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Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.

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Tag: video

  • Soviet Lord of the Rings TV Adaptation

    Lost media for quite some time, found a few years ago. See Part 1 and Part 2 on YouTube.

  • Client Work: Edge AI Earth Guardians Video

    I recently co-scripted and did the voiceover / narration for the latest competition from Hackster.io, Edge AI Earth Guardians. You can watch it on YouTube and listen to my voice if you’re into that:

    I encourage you to join the competition and make something cool!

  • Seeed Embodied AI Hackathon Video

    They dragged me down to Mountain View this weekend for the Seeed Embodied AI Hackathon. There were robot arms! Sadly nobody attached any knives to them. There were many Nvidia Jetsons won by contestants. Slightly jealous about that.

    I chatted with the winners and organizers and made a little video about it as part of my work with OpenCV, video embedded below.

    It is HELLA out of focus. Steps have been taken to remedy this for next time.

  • We Play RimWorld Anomaly on Phil’s Show Episode 9

    Like it says on the tin, we got into some RimWorld: Anomaly on last week’s episode of Phil’s Show. Watch the archived stream on YouTube.

  • Phil’s Show ep4: Pro Wrestling, and Let’s Play Manor Lords –

    Phil will talk about the one true sport, Pro Wrestling. Also: City builder / strategy game Manor Lords hit Steam Early Access in April, and it’s pretty interesting. In this episode Phil will start a new game and we’ll make the beginnings of a thriving medieval land together. Plus, maybe: Vampire Survivors co-op!

    Watch along:

  • Introducing StrangeLine and More RetroStrange-ness

    This weekend I did some work on RetroStrange infrastructure and scheduling.

    RetroStrange TV (our 24/7 streaming TV channel) which is now fully autonomous and publishes notifications to Twitter when each show or movie begins with the #RSTV hashtag. You can find my TV station code on GitHub. The current setup of two Linode 4GB servers this should provide us with enough space and power to run it basically forever at $40/month. Support via Patreon appreciated.

    The next RetroStrange Movie Night is November 23rd and we’re showing film noir classic D.O.A. (1949) see the Facebook Event.

    The other big RetroStrange feature is the StrangeLine. I’ve set up a phone number you can call for various RetroStrange stuff. Right now you can call to get info on the next Movie Night, or listen to the Skulking Permit by Robert Sheckley as heard on LOFI SCIFI. We’ll add and change up the content regularly, so go ahead and give ‭(814) 787-2643‬ (that’s 814-STRANGE) a call.

  • Introducing The OpenCV AI Kit

    For the last several months I’ve been helping OpenCV ready their biggest launch ever, and today it’s here. The OpenCV AI Kit is now available on Kickstarter.

    A Spatial AI platform so small, it’s going to be huge.

    The best press mention so far has been Devin Coldewey’s piece for TechCrunch: OpenCV AI Kit aims to do for computer vision what Raspberry Pi did for hobbyist hardware

    The campaign has been up for a little over 4 hours, and we’ve passed 500 backers, smashed our goal, and are about to cross the $100,000 mark.

  • Layout Land: CSS Grid

    Jen Simmons is doing a great job of introducing the core concepts of CSS Grid with this video series on Layout Land. These videos have been a huge help to me getting up to speed on the state of the tech. Highly recommended.

  • New Video I Worked On: 3D Scanning Best Practices

    My colleagues at Occipital and I put together this tutorial video for customers of our Canvas home scanning application. I wrote the script and did the voiceover. My co-worker Karla Estrada shot, edited, and starred.

  • Work: Beyond Cars + Into Handheld 3D Scanning

    [I did the voiceover for this video from our friends at Paracosm][link]. It’s about Velodyne’s VLP-16 sensor and how it’s used in Paracosm’s PX-80 handheld scanner.

    [link]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171213005380/en/Velodyne-LiDAR-Paracosm-Team-Capture-Environments-Virtually “Velodyne LiDAR and Paracosm Team Up to Capture Environments on a Virtually Unlimited Scale”