R and Power BI Working Together
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Microsoft recently introduced R integration capabilities in its Power BI
offering stack (still in beta preview at the time of writing), and it is
quite imp...
Positivity leads to Happiness!!
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Follow your heart.
Have a sense of wonder.
Find people you love.
Set goals.
Help others.
Sing & dance.
Pamper yourself.
Face your fears.
Exercise.
Get in tou...
Spring is here!
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Driving home yesterday, I noticed a grand thing: the hills (pastures) were
alive with green. Everything was green, and I'm not quite sure where it
came f...
What we can learn from Denmark
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Goodbye blond girls, drunk Danes, Tuborg beer, dark skies and on-time Metro
trains. Welcome back bargaining, insane traffic, millions of small traders,
rel...
This short experimental film produced by a group of USC students and graduates reveals the dramatic life of an office scanner. It was presented at the 3rd annual Disposable Film Festival in San Francisco on March 4-7, 2010. Festival participants shoot their video with anything that can possibly be used to film a sequence of frames: cell phones, disposable photo cameras and now scanners ...
El Empleo is a short animated film directed and produced by Santiago "Bou" Grasso. A man on his usual journey to work is immersed into a world where the use of people as objects is a daily occurrence...
On his way to work one day, Joel (Bodhi Elfman) is impaled through the chest by a three-foot arrow. But it doesn't harm him. And it wont come out. So Joel has to learn to deal both with his new-found protrusion, and his own painful loneliness. He tries to go to work, to date women, but no one seems ready to accept his strange flaw. Little does he know, his life is about to change forever...
P.S. After you check the website of the movie, make sure to see their Behind The Scenes section as it is going to be the most weird "Behind The Scenes" you've ever seen ;-)
An Uruguayan producer who uploaded a short film to YouTube has been offered a £18.5m contract to make a Hollywood movie.
Fede Alvarez's short film, Ataque de Pánico, featured giant robots invading and destroying Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
It is 4 mins 48 seconds long and was made on a budget of less than £200 but has notched up more than 1.5m hits on YouTube in less than a month.
Alvarez said: "I uploaded Panic Attack! on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of e-mails from Hollywood studios. It was amazing, we were all shocked."
"If some director from some country can achieve this just uploading a video to YouTube, it obviously means that anyone could do it," he added.
Can't read Chinese or Japanese or even tell one from the other for the matter, but this video is pretty touching. All I know is that the director is Sou Ootsuki, and you should all go visit his website!
One prominent rock critic called them "a bastard mutt that immigration service dumped upon rock'n'roll". They've been banned from CB/GB, Mercury Lounge, Fez and Bowery Ballroom immediately after first performances for being too over the mothefucking top, while their first concert in HUTZ's native Kiev, received by Ukrainian press as "UKRAINIAN NIGHTMARE ACCOMPLISHES AMERICAN DREAM". Please welcome:
A friend of mine shared an awesome video of a 4 year-old Jonah's drum cover of Michael Jackson's Beat It. Unfortunately they had to shut off video embedding for legal reasons as the videos are of a child, and the music covered is owned by respective artists. Regardless of the formalities however, it definitely worth following the link and watching! Jonah has his own web-site www.JonahRocks.com and can be followed on YouTube, Twitter and MySpace.
Kids probably get some innate ability to drum as it turned there are quite a lot of other kid and baby drummers on YouTube:
Julian Pavone is 2 years old in this video, but already recruits for his band:
Another 2 years old Zaiven is playing his first show at Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret in Denver, Colorado!
Levi Eshleman is a 3 year old drummer that was featured on "Be A Drumhead" DVD:
The Ukrainian culture and customs have evolved for thousands of years. Founded by ballet master Pavlo Virsky and led by Artistic Director and National Artist of Ukraine Myroslav Vantukh, Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company celebrates that lengthy history through vibrant choreography and colorful costumes in a stage performance portraying the rich traditions of its homeland. The performance will begin with a greeting dance complete with bread and salt on an embroidered towel, the symbol of the sincerity and kindness of the Ukrainian people, and will end with the "Hopak" featuring numerous solo performances with intricate choreographic formations.
The history of the ensemble goes back to 1937 when Virsky and Mykola Bolotov brought together a group of folk dancers. Virsky's first efforts at founding a folk dance company were rewarded in 1940, when his group was recognized as Ukraine's Song and Dance Company; today it carries his name. He was trained as a ballet dancer and performed as a soloist with a number of theaters in the old Soviet Union, where he also staged classical ballets such as Marius Pepita's Swan Lake, Don Quixote and Raymonda. However, he was fascinated by folk dancing, which he believed portrayed a people's culture and soul. As a choreographer, Virsky created a number of the dances still performed by the ensemble. It was under his guidance that the ensemble matured into a highly professional dance company of 79 members whose art has won the hearts of countless reviewers and the general public.
Vantukh, Virsky's disciple and great expert in folk traditions and ethnography, has led the ensemble since 1980. His primary objective and continuing creative quest is the careful preservation and development of folk choreographic art. First class performances and expressiveness of the dancers, exquisite moves, the bright palette of costumes, the wealth of tunes and completeness of the choreographic plot are among characteristic features of the ensemble's repertoire.
I've always thought of film colorization as a visual effect that would be too costly to do on movies besides proving the point it is possible. I changed my mind recently when I saw the two probably most famous soviet black-and-white movies colorized.
“Morpho Towers--Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral ...
Ukraine's Got Talent again - this time not as young, but surely as amazing!
«The show was prepared for the 9th of May, in honor of the opening of the memorial "Krasnaya Gorka" in Evpatoria, where 12.5 thousand residents were executed during WWII.»
The young artist Xenia Simonoff is only 24 years old and is one of only 4 people in the world involved in this form of art...
P.S. There is something divine about this masterpiece: yesterday I was showing it to my friends, right after which we left. As soon as I got into the car and started it, there was "Nothing else matters" playing on the radio - the last part from the music accompaniment in the sand animation...
P.P.S. She actually became the winner of "Ukraine's Got Talent"!
Karina Rudnytska and Yuriy Kuzynskyy are 6 and 7 year old raising stars that became world-famous overnight after their incredible performance at "Ukraine's Got Talent"...
An interview with the stars, their parents, teachers as well as their subsequent performance on the show:
P.S. Translation of the dialogs into English will appear here soon.
There's patience, and then there's the patience. Like shooting a 4:15 music video using nothing but the 45,000 images you captured with a Nikon D200 DSLR camera. That's exactly what director Cesar Kuriyama did for the band Fat City Reprise.
