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Time Lapse Bot was at Bucketworks for MilwaukeeDevHouse5 on December 3rd, 2010. If you weren’t there, well, at least you can enjoy this video.
This video is released under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The music titled “cyber seeds” is from cypher tales via Jamendo and has a Creative Commons Attribution License. You can also find this video at blip.tv as well as Vimeo. Enjoy!
As we often do here at RasterWeb!/2XL Networks, we made a time lapse video… this one is from the Holiday Make-a-thon that was held at Bucketworks recently…
Some of thing things that were made: LED ornaments, handmade wrapping paper, recycled bags, popsicle stick ornaments, and lots and lots of art… Oh there was also knitting, and at least one maker worked on a YBox. There’s probably a lot I missed, but then I was busy making things as well. It was great to see kids and adults working side by side creating things, hopefully we can do it again.
Thanks to Bucketworks for hosting the event, as well as sponsors Milwaukee Makerspace, and UberDorkCafe.
Oh, and if you missed it, don’t worry, I hear they may be planning another one soon…
You can also see this video at blip.tv or view an MP4 version.
Ken Segall let us know about a “funny” (?) video in his post The Microsoft festival of comedy.
Now, while you might think I’d join in with the laughter, I also think that in some ways, it’s not funny. I mean, I know that Steve Jobs thinks Blu-ray is a dud, and isn’t going anywhere, especially not into his Macs, but for those of us who work in the media creation industry, we’ve got to deal with it.
Ken has the following to say:
The big advantage of Windows laptops? They can play Blu-ray discs. Like (a) you’ll really appreciate Blu-ray on 15-inch screen, and (b) you’d rather carry discs around than just download high-def movies onto your Mac.
But this to me, is one more example of Apple products seen as consuming devices, not creating devices. If you want to just watch a high-definition video, it makes sense to download it to your Mac, but if you want to make a high-definition disc to give to a client, you’ll be making a Blue-ray disc, and you’ll need to buy an external drive (Other World Computing sells them) and you’ll need extra software (Toast will work) and while it’s all possible, it’s like this thing that Apple is just convinced you won’t want to, or need to do.
I pity the Mac user who is handed a Blu-ray disc and asked to play it, only to have some Microsoft weenie stick it in their laptop to play…
And you know, I actually found the video well done, and kind of funny…
Don’t get me wrong… I still don’t like Microsoft, and I still don’t like Windows, but I also get fed up with the control and decisions Apple sometimes makes about their products.
Also, I’m pretty sure Avatar sucks.
At BarCampMilwaukee5 we did Lightning Talk where you get 5 minutes to talk about a subject. (5 minutes only! We time it and when the alarm goes off, you’re done!) I talked about Mozilla Firefox 4, which is/was in beta at the time.
My main point was too let people know that Firefox 4 is much improved over previous versions of Firefox. I know a lot of people who have switched to other browsers (mainly Chrome) due to speed issues, and while speed is important, I don’t think it’s the most important thing.
My suggestion to people was to completely wipe their existing Firefox profile (which could easily be 5 years old by now) and install the Firefox 4 beta, and see how fast it was. Don’t install any add-ons, just start browsing fresh, and see what happens. Keep an eye one arewefastyet.com too, and see how those numbers and lines are looking.
I also touched on Mozilla Drumbeat, Game On, Firefox Sync, and Firefox Home. I probably left out a lot of things I would have liked to mention, but I did this unprepared. Also, you can actually say a lot in 5 minutes.
Special thanks to Chris Larkee for filming the Lightning Talks. You can find them all at YouTube, and Chris said they are all available under a Creative Commons license, but since YouTube has no concept of such things, you’ll just have to take our word for it. You can also find this video at blip.tv
Time Lapse Bot was at BarCampMilwaukee5 on October 2nd/3rd, 2010 and was very busy! They took over 7,400 pictures and then compiled this video for us to watch. You missed the event? See it happen in about 4 minutes by watching the video.
You want to do something with the raw images? Download all of them here!
This video is released under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The music titled “Insane Dad” is from Minus Kelvin via ccMixter and has a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License. You can also find this video at Vimeo and blip.tv or download the original QuickTime file or find an Ogg file at Archive.org… Enjoy!