uses for the cam­era. It is a won­der­ful lit­tle film. [...]
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CFL’s suck and Incandescent Bulbs are evolving. That’s really good.

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: July 6, 2009
Despite a decade of cam­paigns by the gov­ern­ment and util­i­ties to per­suade peo­ple to switch to energy-saving com­pact flu­o­res­cents, incan­des­cent bulbs still occupy an esti­mated 90 per­cent of house­hold sock­ets in the United States. Aside from the aes­thetic and prac­ti­cal objec­tions to flu­o­res­cents, old-style incan­des­cents have the advan­tage of being remark­ably cheap. - nytimes I [...]
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