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Busted for selling analog TVs w/o a digital-transition warning label
From the monthly archives:
April 2008
links for 2008-04-14
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Testing, 1, 2, 3…
Wordpress 2.5 installed. No glitches so far, and I’m really liking the polish they put on the admin. Updated theme + layout—at some point I’ll get the custom theme I’ve designed finally developed, but this will do for now. Still have some additions, updates and fixes that I’ll get to next week—like you care.
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Sunday Evening Art Links
In Cory Arcangel’s “Permanent Vacation,” two computers are engaged in an endless loop of bouncing out-of-office auto-responses.
Stanley Donwood, a frequent colloborator with Radiohead (artwork for OK Computer), has an April show in Tokyo.
P2P Art: There’s no original:
Art made for - and only available on - the peer to peer networks.
The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it.After that the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it.
The original file and all the material used to create it are deleted by the artist.
Light Industry is a new experimental cinema/multimedia space in Brooklyn. From the Wholphin blog:
There are many established outlets for the experimental world but consistency is difficult. Museums and film festivals are often event based and deal with high profile press and premieres to get folks in the door. Underground microcinemas are great but bills are tough to keep up with and getting the word out to fans across a big city is not cheap or efficient.
Which is why the new venue Light Industry is so exciting. Based in Brooklyn, the multimedia space is being invented by stalwart experimental cinema champions Thomas Beard and Ed Halter. Focusing on a weekly schedule, each event will be organized by a different artist, critic or curator. You may see an artists’ own collection of shorts, or a writer’s favorite lost film, or a collection of silent boxing movies discussed by a curator working in an entirely different field.
Download Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc.
Download Richard Serra’s Frame (1969).
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Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
2008 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
Bay Area Video Coalition
May 30 – June 8, San Francisco.
Nine documentary teams have been chosen to prototype innovative interactive, mobile, multimedia, and game projects to engage and build audiences for their social issue storytelling during the 2008 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies
Funded by generous lead support from the MacArthur Foundation and additional support from the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies connects independent producers and their socially relevant content to emerging models of storytelling and distribution. Through the Institute, documentary production teams from across the US and South America spend ten days at BAVC working with technologists, designers, and programmers to develop new models of participatory media. Mentors from leading technology companies, including Apple, Adobe, Google, MobiTV, Current TV, and others, work with teams to design and develop working prototypes, which are then presented to funding and review panels at the end of the Institute.
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Blockbuster Prepping a Set-top Box
Blockbuster is apparently looking to develop a set-top box to deliver streaming video rentals. While it would seem that such a device would have an advantage in the size of it’s content library, especially after purchasing Movielink, what really differentiates this (assumed proprietary) box from a “cable channel” that you need an additional piece of hardware for? My guess is that this fails.
The Killer App set-top is going to come from the following field: Apple, Tivo, PS3, XBox. Each has liabilities and competitive advanges:
AppleTV: Tied to iTunes (good and bad); Closed, (bad, but hackable); Content library (good); Interface+ease of use (good); Weak Hardware (bad).
XBox: Solid hardware (good); Microsoft (bad); Content Library (bad, but moving in the right direction-see the deal for exclusive GTA4 content); Closed (bad, but seems “hackable”).
PS3: Excellent Hardware (good); Limited content library (bad); Sony’s conflict of interest as CE manufacturer and content owner (bad); Continual software updates which add functionality (good); Closed (bad); Broadest range of functionality (good).
Tivo: Ease of use (good); Willingness to experiment and partner (Unbox, podcasting) (good); Closed (bad) Unbox-no HD (bad); Content Library (bad).
Dark Horse: Adobe Media Player and Adobe TV. Can Flash and Air be the OS for a set-top box? Why Adobe Media Player Could Matter.
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Music Notes+News+Link Dump
Grand Theft Auto 4 will sport embedded music purchasing through Amazon MP3.
Hype Machine adds some new features, including “scrobbling” (scraping your listening history) and LastFM integration.
Imeem recently unveiled an API/development platform.
Warner Music proposes a “music tax” on ISPs. EMI hires Google CIO Doug Merrill to run digital music, and he doesn’t like DRM. Sony BMG is working on a DRM-free music store.
Downloads:
Built To Spill @ Pyramid Ale House, Berkeley, CA 2004-11-06
Melvins @ The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA 2004-03-12
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks 2008-03-22 Indianapolis
Now listening: check out William Basinski and Library Tapes.
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3G iPhone Rumors
_32 GB of storage
_Higher resolution for the digital camera — 3 megapixels
_Video recording
_Upload video directly to Google’s (GOOG) YouTube
Kevin Rose also noted in a previous Diggnation that it would sport two video cameras, to facilitate video chat/conferencing.
All of it seems plausible so far. The 3G iPhone chip:
a 7.2Mbps HSDPA chip with all the video acceleration and media playback features iPhone users have come to expect. Advantages over its predecessor include higher resolution camera support (5 megapixels instead of 2), a 2x speed MMC / SD interface and DVB-H module support
In iPhone 2.0 news, Apple released an update to the beta/SDK—and it’s out “in the wild” undergoing testing.
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