Category Archives: seriously cool

Not just noteworthy, but seriously cool.

Happy Last Day of Classes!

Enjoy LDOC, Duke. Also, enjoy this gorgeous video shot on a GoPro camera.  We have several of these available through the Duke Digital Initiative, so if anyone is planning on doing some skydiving anytime soon, come check one out and make your own – Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.

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Xylophone in the woods

If a xylophone play itself in the woods, and no one is around to hear it, does it make an amazing song? This is too cool not to post -

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Froshlife 2011 Videos!

A few weeks ago, we held the 9th annual Froshlife Film Festival, where 8 first-year residence halls banded together to produce a short film in just 12 days that represented the “Freshman Experience”.  They did a really amazing job this year at both capturing that experience as well as making great use of the technology [...]

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Immaterials: Light Painting Wifi

Found a cool project this morning on OkayGreat that I thought I’d share here.  It marries technology with the arts which is right up our alley: From the site: This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four-metre long measuring rod with [...]

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MPS Pro in 3d

Ooooohh! Here’s a video I shot of a quick one-take tour of the MPS Pro, located in the backroom of the MPS on West campus.  I shot it using the Aiptek i2 3d camcorder.  It’s a tiny little flip-style camcorder, but it seemed to do a decent job and shot in 720. One important thing [...]

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Doyald Young on lynda.com

If you are even remotely interested in either logotype design, lettering, watching a true master at their craft, or charming & humble old men, take the next forty minutes or so to watch the Creative Inspirations video at lynda.com on Doyald Young (after signing in to lynda.com via this page, you can find the video here). [...]

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Thoughts from TEDxRaleigh

Over the last several years, I’ve made it a habit to try to watch at least one TED talk per week in an effort to keep my mind nourished. TED is a nonprofit enterprise dedicated to their mantra of “Ideas Worth Spreading.”  It started out as a conference to bring people together from three distinct [...]

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Renaud Hallée

Beautiful work by Renaud Hallée using only Flash keyframing – no actionscripting. (via KitsuneNoir)

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Alex Giron’s Design Quotes Display Screensaver

Web designer Alex Giron (of CSS Beauty fame), has a new site, Design Quotes Display, that can easily be turned into a screensaver.

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  • New MPS West Now Open!

    The new MPS in 006 Bostock is officially open! Come see us in our new location near the Link in the lower level of Bostock.

    The Old Chem branch of the Multimedia Project Studio is now permanently closed.

  • What is the MPS?

    The Multimedia Project Studios are a series of high-end computer labs located at Duke University. We feature cutting edge equipment and industry standard software and are staffed by a corps of student Multimedia Consultants who are available to help you out with your project on a one-on-one basis, but are not able to do production work on your behalf.
    MPS Lab Locations & Hours
    MPS East
    115 Lilly Library
    The MPS in Lilly is open whenever the library is open. Check their site for hours, which can change during holidays and academic breaks.

    MPS West
    006 Bostock
    The MPS in Bostock is open whenever the library is open. Check their site for hours, which can change during holidays and academic breaks.




    Staffed Hours for Both Locations

    Winter, summer, and other break hours will vary, according to student consultant availability. To check consultants' availability, view our Live Schedule.

    Sunday - Thursday: noon to midnight
    Friday: noon to six
    Be sure to check our Live Schedule to see who will be on staff and our staff page to meet our talented consultants.