This is a fourth culture I can believe in:
Google has a lot more on how the video was made using 64 rotating lasers (no cameras!) and some cool data visualization programs. (They also released the raw data for the point clouds, so anybody can, at least in theory, create their own visual remix of the Radiohead music video.) As people like Ben Fry demonstrate, the visualization of massive data sets - a pressing problem for modern science - is a great place for art and science to come together.
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...and me too. Radiohead superb as always.
Thanks, Jonah. Looking forward to checking out Radiohead's 'green' light show in Jersey City , NJ August 8 at the All Points West Festival. My 1998 interview with Thom is still floating around the internet.