Via Prolost.
Opencut is an open source film competition where (for a $25 entry fee) you get digital footage shot on a RED camera and a shooting script. A description of the first project, “Susannah” is available at the website.
Not to sound like a hippie, but some personal inspiration via Jim Coudal—
Working for months on some damn project that gets watered down and compromised and eats up your time and your soul until when you’re all done with it you realize you’re not proud of it and you don’t even want to show it [...]
@ Flickr:
Penrose Annuals for 1958, 60, 67. A nice black and white set.
Comparisons.
HOURS of surfing pleasure at The Atari Archives.
The Branding of Polaroid, 1957-1977. Very cool.
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The Making of the 80’s HBO Intro. I actually [...]
Adobe is soliciting material for it’s “Adobe Dynamic Media Customer Reels,” to be showcased at NAB, among other places.
This is a chance to showcase the work you produce using Adobe® After Effects®, Adobe Flash®, Adobe Premiere® Pro, Adobe Photoshop® Extended, and other Adobe products. We want to see your work and show it to others [...]
Interactive. iPhone/Touch Starbuck’s “Quickorder” application. No waiting. Pocket Guitar for iPhone/Touch. Interactive Architecture. Interactive building façades.
Web Trend Map 2008 Beta.
Film, video, music. The films of Joe Merrell. Good Copy Bad Copy (2007), Copyright+Culture. Hulu Discusses Private Beta, Suggests Public Launch Time Frame. Jem Cohen directs DVD for The Ex. Talking to the Music Industry, a [...]
_10 Best Music Videos of 2007 at Director File.
_Stan Vanderbeek: Symmetrics (1972)
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_Cut up, Generative, and Distributed art project Sensation Container. Generating video pieces via EDL and Final Cut XML.
snstncntnrs is an open video project [...]
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John Maeda recounts his creative process in the design of the latest NY Times Key Magazine cover in this slideshow at the NYT site.
John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity.
Buy: The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
Maeda Studio
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vvvv is a free (for non-commercial use) Windows-only program for real-time video synthesis.
Checkout a synopsis of features, as well as projects from the vvvv Gallery.
Art+Technology incubator/curator Eyebeam is now accepting applications for it’s 2007-8 Fellows, in the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab, Production Lab and Education Lab. The Deadline is August 6, 2007.
Research themes for 2007/08 include (though will not be limited to):
* Energy, Technology and Sustainability
* Urban research, urban interventions and media in public space
Artists and creative technologists interested in [...]
The Workbook Project interviews DJ Spooky about his “Rebirth of a Nation” project, where he “remixes” D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation“.
This Conference Is Being Recorded:DJ Spooky
Also at The Workbook Project: Filmmakers That Think Outside The Film.