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Today, Google’s co-founder Larry Page celebrates his 38th birthday. Many happy returns!
132 years ago, little Albert was born. Who knew then that he would become a world-famous theoretical physicist, often regarded as the father of modern physics? To commemorate his birthday, I invite you to watch this short video biography:
Today, Apple’s father (and former chief-executive of Pixar) is 56 years old. Stay hungry, stay foolish. Happy birthday. Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Here is the second episode of a set of short video adds promoting INSA Lyon, the engineering school I am studying at. Have fun watching it!
A few weeks ago, I found this 3D demo reel made by a Russian design studio called “Aero Creative Agency”, where they demonstrate their modelling skills applied to advertising. The video features inspiring 3D design:
They say that every idea starts on a sheet of paper. This is the main idea behind World of Paper, a short video showing a complete city made exclusively of bescribbled notebook sheets. Just another creativity trigger.
While watching Mozilla’s new smartphone concept, I played around with YouTube’s 3D possiblities. Not having red/cyan glasses around, I went for the “cross-eyed” option. It kind of works well in normal size, and even better in expanded size (no way to get an image in full screen). You have to get used to it, but [...]
Here is an already old video for those who didn’t get the chance to see it, where Microsoft offered us “a glimpse ahead” on new productivity concepts. It’s funny to see how the world has evolved in one year: I was not half as impressed rediscovering it now as when I first watched it last [...]
Here come a few words from Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, Vint Cerf. I recently remembered these words when I discovered that Google was testing around with ultra-high speed broadband in Stanford’s residencial subdivision. Lucky students!