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20 Greatest Extended Takes In Movie History - GeekWeek

The extended take is, “an uninterrupted shot in a film which lasts much longer than the conventional editing pace either of the film itself or of films in general, usually lasting several minutes. It can be used for dramatic and narrative effect if done properly, and in moving shots is often accomplished through the use of a dolly or stedicam.”
The extended take is a cinematic hire-wire act that pushes the director, actors, cinematographer, art department, sound design, and every other department to their limits. They take a very long time to set-up, and are very easy to mess up. The longer the take, the more pressure is added to get it right.

Now I’m a little smarter and saw some truly amazing film scenes.

(via kottke)

Forever’s Not So Long

I like the theme in movies when people realize their lives are finite and/or they are given just a short time left to live. Particularly interesting is what they do with that limited time…

I am always getting kind of a strange feeling when thinking about the universe and the fact how tiny our world is. And I am asking myself the question: ‘What does really matter?’
This video made me think about that - once again.

Basically, my conclusion is always, that “life” does. I should make good use of the time I am alive and don’t waste time on things I shouldn’t or don’t want to do.

Now that’s always a good new year’s resolution, too: do less of the stuff you don’t want to do and do more of the stuff you like to do (this also includes trying something new!).
Happy new year!

The Known Universe by AMNH (via AMNHorg)

You-Centric: The Future of Browsing on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

This is a great talk! I was really impressed when Aza presented Mozilla’s Ubiquity.

Ubiquity is often descibed as Quicksilver for the browser or the web.
Ubiquity is a Firefox extension that lets you write and execute commands right inside Firefox. So for example you can translate words on the current page, edit images on the current page (!) or get a Google map for an address on the fly (without the need to open Google maps, insert the address etc.).
Be sure to check out this video to see it in action! It’s incredible.

Unfortunately, the Pixastic image editor he uses in this talk does not support the current Ubiquity API, so you can’t use it (for the moment).

I don’t like Quicksilver, but I am using Ubiquity for a couple of days now and love it!

And if you want to extend the set of commands, there are already a lot of third party commands out there!
As a Ruby on Rails developer I really like the rdoc search command.