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Cineclectic is go

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:35:49 -0400

After a long absence, due to working extremely hard and jumping through hoops to secure funding, the cineclectic project is about to become a reality. One last hoop is to get the cheques from Northern Ireland Screen and then Hugh McGrory hits the road to California. The kit, EX1 camera and accessories donated on loan by Sony and a full suite of CS3 donated to keep by Adobe. The plan is to book flights, hotel etc later today to fly to Los Angeles on Wednesday the 13th Aug for the last two days of the Siggraph festival - http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/ then travel to Palo Alto to spend time with the Innovation Journalism Department at Stanford University - http://www.innovationjournalism.org/blog/. Hoping also to see my good friend Kevan O’Brien from Adobe in San Francisco along the way. So, exciting times! I will use the tumblr page to blog the trip.

The cineclectic project has been created by Hugh McGrory and Darryl Collins of www.banjax.com, the website is built but does not yet have HD video content - that’s the reason for the trip!! The site will launch later in the year but in the meantime there’s lots more coming soon to this page…

Hugh :)

Profile in 'Nanotechnology Now', by Cris Orfescu

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:22:29 -0400

Profile in 'Nanotechnology Now', by Cris Orfescu

Making music from DNA data

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:45:56 -0400

Making music from DNA data

‘The Happy Cell’, interviews with post-doc...

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:09:00 -0400

‘The Happy Cell’, interviews with post-doc scientists at Yale University School of Medicine cut to their microscopy images. By Hugh McGrory and Fran Apprich, Summer 2007.

The Happy Cell is the name given by the scientists to the one cell out of thousands that is chosen for imaging. It’s like a microscopic beauty contest!

Cineclectic Films On blip.tv - Higher quality images, thanks to Darrylxxx.

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:59:00 -0400

Cineclectic Films On blip.tv - Higher quality images, thanks to Darrylxxx.

Clips from the film ‘Ankles’ Directed by Hugh...

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:51:00 -0400

Clips from the film ‘Ankles’ Directed by Hugh McGrory and Written by Fran Apprich.

Shot in 300fps extreme slow-motion HD.

Video

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:49:00 -0400

"What we know of the world comes to us primarily through vision. Our eyes, however, are sensitive..."

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:47:09 -0400

““What we know of the world comes to us primarily through vision. Our eyes, however, are sensitive only to that segment of the spectrum located between red and violet; the remaining 95 per cent of all existing light (cosmic, infra-red, ultra-violet, gamma, and X-rays) we cannot see. This means that we only perceive 5 per cent of the ‘real’ world; and that even if we supplement our primitive vision with our equally primitive senses of hearing, smell and touch, we are neither able to know everything nor even realise the extent of our ignorance.””

- Howard Shapely - ‘The View from A Distant Star’, 1963.

‘3D Colon’ a one minute film experiment created by...

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:35:00 -0400

‘3D Colon’ a one minute film experiment created by Hugh McGrory and Fran Apprich at Yale University School of Medicine, Summer 2007 - using Imaris visualisation software. This movie is in actual 3D - as in it works when you wear the glasses!

Original music by Jack Vees - Operations Director of the Center for Studies in Music Technology, Yale University.

http://www.yale.edu/music/depts/pages/csmt.html

‘Innerscape’ A one minute film experiment created by...

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:30:17 -0400

‘Innerscape’ A one minute film experiment created by Hugh McGrory and Fran Apprich at Yale University School of Medicine, Summer 2007 - using Imaris visualisation software to treat a microscopy sample.

Original music composed and performed by Fran Apprich.

"Recent scientific investigations have made it clear that the world of sense experience and of common..."

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:58:38 -0400

““Recent scientific investigations have made it clear that the world of sense experience and of common sense is only a small part of the world as a whole. It is small for two reasons: first, because we are confined to a particular point in space and have scarcely any knowledge by direct acquaintance and little knowledge even by inference of the conditions prevailing in distant parts of the universe; second, because the organs by means of which we establish direct communication with the outside world are incapable of apprehending the whole of reality. This second limitation is of more significance than the first. Even if we were able to make voyages of exploration through interstellar space, we should still be incapable of seeing electro-magnetic vibrations shorter than those we now perceive as violet or longer than those of which we are conscious as red. We should still be unable actually to see or feel even so large an object as a molecule. The shortest instant of time perceptible to us would still be a large fraction of a second. We should still be stone deaf to all sounds above a certain pitch. We should still be without the faculties that enable migrating birds to find their way. And so on. Every animal species inhabits a home-made universe, hollowed out of the real world by means of its organs of perception and its intellectual faculties. In man’s case the intellectual faculties are so highly developed that he is able, unlike the other animals, to infer the existence of the larger world enclosing his private universe. He cannot see beyond the violet; but he knows by inference that ultra-violet radiations exist and he is even able to make practical use of these radiations which sense and common sense assure him do not exist. The universe in which we do our daily living is the product of our limitations.””

- Aldous Huxley - ‘Ends and Means’, 1938.

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:00:00 -0400

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/: A good friend of cineclectic is now part of a team working on this project to send a robot to the moon and transmit video footage and data back to earth.

Photo

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:26:35 -0400

"Looking forward to working with you! It should be fun & important doing a video/multimedia..."

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:22:00 -0400

“Looking forward to working with you!
It should be fun & important doing a video/multimedia production on the web highlighting the central role of certain attention workers in innovation ecosystems”

- David Nordfors, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford University SCIL

http://www.nordfors.com/

‘MT_epi+TIR1’ - Image by Dr Derek Toomre, CINEMA...

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:48:00 -0400

‘MT_epi+TIR1’ - Image by Dr Derek Toomre, CINEMA microscopy lab, Yale University School of Medicine. Cineclectic were filmmakers in residence at this facility in summer 2007:

http://tinyurl.com/4k5xpa

‘Microtubules’ - Image by Dr Derek Toomre, CINEMA...

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:44:00 -0400

‘Microtubules’ - Image by Dr Derek Toomre, CINEMA microscopy lab, Yale University School of Medicine. Cineclectic were filmmakers in residence at this facility in summer 2007:

http://tinyurl.com/4k5xpa

"Cineclectic are ‘future people’ - not content with the blunt digital tools at their..."

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:29:32 -0400

“Cineclectic are ‘future people’ - not content with the blunt digital tools at their disposal and the limitations of their human senses - they are constantly projecting their minds towards what will be possible in 10, 15, 20 years. I hope to be able to collaborate in a hands-on way with them on this inspiring journey”

- Steve Allen, Director, Joost Technologies

"Cineclectic have the ability to see beyond the standard workflows and techniques, helping to push..."

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:48:00 -0400

““Cineclectic have the ability to see beyond the standard workflows and techniques, helping to push the innovative boundaries as well as putting creativity on a new plateau””

- Kevan O’Brien, Digital Film & Video Specialist, Adobe

Nanoart article from our friend Cris Orfescu

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:41:11 -0400

Nanoart article from our friend Cris Orfescu

‘Leichter Regen (Light Rain)’ - Original piano and...

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:34:13 -0400

‘Leichter Regen (Light Rain)’ - Original piano and vocals composed and performed by Fran Apprich