updated images

These are the images we made today as the potential background, and three buttons of the MM storyboard. There are two potential backgrounds: one is just with Andrew Ng's pic. and the other one also has some robot images in it. There is also a roll-over button image with a slightly different color shade. Would you please let us know what you think of them? See you Monday. - Nef & Ina

ox this migght help

http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/ROV/history.html

buttons for story segments

how about this for the roll over button that says: who is andrew ng?

also with the interview that is gna happen on friday @ 11am gates 112 (i think ina is coming with) will this section turn into who is the stair research team??

in which case how do u feel about this button:


-nef

fucking shit man

Why the hell isn't Flash and Soundtrack Pro on every computer at this school. This is making late night work DIFFICULT! :) <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 Also, working with that damn cgi web space is like hoola hooping in outer space- progress is slow and the learning curve is rocky.

With all that said:

1) How can I use Fetch to put Ng's audio interview file on the net it's 180mb.
-Answer: Ask my friend Bryan this weekend.
2) Why can I not find a computer that has Soundtrack Pro and will that be able to salvage whispers into something robust?
-Answer: Meyer Multimedia Desk help.
3) How do I drop my files, images, videos into the Flash templates?
-Answer: Lynda.com tutorial? what's my username and password??

ENough yelling. bye

Nef saves my day.

Nef and I met today at the Meyer library, to work on the first part of the MM story--the STAIR robot. He totally saves my day. He found a website at http://ai.stanford.edu/~asaxena/learninggrasp/
where there are a bunch of video clips and pictures showing how the STAIR robot learns to grab stuff.

For the storyboard background/banner, we (mostly Nef) tried a collage of images of robots in the pop culture and a picture of Andrew by STAIR. It is tentatiev. Looking forward to seeing you and getting your input tomorrow.

getting b-roll stalls

"Ina, I haven't found the b-roll you want, and I will call you when I find it, okay?" Jack said to me through his cell phone on 5/8 Tuesday morning. "Oh...so probably when?" I asked. "Ina, I am also on another line. I've got to go," the phone was hung up. Is what he said a courteous version of "sorry, there is no raw video footage"? Sigh....

Stanfor News ran an article and a video about the dishwasher-loading robot back in November last year. Ted assigned me to get those audio and video materials, which can be used in our storyboard on that topic. I contacted Stanford News, and they told me that Jack is the person to ask and he is usually swamped. Jack was actually prompt in returning my phone call and making arrangments with me. On my first trip to his office on 5/3, he uploaded the video file to the laptop I took there, plus a "bonus" video of a full-blown Honda robot performing dance steps. Realizing that the raw footage, or b-roll as Ted taught me, of the synchronized video is better for us to make our own video of, I make an appointment with Jack to go to his office again on 5/7 for the raw footage. This time, I was not as lucky. As Jack pulled out the file drawer where the mini-DV tapes were kept, he found that the tapes for that robot story were not there. Thinking that the engeering library might have checked them out, he made a phone call to the library, only to find that the person in charge was at a meeting. "Okay, Ina, I think they should have it. Check with me either this afternoon or tomorrow morning," he instructed. I called him the next morning, and got the response as described earlier. Shall I wait or call him again? Right now, I am really pessimistic about getting the b-roll, and think we may have to build the storyboard with the synchronized video file we have. :(

Andrew Ng speaks...a little

Here's a sample of what we got from Andrew Ng. I couldn't figure out how to directly upload it to this blog, so I dropped it in YouTube.