The Weekly Features
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Here at Noobscape.net, it is one of my greatest intentions to send you down rabbit holes and/or to show you some cool stuff that I find to be interesting. I was doing these features weekly, however this page is now currently on a hiatus. The features will return in the future, and I will most likely be doing them differently. In the mean time, check out the links below!
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Flash photography used to be pretty wild
This video was really cool to watch. Technology Connections never disappoints with interesting content. In this video, TC details the workings of old disposable flash-bulbs and how it affected everyday photography during their time of relevance.
This is usually how a Technology Connections video goes, as in he explains and shows how something works while talking about the history of the technology and why it was necessary at the time. It's really good stuff, I love the 5-part series on the CED video format.
The coolest thing about this video are the parts in which TC enlists the help of Gav from the slow mo guys to capture slow motion footage of the flash-bulb in action. At one point they used a camera that shoots at 200,000 frames per second in order to capture the flash from a "magicube" bulb cartridge. It's wild to see the ignition of those flash bulbs during a length of time that's observable to the human eye. You almost forget while watching the zirconium tangle ignite that it all happens within a fraction of a second.
IMAGE OF THE WEEK
This is a neat piece that I found on Newgrounds by Zaobro4959 on Newgrounds. Ristar seems to have been almost completely forgotten by Sega, as it tends to go with most of their franchises. You'll see him in a Genesis compilation now and then, but he has only ever had the one 16-bit outing near the end of the Genesis' lifespan.
Zaobro's 3D render is a fun imagining of what Ristar could have looked like in a Sega Saturn or Dreamcast title. I especially enjoy the moody purple lighting. It reminds me of the level-entry loading screens in Nights into Dreams, especially when viewed on Newgrounds with the dark background.
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The little old lady who gave away millions of free records: Dora Hall
Here's something interesting. Back in the 1960's, there were packages of solo cups which were bundled with a 45RPM record. The record's contents were of an old woman named Dorothy Hulseman, who had a brief history of musical performances during the 1920's. She was also the wife of Leo Hulseman, who was the CEO of the solo cup company at the time.
Dorothy, under the stage name of Dora Hall, wanted to get into the music industry and she did so with the help of her chad CEO husband who included her records in several Solo cup promotions.
Her music isn't my cup of tea whatsoever, and it's too cheesy even for me. I will say, for a woman in her early 60s, she wasn't half-bad. I do think it's very sweet of Leo to help his wife achieve her dream to some capacity.
The idea of including a vinyl record with solo cups of all things is itself strange and interesting to me, and in this video by VWestlife on YouTube he opens up a brand new package that has been sealed for almost 60 years. It's kinda mundane I guess, but I like the idea of opening new-old-stock solo cups that are more than half-a-century old and playing its included record on video. I think it's a cool way to preserve the mundane experience of opening a pack of solo cups in the 1960's.
This is my friend's dog Morf (named after the pink blob thing from Treasure Planet) and he is the sweetest boy ever. This stupid little unkept golden doodle is the greatest dog and nobody can convince me otherwise.
I took this photo of him with a Sony Cybershot (DSC-P72) from 2003. It's been fun taking photos with that thing, and I intend to post them on the blog once I have enough good ones to share. This is one of those good ones.
You might not be able to tell unless you expand the image, but Morf-olomew here is looking a little bit transparent. Ghostly, even. I'm not a photography buff by any means, but I think what happened is he moved out of frame or something before the photo was finished processing, but that's just a load of crap I pulled out of my ass. I really have no idea what caused the transparency, but it's kinda cool and thought I would share it.