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Preston is My Paris - zine and photoblog about Preston.
Preston is My Paris is a blog and print magazine that looks at local arts and photography. The print version is out now in Oxfam Vintage and the new Vintage A Go Go, both on Friargate, Winkleys sandwich bar on Winckley Street and PAD gallery in the old Post Office on the Flag Market.
They are currently looking for submissions for the February edition, deadline is the 9th, poetry or prose of 1,000 words or less on the subject of Preston. Not sure about photography. Email Adam at prestonismyparis@gmail.com
Word Soup run by the Lancashire Writing Hub at the New Continental will be supporting Preston is my Paris by launching the literature special edition of their magazine the Feb 16th Word Soup. Anyone who contributes will be given a reading slot on the night. Contact for more information: jenn@theyeatculture.org
Can OpenID Be Commercialized? Investors Bet $3.25 Million On JanRain
has always been on the forefront evangelizing OpenID
, the decentralized authentication method for the new Web, as a founding member of the OpenID Foundation
. But the company is not a non-profit, and aims to turn the deployment of online identification technology in enterprise environments into a viable business.
JanRain just got a vote of confidence from three U.S.-based venture capital firms: we’ve learned that the startup has recently raised a $3.25 million Series A round of financing led by DFJ Frontier with participation from RPM Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners.
JanRain’s flagship product is RPX, an SaaS platform for on-site acceptance of OpenID accounts for registrations and other activities, which as you may know can just as well be your MySpaceID, Windows Live ID or your regular Facebook, Google, Yahoo! account. It’s worth noting that RPX is a solution that works both ways, as it also enables users to publish their activities on client’s websites to multiple social networks.
According to JanRain, its solution is already being used on more than 170,000 websites today, including those of Sears, Kmart, FOX News, Scout24, Universal Music Group and EMI Music.
The software comes in three flavors: a free version that supports up to 6 interface providers and includes basic profile data, and two professional versions, the cheapest one starting at $100 a year. There’s a clean overview of available plans and corresponding pricing on the RPX product website.
JanRain is really one of the only horses in this race, but the adoption of OpenID hasn’t exactly been stellar so far. Investors are now betting millions on the assumption that the Silicon Valley company, founded in 2005, has what it takes to effectively mass market and sell authentication systems to website publishers based on OpenID and other online identity technologies.
Would you?
Website: janrain.com Location: Portland, Oregon, United States Founded: September, 2005 Funding: $1M JanRain provides OpenID solutions for businesses and end consumers. Its SaaS solutions enable organizations to accept OpenIDs as a login method for their websites or to issue branded OpenIDs to their users. The myOpenID service is the first and… Learn More
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wilchar got his museum
and a very oldfashioned & impractical artist's (fan) page
http://www.wilchar.be/
http://www.brusselnieuws.be/artikels/cultuur/het-leven-van-wilchar-in-vijftien-etappes/
http://www.linxplus.be/benjec/artikel.asp?pid=4822&artikel=3115
http://www.resistances.be/wilchar.html
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilchar
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilchar
food for thought
tour of the Getty Center (magnificent architecture), Los Angeles, Nov 2009 with my iphone.
"There are two important things to achieving in the arts. One is to
have talent, and the other is to realise the talent." Jane Campion
acclaimed director of The Piano
Alison Whyte actress
china, uk ??
Trying to dig up this here quote - “Proper tribute is not noisy praise but deep silence and profound awe” (Alfred Kubin, 1917) - so as to be able to post it with a discreet tip of the hat on http://bravojuju.blogspot.com/2008/08/bravo-clippings-32.html (which I'd discovered after browsing through BJ having been led to http://bravojuju.blogspot.com/2009/07/ken-nordine-transparent-mask-2001.html by my friend LX in reply to his recommended reading & listening tip http://www.bosbos.net/2008/08/30/vintage-solid-steel-ken-nordine-talking-all-that-word-jazz-2008-edition/ ...) - I then stumbled (i.e. googled) upon http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/01/26/surreal-noir-something-stirring-redux/ which made me curious for an author - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Miéville - whom I suspect having chosen his pseudonym (if any) from an obsession with porcelain ceramics and the cinematics of Jean-Luc & Anne-Marie ... Kafka and Kubin are fine references !
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Nota Bene : I don't like "lifeblogging" so the above is not how I like to operate ... I'm not going to explain all of the url's I'll be posting. Much rather, I'll just be dumping the links here in (chrono)logical (or idiosyncratic) order with only a few words to help you get a grasp of the series of associations ... if that help were needed at all.
& maybe I'll be relocating this post elsewhere later on, I'm still experimenting with the format(s) ... I'm looking for the ideal place to post ... I'm charged by posterous, had already been considering in wordpress, probably was not going to go via blogger, Fb or MS ... and haven't made up my mind about tweetin' either !
lovehate: The 3D Movie Resurrection
Is the 3D experience really any better than the 2D - hell no! Sure it's different, but if 3D was the "shit", why they hell wouldn't all films go there? At one point the 3D film was a fad, and a production company could bank on a certain percentage of box office just because the film was in 3D. Now it's de rigeur. And your brain may get tricked for the first five minutes into believing that Dr. Tongue's 3D House of Pancakes is really a blast of syrupy goodness, but your brain quickly works out the effect and soon it's pretty much nullified.
There is only one reason to push the 3D experiment to redundancy in film and soon in television: piracy. While 3D certainly won't stop piracy, it may give pause to a certain percentage of the movie-going public that want to have the full experience of seeing a film. I know this is going to sound ironic because if someone wanted a full "film experience" why would they download a pirated copy anyway? Quite simply the growth of the home television screen, and the balance of having to deal with the general idiocy of the public, starts to balance out the fan that is willing to watch the leaked DVD screener of a new film versus going to see a 2D version of it.
If, however, you've convinced yourself that the film just HAS to be seen in 3D, you're pretty much SOL in terms of a pirated copy you can watch on your home system. The movie industry is moving towards 3D not out of any artistic sensibility, but instead out of plain protectionism. And I suppose I don't blame them, but they are sticking themselves between the Scylla and Charybdis. They know that if they release a film ONLY in 3D, box office will suffer. On the other hand, if they release a 2D version, the odds of piracy go way up.
If you've somehow convinced yourself that 3D is truly a better experience than 2D, you've been led astray. I'm not saying it's worse; I'm just saying it's different. Your brain does an amazing job of filling in the gaps and your imagination will overcome flaws in production, environment and often even direction. There are plenty of people in this world who still own black and white televisions or whose color TVs have 14 inch screens. Are they necessarily missing out on an "ideal" experience? Can't I enjoy content whether on my iPod screen or my 67" LCD DLP?
We've forsaken music and still claim to enjoy it. We used to listen to scratchy ceramic cones with no fidelity and eventually grew through vinyl, 8 track, cassette, and compact disc to a level of fidelity that became consistently better and clearer. Yet now we choose 128kb mp3 files that sound like crap compared to a CD or wav file because it sounds "good enough". It's the same reason some people have no trouble downloading films, because to watch even an inferior copy is "good enough". And it's the reason that 3D is really unnecessary from an artistic perspective as the mind's eye can create far richer and vaster conceptions that ever a pair of 3D glasses will be able to construct.
When will Hollywood realize that content is king? When will the focus be put back onto plot and character development with original dialog and concepts that weren't even dated to Shakespeare? I'd rather watch The Godfather on a Casio Wristwatch than watch My Bloody Valentine 3D in an IMAX arena. You don't remember a 3D film or 2D film any differently. Sure you may recall a "cool" scene or two, but is that what a director should be going for - to shock you out of your disbelief for the purposes of thinking "dude that was cool". I loved the film Up, but I don't think back on it in 3D. I simply think back to the story.
If 3D doesn't really add another dimension to films, and does little to improve my memory of them, I suppose the only real value is negative in the cost of an extra 3Dollars out of my pocket to get plastic Chinese factory glasses so that I look like Buddy Holly or Elvis Costello - what a DDDeal!
Events this week include several movies
via examiner.com
Events of Jewish interest this week in NYC include a musical review and limited screenings of several movies.
a happy weekend: collecting leaves and making prints
a great weekend had just passed.
it was long and good.
as usual the weekend was not without visits to great coffee places like kith cafe and papa palheta (ppp)
this time we discovered beautiful leaves at the playground behind hooper road after having great coffee and babycinos at ppp.
we brought some leaves home and did several prints of them.
it was a really fun and beautiful way to spend a morning with the children.
Nite of a 1000 drawings. Grrrrr! Why aren't You here??
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