Links for 2007-05-14
Posted May 14, 2007 1:17 AM.
- A lovely chap has just gone and made a t-shirt from the sticker I pointed to yesterday! Hopefully I'll get my hands on one of them.
- Pitchfork Media's review of The Field's new album has intrigued me... I'm normally a guitar and shouting kind of guy, but since getting into Minilogue last year, I have become really interested in minimalist techno. Good notches to fit nervous and jittery brain cycles into while trying to get things done...
- I've been playing a bit with Growl recently too, although I have yet to find the use for it that will make it transformatively cool... Does anyone have any Growl tips and/or suggestions of good visual styles for the alerts?
- Sandie Shaw has put together a totally freaky and disturbing emo reworking of Puppet on a String.. While we're still all recovering from Eurovision overload, I thought I may as well reference it. This link goes straight to the MP3, just in case you get freaked out by that kind of thing...
- I'm pretty desperate to go and see "28 weeks later" sometime later in the week. Zombies. I mean, really. There's something wonderful about seeing your home town get destroyed by catastrophic disasters in movies. Americans are used to this, of course. Most disaster films allow them the weird visceral fantasy of seeing their daily lives ripped apart...
- The PopSci weblog has a really good basic tutorial on HDR images, should you be interested... I've got very interested in photography, even though I'm far from good at it. HDR images are already a bit of a Flickr cliché, but they still can look pretty impressive.
- For those of you who don't know HDR imagery, this is a picture of a sunset in Amsterdam... I can't imagine there are many of you who are unfamiliar with this stuff by now, but just in case, you know? Explore the HDR tag on Flickr to see more examples....
- Joost has got a bunch more funding, including some from traditional broadcasters... I'm sort of conflicted about Joost. It's a beautiful bit of work - so good in fact that I think it might actually thrive in the marketplace despite the fact I think it's sort of slightly the wrong model for navigation and exploration of media...
- The BBC reports on fascinating work to recover information and files shredded by the Stasi after the fall of the Berlin Wall... Having seen "The Lives of Others" a few weeks ago, I'm fascinated in what it must have been like to have operated and lived in a country so full of surveillance...
Comments
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Tom, The Field's new album is great!.
→ Posted by: Josue Salazar at May 14, 2007 11:14 AM
I set Growl to just two visual styles, default Smoke for every alert (most used: Safari's download complete message), and Music Video for Quicksilver's iTunes plugin, or new Mail.app/Thunderbird's mail info (latter with the Growl Notifications extension).
And it just works. Hype around Growl (just like Quicksilver) is large, but with a reason.
→ Posted by: Chris at May 14, 2007 11:40 AM
This is getting confusing.
Field Music
Fields
The Field
Take your pick. Think I like the last one best.
→ Posted by: Andy at May 14, 2007 5:34 PM
What do you think is the right model for navigating and exploring media? (since Joost isn't)
→ Posted by: Peter Childs at May 14, 2007 8:41 PM
But Andy, Field Music are incredible. The kings of quirky pop music. The Field sound really good though.
→ Posted by: Andy (not the one above) at May 14, 2007 9:09 PM
Field Music: a bit bland and not that good.
Fields: awesome, possibly my favourite band right now, and quite something live.
The Field: also fucking awesome. But in a totally different way...
→ Posted by: tom at May 14, 2007 11:01 PM
Technically (and a point of discussion for Mark Kermode every week at the moment) 28 Weeks Later doesn't feature Zombies. Zombies are the living dead - people who have died and come back to life. 28 Weeks Later features the Infected. Sigh
→ Posted by: Sam at May 15, 2007 12:28 AM
I like the Field Mice and the Magnetic Fields.
→ Posted by: cushie at May 15, 2007 8:52 PM
I needed to illustrate the concepts of Web 2.0 and collaboration to some friends so I captured the whole Mischief shirt scenario. The illustration is on Flickr if you want to check it out.
→ Posted by: mcfrazer at May 17, 2007 4:08 PM