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March 4, 2009
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In modern recording one of the biggest problems is that you’re in a world of endless possibilities. So I try to close down possibilities early on. I limit choices. I confine people to a small area of manoeuvre. There’s a reason that guitar players invariably produce more interesting music than synthesizer players: you can go through the options on a guitar in about a minute, after that you have to start making aesthetic and stylistic decisions. This computer can contain a thousand synths, each with a thousand sounds. I try to provide constraints for people. open quote
—Brian Eno
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February 17, 2009
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Your DNA is a snitch.


February 8, 2009
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Dalai Lama's new Twitter feed.


February 6, 2009
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CSS animations for your iPhone.


January 10, 2009
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P2P used for traffic control.


December 14, 2008
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The blue pool tables in The Color of Money have nagged the makers of the film since it was shot. … [Scorsese and his crew] designed the film in gray, black and white. The results were striking, with one slight hitch: ‘Because of the nature of the lighting, the green felt of the pool tables kept going blue,’ recalls film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, a longtime Scorsese collaborator. ‘There was nothing we could do about it, because we wanted to make sure the skin tones were right, and the overall look of the film was right; so we let it go.’ open quote
—“Finally, Bring Home the Hollywood Classics in HD,” Popular Mechanics
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December 11, 2008
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Copy and paste on iPhone!


September 12, 2008
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The ends that Microsoft has pursued are commercial ends. It’s been in it for the money. Google, by contrast, has a strong messianic bent. The Omnigoogle is not just out to make oodles of money; it’s on a crusade — to liberate information for the masses — and is convinced of its righteousness in pursuing its cause. Depending on your point of view as you look forward to the next ten years, you’ll find that either comforting or discomforting.

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—Nicholas Carr
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September 6, 2008
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It is easy to become unsettled by privacy-eroding aspects of awareness tools. But there is another — quite different — result of all this incessant updating: a culture of people who know much more about themselves. Many of the avid Twitterers, Flickrers and Facebook users I interviewed described an unexpected side-effect of constant self-disclosure. The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act. It’s like the Greek dictum to ‘know thyself,’ or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness. open quote
—Clive Thompson, “I᾿m So Totally, Digitally Close to You,” The New York Times Magazine
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August 13, 2008
High-Def Backyard Shootout

Posted by Andrew Hearst
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Amateurs are doing amazing things these days with consumer-grade high-def camcorders, especially Canon’s HV30 MiniDV unit (which retails for about $800) and its predecessor, the HV20. The impressive clip below is the work of a Memphis college student named Kyle Shields, who acquired a new audio library and wanted to test out some of the gunshot sounds. So he used his HV20 to film a short backyard shootout with a friend. The ominous music, the well-crafted audio track, the Saving Private Ryan-style green filter, and Shields’s talent with the camera combine to make this a very cool little experiment. I wish video technology had been this advanced when I was his age.

To watch this in actual high-def, go to the Vimeo page.

There’s a whole channel on Vimeo devoted to people’s experiments with Canon’s HV30 and HV20 camcorders. The selection is hit or miss, but some of it is quite good indeed.

[via my pal Jonathan Hayes.]

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