Even beyond the great music, Radiohead's latest video "House of Cards" is simply amazing. And that for two reasons:

100% data-driven visuals. The entire music video was produced without the use of a camera. Instead, three kinds of (near- and far-range) laser scanners were used to capture the artists and several environments. That's just great fun from an engineering standpoint.

All data and code are open source. Not only are both the raw data AND the processing code freely available on Google Code, fans (at least the tech-savvy kind) are encouraged to remix the data and make their own visualizations.

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Okay, okay, this one is a bit geeky, but it's fun so I had to try it. I don't remember how I found this, but I saw somewhere that you can easily turn your $10 webcam into an infrared camera. Since I never ventured into the infrared spectrum with my film-based camera, this sounded like a great way to expand my photographic capabilities - at a rather low resolution, though.

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