I have the DVDs of this wonderful combination of music, Computer Graphics and imagination. It is great to see these popping up over Social Video sites as they are a fascinating example of how taking two often disparate ideas can be combined to make something much more than the sum of its parts. You can [...]

I love my little black DS-Lite. It has made several global plane journey’s a lot more bearable with its cute ‘grind’ games, sims, racing, stories and good old brain trainer. I also do serious tech music too and of course have the full Logic/Reason/Live Macbook Pro rig as well as some cool ‘retro’ emulators like [...]

Google is developing its own web browser based on the open source framework webkit engine, which is also used by Apple for its Safari web browser and interconnecting applications such as mail, dashboard and itunes.
The browser called Chrome (Page not available to the public yet as of 02/09/08) has been built with speed, security and [...]

Oh the horror when one realises that what one publishes freely on the web (often only to ones community of facebook friends of course), is potentially accessible…..not to companies wishing to use that information to advertise etc… …but to THE PARENTS!!!
An article on SMH today looks at the dilemmas facing teens / tweens when their [...]

The 1968 cult classic, Night of the Living Dead is being remade or “reanimated” in a first for the film industry.
Mike Schneider one of the project coordinaters and lead animator explains:
“Night of the Living Dead Reanimated is a mass collaborative re-envisioning in which artists from around the world select scenes from the original 1968 film [...]

Interesting little vignette below featuring Dr. Lisa Dethridge (RMIT lecturer and an ex LAMP participant for an SLCN.tv-like LAMP project called InWorld) with the presenter of ABC’s community focused TV show ‘Can We Help?’. The short video has several clips of ABC Island built by a Gary Hazlitt (whoever he is) and in an earlier [...]

Twice this week I’ve stumbled across interfaces which I’ve found irresistible and blog-worthy. The first is PicLens (not brand new this week - but certainly within living memory ie: several months). The second is the Zoomii interface for browsing Amazon books.
PicLens is a Firefox 3.0 plugin which allows you to navigate through sites such as [...]

It would seem that multi-touch interfaces are the new black. In any case - they’re really really popular. They’re popping up like mushrooms all over the place with companies like Microsoft and Apple in a mad race to get devices/concepts to market. Ken Han introduced the genius of his multi-touch interfaces to a rapt [...]

Motion picture studio watchers in southern California report that teams from Apple’s contractor are now arriving to quickly build a partial retail store set inside a sound stage for filming an unknown movie. Apple’s stores have become an icon representing technology, cutting-edge architecture and the social scene, and could be used in a film in [...]

Literature and New Media: trope – promoting new writing in Second Life
www.trope.net.au
When/where: Thursday, 22 May 2008, 12pm – 2pm, Bangarra Theatre, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

trope is a new space in Second Life promoting creative writing in virtual environments. The roundtable features trope’s creators alongside writers selected for the first iteration, discussing the [...]

An interesting video with the creators of the new pilot web site from Carnegie Mellon University, called Spongecell. Spongecell. brings together the interactivity of social networking to product marketing and promotion campaigns. An interesting example was the Yari Film Group in the USA..
Yari Film Group sees 40% opt-in
“We wanted to promote our movie “Final Season” [...]

Nice to see folk that were doing a Second Life LAMP project a year and a half ago getting some real world Sydney Morning Herald press today for their metaversal art. Adam Nash and Chris Dodds were relatively new to Second Life in October 2006 (vs 3D design where they have had years of [...]

In the latest round of its semi-annual teen surveys in the USA, analyst group Piper Jaffray finds that ownership of Apple’s iPhone has doubled in six months and is set to double again, though cooling iPod and iTunes use suggests a changing of the guard. The iPhone is potentially dulling the iPod’s earlier success and [...]

Current TV’s Ezra Coopenstein is currently touring Australasia as a guest of the Portable Film Festival. Ezra is one of the founding members of the Current TV team and works as their VP of Viewer Created Content or VC2. Empowering viewers is at the heart of the Current philosophy and VC2 makes up about one [...]

Yes Lady’s and Gent’s you heard it right… After completing his 100th soccer/football game for England, everyone’s favourite high-pitched voice sports star, David Beckham has received a gold plated iPod touch from his team mates to celebrate the occasion.. The thing is worth over $1,600.00 aussie dollars.. And fortunately they didn’t skimp on the iPod [...]