Genuinely breathtaking new footage has emerged from GoPro of Felix Baumgartner’s jump from 128,100 feet above Earth’s surface in a stratospheric balloon. I was absolutely glued to this at the time and this is even better than what we’d seen then. Wow.
I spotted this article on the Verge last week and thought it was genuinely the best use of Google Glass that I’ve seen. Patrick Jackson of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is a firefighter by day and coder by night. He’s developing apps for Glass that assist in his day to day job (extracting people from buildings, locating fire hydrants etc) and it’s easy to see why Google chose him to win a developer kit in the #IfIHadGlass competition.
What an utterly compelling and uncomfortable watch this was. Chiwetel Ejiofor delivers a stunning performance as Solomon Northup, a free man, kidnapped and sold into slavery. Michael Fassbender’s slavemaster Epps is as intimidating and cruel as he’s ever likely to be on the screen. In fact, there wasn’t a bad performance in the entire film. Steve McQueen’s run of superb films continues and you’ll understand when you see it why it has, and will, continue to win awards.
A conversation with Richard Linklater (director of the Before… trilogy of films) through cinema and time… about cinema and time. If you haven’t seen them, I highly recommend the trilogy of films shown in the video. Start with Before Sunrise. (hat tip to John Morton who pointed this video out on Twitter)