Just caught the first episode of DEVS. Yup, I’m hooked.
Seriously great edition from Future Crunch in the inbox today. If you haven’t heard of them "We are a group of scientists, artists, researchers and designers who believe that science and technology are the most powerful drivers of human progress. We’re determined to share that story. Our expertise ranges from political economy, genetics, urban planning and zoology, to music, painting and philosophy. We use our diverse skills and knowledge to provide unexpected perspectives on the state of the world in 2020."
Done some work, time for a film or two. “Reign Of Fire” is first up 🎥
Totally missed that season 2 of Cosmos started on National Geographic UK last Sunday. Catch up TV is an amazing thing 📺
Friday link pack #3
Location data of phones on a Florida beach during Spring Break
via The Loop
Life size pizza table and meatball pizza
via Under Consideration
Quarantined photographer executes fantastic FaceTime fashion shoot
via Cult Of Mac
‘RoboCop 2’: The crazy story of how Cain got his CG puppeteered head
"What’s ironic about that is – the stop-motion that Tippett Studio did in RoboCop 2 is astounding. In my opinion, Cain is the pinnacle of stop motion as a realistic VFX technique. It had never been done better, and now probably never will be. Because built right into Cain, in its earliest, crudest form, was the technology that would effectively end stop-motion as a VFX tool just a couple of years later. Nobody knew it at the time, but RoboCop 2 was a turning point in VFX, with its past and its future combined into a single character."
Friday link pack #3
Location data of phones on a Florida beach during Spring Break
via The Loop
Life size pizza table and meatball pizza
via Under Consideration
Quarantined photographer executes fantastic FaceTime fashion shoot
via Cult Of Mac
‘RoboCop 2’: The crazy story of how Cain got his CG puppeteered head
"What’s ironic about that is – the stop-motion that Tippett Studio did in RoboCop 2 is astounding. In my opinion, Cain is the pinnacle of stop motion as a realistic VFX technique. It had never been done better, and now probably never will be. Because built right into Cain, in its earliest, crudest form, was the technology that would effectively end stop-motion as a VFX tool just a couple of years later. Nobody knew it at the time, but RoboCop 2 was a turning point in VFX, with its past and its future combined into a single character."
Just finished the last episode of Picard. Damn that was good 🚀📺
First film of the day - Tomorrowland 🍿
Trying to decide between watching “The Thing” or the 70s version of “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers” 🤔🎥
Time for a bit of Doom Eternal 🎮
Thinking about my phone, one thing I’d really like is if the layout changed over the day - “you’re done with work for the day, let’s shuffle those apps out of thumb reach until tomorrow” 🤔
Friday link pack #2
Nintendo Customer Support Goes Above And Beyond For 95-Year-Old Grandma's Busted Game Boy
Nine Inch Nails make Ghosts V-VI available for free
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Reviews Space Movies, from 'Gravity' to 'Interstellar' | Vanity Fair
Flight 008 first podcast episodes are now online
"Eleven of the biggest writers in science fiction, through eleven unique stories, follow one single thread: a non-stop flight from Tokyo to San Francisco that passes through a wrinkle in spacetime and lands in the year 2040."
I haven’t linked directly to Apple Podcasts etc because personally I use Overcast and I prefer to be easily offered the choice of player.
Friday link pack #2
Nintendo Customer Support Goes Above And Beyond For 95-Year-Old Grandma's Busted Game Boy
Nine Inch Nails make Ghosts V-VI available for free
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Reviews Space Movies, from 'Gravity' to 'Interstellar' | Vanity Fair
Flight 008 first podcast episodes are now online
"Eleven of the biggest writers in science fiction, through eleven unique stories, follow one single thread: a non-stop flight from Tokyo to San Francisco that passes through a wrinkle in spacetime and lands in the year 2040."
I haven’t linked directly to Apple Podcasts etc because personally I use Overcast and I prefer to be easily offered the choice of player.
Starting the morning with some pre-work Disney+ action. Time for The Phantom Menace 📽
Starting the day off with Europe “Out Of This World” 🎵
Watching “The Imagineering Story” 📺
Mockoon - run mock APIs locally
I’ve been working through “Building Forms with Vue.js” by Marina Mosti, and a tool she mentioned to use was an open source free API simulator called Mockoon:
“Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock APIs locally. No remote deployment, no account required, open source."
Seriously, this app is brilliant. I think I’ll get a lot of use out of it 😄
H/T to Enjoy The Vue podcast, episode 6.
Mockoon - run mock APIs locally
I’ve been working through “Building Forms with Vue.js” by Marina Mosti, and a tool she mentioned to use was an open source free API simulator called Mockoon:
“Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock APIs locally. No remote deployment, no account required, open source."
Seriously, this app is brilliant. I think I’ll get a lot of use out of it 😄
H/T to Enjoy The Vue podcast, episode 6.
Outside one of the local pubs (seen while dog walking).
Friday link pack #1
Flight 008, a multi-part science fiction story
Following on from the XPrize “Seat 14C” science fiction competition from 2017.
"Eleven of the biggest writers in science fiction, through eleven unique stories, follow one single thread: a non-stop flight from Tokyo
to San Francisco that passes through a wrinkle in spacetime and lands in the year 2040.
With performances by an all-star cast Dan Stevens, Calista Flockheart, Reid Scott, Keith David, Alfred Molina, and Danny Trejo Flight 008 is an audio experience unlike any other."
https://www.watchdust.com/audio/
An opensource DIY self driving platform for small scale cars
As mentioned in the Talk Python To Me episode #255 “Talking to cars with Python” podcast, Donkey Car is "a high level self driving library written in Python. It was developed with a focus on enabling fast experimentation and easy contribution."
Raspberry Pi computers in buggies, sounds good to me 😎.
Percussive Maintenance
It’s an old video, but it’s right up there with “have you tried turning it off and on again?”. Percussive Maintenance on Vimeo.
Elon Musk and a Starship a week
Great article from Art Technica, Inside Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week—and settle Mars