Update to White Glove Tracking post

July 3, 2007 11:20 AM

Update to the White Glove Tracking project: Movies and raw data are now available.
posted by gwint to MetaFilter-Related at 11:20 AM (20 comments total)

are we updating every thread now?
posted by Stynxno at 11:28 AM on July 3, 2007

yeah this is kind of unnecessary.
posted by empath at 11:44 AM on July 3, 2007

I think it's fine to see where the glove is. Just for the love of all that is Holy please don't update me on where it's been.
posted by miss lynnster at 11:53 AM on July 3, 2007

If this devolves into a game of hide the glove, count me in.
posted by OmieWise at 11:56 AM on July 3, 2007

I started using orange flavored scope for gargling and rinsing. It's really a nice flavor, and I've consequently started rinsing three times a day
posted by boo_radley at 12:12 PM on July 3, 2007

Stynxno: "are we updating every thread now?"

Good idea.
Update: Still dead.
posted by Plutor at 12:15 PM on July 3, 2007

I think we should be made to track the glove... but not, you know, over and over.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:16 PM on July 3, 2007

Can someone explain to me, briefly, what the point of this project is?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:59 PM on July 3, 2007

Did you mean to say smëll the glove, Alvy? Or for that matter, how about just the finger?
posted by miss lynnster at 1:17 PM on July 3, 2007

EB: It's kind of a random, geeky, funny thing to do I suppose. As designbot said in the original thread, this could be done easily with AE, but doing it in a distributed way seems pretty neat to me. If you're looking for a real practical use for the data, er... I guess you're SOL.

gwint, thanks for pointing this out. I didn't see the original FPP.
posted by brundlefly at 1:32 PM on July 3, 2007

Oh, I see it's funded by some technology/art orgs. See? It's art! Art, I tell you!
posted by brundlefly at 1:34 PM on July 3, 2007

Uh, this must be a mistake, but it's damn funny. If you're into shit that drives you crazy.
posted by phaedon at 2:06 PM on July 3, 2007

update.metafilter.com?
posted by frecklefaerie at 2:16 PM on July 3, 2007

I don't think that's a mistake, phaedon. I think they're adjusting the video speed based on the height of the glove.
posted by chrismear at 2:41 PM on July 3, 2007

What's wrong with being sexy?
posted by Meatbomb at 2:52 PM on July 3, 2007

I know exactly what I said, miss lynster. I was paraphrasing. Now, if you'd be so kind, please get Mr. Clinton's funky finger the hell away from me.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:28 PM on July 3, 2007

I just... I mean... I'm lost to the point of the original point. And even loster at this.

But taking miss lynnster's lead, let me just say...

How much more black can it be? None. None more black.

Or, for the glove, white.

I guess.

Bad day to quit Percocet.
posted by The Deej at 9:07 AM on July 4, 2007

Uh, this must be a mistake, but it's damn funny. If you're into shit that drives you crazy.

The higher the glove is on the screen, the faster the song.
posted by delmoi at 12:50 PM on July 4, 2007

Yeah, and I didn't think the effect was very interesting. Did they do a version where the glove is always (almost) stationary at the center of the screen? That might be interesting.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 1:04 PM on July 4, 2007

As a matter of fact, they did.
posted by O9scar at 9:57 PM on July 6, 2007