In an attempt to at least partially un-clutter my desktop, a collection of semi-random outrages, videos, and linkage.
The MPAA wants to decide how and when you watch content, again. They not only want to kill your Slingbox, but now they’re talking about prohibiting HD DVR recording of some programs.
Not sure I agree with everything here, [...]
Some Tara Jane ONeil I shot this weekend at Terrastock. Wasn’t using a mic so the sound kinda sucks.
Tara Jane ONeil:Terrastock 2008 from Scott Johnson on Vimeo.
Some new Portishead in-studio video @ Current
Last.FM: visualization tools. CBS integrating it’s CBS Radio streams into Last.FM
Rethinking the music video, with Jakob Trollback
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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 [...]
The Avant Garde Project
The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.
Nine Inch Nails launches Ghosts Film Festival.
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Film+Video
Future Shorts is a World-wide short film label.
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Music
The Microsound Scene: An Interview with Kim Cascone. Husker Du poster archive. Download: Tortoise Live 07-10-1998. John Ries’ new band, The Night Watchers: Who’s Lady R U? [...]
Very cool doc.
On Novevember 27th, 2007 we visited Sterling Sound in New York City to document first-hand the all-analog mastering process. The process by which Mission of Burma’s landmark recordings from the early 1980’s were re-mastered. The process is old-fashioned. The gear is original. The vinyl is live cut.
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KCRW has launched a very cool new web player (BETA!). This should be a model for every station (and TV station, for that matter).
_Listen Live
_Sort/browse by subject:Music/News or Program
_Create playlists
_Share/embed
_RSS subscriptions
_Embedded E-commerce-buy the currently playing music from Amazon or iTunes.
BBC Radio has an interesting mashup prototype that associates data from LastFM, LyricsFly, and MusicBrainz, as well as media from YouTube and Flickr, with currently playing song metadata.
The idea is to take the basic now-playing data from our music radio networks, throw it at the web, and see what we can get back. We could [...]
New Clinic track. (HT: Gorilla vs. Bear)
New Earth track. (HT: Paperthinwalls)
New Devotchka track. (HT: Gorilla vs.Bear)
Possibly related: Top 10 Bittorrent Tools and Tricks.
Easylistener
Kinda neat. The scraping a page functionality is a little suspect at times, but other than that it seems pretty solid.
Easylistener is a Flash music player which can literally play any page on the web. Simply point it at your favorite music blog, RSS feed or playlist document and it will crawl that URL and [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Okkervil River, Club Downunder, FSU 4 Oct 07
Killing Time: Skip EP 1987
Sigur Rós: October 6, 2007 Gould Hall NYC, acoustic