Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization (via CDM): This is just an incredible presentation. Camera movement is one of the things that sets apart low budget from ‘professional’ filmmaking and it’s good to see the potential for yet another gap narrowing. Indiependents sometimes waste so much time and resources on it, it’ll be nice to let computers handle it so we can do some actual filmmaking.
The Astounding World of the Future!
Atlas Obscura: Wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world

Auto. Sueño y Materia — Cars and landscapes, an exhibition at the Laboral Centro in Gijon, Spain, looks very interesting. Even though automobiles are pretty ubiquous still, exhibitions like this make me feel the car is already a 20th century anachronism…
China blocks Hummer takeover, because of the environment.
That’s right, not even China wants Hummer. Ouch. (via The Null Device)

I guess this is Being A Man Sunday. Here’s a japanese website with How-to videos on useful topics such as tying a necktie, doing some ironing, shining shoes or entertaining guests with magic tricks. I’m ashamed to admit I’m still mastering the T-shirt-Do. (via A Continuous Lean)
Five classic cocktails every man should know
So… what’s in a Martini after all?
The trailer for Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood. Put simply, the best Shakespeare film adaptation (since it’s an adaptation of MacBeth), and high on my Best Movie Ever shortlist. No cinematic moment gives me the goosebumps as much as that ending. Makes Arthur Penn, the guy who shot that ending to Bonnie and Clyde, look like a wuss.
Dial Hard: So funny. Jonathan Glazer did a few Stella adverts, I wonder if this is one of those.

The rather interesting blog The Map Scroll has a post on Why We’re Fucked, that is, the world’s humungously uneven Balances of Trade.
You already know the United States owes a lot, China is owed a lot, however the true story lies here, in a per-capita account balance map. Americans and Australians, still not surprisingly, consume a real lot more than they can afford, but who else? Iceland, also not surprisingly is a black hole of deficit, but then come Greece, Spain and good old Portugal. Whaa? Us Portuguese spending far more than we can? No way, I’m sure we earned all those German automobiles with hard labour!
