Xu Bing: The Future of Art and New Media
Last night I caught Xu Bing’s talk at Lesley University/The future site of the Art Institute of Boston. Xu Bing is a Chinese artist, probably best known in the states for his unusual use of imagined calligraphy – either characters that have no meaning, or English letters morphed into psuedo-Chinese script. Image from aur2899′s PhotostreamLast [...]
Musical Road
Ok, now this is cool. A road in Lancaster, CA has had grooves cut into it that cause car’s tires to play the William Tell Overture as they drive over it. CNET has the full story. This is apparently part of a marketing campaign for the Honda Civic, and the road is tuned to play [...]
RPI Builds Giant Media Toy
I don’t know how to describe Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Empac, except as a Giant Media Toy. The New York Times article had many more eloquent words to describe the 220,000 square foot center, which not only serves as a performing arts space, but is also where a bunch of [...]
Canon 5D Mark II Video Footage
Image from Steve KeysCanon lent a prototype of the new 5D Mark II to New-York-based commercial and editorial photographer Vincent Laforet for 72 hours, and this short film is what he put together: beautifully shot, put to music (no sync sound), using only footage from the 5D Mark II. The footage is 1/4 size (from [...]
Virtual World Creation Gets Democritized
In an interview with Information Week, Raph Koster talks about the Metaplace project. “As [game] technology has risen, it has been harder and harder and harder for ordinary people to contribute,” said Raph Koster, the founder and president of Areae. This has driven budgets up “and the result is less creativity, less innovation, and fewer [...]
Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem: DRM done right? Or yet another failed attempt?
Here’s what we know so far. DECE will announce details at CES in January. The general principle is something along the lines of a digital rights locker in the cloud that keeps track of what content you have purchased and have rights to play. Image from Night Star RomanusThe major goals of the project are [...]
Panasonic’s AG-HMC70 falls short
Image from Panasonic Press ReleaseI’m excited about this announcement from Panasonic. Or more accurately, I’m excited that the camera has finally launched. This shoulder-mounted camera, clearly targeting event videographers, offers quite a sweet spot of price and features: 3×1/4″ CCDs 12x Leica Dicomar Lens 1440x1080i AVCHD (a.k.a. H.264 or MPEG 4 Part 10) Records to [...]
More Steadicam from Garrett Brown
Image by mikefatsB&H has Part 2 of their interview with Garrett Brown, inventor of the Steadicam. We featured Part 1 last month. In this addition, Brown talks about his early experiences using the Steadicam on film sets, the advent of post-production tools for correcting shaky footage, and combo-shots using the Steadicam along with dollys and [...]
Johnny Chung Lee: My newest hero
Image by ElDavid1Chances are you haven’t heard of Johnny Chung Lee yet – but it’s probably only a matter of time. Lee has demonstrated some pretty neat tricks with the Wii remote, and actually tells you how to accomplish them at home (I could devote an entire post to how awesome he is at explaining [...]
Something new for your earbuds. . .
Image by swruler9284 Thanks to Wesleying for the heads up about Apple’s new 3G iPhone. I can’t bring myself to watch Steve Jobs’ actual announcement, so I’ll let you all enjoy this parody instead. I think it kinda speaks for itself.
