Recently I received a phenomenal gift - a print from Fab.com called SONG MAP. It’s got a slew of song references on it in a faux-London setting. I’m continually astonished at the tunes that are cited on it: Long Promised Road by The Beach Boys, for example, and an abundance of tunes by The Jam are included. Fortunately I found an off-the shelf frame that fits it just perfectly.
Stumbling around the internet today, I discovered that St. Etienne used it for an album cover illustration for their Words and Music by Saint Etienne release, and an art collective called Dorothy created the map. In their Shop they also offer prints along similar lines called Film Map as well as The Colour of Popular Music (click to see each print).
Their work is intriguing, and as Elvis once said, “It will fascinate you.”
Reiner Riedler’s shots of original filmrolls from The Deutsche Kinemathek
Get it while it lasts, folks. The movies of the future will be all digital, all the time.
Wow, really shocked that ALIEN isn’t much darker.
Also, no technological alarmism necessary. There already are just-as-beautiful macroscopic views of your favorite films in digital.
Love this.
Our thoughts go out to the victims and those injured at the Boston Marathon, as well as their families and friends. Such a horrible tragedy. Here are some tips for talking to kids about scary news:
1. Mister Rogers on scary news: http://www.pbs.org/parents/rogers/special/scarynews.html
2. Dr. Rosemarie Truglio, VP of Research and Education at Sesame Workshop on how to answer children’s questions about scary news: http://www.pbs.org/parents/theparentshow/how-to-handle-childrens-questions-about-scary-news/
3. Strategies for talking to kids about the news: http://www.pbs.org/parents/talkingwithkids/news/talking.html
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If you’ve watched the music video (here: http://youtu.be/yGlD41XvJvU) then you’re probably already in awe of the Beat Making Lab. But you might be asking yourself, just what IS a beat making lab?
Click the pic above (or here: http://youtu.be/WDhFyjrnvIk) to find out!
And subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/user/beatmakinglab
Who Uses the Big Social Networks in 10 Charts
The Pew Internet and American Life Project introduced a new report today outlining just who uses the top social networks. While some of the data might seem obvious, it’s always good to know who you’re marketing to. So we whipped up 10 pie charts.
Enjoy!
METEORS & SURVEILLANCE! - Idea Channel
A meteorite crashed into earth!!!! This wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last, but it is the first time such an event was captured by SO MANY CAMERAS! The incredible number of views and angles filmed was made possible by Russia’s bizarre driving culture and the MILLIONS of car dash cams installed all over the country. But besides providing the world with some hilarious, frightening, and amazing footage, the dash cams also make us think about surveillance, and what role it will play in the future.
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I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates
The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google’s NYC headquarters part and a woman steps forward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of humanity. Normal height, slender build; her eyes are bright, inquisitive. She leans in to shake my hand and at that moment I become acutely aware of the device she’s wearing in the place you would expect eyeglasses: a thin strip of aluminum and plastic with a strange, prismatic lens just below her brow. Google Glass.
What was a total oddity a year ago, and little more than an experiment just 18 months ago is now starting to look like a real product. One that could be in the hands (or on the heads, rather) of consumers by the end of this year. A completely new kind of computing device; wearable, designed to reduce distraction, created to allow you to capture and communicate in a way that is supposed to feel completely natural to the wearer. It’s the anti-smartphone, explicitly fashioned to blow apart our notions of how we interact with technology.
But as I release from that handshake and study the bizarre device resting on my greeter’s brow, my mind begins to fixate on a single question: who would want to wear this thing in public?
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Nielsen Redefines "TV" To Include Your iPad And Xbox – ReadWrite
It’s been 63 years since Nielsen started measuring what we’re watching on TV. For most of that time, the concept of “TV” has pretty much remained the same. But in the last half decade, the old model has been blown wide open by the Internet as more people go online to catch their favorite shows. To stay relevant, Nielsen is being forced to change its methodology.
By the time the 2013 fall season begins, the 23,000 homes Nielsen uses to sample TV viewership will be equipped with a new system that takes Internet content into consideration, according to a scoop by the Hollywood Reporter.
