Ephective Ephemera
A few days back, I tripped across a brilliant idea called Thounds, best-described via the video below:
For those of you without the requisite patience for video viewing, Thounds is a social platform for the recording and sharing of musical snippets, which can be added-to collaboratively by other users within the network.
This is not a terrifically [...]
5 Gum Augmented Reality Music Mixer Demo
A very intriguing use of Augmented Reality for content creation, not just informatics and product demonstration. Now it gets interesting.
(via 5gumFrance)
At the risk of growing perilously-close to a Boy in Static fan-site, I felt the urge to post yet another new video from Alexander Chen, this one for the Toy Baby Grand single.
Boy in Static – Toy Baby Grand from Alexander Chen on Vimeo.
This video grew out of some quick “Eureka!” moments Philip had when [...]
Among the few presentations I regret missing at SXSW was Anthony Volodkin’s panel on music discovery. Thankfully, the entirety of Anthony and Paul Lamere’s Powerpoint presentation on ‘why is music recommendation broken’ has been posted online (and embedded below):
Help! My iPod thinks I’m emo.
View more presentations from Paul Lamere.
Jason Herskowitz, on Globallistic, digs deeper into [...]
I am optimistic about one day learning how to whistle.
I am optimistic about my backyard garden; it was solid clay when I started on it, and now it’s thriving.
I am optimistic about going for a run weekly.
I am optimistic about my lemon tree being fruitful next spring.
I am optimistic about becoming proficient on the ukelele.
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Alex [...]
Two very insightful interviews posted this morning:
Chris Wilson over at The Marketing Fresh Peel interviews Piers Fawkes of PSFK as part of his Future of Work series. Fawkes opens up on his views of the changes in the workplace that Gen-Y will face:
Gen Yers are going to work for scores of companies and they need [...]
Henry Owings, publisher of the seminal zine Chunklet, posted recently on an endeavor by Soundscreen Design to publish a collection of the best 7″ record sleeve artwork of the last 2o or so years.
As a fan of Henry’s (the photo above demonstrating proof of my friendship via my Chunklet Neighborhoodie was taken at the 2008 [...]