If you need to check the Copyright status of an American book published 1923-1976 then you should use this resource
Month: May 2005
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Media Art Net
Media Art Net foregrounds topical crossreferences offering various access points: the index and search engine based on a complex structure of database links, the exploratory approach via visual summaries, the artistic perspective as it emerges in commissioned Net projects or the scientific-historic aspect as formulated in topical essays by competent authors. A network of curators presents a variety of approaches and contextualizations.
This is incredible . . . . such high quality and full screen. I think they are an Australian company.
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History of Sampling (and the sampled)
This is a very cool example of a two way informational flow. Choose a track from the top and see which samples were used in it from the bottom . . . all it needs is a way to hear the tracks and the samples!
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Everything SMS
Here’s a blog dedicated to SMS – http://www.bestkeptsimple.org/
Includes instructions on HTTP-to-SMS as well as a range of info on SMS-related social stuff.
In my race to catch up and get into this brave new world of blogging, rss feeds, etc, I’ve come across del.icio.us which seems to make sense as we look for more opportunities to make the museum experiences open and accessible…
» del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add web pages you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only among your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
» Once you’ve registered for the service, you add a simple bookmarklet to your browser. When you find a web page you’d like to add to your list, you simply select the del.icio.us bookmarklet, and you’ll be asked for information about the page. You can add descriptive terms to group similar links together and add notes for yourself or for others.
» You can access your list of links from any web browser. Your links are shown to you with those you’ve added most recently at the top. In addition to viewing by date, you can also view all links with a specific keywords (you define your own keywords as you add the links), or search your links for keywords.
» What makes del.icio.us a social system is its ability to let you see the links that others have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific site. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you find interesting.
This 5 minute screencast takes you through the process of using del.icio.us
crazy
The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to perform random temporal jumps between image frames. The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate “islands of time” as well as “temporal waves” are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that “cuts” the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie.
The Attorney General’s Dept has posted a discussion paper on the implementation of ‘fair use’ in Australia post DMCA/FTA.
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Graphic Designer Hotel
Check out this – a different designer for each room.
http://www.hotelfox.dk/rooms.html
There are some amazing pieces here . . . . from all the next gen big guns.
“Adobe’s purchase of Macromedia makes perfect sense, to allow it to achieve the scale needed to compete against operating system vendors; for that reason, it probably won’t raise anti-trust flags. The two companies have almost as small an overlap as when Aldus and Adobe merged, which resulted in Adobe unloading FreeHand to Macromedia. If the FTC cares at all, it may force Adobe to spin off GoLive, FreeHand, and Fireworks in favor of market leaders Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Photoshop.”
From Toms Hardware Guide – http://www20.tomshardware.com/business/20050503/index.html