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Coffee Party | Wake Up and Stand Up (bookmarked 26 Feb 2010 at 4:09pm) The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges that we face as Americans. As voters and grassroots volunteers, we will support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them. We demand a government that responds to the needs of the majority of its citizens as expressed by our votes and by our voices; NOT corporate interests as expressed by misleading advertisements and campaign contributions.
CinemaTech: A question for 2010: Does the audience want you to make a film? (bookmarked 23 Feb 2010 at 7:22pm) Doodle: easy scheduling (bookmarked 23 Feb 2010 at 9:40am) Excellent tool for scheduling meetings and making choices. Doodle was incorporated in March 2007, is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and provides the Web service of the same name at doodle.com.
COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS (bookmarked 22 Feb 2010 at 5:28pm) RiP: A Remix Manifesto (bookmarked 22 Feb 2010 at 5:27pm) RiP: A remix manifesto is a documentary film about copyright and remix culture. You can contribute to the film, and follow the conversation on the social networks below.
Clifford Stoll: Why Web Won't Be Nirvana (bookmarked 22 Feb 2010 at 10:44am) Essay by Clifford Stoll in 1995 about the impact of the Internet on our social lives. He writes: "When most everyone shouts, few listen"; "Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don?t know what to ignore and what?s worth reading.?; ?What?s missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee.? A lot has happened since he wrote this essay, however, it still provides excellent food for thought in contrast to the pundits that think we're all going to have a rich, rewarding life in "second life" or it's equivalent.
Early Visual Media Related Publications (bookmarked 19 Feb 2010 at 10:44am) Media Archeology & 'Time Based' Visual Media Related Publications, by Thomas Weynants, part of his A PICTORIAL MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY MUSEUM site.
Grand Text Auto (bookmarked 19 Feb 2010 at 8:46am) Ours is a group blog, founded in May 2003, about computer mediated and computer generated works of many forms: interactive fiction, net.art, electronic poetry, interactive drama, hypertext fiction, computer games of all sorts, shared virtual environments, and more. Until May 2009 run as a centralized blog ? with authors Andrew Stern, Mary Flanagan, Michael Mateas, Nick Montfort, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and Scott Rettberg ? GTxA is now an aggregator for a distributed group of blogs in which we participate. The authors of these blogs work as both theorists and developers, and are interested in authorship, design, and technology, as well as issues of interaction and reception.
Pre-order Collaborative Futures now (bookmarked 17 Feb 2010 at 10:47am) Over 5 days in mid January 2010 the Transmediale festival locked 6 writers and 1 programmer in a Berlin hotel room to collaboratively write a book about the future of free collaboration; the authors started with only the title, and ended the week with a book. Transmediale Artistic Director Stephen Kovats will be on hand to join Eyebeam Honorary Resident Mushon Zer-Aviv and myself to talk about the process of writing the book, and some of our discoveries in the collaborative process. Stephen Kovatz will also talk about the ?Futurity Now? concept of TM10 in general and particularly in the context of the Collaborative Futures book sprint.
Nick Montfort / Interactive Fiction (bookmarked 12 Feb 2010 at 1:57pm) Interactive Fiction Other Poetic and Imaginative Writing for the Computer
and Writing on Digital Media Topics
Code Words » Blog Archive » Educate the Public (bookmarked 12 Feb 2010 at 1:12pm) Fox sells, and that?s the big ethical problem news media face today ? making money. Fox can sell its soul and rake in the bucks from the conservative public, MSNBC seems to be doing the opposite on the left, and CNN is somewhere in the middle. It?s not news, but the viewing public does not know that it?s not news. The cable news channels have gone to shouting heads, tweets, Facebook, etc., and constant injection of opinion. It?s entertainment and not news.
James Rucker: "Push-Polling" Net Neutrality (bookmarked 12 Feb 2010 at 1:10pm) Excerpt: Predictably, the major players in the broadband industry have been fighting the FCC's efforts to adopt rules that would solidify net neutrality principles into law, because scrapping net neutrality would enable them to make even more money by creating new revenue streams. Ironically, civil rights leaders and CBC members have joined the dominant players. Their stated reasoning: the belief that net neutrality rules could hurt efforts to close the digital divide. The problem is that, as far as I can see, the argument doesn't hold water. It falls apart whether you approach it from the perspective of business, common sense, or history.
Waiting for Armageddon (bookmarked 8 Feb 2010 at 1:46pm) America's 50-million strong Evangelical community is convinced that the world's future is foretold in Biblical prophecy - from the Rapture to the Battle of Armageddon. This astonishing documentary explores their world - in their homes, at conferences, and on a wide-ranging tour of Israel. By interweaving Christian, Zionist, Jewish and critical perspectives along with telling archival materials, the filmmakers probe the politically powerful - and potentially explosive - alliance between Evangelical Christians and Israel...an alliance that may set the stage for what one prominent Evangelical leader calls "World War III."
Tino Sehgal - Thinking Encounters in a Naked Guggenheim - Art Review - NYTimes.com (bookmarked 8 Feb 2010 at 12:43pm) If you?ve ever wanted to see the interior of the Guggenheim Museum in its pristine state, now?s the time. For the solo show of the young European artist Tino Sehgal, the great spiraling rotunda, recently ablaze with Kandinskys, has been cleared out. There isn?t a painting in sight. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Yet the space isn?t empty. On the rotunda?s ground floor, a man and woman entwine in a changing, slow-motion amorous embrace.
Social Media: Strategic or Tactical? | Web 2.0 Journal (bookmarked 8 Feb 2010 at 9:37am) I like her explicit use of the word ?tactics? as opposed to strategies ... In ?The 10 Stages of Social Media Business Integration? Brian Solis refers to social media as ?transformative?. That certainly is true. He outlines the stages of adoption and guidelines for social media in business. I do not consider them strategy.
Twitter Grader | Get Your Twitter Ranking (bookmarked 8 Feb 2010 at 9:25am) Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile compared to millions of other users that have been graded. Just enter your twitter username (password not needed) and you'll get an instant grade and report. No muss, no fuss.
"Something Like Fireworks" A New Installation by Stephen Vitiello February 24 ? June 6, 2010, Davis Mu... (bookmarked 3 Feb 2010 at 10:16am) Sound artist and electronic musician Stephen Vitiello will create a new sound and light installation at the Davis Museum, in collaboration with lighting designer Jeremy Choate. Featuring his field in recordings from the Australian outback, the Canadian wilderness, and New York City's streets, Vitiello's soundtrack will move between the abstract and the recognizable, attuning us to the subtleties of ambient sound. In this piece, sound will be connected with light and color, creating an immersive synaesthetic experience. The lighting will be designed in sympathy with the audio, and the resulting combination will surround the visitor, altering our spatial perception.
Obama's YouTube Moment: 'I'm a Big Believer in Net Neutrality' | Save the Internet (bookmarked 2 Feb 2010 at 5:49pm) "I'm a big believer in Net Neutrality, I campaigned on this. I continue to be a strong supporter of it. My FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has indicated that he shares the view that we've got to keep the Internet open, that we don?t want to create a bunch of gateways that prevent somebody who doesn?t have a lot of money but has a good idea from being able to start their next YouTube or their next Google on the Internet. This is something we're committed to. We?re getting pushback, obviously, from some of the bigger carriers who would like to be able to charge more fees and extract more money from wealthier customers. But we think that runs counter to the whole spirit of openness that has made the Internet such a powerful engine for not only economic growth, but also for the generation of ideas and creativity.
Open Sound New Orleans (bookmarked 31 Jan 2010 at 5:11pm) Independent producers Jacob Brancasi and Heather Booth are mapping the city by sound for Open Sound New Orleans, an interactive audio project. Brancasi and Booth have asked New Orleanians to record what they hear in their neighborhoods, and then upload the audio to http://OpenSoundNewOrleans.com.
Mapping New Orleans By Sound : NPR (bookmarked 31 Jan 2010 at 5:07pm) July 12, 2009 You can identify New Orleans neighborhoods by their architecture, like the Greek Revival verandas along St. Charles Avenue, or by their smells, like the scent of beignets wafting out of Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter.
And the Crescent City also has plenty of sounds that you'd hear only along its streets.
Independent producers Jacob Brancasi and Heather Booth are mapping the city by sound for Open Sound New Orleans, an interactive audio project. Brancasi and Booth have asked New Orleanians to record what they hear in their neighborhoods, and then upload the audio to OpenSoundNewOrleans.com.
A World All Their Own: Cameron consults with Anthropolgist to create the world of Avatar (bookmarked 27 Jan 2010 at 9:03am) The lush primal world of Pandora and the exotic culture of the Na?vi revealed in the film include many of the basic elements of what used to be called ?primitive? societies ? animism, a coming-of-age ceremony and test of manhood, a religion based on a supreme (maternal) tree spirit. It is truly a 21st-century elegy to a lost world ? as well as Cameron?s warning to our own.
iZotope Vinyl (bookmarked 26 Jan 2010 at 1:57pm) The ultimate lo-fi weapon, iZotope Vinyl uses 64-bit processing and advanced filtering, modeling and resampling to create authentic "vinyl" simulation, as if the audio was a record being played on a record player.
Whitney Museum of American Art: Omer Fast: Nostalgia (bookmarked 21 Jan 2010 at 11:56am) Omer Fast: Nostalgia is a new three-part film and video installation that continues Fast?s fascination with exploring configurations of fact and fiction through narrative and filmic constructions, intertwining modes of documentary and dramatization. At the Whitney December 10, 2009 through February 14, 2010.
Sleep No More | A.R.T. - American Repertory Theater (bookmarked 21 Jan 2010 at 11:07am) An abandoned school. Shakespeare?s fallen hero. Hitchcock?s shadow of suspense. Award-winning British theater company Punchdrunk makes its U.S. debut with Sleep No More, an immersive production inspired by Shakespeare?s Macbeth, told through the lens of a Hitchcock thriller.
Change Congress (bookmarked 19 Jan 2010 at 12:03pm) Right now, special interests have more influence over our political system than regular folks because of our broken campaign finance laws. These special interests pump millions of dollars into congressional campaigns each cycle, and as a result, they block real change on issue after issue. Here at Change Congress, we believe that politicians should work for the people, not special interests. But it?s not enough to push politicians to stay out of the system of corruption?we have to reform the system itself. That?s why we support a hybrid of small-dollar donations and public financing, to keep big money out of politics. Founded by Lawrence Lessig and Joe Trippi.
Real Net Neutrality (bookmarked 18 Jan 2010 at 11:19am) Last fall, the Federal Communications Commission proposed rules for "Net Neutrality"?a set of regulations intended to help innovation and free speech continue to thrive on the Internet. But is the FCC?s version of Net Neutrality the real deal? Or is it a fake? Find out more at http://www.realnetneutrality.org.
Making Art Out of an Encounter by Arthur Lubow (article about Tino Sehgal, New York Times Magazine, 20... (bookmarked 18 Jan 2010 at 10:59am) Tino Sehgal's "constructed situations" may seen confusing and puzzling at first, but they provoke interesting conversations on our ideas about art and the marketplace for art, and the role of material in art. His work provokes passionate reactions from a wide range of people, whether they be art critics or casual observers. Sehgal puts it best himself: ?For the last two or three hundred years in human society, we have been very focused on the earth. We have been transforming the materials of the earth, and the museum has developed also over the last two or three hundred years as a temple of objects made from the earth. I?m the guy who comes in and says: ?I?m bored with that. I don?t think it?s that interesting, and it?s not sustainable.? Inside this temple of objects, I refocus attention to human relations.? -- Tino Sehgal (New York Times, January 15, 2010)
U B U W E B :: Stan Brakhage (bookmarked 16 Jan 2010 at 12:04pm) Stan Brakhage Radio broadcasts, 1982, KAIR, University of Colorado
Each show is approximately 30 minutes
Partners In Health (bookmarked 13 Jan 2010 at 3:31pm) At its root, our mission is both medical and moral. It is based on solidarity, rather than charity alone. When a person in Peru, or Siberia, or rural Haiti falls ill, PIH uses all of the means at our disposal to make them well?from pressuring drug manufacturers, to lobbying policy makers, to providing medical care and social services. Whatever it takes. Just as we would do if a member of our own family?or we ourselves?were ill.
Cable Industry Confused: It's Not Their First Amendment, But Ours | Save the Internet (bookmarked 13 Jan 2010 at 2:59pm) This Wednesday, the cable industry's head lobbyist gave a speech claiming that Net Neutrality would violate the First Amendment. According to the NCTA?s Kyle McSlarrow, cable companies have free speech rights, while Americans (like you) don't have rights to access or upload content on the Internet.
'Roger and Me': Documentary? Satire? Or Both? - NYTimes.com (bookmarked 6 Jan 2010 at 4:16pm) The first among the many questions that could be raised these days about Michael Moore's ''Roger and Me'' is this: Why has this low-budget muckraking documentary, with no box-office stars, no glamour and none of the content that normally draws the moviegoing public, achieved such popularity and profitability? [...] But lately some dissenting voices have arisen amid the general chorus of praise for ''Roger and Me,'' and that is where the irony lies. These critics - notably Harlan Jacobson, writing in Film Comment magazine, and Pauline Kael, in The New Yorker - have complained that Mr. Moore's film, although funny, is factually inaccurate. The film maker, they say, is guilty of manipulating the sequences of events and compressing them for the sake of emotional and political impact. ''Roger and Me,''in their view, is thus biased and misleading.
Inside the New World of Listenomics - Advertising Age - News (bookmarked 1 Jan 2010 at 11:21pm) The Great Consumer Society believes deeply that it has a proprietary stake in you. And like stakeholders everywhere, they are letting their voices be heard. Why? Because the information society is reversing flow. What began as an experiment among a few software nerds has, thanks to the Internet, expanded into other disciplines, notably media and law. But it won't stop there. Advertising. Branding. Distribution. Consumer research. Product development. Manufacturing. They will all be turned upside down as the despotism of the executive suite gives way to the will, and wisdom, of the masses in a new commercial and cultural epoch, namely: The Open Source Revolution.
For The Love of Movies | The Story of American Film Criticism (bookmarked 30 Dec 2009 at 1:38pm) ?For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism? is the first documentary to dramatize the rich saga of American movie reviewing. Directed by The Boston Phoenix critic, Gerald Peary, ?For the Love of Movies? offers an insider?s view of the critics? profession, with commentary from America?s best-regarded reviewers, Roger Ebert (The Chicago Sun-Times), A.O. Scott (The New York Times), Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly), Kenneth Turan (The Los Angeles Times) and more...
Shooting Beauty the Movie (bookmarked 30 Dec 2009 at 1:02pm) Shooting Beauty tells the inspirational story of an aspiring fashion photographer named Courtney Bent whose career takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a hidden world of beauty at a center for people living with significant disabilities. Shot over the span of a decade, this film puts you in Courtney's shoes as she overcomes her own unspoken prejudices and begins inventing cameras accessible to her new friends. Courtney's efforts snowball into an award-winning photography program called "Picture This"?and become the backdrop for this eye-opening story about romance, loss and laughter that will change what you thought you knew about living with a disability?and without one.
Gato Loco de Bajo (bookmarked 30 Dec 2009 at 10:47am) I heard these guys play at Googie's upstairs on a recent trip to New York, I was delighted by their inventive arrangements of Cuban music, especially sublime was their performance of Siboney, the 1929 Cuban classic by Ernesto Lecuona. They are impossible to categorize, but experimetal latin jazz might fit. The mix of instruments on stage were bass sax, tuba, baritone guitar, acoustic bass, and a cello joined in during the performance to play some high notes.
Ira Glass on Storytelling #4: Common pitfalls (bookmarked 24 Dec 2009 at 10:35am) Glass discusses two common pitfalls: (1) not talking like a real human being, (2) failing to be in the story as a clear personality, what is interesting is seeing other people through your own eyes. Glass suggests a balance of you and your subject in the story.
Ira Glass on Storytelling #3: On good taste (bookmarked 24 Dec 2009 at 10:32am) Glass discusses the disconnect between good taste and abilities among beginners.
Ira Glass on Storytelling #1: Building blocks (bookmarked 24 Dec 2009 at 10:31am) Glass discusses the key elements of good stories: a sequence of events and reflective moments.
Ira Glass on Storytelling #2: On finding great stories (bookmarked 24 Dec 2009 at 10:28am) Glass discusses the importance of looking for good stories and trying things out and not being afraid to kill stories that don't work.
AskTog: Starfire Home (bookmarked 24 Dec 2009 at 9:49am) In 1992, Bruce Tognazzini launched a project at Sun Microsystems in an effort to both predict and guide the future of computing. It drew together the talents of more than 100 engineers, designers, futurists, and filmakers. The output of this effort was threefold: 1.Starfire, the Movie, showing a day in the life of a knowledge worker in the far-off distant year, 2004. 2. Starfire, the Book, entitled Tog on Software Design, which not only covers the film in intimate detail, but lays out several more equally thought-provoking scenarios developed during the initial phase of the project. 3. Starfire, the Paper, originally published in CHI Proceedings, outlining the rules we followed in attempting to build a scientifically accurate video prototype.
Steven Beer: A Decade of Filmmaker Empowerment Coming - indieWIRE (bookmarked 22 Dec 2009 at 7:42am) After years of disenchantment with traditional all-rights distribution deals, filmmakers and producers are poised to take matters into their own hands and forge a truly independent path to marketing and distributing their films.
Wordnik (bookmarked 20 Dec 2009 at 11:46pm) Wordnik wants to be a place for all the words, and everything known about them. Our goal is to show you as much information as possible, as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known. Traditional dictionaries make you wait until they've found what they consider to be "enough" information about a word before they will show it to you. Wordnik knows you don't want to wait?if you're interested in a word, we're interested too! By "information," we don't just mean traditional definitions (although we have plenty of those)! Wordnik is based on the principle that people learn words best by seeing them in context. We've collected more than 4 billion words of text (web pages, books, magazines, newspapers, etc.) and have mined them exhaustively to show you example sentences for any word you're interested in.
RANDOM.ORG (bookmarked 18 Dec 2009 at 1:09pm) RANDOM.ORG is a true random number service that generates randomness via atmospheric noise. Most random numbers used in computer programs are pseudo-random, which means they are a generated in a predictable fashion using a mathematical formula. This is fine for many purposes, but it may not be random in the way you expect if you're used to dice rolls and lottery drawings. The site offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use the site for drawings, lotteries, sweepstakes, to drive games and gambling sites, for scientific applications and for art and music. The service has existed since 1998 and was built and is being operated by Mads Haahr of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland.
HBO Shop Interactive Snow Window (bookmarked 18 Dec 2009 at 11:57am) Sosolimited was asked by HBO to create an interactive window experience for their retail shop in Times Square for the 2009 holidays. We built a snow blowing machine that senses people walking by on the sidewalk and launches snow into the air in response. The installation was developed with the openFrameworks programming API and the physical hardware was controlled using an Arduino. An IR sensor array detects how close pedestrians and window-gazers are, and using mechanical relays, switches on and off fans under the snow in response. A Large LED wall behind the snow is also reactive to street traffic as well. A sliced winter forest scene changes color and moves in response to street traffic.
Decade: Miranda July on 'Me and You and Everyone We Know' - indieWIRE (bookmarked 18 Dec 2009 at 11:53am) Miranda July is a multimedia artist whose first feature, ?Me and You and Everyone We Know? is a wonderful offbeat independent film with provocative moments and has deservedly received tremendous acclaim. It earned a Special Jury Prize for ?Originality of Vision? at Sundance, as well as awards at Cannes and other film festivals. July sat down with indieWIRE to discuss ?Me and You and Everyone We Know.?
Foundation Center (bookmarked 12 Dec 2009 at 10:31am) The Foundation Center is a national nonprofit service organization recognized as the nation?s leading authority on organized philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. Its audiences include grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants; issues a wide variety of print, electronic, and online information resources; conducts and publishes research on trends in foundation growth, giving, and practice; and offers an array of free and affordable educational programs. The Center?s online subscription database, Foundation Directory Online, provides detailed information about more than 95,000 U.S. foundations and corporate donors and 1.7 million grants. It can be used free of charge on site at all Center locations and Cooperating Collections.
Apple/Macintosh - AT&T Threatens To Penalize Heavy iPhone Data Users (bookmarked 12 Dec 2009 at 8:28am) With AT&T's inferior data network, and the fact that people who haven't switched to AT&T by now are unlikely to switch at this point, Apple has to make the iPhone work with Sprint/Nextel or Verizon or iPhone sales are going to stall. Considering iPhone and not happy with the idea of switching to AT&T? Just wait.
Foundation for Critical Thinking: Books, Conferences and Academic Resources for Educators and Students. (bookmarked 10 Dec 2009 at 12:11pm) The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aims to improve education in colleges, universities and primary through secondary schools. We present publications, conferences, workshops and professional development programs, emphasizing instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, assessment, research, quality enhancement, and competency standards. Critical thinking is essential if we are to get to the root of our problems and develop reasonable solutions. The quality of everything we do is determined by the quality of our thinking. Whereas society commonly promotes values laden with superficial, immediate "benefits," critical thinking cultivates substance and true intellectual discipline.
IDESIGN: Seven Ways of Design Thinking, A Teaching Resource (bookmarked 10 Dec 2009 at 12:04pm) A resource for people teaching children and young adults the creative and critical thinking skills they need to cope with any subject or situation. Written by Dr. Charles Burnette, the information on this website may be freely copied and distributed if there is no cost to the recipient.
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds (bookmarked 6 Dec 2009 at 11:32pm) Wordle is a toy for generating ?word clouds? from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
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