Spencer Kelly visits the Royal Albert Hall to see a digital graffiti wall where you can virtual spray paint all you want and email the results to yourself. Keep in mind that it is still just a prototype in its early stages. I think the progression of this will be interesting to watch in the years to come.
Mid-City Arts is proud to present a live painting event and exhibit opening featuring two of Los Angeles’ most respected graffiti artists: Retna and The Mac. The opening event takes place Sunday June 7th 12pm – 6pm at 33Third. The art exhibit will be on display in the adjoining Mid-City Arts gallery, which recently hosted the first ever gallery exhibit from Chaka, LA’s most infamous graffiti writer.
Video preview inside of post….
Spotted over at Addictive DJ Designs, The Zero.1, from designers Francesco Cugusi and Roberto Strippoli is a dope concept that allows you to play both cd and vinly (plus it actually looks cool). But here is the clincher, it memorizes the gaps on the record so you can control it via remote just like you would a cd. Not sure when and if this concept will be available, but I’m looking forward to this one.
Adidas has created an incredible iPhone app called the Urban Art Guide. This guide will serve as a map to the location of incredible street art. Only available for Berlin so far, I’m sure this will grow into a worldwide app. Job well done…
So as I was at the Apple store and I realized something while looking at the iPod touch that I can’t afford. There seems to be less hard drive space than the prior clunky version that I own. At first thought I said to myself “self, this isn’t much of an upgrade if you’re getting less hard drive space.” Until I realized that music is moving to the clouds. Yes, nerds…the cloud we call the internet. Will there really be much need to lug around a chunky iPod with a 60Gb hard drive when you have your library already uploaded to lala.com or last.fm? I’d be willing to bet a pretty penny that there will be plenty more streaming sites that will be popping up left and right as soon as 3g is standard on every phone.
So what does this mean for the business model of the music industry that the dinosaurs…(oops…I mean the record labels) have in place? Who knows but they need to figure it out soon. Hopefully they don’t try to fight it like they did Napster. Which is one of the main reasons they’re in the mess that is the current situation as we speak….low album sales, poor quality music, etc. If I was them, I’d get together with these new sites and cut a deal thats fair for the label and the artist. Heck, they may even need to hire the people behind Obama’s campaign to promote these albums that they have no clue on how to promote.
Just my 2 cents….anybody else have any other suggestions? Talk to me…
Erik Natzke is an interactive designer and a force to be reckoned with. What appears here as a painting is actually a digital design. This is what I call creativity at its finest. Erik is obviously one that pushes the boundaries as far as possible while trying to reach new limits. Close-up after the jump…
I get the feeling I’m a bit late on this (in nerd time), but I was browsing the net the other day and discovered Songbird 1.0. What is songbird you ask? Imagine if iTunes hooked up with Firefox for a one night stand and gave birth nine months later. Songbird is the beginning of music discovery in a web 2.0 world.
At the core of songbird is the open source architecture of Mozilla Firefox. What makes this browser unique though is the fact that you have access yo your music library at all times while browsing the net. Still not a big deal?? Ok, how about the feature that allows you to view all embeded mp3’s available on an mp3 blog. Or even better, how about being able to download the mp3 that you just discovered on your favorite music blog with the click of a button.
Songbird is still a bit buggy but for version 1.0, this browser shows a lot of promise. Especially since it is open source, I’m sure we’re bound to see a ton of plug-ins in the near future. There are already a handful that you have the option of installing upon initial setup. A few of the plug-ins already available include mashTape which displays last.fm bios,YouTube videos, and Google news for the current artist you’re listening to. There is also an add-on that displays song lyrics for the song currently playing. Now is your chance to decipher Lil Wayne’s verse on T-Pain’s “I Can’t Believe It”.
Though I have yet to really dig in, Songbird shows plenty of promise in changing the landscape in which we discover music. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for the later revisions and as well how it will affect the music blog world. I suggest you guys take a test drive yourself by downloading here. Enjoy your journey….
As an avid fanatic of last.fm, I think I have found a new love. Maybe I’m jumping to conclusions to soon, but lala is the shit. What’s the difference you ask? Well first and foremost, lala is a music streaming service where you pay per song to keep your library online. Now on to the pros and cons:
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Ok, now I’m ready to convert to touch screen. Good lawd….1GB internal memory upgradeable to 16GB via SD Memory cards. Add in world edition capability and a 3.2 megapixel camera and I’ve found the new love of my life. I need some time alone now…..
Check out these dope case mods for the mac mini by Japanese “modder”, Hideo Takano. More pics after the jump…
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07 9th, 2009| 