Animusic Previews – Harmonic Voltage – Google Video
CG Music animation written from the ground up. Property of Animusic LLC. www.animusic.com
Visual synthesis to go along with the sound.
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Why HD-DVD and Blu-ray are dead on arrival. – By Sean Cooper – Slate Magazine
Until recently, the history of home entertainment was the history of encoding formats. For movies and music to get into our homes, manufacturers had to invent some medium that was capable of holding Star Wars or ABBA Gold. And so it went: vinyl, eight-track, cassette, Betamax, VHS, CD, DVD. Our shelves filled with slabs of plastic, spools of magnetic tape inside cartridges, and 5-inch discs stamped with binary-encoded metal foil.
Boing Boing: Tubatron: HOWTO make and play a flaming tuba (video)
But more importantly, he designed and built a flaming tuba, and plays it beautifully in exotic locations throughout the weirdosphere. He toots out a cover of “Oops I Did It Again” in this video.
Have you looked at iTunes?
by François Joseph de Kermadec — iTunes is turning into a slow, ineffective mess of an application. Surprisingly, nobody seems to notice these discrepancies, focusing instead on the brilliant iPod and the Music Store. Let’s not forget iTunes is the center of the puzzle.
Some of us “abuse” our tools.
I just recently created a single frame movie (using iMovie) that has an image in it.
I have copied this movie into iTunes any number of times.
What I do is add metadata that helps me track and find my home-brewed DVD recordings. Each copy of the movie gets the metadata for the movie(s) contained on my DVD.
I have Smart Playlists (in a playlist folder) that allow me to track and catalog my movies.
Yes, my simple list that might be 2K bytes of information has grown (4KB per movie) but what the heck, that’s only 1MB for tracking 250 movies. A small price to pay for the convenience.
If I was really insistent about it I could track down an image for the film (IMDb?) and use that as the single frame.
Import image into iPhoto, create a “slideshow” movie, put the movie into iTunes. That takes about 400K, so it isn’t really an option.
Now if iMovie had some Automator controls…or was AppleScriptable ;-)
Hip-hop is a major American cultural tour de force. It’s music, but it’s not just music. It’s a culture, an ethos, and a generation. Read the rest of this entry »
Donal Fox: Bach to Monk: The pianist Donal Fox is a bridge-builder between Johann Sebastian Bach and Thelonius Monk. Read the rest of this entry »
Listen Safely: Your Ears and Your iPod:
Warning: This iPod may be hazardous to your hearing. That’s right. While the iPod offers excellent music playback functionality, most people don’t realize its potential dangers, or that they need to use it in moderation to protect their ears. Sure, if you listen to your iPod at a low volume level for short periods of time, you won’t have to worry much, but the louder you set the volume, and the longer you listen, the more chance you have of damaging your ears. iLounge isn’t interested in preaching to you, but we do want to advocate safe listening habits that will help you keep using your iPod (and ears) for a long time.
Most interesting. Most interesting.
can’t seem to upload the MP3, but this uploaded just fine
Here’s the MP3 – One sample short of a lawsuit
For Sam.
Making Light: Folksongs Are Your Friends
Don%u2019t ignore warnings. If someone tells you to beware of Long Lankin, friggin%u2019 beware of him. If someone tells you not to go by Carterhaugh, stay away. Same goes for your mother asking you not to go out hunting on a particular day. Portents about weather, particularly when delivered by an old sailor who is not currently chatting up a country maid, are always worth heeding.
daily wisdom
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