links for 2008-10-2
October 2, 2008
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This weekend the Museum of Arts and Design opens the doors of its new home at 2 Columbus Circle following an extensive redesign of the building by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture. The museum’s new graphic identity can already be seen throughout the city, on the sides of buses, on street banners, in print ads and in the subways. The geometric-based mark reflects the circles and squares present in the building’s shape; its location, on Columbus Circle; and the building’s iconic “lollipop” columns retained in the redesign. After the jump Michael Bierut discusses creating a graphic identity for the one of New York’s most anticipated reinventions.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc has signed a deal for Hollywood director Zack Snyder, who made the hit 2006 film “300,” to help develop video games, some of which may someday become movies themselves.
The agreement, announced on Monday, calls for Snyder, who also directed 2004’s “The Dawn of the Dead” and is working on a film adaptation of the “Watchmen” comic book series, to develop three original games for EA.
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In the perennial fight against ad drop off during commercial breaks, tech and video firms are coming up with new ways to force viewers to watch advertising. Over in Britain, BBC competitor Independent Television (ITV) is begining tests of “automatically placed overlay advertising.”
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the architecture of the narrative present in the movie “Fight Club”, completely built with Lego blocks. the red rectangular borders divide the space in sequential chapters, the colors of the bricks depict the different movie characters, time flows from left to right, the movement up or down indicates character movement & height indicates intensity.
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Ivan writes to tell us about Patrick Buckley and Lilly Binns’s new book,The Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, and Foodies :”It’s for gadget-loving gastronomes. For people who really love to play with their food, who make their kitchen into a lab and a workshop.
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Transferring large files on the web has always been a hassle, especially when you need to do it frequently. One field especially prone to this problem is the music industry – artists often collaborate with eachother by sending rough versions of tracks, but have to rely on clunky services like YouSendIt or FTP servers.
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Here at TechCrunch we’re big believers in mobile social networks. In February I wrote about how the iPhone is the perfect ecosystem to have it’s own social network (awesome device and software, location aware, elitist users). And in April I showed a teaser of an upcoming social network from Loopt that did everything I had asked for: iPhone only to start, location aware so that you could meet new people around you.
links for 2008-10-1
October 1, 2008
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With some 70 artists showing their work, the biennial is a very satisfying but also very overwhelming experience, especially because the event features so many pieces that require time and reflection, and so many artists whose work i had never heard of.
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Detractors claim he was a sex-starved automaton who destroyed our cities. Devotees say he revolutionised urban living. On the eve of a major retrospective, we explore the true legacy of this controversial architect
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Designed to stimulate the senses and force inhabitants to use balance, physical strength and imagination, the lofts feature uneven floors, oddly positioned power switches and outlets, walls and surfaces painted a dizzying array of colors, a tiny exit to the balcony, a transparent shower room, irregularly shaped curtainless windows, and more.
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Caterpillar’s come out with a new line of electric-drive mining trucks called the AC Series, and some diesels that belch less pollution than the other ginormous vehicles the company builds.
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The “green” incarnation of travel, called ecotourism, mandates that travelers minimize their cultural, economic, and environmental impacts as much as possible to promote sustainability.
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YouTube has launched a new feature as part of its Insight tool for content creators that allows members to visually examine exactly where in their videos their viewers gain and lose interest. The new feature, called Hot Spots, displays the dropoff data in a dynamic graph that can be viewed alongside the original video.
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As part of its 10th birthday celebration, Google has opened the doors to an antiquated version of its search engine that dates back to 2001. The portal has all the trimmings from the old site, including the goofy logo (complete with exclamation point), a missing “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, and the not-so-modest claim of having indexed 1,326,920,000 web pages.(tags: google)
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Not long ago, it seemed music videos were doomed to go the way of the radio star. Cool bands hated making them, MTV had stopped showing them, and innovative directors like Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry had long since moved on. Then, somewhere between OK Go’s treadmill-dancing “Here It Goes Again” on YouTube (more than 37 million views) and Feist’s “1234″ choreography lesson turned iPod ad, the music video made a comeback — and launched a new generation of directors more at home with URL than TRL. Meet the next wave of filmmakers and their greatest hits — so far.
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We all know that mobile phones are not exactly the greenest products in the world but, Sony Ericsson thinks it has an answer by showing of its GreenHeart biodegradable phone concept.
links for 2008-07-17
July 17, 2008
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Film and game makers join forces for Prince Caspian
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Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John posts about this marvellous artifact: the autographed typewriter on which Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for sale for a mere ~$25K.
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Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John has the exciting news that Apple I BASIC has been extracted from an audio cassette and converted to MP3. It’s actually got a pretty good beat.
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Fantastic stop motion…
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links for 2008-07-05
July 5, 2008
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A deep throat inside one iPhone retailer told Electricpig that just 15% of the iPhones sold since the last price drop have been put on the O2 network
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Here at Today, we’re using the online service Twitter to send out simple text alerts about upcoming items that you might not want to miss, and programme highlights that you might want to listen to again.
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A selection of great information graphics from various sources
links for 2008-06-27
June 27, 2008
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This spring marked the 40th anniversary of HAL, the conversational computer that was brought to life in the 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
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Starbucks is to become the sole sponsor of a specially created branded content area on the Virgin Media site
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Automotive brands plan to stop using dedicated campaign sites as budgets tighten and consumers tire of fragmented content.
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MTV UK is to launch a virtual world for its music channel brands.
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Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn says “the future belongs to all-electric cars” and announces the company’s first step toward that day – a diesel-electric plug-in hybrid it’ll have on the road by 2010.
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Michel Gondry, the French-born director of acclaimed offbeat movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, has also directed numerous groundbreaking videos for the likes of Björk and the White Stripes. He offers his picks of the best videos…
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Here are the top 10 most-viewed TED Talk videos from June 2006 to May 2008
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Some technologies take things down a notch. For instance TinyPaste, a service obviously built with Twitter in mind that lets you link to ramblings in excess of the regular 140 character limit.
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We’ve had another iPhone app come out of the woodwork to give us a preview before the impending launch of Apple’s App Store.
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Webmonkey shows you how to mash your favorite photos onto a map using a few lines of Python code.
