Post Spring Semester + Link/Video-splosion!

First semester of Master's program ended on last Friday (16/05/2014). Needless to say, never again take the hardest class of the program during your first semester, it was not pleasant. And moving on, no classes till the fall semester, so entire summer just working at SD + working on projects! Go projects!~ Oh! Also time to catch up on movies + TV series + animus!

So I've been storing these up for past few weeks and now I'm letting it go, enjoy!~

Big Hero 6 by Disney:


Guardians of the Galaxy's new trailer:


Flash (bzzzt......) + Flash (bzzzt......):


Interstellar:


Lucy:


Gracepoint aka U.S.'s version of Broadchurch:


Sound of the Internet:

Internet machine (trailer) from Timo on Vimeo.

Selfie:


Constantine (Don't cancel it NBC!):


Orange is the New Black Season 2!:

Most detailed simulation of the Universe:


Hunt for the Robot Body:

Out of Hand from Simon F. on Vimeo.

Arthur Darvill's Let It Go!:


Some beautiful drawings of Pokémon Mayan style + Modernist Style

The origin of TARDIS's sound + Evolution of TARDIS's key

Robot Bartender struggles with Asimov's First Law

H. R. Giger's creations

Remote Desktop

Frozen - Tim Burton style

College-level Computer Science Education for Free

Gif Party! + Gif Party!

Science Fiction to Science Fact

Code Quality = WTFs/min

Linux features on Windows

Summer Show Guide

Salary Negotiation + 401k Extra Fees + Roth or Traditional IRA

Portable Virtual Machines

2048 Doctor Who Edition (My score):

Courtesy:
Gizmodo
How-To-Geek
io9
Lifehacker
The Mary Sue

Mini-link/video-plosion

tiii.me - A website that counts up the time you spent watching shows... Give me a few days to add all of mine in...

Short Horror Film about a girl's misadventure at a lake:

Richard Hickey - Francis from Not To Scale on Vimeo.

Cheat sheets and free Books on technological stuff: http://slickdeals.net/f/6825056

Doge2048 - Doge version of Threes:http://doge2048.com/

The Oxford Comma:


Crazy Dance Moves

Honest Trailers did their take on Game of Thrones (Seasons 1-3) (NSFW):
Non-spoiler version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK9YjEBM_GY
Spoiler version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVaD8rouJn0

In the words of Lauren Davis @ io9, "what happens when a lonely woman meets a cosmonaut on chat roulette"?

Russian Roulette from Ben Aston on Vimeo.

Loki as Elsa in the Frozen song - Let It Go (Actually it's pretty accurate...):


Netflix has been releasing some of the top series like House of Cards and Orange is the new Black, and now Amazon is stepping into that realm with Bosch: 


Binge watching... for those in real trouble, for the rest I say "Meh (shrug)":


Courtesy:
io9
io9
The Mary Sue
The Mary Sue
The Mary Sue
Gizmodo
Gizmodo

Past 2 weeks summarized...

With work and classes for masters, I am back to my old schedule despite graduating... It's a shocker! I know... And yes, being a graduate student does give you a lot of time to do stuff like, oh I don't know, play games, socialize, have fun? Add work into that mix and the end result is same as last 4.5 years of my life. Anyhow, I've been saving some juicy stuff to put together in a blog post, turns out this one is going to have a video-plosion (you've been warned).

First of all Vikings is back!!!! With 2 episodes out it is already getting more amazing :D


So is Hannibal, right after Vikings:


Today I watched 300: Rise of an Empire:

It turned out to be more of like Spartacus v2.0, 3D version having blood, arrows, spears, swords and explosions coming at you. 300 vs 300: Rise of an Empire, overall both were good stories with some amount of goriness in each, none near matching those in Spartacus.

And of course the next Transformers movie, Transformers: Age of Extinction:

I don't know, after watching it, it looks more like the first Transformers movie combined with a bit of Real Steel elements.

And next movie I'm looking forward to is Transcendence:


And finally, Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) & Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica & Longmire) is back in a horror movie Oculus. Anyone interested?:

Also there was a moment around Sunday midnight, Monday morning, when TigerDirect, had a price error on their site, roughly $2 for 2-3TB NAS drives... Of course I ordered a ridiculous amount of drives all to be rejected by TigerDirect later during the week... sigh.... Earlier this week, I meet Ace, a police canine, and he was humongous... literally could take down anyone by his sheer mass. Also got Hadoop to finally work on a single-node cluster (guide coming up later on), now to attempt it on a cloud instance and make a multi-node cluster out of it.

Almost done with the Guild Hunter series, and now to pick with series to listen to next... suggestions anyone?

Courtesy: The Mary Sue (for making me aware of the Oculus trailer)

P.S.: My Bachelor's diploma finally came in, whee....

Video-plosion!

Soo many interesting videos this week... and after parsing through them, I bring to you the best and interesting ones:

Few reasons why I'm posting this video:
 - Starts off with Tennant (10th Doctor in Doctor Who - honestly if you are following this blog watch Doctor Who!!!!) fixing the TARDIS
 - Has couple(lots) of Doctor Who scenes
 - And we all do this at some point in time and get things working

Percussive Maintenance from Duncan Robson on Vimeo.
Music by Joel Robson. http://joelrobson.bandcamp.com
Thanks to tvtropes and everyone else who helped me to collect these. If there's a good clip I missed, let me know in the comments.
http://dunk3d.tumblr.com
@dunkr
Courtesy : The Mary Sue


This video blew me away! Amazing performance!

Box from Bot & Dolly on Vimeo.
Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping onto moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera. http://www.botndolly.com/box
CREDITS
Production Company: BOT & DOLLY
Executive Producers: Bill Galusha, Nick Read
Creative & Technical Director: Tarik Abdel-Gawad
Design Director: Bradley G Munkowitz
Lead Graphic Designers: Bradley G Munkowitz, Jason English Kerr
3D Artists: Scott Pagano, Bradley G Munkowitz, Jason English Kerr, Conor Grebel
2D Animators: Conor Grebel, Ben Hawkins, Pedro Figueira
Director of Photography: Joe Picard
Lighting Designers: Joe Picard, Phil Reyneri
Projection / TouchDesigner: Phil Reyneri
Robotics Animation: Tarik Abdel-Gawad, Brandon Kruysman, George Banks, Michael Beardsworth
Robotics Operator: Michael Beardsworth, Brandon Kruysman
Prop Fabrication: Matt Bitterman, Ethan Dale
Script Supervisor: Ian Colon
Sound Engineers: Joe Picard, Michael Beardsworth
PAs: Sean Servis, Dakota Smith, Nico Mizono, Eric Wendel, Patrick Walsh
Editors: Ashley Rodholm, Ian Colon
Music / Sound Design: Keith Ruggiero
Sound Mix: Joel Raabe
Performers: Tarik Abdel-Gawad, Iris, Scout
Courtesy: io9


What if all the people in Paris just disappeared...

hypocentre -short film- from Claire&Max on Vimeo.
Imagine an empty worrying Paris.
Imagine that human action is more harmful to our fragile planet.
First, "hypocentre" was a technical exercise for us. Then we decided to focus the film on the environmental side. It's new for us, more specialists in the travel video, to try to do a short film.
All the technical side of this film is explained on our website (with english translator) here: http://menilmonde.com/projet-hypocentre/
Feel free to join us on our dynamic facebook Fan Page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Menilmonde/143123885787492
and our twitter account : https://twitter.com/Menilmonde
Music: "Scathe" by Reid Willis, licensing through the Vimeo Music Store https://vimeo.com/musicstore/track/144244/scathe-by-reid-willis
And Reid Willis website : http://reidmwillis.wix.com/reid-willis-website#!home/mainPage
NASA last footage: Images courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/
Old footage form http://archive.org/
Sounds from http://www.freesound.org/ ans specially Felix Blume http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/
Stephen Hawking's quote from the voice of Google translator
Thanks to Vanguard (http://vanguardworld.fr/) for their support.
Courtesy: io9


So first we(not me) had Teddy Ruxpin, a delightful animatronic pal for little kids. Then we(I was there) had Ted, the CGI-based, foul-mouthed, binge-drinking pal once those kids grew up. And now there's apparently a gun-toting, Sock Monkey-slaying, cyborg-bear vigilante roaming the streets. Stephen Colbert was right, these things are terrifying....

The Mega Plush from Matt Burniston on Vimeo.
Set in the shadows of a gritty underworld, a war is brewing. The Mega Plush, a group of four plush toy vigilantes, are struggling against the uprising of the SOC (Society of Chimps) army. Good vs evil. Bear vs sock monkey. The question is "who has the stuffing to survive?" Watch the first episode of this epic showdown and meet the crew at www.themegaplush.com
Facebook - facebook.com/TheMegaPlush
Website - www.themegaplush.com
Twitter - twitter.com/TheMegaPlush
YouTube - http://youtu.be/j9o1Ey4ZNT4
Music & SFX by www.cassinisound.com
Get a t-shirt - http://shop.heshereallweek.com
Courtesy: Gizmodo

And I've decided to another fun video, a music video, Radioactive by Imagine Dragons, one of my favorite song:


And finally the best for the last - Doctor Who Series 7 DVD Box Set Minisode "Rain Gods":

Courtesy: io9