Mashup geek

Want kind of mashups will be possible five years from now?

Firefox 3.5: experiment with Canvas/Video
Dynamic, ever changing mashups.

More about it: Making Video a First Class Citizen - mozbox

Let the music flow

New year, news to the ears:

N.A.S.A. "Money" feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, & Z-Trip from Paul Griswold on Vimeo.

Video directed by Syd Garon & Paul Griswold, featuring the artwork of Shepard Fairey (the artist "responsible" for this iconic poster).

More about N.A.S.A.:

Are computers ruling or ruining your life?

Absurd remix by: Alex Ezorsky-lie

According to this video, chances are, you have been already "screened". At least you should choose what goes on to the projector...

Scream if you find a way into having control over what is screened.

How to share your taste with the world

It seems that very soon, some giant Internet players are planing to put some "user generated content" on the "People's Domain" (no, not quite public domain - and no, not creative content) . In fact, it seems that some big logs on users video viewing habits are going to be "recycled" in a whole new context.

I am sorry not to go into more details, but my "engrish" and legal skills fall short on the magnitude of the scale of this subject.

You can check more info about the actual news report here and here.

This news relate to the theme of this blog in at least one point:
Recycling old "Kinematics".

From Wikipedia: "Kinematics (Greek κινειν, kinein, to move) is a branch of dynamics which describes the motion of objects without consideration of the circumstances leading to the motion"...

Words are clouding my mind

I hope in the next months I find the time to dump all these words "clouding" my mind on the screen in a more cinematic way, but until then this image is all I have got to show.

Cloud made on Wordle - CC By

Sometimes... Not always.

By: The Flowfield Unity / Music by: William Godfrey

Sometimes... Not aways, ideas can overcome production constrains, such as budget, deadlines and others. This animation is a nice example.

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