Sofa Seminar Videos: Slides+Narration

If you want to hear my dulcet Northern Irish tones this, or the YouTube channel, is the place. These were recorded during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK (March-May 2020), largely to experiment with recording on various platforms.

Macos: cmd-shift-5 does the trick, gives a .mov which can be transcoded to mp4.

Linux/Chrome OS: Screencastify Chrome extension (you pay for some features), records to webm and can export to mp4. I had sound issues with other possible solutions in Linux, YMMV. Chrome OS has recently acquired quite good built-in recording features.

• NBMPS58, Edinburgh, April 2020 The 3D Plaquette Ising Model:From Random Surfaces to Fractons (mp4)
  This commits the cardinal sin of being too long, practice makes perfect. Recorded on a mac with cmd-shift-5.

• Old - seminar from way back (2006) Wealth Condensation as a ZRP (mp4)
  This has the considerable merit of being shorter. Recorded on Chrome OS with Screencastify.

• Prehistoric - seminar from way, way back (1985) Why (your) mass isn't gauge dependent (mp4)
  Also shorter, which is good. Recorded on Ubuntu (20.04) with Screencastify.