10 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube (Smart Video Collections) | Open Culture
(tags: video youtube reference culture documentary)
What If Apple Is Bad for Design?
(tags: design creativity apple iPod culture)
PSST! Pass It On …
“The mission of PSST is to produce original short films through the collaboration of different teams of designers, directors, and animators. Each [...]
The two most interesting aspects of iTunes offering rentals—
_The implications for Apple TV—expect at least a software update to support the new functionality. Accessing the iTunes store from the living room is certainly one good step in reviving/re-inventing a cool product suffering neglect and lackluster adoption. A little more computing muscle/storage and the addition of [...]
Focus Features has created a pretty cool web site and nascent film community at Film in Focus.
Thunderant is the creation of Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen from SNL, where they’re showcasing their comedic shorts/sketches. Kinda “SNL digital shorts” but hipper and smarter (and funnier, except for the Narnia thing).
Trailer for Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers, [...]
Price Survey: What Do Web-Video Ads Cost? : Case Studies : Web Video Report
(tags: advertising video youtube businessmodels)
Flickr: The Dieter Rams Pool
(tags: design devices interface interactiondesign)
Call for Entries: ON Networks® Greenlight Awards
“ON Networks in partnership with South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival will recognize the best in digital entertainment with The Greenlight Awards, [...]
By the end of 2009, MPEG-4 will take over cable too
(tags: Cable MP4 H.264 HD Formats+Codecs)
The FWA - People’s Choice Award 2007
(tags: design Flash webdesign awards inspiration)
RIAA writes its own “news” for local TV stations
(tags: RIAA Copyright)
Internet TV: 2007 Year in Review
(tags: IPTV video youtube tv)
PlayStation 3, Now With DivX Support
(tags: DivX Playstation3 video)
Festival Pocket Films
Pompidou Center, Paris, June 13-15, 2008.
(tags: art mobile movies video Festivals)
Apple TV Leads a Struggling Breed of Retail Based Internet Video Devices | Press Release | ABI Research
(tags: appletv distribution settops iptv)
FCC Allows Newspapers to Own Broadcast Stations
(tags: networkPolitics FCC)
Photographer Diane Arbus’ archive given to [...]
Eisenstein’s first film, Dnevik Glumova (1923)
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Fassbinder’s Das Kleine Chaos (1966).
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How Sony BMG lost its mind and rootkitted its CDs
(tags: DRM music Sony Copyright)
Six Steps To Get More HD From Your Scientific Atlanta Set-top Box
improve your picture quality, esp. Time Warner + Comcast
(tags: Cable HD DIY)
Godard comes in many shapes and sizes
Wrestling with the framing and presentation of Godard’s films, and the effect on context [...]
WGA strike redefines TV business
(tags: TV businessmodels Disruption)
RIAA: Those CD rips of yours are still “unauthorized”
(tags: Copyright music RIAA ridiculous.crap)
Politically Determined Entertainment Ratings and How to Avoid Them
(tags: networkPolitics)
Youtube Expands It’s Ad-Revenue Sharing
(tags: youtube video businessmodels)
SanDisk Gives NBCU What Apple Wouldn’t: Pricing Flexibility
(tags: NBC Itunes distribution video)
MTV Networks Rolls Out ‘Digital Fusion’
“a specialized unit focused on developing advertising and marketing solutions that [...]
Technical Note TN2188: Exporting Movies for iPod, Apple TV and iPhone
(tags: reference appletv H.264 iPhone iPod Podcasting Itunes)
kenjikojima.com / RGB MusicLab
Transforming Image data into music/audio
(tags: art audio music visualization)
Hi-8 Video and Hand Animation Combine for a Disturbing “Letter to Colleen”
(tags: Film animation DIY)
User Experience Of The Future
Rundown of some truly awesome experimental user interfaces.
(tags: design [...]
The recent Facebook kerfluffle (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) over it’s “Beacon” technology, has brought new light to some interesting projects on data portability—
VRM: Vendor Relationship Management.
VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management, is the reciprocal of CRM or Customer Relationship Management. It provides customers with tools for engaging with vendors in ways that work for both [...]
A couple of interesting Radio/Music/Interweb mashups—
The Pirate Bay has launched a music discovery section, utilizing LastFM data. Probably could use a decent interface, but a nice idea.
KEXP in Seattle has launched Kexplorer, a music discovery/sharing app built around it’s program stream. Kexplorer allows you to tag songs while listening to the stream, and allows you [...]