I'm sometimes fascinated by automatically-generated advertising.
Some examples on recent films I've uploaded.
Here we see a video about standard weights (such as the official troy pound stored at the Royal Society). We get an advertisement for weight loss and dropping dress sizes!
My new space series Deep Sky Videos is due to launch in January.
But production has already started. and today I shared a little preview.
The preview included this photo, which I think is amazing.
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| Courtesy of Nik Szymanek |
Here's another video from my recent trip to Australia.
It includes Dr Amanda Bauer, formerly of Sixty Symbols fame, but now working in Sydney.
And amateur astronomer Paul Haese, who lives in my home town of Adelaide.
Both are discussing the view of the night sky from the southern hemisphere, which differs somewhat from the northern view.
Here's some extra footage from the interviews which I posted on Test Tube.
And here is an earlier film with Paul, discussing an image of Saturn.
By the way, don't miss Deep Sky Videos... coming soon!
Today I uploaded four videos... count them!
There was this one for The Periodic Table of Videos... Not only amazing because of its content, but also because it features our friend Michael Stevens from Vsauce!
A new film for Numberphile, explaining why Pac-Man ends at level 255.
Then we have the latest piece of food science from Foodskey... Did you know that mayonnaise contains lemon peels?
And from Bibledex, we learn how Professor Roland Deines turned half a Bible verse into a 300-page book!?
Back from an eventful couple of days in London.
On Monday, I filmed for the new Numberphile series.
The man in front of the camera was Matt Parker (right), who calls himself a “stand-up mathematician”.
Matt combines comedy and maths in a unique way and his contribution to Numberphile was great – stay tuned for his videos soon.
In the meantime, you can visit Numberphile and watch the preview and our first video about the number 11 (presented by Dr James Grime).
On Tuesday, I headed for the hallowed halls of the Royal Society.
The morning was spent mainly with library manager Rupert Baker (right) trawling through old documents about the French astronomer Charles Messier.
It was a tremendous success (partly due to Rupert’s better-than-mine grasp of French) and the footage will be seen in the upcoming YouTube series called Deep Sky Videos.
The films will be focusing heavily on the so-called Messier Catalogue, a collection of objects in space recorded by Messier in the 1700s.
In the afternoon we were joined by familiar face Professor Martyn Poliakoff and a new friend – Michael Stevens (pictured together).
Just saw these pictures of myself with Professor Poliakoff.
They were taken in Adelaide by photographer Brenton Edwards, from The Advertiser.
You can see him taking the pictures midway through our recent "Mr Dunaiski video".
It's been cloudy all week here in the UK - and Thursday was no exception (right).
So with a heavy heart I got in my car and drove three hours from Nottigham to Essex.
I was meeting Nik Szymanek, one of the UK's best astrophotographers.
The plan was to film Nik in action and capture some images for our soon-to-be-launched series "Deep Sky Videos".
But as I approached Nik's home and the sun started setting, something remarkable happened.
The skies started to clear. The stars came out.
I couldn't believe it.
Nik and I immediately headed into his backyard observatory, convinced the clouds would return.
Bu tthey never did, and we fillmed almost three hours of great footage for Deep Sky Videos.
I should say observing conditions were still not the best, mainly because of the full moon (see below).
