Our Campfire
One of our many fires this year, but one of my faves.
Christopher Lord // I work on compilers for a major corporation, specialized in computer languages and the parsing and optimization thereof. In my spare cycles I hack on Haskell, Ruby, and Objective C. Outside of programming, I am an outdoorsman, a skilled photographer, a student of typography and design, and a patient, better driver. buzz.
Holy crap, that little car pulverizes the 59.
This is stunning work, be sure to watch in HD if you can. There is even a 1080p version for those with the computer to handle it.
They seem to be using motion control along with a plain old 5D MkII to get this done.
The history of math is a soft spot of mine. This is a well done TV show on the topic by the BBC. Watch the whole thing if you can, or just a bit.