Exposed Webcam Viewer
Nice, ein Webcam-Viewer. Ich krieg da sehr oft kaputte Cam-Feeds, die besten Ergebnisse habe ich mit einem Klick auf Random. Und Vorsicht: „Depending on where you live, using this viewer may be considered illegal for various reasons. However, the viewer itself uses no malicious exploits in order to produce an image.“
The viewer has a database of webcam feed URLs which is updated regularly. The feeds that are detected as online (i.e. accessible) are displayed in the viewer. The default layout ia a 4×4 grid, which you can alter at the bottom of the page. […]
A lot of cameras can be found using Google if you know which search string to use (and you have a lot of patience). I also used Shodan (a search engine created by John Matherly) to get a large number of potential webcam feeds. […] At the moment, I’m using a bash script with curl to check the HTTP response code of the webcam feed. This works 99% of the time. When it doesn’t work, I manually check the feed and update the database accordingly. The script runs regularly to ensure that offline cameras are not displayed in the viewer that often.
DIY Bullet-Time
Der Clip ist auf Youtube wegen GEMA-Bullshits gesperrt, jetzt also auf Vimeo. Marc Donahue hat sich aus jeder Menge GoPro-Cams eine Matrix-Bullettime-Dingsbums gebaut. Schönes Video, man sollte beim Thema GoPro allerding auch erwähnen, dass die vor wenigen Tagen erst versucht haben, ein negatives Review wegen Copyright-Unsinns löschen zu lassen. Vollidioten. Aber da kann ja Marc Donahue und sein Bullet-Time-Dings nix für.
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Webcam Venus: Sexcam-Performers posing as Fine Art
Schöne Arbeit von Addie Wagenknecht und Pablo Garcia vom FAT-Lab, ein Experiment in Fine Art und Porno, Kunstklassiker von Sexcam-Performern nachgestellt. Toll, mag ich sehr gerne.
If asked if there is a difference between the Renaissance painting The Birth of Venus (1486) and a Playboy centerfold, most might say it’s no contest: one is art and the other pornography. One is of human ideals, the other smut. Are Botticelli and Hugh Hefner really that different? Both project fantasy and erotic imagery through the media of their day. Both are vehicles of gender politics, defining standards of beauty and sexuality. What if adult performers—already mediated sex objects—struck “classic” poses? In Webcam Venus, we asked online sexcam performers to replicate iconic works of art. This piece is an experimental homage to both fine art and the lowbrow internet phenomenon of cams.
Sexcams use webcams and chat interfaces to connect amateur adult performers with an audience. Users log on to see men, women, transsexuals, couples and groups broadcast their bodies and sexuality live for the public, often performing for money. To create this experiment in high and low brow media, we assumed anonymous handles and spent a few hours each day for a month asking performers: “Would you like to pose for me?”
Camover: Gamified CCTV-Destruction
Youtube Direktcamover, via Chris
Der Guardian über den gameifizierten Überwachungsprotest CAMOVER:
The game is real-life Grand Theft Auto for those tired of being watched by the authorities in Berlin; points are awarded for the number of cameras destroyed and bonus scores are given for particularly imaginative modes of destruction. Axes, ropes and pitchforks are all encouraged.
“We thought it would motivate inactive people out there if we made a video-invitation to this reality-game,” the creator of Camover (who wanted to remain anonymous) told me. “Although we call it a game, we are quite serious about it: our aim is to destroy as many cameras as possible and to have an influence on video surveillance in our cities.”
The winner of the game does not get a trophy or a year’s supply of spray paint. The competition ends on 19 February, to coincide with the start of the European Police Congress.
Steadycam POV-Shot from Scorseses “Hugo”
YT Direktsteady, via MeFi
X-Posting von den Filmfreunden: Superinteressanter Behind the Scenes-Clip aus Scorseses “Hugo”, für den sich Larry McConkey vor einem Steadycam-Shot eine Helmkamera aufsetzte. Ich liebe die beweglichen Möbel ab der Mitte des Videos, die Platz für die Kamerabewegungen machen.
Experimental Filmmaking: Mapping Video on Kinects 3D-Data
Jonathan Minard und James George arbeiten an einer Open Source Video-Editing-Software namens RGBDToolkit und mit diesem Tool verwirklichen sie grade die experimentelle Doku “Clouds” über Hacker , wozu sie grade obigen Clip online gestellt haben. Soweit ich das RGBDToolkit verstanden habe, mapt man damit den mit einer normalen DSLR gedrehten Videoclip auf die 3D-Daten des parallel aufzeichnenden Kinects. Snip von Creators Project:
“The goal behind the documentary is to capture the creative hacker ethos in a media that suits the subject,” explains George. “Clouds is a window into the mentality of the scene responsible for inventing the format that was used to create the film.” Which is probably why anyone who is familiar with the aesthetics of data visualization or has seen one of the countless Kinect hack demos from the past year will recognize influences of both in the film’s style. “The subjects float in a black void, their figures composed of tiny points connected by lines that flicker and break apart at the edges,” continues George. “They’re made out of pure computational matter—the same material the artists depicted work with on a daily basis.”
Though they used a stationary one camera set-up, the 3D Kinect data they capture allows them to render out the images any way they can dream up (and code up) and rephotograph their subjects from any angle in post production.
Experimental Film Clouds Combines Kinects And DSLRs To Imagine The Future Of Filmmaking
How to use an afghan Kamra-E-Faoree
Vimeo Direktcam, via Boooooom
Ich liebe die Narration dieses Videos, das die Handhabe einer afghanischen “Sofortbildkamera” zeigt, die von nur noch zwei Fotografen auf den Straßen von Kabul benutzt wird.
The Afghan Box Camera Project provides a record of the kamra-e-faoree (instant camera) which as a living form of photography is on the brink of disappearing in Afghanistan. In this video, Qalam Nabi, one of the last two remaining box camera photographers in Kabul demonstrates how to use his camera.
Descriptive Camera outputs Text instead of Images
Tolle Kamera von Matt Richardson, die keine Bilder ausspuckt, sondern beschreibende Texte und Metadaten. Das Teil hätte technisch für meinen Geschmack eine ganze Ecke abgefahrener sein können: Die Kamera schickt die Bilder an Amazons Mechanical Turk-Service, der den Text an Menschen auslagert, die Beschreibung kommt so innerhalb von circa 5 Minuten. No AI involved, sorry. Aber es ist ein erster Schritt und ‘ne sehr schöne Idee und das mit der künstlichen Intelligenz kriegen wir auch noch hin.
The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera’s settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don’t output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.
Trashcam Project: Garbage-Containers as Pinhole Cameras
Trashcam Project: Tolles Projekt von ein paar Müllmännern aus Hamburg (und der Werbeagentur Scholz & Friends), die Müllcontainer in Pinhole-Cams umgebaut haben und damit ihre Stadt fotografieren.
Hamburg´s garbagemen portrait their city in the Trashcam Project – with their garbage containers. Standard 1.100 litre containers are transformed to giant pinhole cameras. With these cameras the binmen take pictures of their favourite places to show the beauty and the changes of the city they keep clean every day. The Trashcam Project was developed by Christoph Blaschke, Mirko Derpmann, Scholz & Friends Berlin and the Hamburg sanitation department. Special thanks to Hamburg based photographer Matthias Hewing for his professional advice and the challenging lab work with the giant negatives.
DSLR Stormtrooper Mod
Reddit-User Goonsnvrsaydie hat seine Kamera angesprüht und auch wenn’s nicht offiziell dabeisteht: Damit wird er die Droiden, die er sucht, auf gar keinen Fall knipsen.
How To fix a broken SLR Lens Hood with Peanut Butter
Youtube Direktpeanuts, via There I fixed it
Casey Neistat repariert seine kaputte Sonnenblende mit (dem Deckel von) Erdnussbutter.
Sculptures for the Moving Image
Vimeo Direktimage, via We Like That
Callum Cooper baut „Sculpture[s] for the Moving Image“ – Stative mit Springseil-Mechanik als Skulpturen oder so ähnlich – mit denen er obige experimentelle Kurzfilme dreht. Auch super: Sink or swim.
Whole Apartment Pinhole Camera
Vimeo Direktflat, via Publique
Romain A dunkelt für sein Projekt Stenop.es komplette Wohnungen ab und piekst in die Folie über den Fenstern kleine Löcher, was das ganze Apartment in Pinhole Cameras verwandelt: „This video is a part of a pinhole movie project based on the principle of the Camera Obscura. An apartment is completely darkened. A hole is made in a window, letting lights from outside coming in. Projections are taking place everywhere inside.“ Oben ein Video aus Paris, auf der Website gibt’s noch ein (nicht ganz so schickes) aus Indien.
How To shoot Colors on Speakers in High Speed-Photography
Vimeo Direktcolors, via Petapixel
Letzte Woche gingen Martin Klimas High Speed-Fotos von auf Boxen herumhüpfender Farbe rum. Das Konzept fand ich halbwegs spannend, die Motive selbst aber superlangweilig. High Speed-Fotografie eben, hat man (bzw. ich) bereits drei Millionen mal gesehen. Jetzt haben Studenten der Arizona State University obiges Tutorial-Video gedreht, ab circa Minute drei sieht man die Farbe auf den Boxen in SloMo rumhüpfen.
Ape Self-Awareness iPhone-Mirror-Cam
Schöner Clip von Mark B. Rober, der einen Spiegel vor seine Handykamera gebastelt und damit die Affen im Zoo gefilmt hat. Das Ende des Videos ist der Knaller. Von Wired:
The video was made by part-time viral video prankster and full-time rocket scientist Mark B. Rober, who noticed during zoo visits that apes don’t like being hassled by humans.
“People throw food into the exhibits to see the animals react,” Rober told Wired in an e-mail interview. “This is very bad for the animals.” By contrast, Rober said, his clever setup “turned out to be a noninvasive, fun way to achieve that interaction to an even higher degree.” […]
To capture the images, Rober bought a $3 mirror and carefully drilled a hole in the middle of the reflective surface. Then he put his iPhone up to the hole and caught the attention of a mother orangutan at the zoo. After staring calmly into the mirror, the primate fetches her baby for a close-up. Finally the daddy ape ambles over to check out his face.
