"HERO" a Charity Film Project for talkaboutit.org A Short Film inspired by the Starwars Universe we know and love. Starring John Jarratt ( Wolf Creek, Django...

In the slums of the future, virtual reality junkies satisfy their violent impulses in online entertainment. An expert player discovers that the line between games and reality is starting to fade away. 3DAR’s latest short film explores the frightening potential of our next technological revolution. Stay connected, but not too much ;) Artwork and process in www.3dar.com Behind the scenes video: https://vimeo.com/148692811 WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY FEDERICO HELLER EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS GERMAN HELLER BRANDON MASEDA ANIMATION DIRECTOR FERNANDO MALDONADO VFX PRODUCTION DESIGNER JORGE TERESO LEAD VFX ARTIST FEDERICO CARLINI LEAD 3D ARTIST MARCO LOCOCO VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR FEDERICO HELLER DIGITAL ART DIRECTOR PABLO OLIVERA CGFX TD ALAN RINALDI PRODUCER FEDERICO HELLER VFX PRODUCTION COORDINATOR MARIA JOSE TABARES ASSISTANT DIRECTOR NAZARENO ALBA CELESTE LOIS DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY NICOLAS TROVATO FERNANDO LORENZALE ART DIRECTOR LOLA SOSA ORIGINAL SCORE CYRILLE MARCHESSEAU MUSIC MIX RODOLPHE GERVAIS AUDIO POST BY IMPOSSIBLE ACOUSTIC BRENDAN J. HOGAN JAMIE HUNSDALE Contact: info@3dar.com

Ambition is a collaboration between Platige Image and ESA. Directed by Tomek Bagiński and starring Aiden Gillen and Aisling Franciosi, Ambition was shot on location in Iceland, and screened on 24 October 2014 during the British Film Institute’s celebration of Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, at the Southbank, London.

More information.
Rosetta: the ambition to turn science fiction into science fact: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_the_ambition_to_turn_science_fiction_into_science_fact

The 'Making of Ambition' is available here:
http://youtu.be/Ud9ON2CzYYM

Credits: ESA/Platige Image

"There's an order at some deep level," he said. "A pattern that wants to be seen."
"Then see it."
He heard voices in the distance. "I always have. But it's been elusive in this instance. My experts have struggled and just about given up. I've been working on it, sleeping on it, not sleeping on it. There's a common surface, an affinity between market movements and the natural world."
"An aesthetics of interaction."
"Yes. But in this case I'm beginning to doubt I'll ever find it."
"Doubt. What is doubt? You don't believe in doubt. You've told me this. Computer power eliminates doubt. All doubt rises from past experience. But the past is disappearing. We used to know the past but not the future. This is changing," she said. "We need a new theory of time."

Speaker(s):
Ray Kurzweil

Description:
For decades Ray Kurzweil has explored how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand human capabilities. In his latest book, How To Create A Mind, he takes this exploration to the next step: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works, then applying that knowledge to create intelligent machines. In the near term, Ray's project at Google is developing artificial intelligence based on biologically inspired models of the neocortex to enhance functions such as search, answering questions, interacting with the user, and language translation. The goal is to understand natural language to communicate with the user as well as to understand the meaning of web documents and books. In the long term, Ray believes it is only by extending our minds with our intelligent technology that we can overcome humanity's grand challenges.

Watch all Google I/O 2014 videos at: g.co/io14videos

Math is logical, functional and just ... awesome. Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin explores hidden properties of that weird and wonderful set of numbers, the Fibonacci series. (And reminds you that mathematics can be inspiring, too!)

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Daniel Sierra's thesis animation done at School of Visual Arts, class of 2013, Computer Art MFA. A full description of the piece along with some still frames can be found at: dbsierra.com or visit his vimeo page vimeo.com/65475425

A short film depicting the beauty of Moebius Transformations in mathematics. The movie shows how moving to a higher dimension can make the transformations easier to understand.

The full version is available at http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/moebius/

The background music (from Schumann's Kinderszenen, Op. 15, I) is performed by Donald Betts and available at http://www.musopen.com.