February 15, 2007
3:40 PM
3:40 PM
Links list: 02-15-07.
- North Atlantic Explorers. Beautiful tunes, link courtesy of Mr. Gaiman. Pissed they're not on iTunes.
- Nerve: 20 Comics That Can Change Your Life. I've read six of these. My life has been undoubtedly irrevocably changed.
- Kotaku: Bunnies Can't Avoid the 360. Rayman: Raving Rabbids was lunacy on the Wii, but I'm not sure how well the fun will translate without motion sensitivity; the camera's a win, though.
- NYT: All The World's a Stage - That Includes the Internet. No new big picture stuff here, but cool detail stories nevertheless. Plus, magic!
- MoCoLoCo: Adam Frank's Reveal. IMHO, Frank is a flippin' genius, doing some of the more interesting light-based work today. If my next studio is in a basement, I'm definitely getting one of these.
- NYT: Is Style Only for the Upper Class? Ignore their canned response; all signs point to yes. There is a huge growth opportunity for some fashion company out there to fill the hole left by the Gap. (Ironic, that.)
- BT logo. A quick pointer here to one of my new favorite logos out there – watch the way the new BT logo animates as the page is loaded.
- D'Israeli's digital art: a how-to guide. Fascinating.
- Saving the bacon house. Not in English, but the pictures say a thousand words, all of them awesome.
- Engadget HD: TI demos first HD playback from a mobile phone. Something's wonky here. A torrent of a movie in HD runs around 20GB – so unless that's one fat phone (not phat, fat) the idea of using a phone to play back HD-quality content on a TV seems questionable for the near future.
- Cinematical: Christopher "Dr. Who #9" Ecclesiaston coming to The Dark is Rising. First Heroes, now this. This guy knows his geek entertainment!
- Endicott Studio: Stroud's Ptolemy's Gate lands a Cybil award. I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in the Bartimaeus trilogy – nice to know the quality stays high throughout.
- VernissageTV. "VernissageTV provides insight to the social side of the art world. For you, Vernissage TV is talking with artists in a relaxed style." A new favorite videoblog.
- Interview with Jeff Smith on Shazam: Monster Society of Evil. I can't wait to get my hands on this book.
I can make you one of those lights, if you want. It's really easy.
And the HD onna phone thing? Companies are tossing "HD" onto everything these days, whether they're actually talking about 1080i or not. It's the "dot com" of the post-milennium. My guess: movies that were "originally" in HD are compressed for your phone. My question: who wants to watch a movie on their phone, anyway? I'd hate to squint that hard!
Actually, movies on a phone are extremely cool if you have the right phone. The white paper I wrote for C3 last year talks about how mobile media, when done right, is absolutely a viable form. Watching Stargate in Starbucks is very cool!
I could hack together a light that doesn't move, but simulating the gentle wind is a trick I can't figure out yet. How would you do it?