Month: November 2018

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Liked on YouTube: Why Beautiful Things Make us Happy – Beauty Explained

It’s hard to define what makes something beautiful, but we seem to know beauty when we see it. Why is that and how does beauty affect our subconscious?

This video was a collaboration with the creative agency Sagmeister & Walsh as a contribution to their upcoming Beauty exhibition at the MAK Vienna from October 23rd onwards. If you want to learn more about the impact of beauty and see tons of gorgeous installations and multi-media objects, go check it out on https://www.mak.at/en_sagmeister_walsh
The Beauty exhibition will also be shown in the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt from May 11th till September 15th.

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Liked on YouTube: ORBIT – A Journey Around Earth in Real Time [4k]

NASA / ESRSU / Phaeleh / Seán Doran

Video ©Seán Doran
Music ©Phaeleh

Meditate on the beauty of our home.

Orbit is a real time reconstruction of time lapse photography taken on board the International Space Station by NASA’s Earth Science & Remote Sensing Unit.

The structure of the film is built around a nested selection of Phaeleh’s last three albums; Lost Time, Illusion of the Tale & Somnus. The tone & pacing of each track influenced the choice of material used.

Typically each time lapse sequence was photographed at 1 frame per second.

Each sequence was processed in Photoshop. A dirtmap was made in order to repair dust, blemishes and hot pixel artifacts that would otherwise confuse the re-timing phase of the workflow resulting in strobes and distracting blurs.

Image processing techniques were used to emphasize features on the Earth’s surface. Every sequence consists of a number of layers that when masked, processed & blended correctly produce the final look of each shot.

To make sure each sequence was recreated faithfully to the actual rate of speed observed I referenced time-stamps on the first and last frame in the sequence and used frame interpolation software to produce the other 59 frames.

The length of the film is exactly the length of time it takes ISS to orbit the Earth once, 92 minutes & 39 seconds.

Seán Doran,
February 5th, 2018

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French translation by Clement Keirua…

Méditez sur la beauté de notre maison.

Orbit est la reconstruction de photos timelapse prises à bord de la station spatiale internationale (ISS) par l’équipe Remote Sensing Unit de la NASA.

La structure du film est construite autour d’une sélection des trois derniers albums de Phaelaeh; Lost Time, Illusion of the Tale et Somnus. Le ton et rythme de chaque morceau ont influencé le choix des images.

Typiquement, chaque séquence time lapse a été photographiée à une image par seconde.

Chaque séquence a été retraitée dans Photoshop. Une dirtmap[1] a été réalisée afin de réparer la poussière, les imperfections et les artefacts visuels qui auraient autrement perturbé les phases de re-synchronisation, résultant en des flous et effets stroboscopiques perturbants.

Des techniques de traitement d’images ont été utilisées pour souligner les particularités de la surface de la Terre. Chaque séquence consiste en un certain nombre de couches qui, lorsqu’elles sont masquées, traitées et combinées correctement, produisent le rendu final de chaque cliché.

Pour s’assurer que chaque séquence a été recrée fidèlement à la vitesse observée, j’ai référencé des horodatages sur les premières et dernières images de chaque séquence, et j’ai utilisé un programme d’interpolation photo pour produire les autres 59 images.

La longueur du film est exactement le temps nécessaire à ISS pour orbiter une fois autour de la Terre, 92 minutes et 39 secondes.

Seán Doran,
5 février 2018

[1] Une dirtmap est une carte de toutes les marques et poussières sur les fenêtres d’ISS, et les lentilles des appareils photo utilisés pour prendre les clichés. Cela inclut également les “pixels chauds” qui apparaissent dans les prises de nuit, comme des points très brillants. Tous doivent être corrigés ou déguisés pour que la resynchronisation fonctionne correctement.

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Welcome to the Gutenberg Editor

Of Mountains & Printing Presses

The goal of this new editor is to make adding rich content to WordPress simple and enjoyable. This whole post is composed of pieces of content—somewhat similar to LEGO bricks—that you can move around and interact with. Move your cursor around and you’ll notice the different blocks light up with outlines and arrows. Press the arrows to reposition blocks quickly, without fearing about losing things in the process of copying and pasting.

What you are reading now is a text block the most basic block of all. The text block has its own controls to be moved freely around the post…

… like this one, which is right aligned.

Headings are separate blocks as well, which helps with the outline and organization of your content.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Handling images and media with the utmost care is a primary focus of the new editor. Hopefully, you’ll find aspects of adding captions or going full-width with your pictures much easier and robust than before.

Beautiful landscape
If your theme supports it, you’ll see the “wide” button on the image toolbar. Give it a try.

Try selecting and removing or editing the caption, now you don’t have to be careful about selecting the image or other text by mistake and ruining the presentation.

The Inserter Tool

Imagine everything that WordPress can do is available to you quickly and in the same place on the interface. No need to figure out HTML tags, classes, or remember complicated shortcode syntax. That’s the spirit behind the inserter—the (+) button you’ll see around the editor—which allows you to browse all available content blocks and add them into your post. Plugins and themes are able to register their own, opening up all sort of possibilities for rich editing and publishing.

Go give it a try, you may discover things WordPress can already add into your posts that you didn’t know about. Here’s a short list of what you can currently find there:

  • Text & Headings
  • Images & Videos
  • Galleries
  • Embeds, like YouTube, Tweets, or other WordPress posts.
  • Layout blocks, like Buttons, Hero Images, Separators, etc.
  • And Lists like this one of course 🙂

Visual Editing

A huge benefit of blocks is that you can edit them in place and manipulate your content directly. Instead of having fields for editing things like the source of a quote, or the text of a button, you can directly change the content. Try editing the following quote:

The editor will endeavor to create a new page and post building experience that makes writing rich posts effortless, and has “blocks” to make it easy what today might take shortcodes, custom HTML, or “mystery meat” embed discovery.

Matt Mullenweg, 2017

The information corresponding to the source of the quote is a separate text field, similar to captions under images, so the structure of the quote is protected even if you select, modify, or remove the source. It’s always easy to add it back.

Blocks can be anything you need. For instance, you may want to add a subdued quote as part of the composition of your text, or you may prefer to display a giant stylized one. All of these options are available in the inserter.

You can change the amount of columns in your galleries by dragging a slider in the block inspector in the sidebar.

Media Rich

If you combine the new wide and full-wide alignments with galleries, you can create a very media rich layout, very quickly:

Accessibility is important — don’t forget image alt attribute

Sure, the full-wide image can be pretty big. But sometimes the image is worth it.

The above is a gallery with just two images. It’s an easier way to create visually appealing layouts, without having to deal with floats. You can also easily convert the gallery back to individual images again, by using the block switcher.

Any block can opt into these alignments. The embed block has them also, and is responsive out of the box:

You can build any block you like, static or dynamic, decorative or plain. Here’s a pullquote block:

Code is Poetry

The WordPress community

If you want to learn more about how to build additional blocks, or if you are interested in helping with the project, head over to the GitHub repository.

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