Short film I made with materials scientist and science presenter Mark Miodownik demonstrating some of the weird properties of ferrofluid.
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Tag Archives: Science
Flame’n Elements
Filming flame tests with Group 1 Alkali Metals. Continue reading »
Video: When Fish Stopped Being So Lazy and Made it Onto Land
Recent video shot and produced for the Ri Channel, featuring Professor Neil Shubin who discovered the remarkably well preserved fossil of the transitional organism Tiktaalik roseae. Continue reading »
Voices In The Dark
In a week’s time In The Dark will be hosting a special listening event at the Wellcome Collection, as part of the larger Voice event. We will be curating an evening of listening that taps into our complex relationship with the voice, featuring a rich chorus of vocalisations, speech and other oral oddities. Continue reading »
Christmas Lectures 2012 – Behind the Scenes
The Modern Alchemist One of the great pleasures of working at the Royal Institution is witnessing the frenzy that goes on behind the scenes in the lead up to the Christmas Lectures. This year the lectures cover the chemical elements and are presented by Dr Peter Wothers, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and … Continue reading »
Taking a Peek Inside the Living Lung
For the final Royal Institution Advent film, I travelled to the University of Sheffield MRI Unit at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, to look at how a very strange element is being used in a pioneering MRI technique to image living lungs. The film is presented by this year’s Christmas Lecturer, Dr Peter Wothers (University of Cambridge) … Continue reading »
Audio / Interviews / Science
Expanding on the power of the image
Non-linear use of Multimedia I was recently made aware of the online platform Thinglink.com – which essentially allows you to ‘tag’ an image and embed media from around the web – such as from YouTube and Soundcloud. Anyway this really got me thinking about some of the potential that such a platform offers – images … Continue reading »
Audio / Interviews / Radio
Audio feature: Oh, I See
Seeing with your ears. An audio feature I produced over the summer for Pod Academy, exploring the development of the vOICe technology and it’s impact on blind users. The vOICe is a computer program developed by dutch engineer Dr Peter Meijer which essentially converts images into sound. Through training and experience blind users can learn to interpret these … Continue reading »
Video: The Alkali Metal Match
Lighting a match with a single drop of water, sort of… Continue reading »
Interviews / Science / Video
The Plankton Chronicles
A creative mix of beauty and knowledge Recently on the Ri Channel we featured a new collection of videos from the Plankton Chronicles - a gorgeous web-video project created by research biologist Christian Sardet working in collaboration with Montreal production company, Para Films. Although I tend to refrain from reposting content from the Ri Channel on this … Continue reading »
