Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 18, 2009 at 3:04:00 PM CET
Pirate Bay Documentarian Looks Forward to Film Getting Pirated
Swedish filmmaker Simon Klose is making a documentary about the piracy movement in Sweden, centered on the sensational trial of the guys behind The Pirate Bay torrent tracking service. He expects his film to be pirated. Is fine with that. Thinks it’ll be good for business, in fact.
"I don't mind. This process involves me too, and my struggle to survive as a filmmaker," says the 34-year-old Klose in a phone interview from Malmo, Sweden. "The industry has to find new business models."
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 18, 2009 at 2:57:00 PM CET
Sony World Photography Awards 2009
We are proud to represent photographers from around the world and within diverse genres of photography. Many photographers, their books and images we have discovered through our Sony World Photography Awards competition whilst others are simply part of our large community of respected photographers. All prints available for your collection through the World Photography Gallery, are accompanied by an official WPA certificate of authenticity.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on March 18, 2009 at 2:55:00 PM CET
Most Express Sympathy for the Censorship
The firing of a magazine editor in Turkey over her intention to put a story about Darwin's evolution theory on the cover has generated a flood of criticism. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with the editor about just how conservative Turkish society has become.
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Topic: ART - on March 18, 2009 at 2:53:00 PM CET
Extreme Sheep LED Art
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Topic: ART - on March 18, 2009 at 2:51:00 PM CET
cactus design scenario
probably the most famous cactus is the saguaro, with its hard and solid spines which grow from the stem. generally speaking, a cactus is a symbol of patience, endurance, persistence and nostalgia. its cultural imaginary is portrayed in the emphasis of the many design applications.
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Topic: TV - on March 18, 2009 at 2:46:00 PM CET
"Off With Those Pants": Bill O'Reilly Seduces You in Clips From His Dirty Audiobook
Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.
Author: Bill O'Reilly Publisher: Random House Audio Date: 2001, though the book was published in 1998 Discovered at: Goodwill The Cover Promises: A bold, fresh piece.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 18, 2009 at 2:44:00 PM CET
Mario on LSD
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 17, 2009 at 12:15:00 PM CET
Besitz und Anbau von Cannabis zum Eigengebrauch entkriminalisieren
Die Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen hat am 12. Februar 2009 einen Antrag in den Bundestag eingebracht, der nicht weniger als die Entkriminalisierung des Besitzes und Anbaus von Cannabis für den eigenen Bedarf forderte.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 17, 2009 at 12:05:00 PM CET
Streaming concerts, 10 albums of unreleased music for $77 Prince web subscribers...
Now Prince—the first marquee musician to flirt with the Web—wants to go on another virtual date. While he is partnering with Target to sell a new three-CD set for the recession-proof price of $11.98, Prince will also offer subscriptions to his new site, Lotusflow3r.com, for a not-so-recession-proof $77 per year.
Ultimately, the site, which is set to debut before the Target street date, will have to thrive apart from those first three albums. Clay says future plans for Lotus flow3r.com include a hybrid documentary-music video. But the deal-sealer, he concedes, is the potential for streaming live, VIP-only concerts from Prince’s Los Angeles mansion. “There could be a live chat going on with members watching a concert, and Prince could actually play requests,” Clay says. He also claims a colleague has organized 10 albums of old Prince music never released in any form.
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Topic: ART - on March 17, 2009 at 12:04:00 PM CET
March 17, 1948: William Gibson, Father of Cyberspace
William Gibson is born in Conway, South Carolina. He later blossoms into legend with the prize-winning fiction that gives the world the term cyberspace.
The death of his father and a move to rural Wytheville, Virginia, propelled Gibson at age 6 to withdraw into his books, especially science fiction. In the 2000 documentary No Maps for These Territories he called this his "native literary culture."
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Topic: Wearable PC - on March 15, 2009 at 10:16:00 AM CET
SixthSense wearable data interface
The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 15, 2009 at 10:15:00 AM CET
Meet Eyeborg: Filmmaker plans secret surveillance using prosthetic eye camera
A one-eyed documentary filmmaker has developed a video camera that can be concealed inside a prosthetic eye.
He hopes to be able to record the same things he sees with his working eye, his muscles moving the camera eye just like his real one.
Rob Spence plans to secretly record people for a film project commenting on the global spread of surveillance.
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