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Take me back: Imagery from the Rippon 2006 story...
Photographs ©2006 Markus Sawyer
What a day... and this was the line-up:
Sunshine Soundsystem
P-Bass Expressway
Kora
Hollie Smith
Fly My Pretties
Phoenix Foundation
Pluto
Shapeshifter
Shihad
Fat Freddy's Drop
The Mint Chicks
And for the afterparty...
The Turnaround DJs
Recloose live
Module live
Riki Gooch
... and a VIP tent bar a-loooooaded with good liquor. Off the chart chaps.
If you make the effort, you'll be rewarded by the wonderful southern hospitality, brilliant music performed by musicians as excited to be there as you are and fond memories and stories of a trip you'll recall excitedly to your friends who didn't make it. It's a beauty.
Markus
www.sleeveface.com. How am I just finding out about this now?!
Hold an album cover up in front of you, so that your body completes the picture. Make sure the perspective an scale is as close as possible, and have a friend take a picutre. Results nearly guaranteed to be amazing. There’s even a book!
www.sleeveface.com
HT @blackpanda
Apple App Store Hyperwall
via appleinsider.com
For WWDC Apple has created an amazing array of twenty 30" cinema displays that show the 20,000 most popular iPhone apps. They pulse and move in real time with every Apple Store download.
This is a really cool way of visualizing the complexity and scale of the app store, but more importantly, it brings life to an aspect of the company that Apple typically keeps behind lock and key. I'd love to see Apple opening up more visualizations like this: it makes them a lot more approachable.
Oh and I want them to put this thing on a traveling roadshow so I can see it in person.
Click through to AppleInsider for many more pics and videos.
Thanks @garethk
Sorry I'm Late. A beautiful stop-motion short
I know this has been posted a trillion times already, but I had to share this beautiful stop-motion animation piece shot by Tomas Mankovsky... On his floor. Really inventive, and beautiful soundtrack rounds out the experience.
Via booooooom.com
Cold War Kids interactive video
I’m digging this interactive video for Cold War Kids that is currently on mtv.com. The experience is simple: four band members playing four different versions of the song I’ve seen enough. Click the colors to swap out the songs, click the members themselves to mute / unmute their tracks. Clicking on ‘fan favorites’ quickly reveals two distinct versions of the song, as created (unknowingly) by the viewers. There’s even a (very) simple facebook app that lets you stream the four different versions on your app page.
I love it when bands aren’t so precious with their product; allowing people to participate in the experience of creating music is a great way to connect more deeply with an audience. Radiohead and Arcade Fire have done this with tremendous result, and its nice to see younger bands following in their technological footsteps.
Some more interactive videos:
Arcade Fire ‘Neon Bible’ http://www.beonlineb.com/
Arcade Fire ‘Black Mirror’ http://www.rorrimkcalb.com/
Radiohead ‘12 Cams, Create Your Rainbow’ http://www.rorrimkcalb.com/
Radiohead ‘Remix’ http://radioheadremix.com/
Chrome Experiments, from Google Creative Labs
via chromeexperiments.com
We think JavaScript is awesome. We also think browsers are awesome. Indeed, when we talk about them, we say they are the cat's meow – which is an American expression meaning AWESOME.
In light of these deeply held beliefs, we created this site to showcase cool experiments for both JavaScript and web browsers.
These experiments were created by designers and programmers from around the world using the latest open standards, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and more. Their work is making the web faster, more fun, and more open – the same spirit in which we built Google Chrome.
We think JavaScript is awesome. We also think browsers are awesome. Indeed, when we talk about them, we say they are the cat's meow – which is an American expression meaning AWESOME.
In light of these deeply held beliefs, we created this site to showcase cool experiments for both JavaScript and web browsers.
These experiments were created by designers and programmers from around the world using the latest open standards, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and more. Their work is making the web faster, more fun, and more open – the same spirit in which we built Google Chrome.
Here's an awesome JavaScript experiment community from my friends over at Google Creative Labs. They think JS is awesome, and now I do too. Lots of really great art projects/experiments with the browser window as the medium.
Pushing the browser to its technical limits in a non-traditional way is the best method to show what it is capable of. I also like that the barrier to entry is low. Don't have Chrome? Most of the experiments still work in Safari or FFX, and if they don't, they have videos so you can still see what they were meant to do.
Browser Talk is an awesome example. Check it out here.
