Tag: video

Let’s play ‘Spot the Edit’ with OK Go

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The fun thing (okay, one of many fun things) about OK Go’s latest video is that it’s a three minute long video filmed in zero-go thanks to an aircraft flying in a parabola. Which gives you thirty or forty seconds of zero-g at most. That means there must be at least four ‘edit points’ in the video of ‘Upside Down & Inside Out‘ to take out the thirty seconds of extra-g. Everyone will need to be sitting, securely holding on, or masked by a suitcase. The caption is right, it’s all real, but there’s some old fashioned editing at work (just

Space is big, really big, but it makes for a gorgeous video

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If you were riding a beam of light, how long does it take to traverse the solar system? A real-time video of the view from a photon as it leaves the centre of the sun and travels to Jupiter Of course ‘real-time’ is a bit crazy when you are talking about travelling at the speed of light, so strictly speaking it’s our frame of reference of what we think the photon would see, because relativity and science… but still, cool video! Riding Light on Vimeo.

Two Socks do A Christmas Carol

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‘The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre’ do it again: Just in time for Christmas, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre have recorded their version of A Christmas Carol, which they hope you’ll enjoy (and which you can look forward to being heavily plugged this time next year).