This video was created by Varelsen studios in Sweden (I think that’s where they are) and the music is by Minilogue off their latest album, Animals
I really dig this video, maybe because it reminds me of my own blended illustration-photography style, but I particularly dig the use of depth focus and zoom.
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Minilogue – Animals from ljudbilden on Vimeo.
(props to Soulclap)
New Music Strategies is a website and blog surrounding issues of music as it moves into a new age of distribution and rights.
Today’s post is a question asked to the audience and and has sparked a pretty in depth conversation on the topic.
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I was cleaning up my studio the other day and was looking through a CD book which had an old audio project I was working on in 2003 called Project Noise (this was before I went back to school to study Audio and New Media).
I couldn’t tell you necessarily what I was thinking at the time, but I guess I just wanted to make some weird soundscapey beats.
Here are two examples of what I had been working on (I think there may be more to come soon)
Project Noise – Influence in Dub, Track 1
Project Noise – Influence in Dub, Track 2
Finally, after multiple decades of evangelism, fully immersive virtual reality has been developed and deployed to the masses, thanks to Tuttuki Bako from Asovision Bandai (I’m partial to their release of Gun O’Clock).
Ok, by fully immersive, I mean you put your finger in a box and move it around… so I guess it’s not really that fully immersive… I guess I was being slightly sarchastic, but I’m still impressed.
This little box/toy lets you interact with digital items by moving your finger around behind a wall of, I’m assuming sensors (well I’m not exactly assuming, I’m making an educated guess, plus the site is in Japanese so I can’t find myself the technical specs).
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I was watching TV the other night at the bar, Redsox game 6 no less, and I noticed the closed captioning which was on had something different about it. The CC feed was displayed underneath the score and stat bar, and only went half way across the screen. This was great for being able to read along with the announcers, while not being interrupted by the closed captioning.
Then I realized, most of my exposure to captioning involved
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I spent the last 4 days at UI13, the annual usability conference presented by User Interface Engineering, a usability and web consultancy based out of North Andover, MA. I absorbed a lot of information from this conference, and put a lot of work into it as a volunteer.
I’m going to go through my highlights from the show, but first…
I have a new hero (sorry Chuck Jones); Bill Verplank gave one of the most fantastic presentations I’ve ever seen. The man spun a tale around metaphors, the details of which I am still acknowledging hours later, but there’s more of that to come along.
Day ONE started off
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Today’s topic of choice at the UI13 was Visual Design for the Web, presented by Luke Wroblewski, principal designer at Yahoo! and of Luke W Interface Designs.
Wroblewski put on a great talk giving contextual examples of good and bad design and pointed out how different designs are relevant for different people with different needs.
Over the corse of the seminar, he
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This week in Cambridge I am attending/working at, UI13, the User Interface conference presented by User Interface Engineering based out of North Andover, MA.
So far I’ve met some great people working and attending the conference and am really excited for the next few days of seminars and setting up electrical cords (a perfect balance in life, if you ask me).
I’ll have more relevant info after the sessions but for now, I just felt like sharing.
I don’t know about you, but I’m a big fan of the show Mad Men on AMC.
Apparently, so is Mark Simonson, but not as big a fan as he is of fonts and typefaces.
In Simonson’s article “Mad Men, Mad Props,” he points out all the flaws and accuracies in the show’s use of era based fonts.
I thought this was cool
http://webdev.stephband.info/parallax.html
(move your mouse over the image)