In case you haven’t seen, Apple has made a vague public mention of Snow Leopard, the next major release of OS X. Cost: unknown. Availability: a year out, roughly. Contents: "quality" improvements. (I talk about some of the confusion Apple’s software strategy has caused over on Create Digital Music.) Here’s the visualist tidbit: on the […]
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Projection, Models, Stop-Motion in Production: Lightsurgeons "Eight Questions" Video Built from Waste
Some interesting production techniques used in this video from the Lightsurgeons. This film was created entirely from the waste collected and produced during the Sapporo ICC International Creative Workshop 2008 that took place between 4th -14th March. It was led by Light Surgeons creatives Chris Allen, Tim Cowie and James Price. The resulting piece of […]
Projection, Models, Stop-Motion in Production: Lightsurgeons "Eight Questions" Video Built from Waste
Some interesting production techniques used in this video from the Lightsurgeons. This film was created entirely from the waste collected and produced during the Sapporo ICC International Creative Workshop 2008 that took place between 4th -14th March. It was led by Light Surgeons creatives Chris Allen, Tim Cowie and James Price. The resulting piece of […]
Projection, Models, Stop-Motion in Production: Lightsurgeons “Eight Questions” Video Built from Waste
Some interesting production techniques used in this video from the Lightsurgeons. This film was created entirely from the waste collected and produced during the Sapporo ICC International Creative Workshop 2008 that took place between 4th -14th March. It was led by Light Surgeons creatives Chris Allen, Tim Cowie and James Price. The resulting piece of […]
Generative iPod? Deep Modular, Generative Music System Bound for iPhone, Phones, Windows, Mac
Northwest Reef from Umcorps on Vimeo. Aside from being toy-like mini-computers, could mobile devices take on a musical usefulness all their own? At the Electronic Music Foundation’s 10th Anniversary Symposium in 2004, Morton Subotnik and fellow panelists imagined an iPod that, instead of playing canned music from your music library, would actually generate music for […]
Apple Reality Check: iPhone 3G is Just the Tip of the Mobile and Rich Media Iceberg
Screen grab: John Biehler For those of you who are interested, Apple’s WWDC keynote has focused today on the iPhone 3G and the iPhone SDK. Macworld has a nice live blow-by-blow. Here’s the bottom line for me. First, Apple has done an incredible job of demonstrating the potential of rich media apps in general, mobile […]
iPod and iPhone Audio Recording App, Loads of Official Apps Coming
I’m guessing my inbox is just going to be loaded with iPod Touch/iPhone apps this week as Apple unveils its official store, but here’s another one. Plum Amazing is promising an audio recording tool. This looks like a journalist’s dream – almost. On the upside, you can take notes while audio is recorded. On the […]
Intua BeatMaker: Music Suite for iPhone and iPod Touch
Mobile music suites date back to the first PDAs; the Palm has long been a stand-out platform with apps like Chocopoolp’s wonderful Bhajis Loops. The iPod Touch and iPhone have been a hotbed for development, thanks to sharing development frameworks with the Mac. That led our iPod/iPhone software round-up to be bursting with good stuff. […]