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Sony just patented contact lenses that can secretly record what you see: http://www.techinsider.io/sony-contact-lenses-record-whatever-you-see-2016-5

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Perspective-aware Manipulation of Portrait Photos

Research from University of Princeton Department of Computer Science demonstrating method to alter portrait selfies as distant camera shots through computation to improve appearance of subject:

This paper introduces a method to modify the apparent relative pose and distance between camera and subject given a single portrait photo. Our approach fits a full perspective camera and a parametric 3D head model to the portrait, and then builds a 2D warp in the image plane to approximate the effect of a desired change in 3D. We show that this model is capable of correcting objectionable artifacts such as the large noses sometimes seen in “selfies,” or to deliberately bring a distant camera closer to the subject. This framework can also be used to re-pose the subject, as well as to create stereo pairs from an input portrait. We show convincing results on both an existing dataset as well as a new dataset we captured to validate our method.

The official website for the project can be found here

A website of interactive demonstrations of results can be found here

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DATA-NARRATIVES: Ubiquitous Computing turns everyTHING into a screen; the screens transform our daily actions into micro-narratives: small narrative units interconnected within networked culture which produce metadata about US. The metadata in turn feeds back into the narrative loop, shaping our USE of the screens, and thus shaping our narratives. 

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Five of New Yorks Top Indie Directors Adapt Each Other's Dreams in "collective:unconscious"

Adapting dreams

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123 Dead Lesbian & Bisexual Characters On TV, And How They Died 

A database of “every television death of an OPENLY lesbian or bisexual or queer female character on a television show.” With three exceptions, all of these characters are appeared in more than one episode. 

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Created with GifBoom

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Created with GifBoom

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Created with GifBoom

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Created with GifBoom

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Inbetween moments of time.

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2015

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1936

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TUMBLR AND DESIGN

From Metahaven’s talk Memes, Jokes and Jesters at Typo Berlin, May 2012. This talk eventually became the essay Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? Memes, Design and Politics, published by Strelka Press in April 2013.

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Interstellar in ONE gif

Watch 2 hours and 49 minutes of Interstellar (2014) in ONE gif.

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A-ha Deep Dream

The most amusing implementation of the #deepdream meme yet, put together by Anthony Antonellis:

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