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Variety Of Sound releases epicVerb
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Published on : 2009-01-06 04:47:01 6th January 2009: Variety Of Sound has released epicVerb, a free reverb VST effect plug-in for Windows that aims at both tight small room and ambience effect simulation, well suited to modern drum and vocal productions...
NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation
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Published on : 2009-01-06 03:22:05 An anonymous reader writes "Next month, New Zealand is scheduled to implement Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides 'Guilt Upon Accusation,' which means that if a file-sharer is simply accused of copyright infringement he/she will be punished with summary Internet disconnection. Unlike most laws, this one has no appeal process and no punishment for false accusation, because they were removed after public consultation. The ISPs are up in arms and now artists are taking a stand for fair copyright."
Read more of this story at Slashdot. Book review - Three D: Graphic Spaces
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Published on : 2009-01-06 02:00:19 Three D: Graphic Spaces, edited by Gerrit Terstiege, the editor-in-chief of European design magazine form. Includes a design-historical essay by Steven Heller, an interview of Stefan Sagmeister about his typographical installations and various interviews with graphic designers by Sophia Muckle.
Publisher Birkhäuser says: Three D - Graphic Spaces highlights a current trend in international graphic design: more and more visual designers are staging their compositions as three-dimensional scenarios, in order to turn them into posters, magazine covers, web sites, and animated films. The result is a host of suggestive new pictorial worlds that range from playfully arranged still lifes to room-filling installations. Edited by Gerrit Terstiege, editor-in-chief of the European design magazine "form", and designed by the prizewinning German studio Pixelgarten, this book offers an inspiring look at the various modeling techniques and means of expression involved. The book collects designs of about 50 international creative individuals and studios. A volume on a similar subject, Book review: Tactile - High Touch Visuals, was published last year but Three D: Graphic Spaces is way more talkative, offering essays, deeper analysis and descriptions. The projects are grouped into 4 main categories: Still Lifes Come Alive, Intricate Installations, Touching Type and Thrilling Animation. Nice touch: at the end of the book, you'll find a small description of the design studios as well as the contact address and url of their website. A few examples. In no particular order: Rebecca Stephany's Paradise is Made of Paper, an XL origami installation in the library of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Damien Poulain, 3-D illustrations for Uniqlo paper no.3, 2007. Tokyo, New York and London are neatly and unmistakably represented using just a couple of landmarks and key elements of the local culture.
Rita's Living Room sketches the typical style of a Québec living room. Nothing glamor or ready for the pages of trendy design magazines, just simple, archetypical decoration and lay out. Ultimately, the designers ask: 'Where is the design? What is design anyway?'
Jocelyn Cottencin's practice stands at the intersection of photography, video, installation and graphic design. Her 2004 wall drawing La consommation d'oxygène est différente d'un individu à l'autre ('the consumption of oxygen differs from one individual to another' video) is based on the typo 'Floréale' that she created in 2003. Convinced that the fate of her work was to disappear swiftly, she used chalk to draw the floral pattern. Surprisingly the work remained intact for 3 years.
Elene Usdin's La Barbe Bleue series turns the most terrifying aspects of Bluebeard's butchery of his wives into dolls limbs and threads of wools.
Playarea for footwear Pointer. Models are robots given the illusion of 3D life with the help of soft shadows.
Emil Kozak's work for MAG, a competition for the best magazines in Denmark. All the posters Kozak designed for each award have a connection to the medium of the award.
Graphic comes to life in a more literal way in this video by Colors and the Kids and in another one shot by Jared Eberhardt for Cansai De Ser Sexy: Julien Valle and Nicolas Burrows' explicit paper metaphor of the way digital existence spills over our physical life.
Related stories: Book Review: Super Holland Design, Book Review - Enter Spanish Creativity, Book review: Hand Job: A Catalog of Type, Book review: Tactile - High Touch Visuals, Joshua Davis at OFFF - Lisbon. Fair Warning: Ars Technica at CES 2009
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Published on : 2009-01-06 00:30:00 We're headed out to CES in Vegas this week, so here's a quick heads-up on what to expect. And as always, we'd love your input as we roam the show floor looking for the ultimate gear. A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009
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Published on : 2009-01-06 00:22:03 marciot writes "It's interesting to look back at Ray Kurzweil's predictions for 2009 from a decade ago. He was dead on in predicting the ubiquity of portable computers, wireless, the emergency of digital objects, and the rise of privacy concerns. He was a little optimistic in certain areas, predicting the demise of rotating storage and the ubiquity of digital paper a bit earlier than it appears it will actually happen. On the topic of human-computer speech interfaces, though, he seems to be way off." And of course Kurzweil missed 9/11 and the fallout from that. His predictions might have been nearer the mark absent the war on terror.
Read more of this story at Slashdot. Today 1.5, 40% off
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Published on : 2009-01-06 00:00:00 Today 1.5:
Today is an easy to use event and task management application for Mac OS X Leopard. Built on top of the same data engine as Apple's iCal and Mail programs, Today gives you a snapshot view of what events and tasks are on today's agenda in a compact window. You have less than 23 hours to take advantage of this promo offer! Final Frontier 1 1.0 (Default branch)
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Published on : 2009-01-05 23:44:39 
Final Frontier 1 is a fantasy sailing theme.
get_iplayer 1.12 (Default branch)
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Published on : 2009-01-05 23:42:51 get_iplayer allows a user to download or stream
any iPlayer program from the BBC in H.264
(Quicktime/mp4) format, any radio programs in MP3
or RealAudio format (optionally converted to WAV
or MP3), and all podcasts in MP3/AAC format. It
even downloads the subtitles where available.
License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes: This release adds alpha support for ITV Catch-up downloads (--pid itv:<numeric pid from itv site>), adds parallel download support for all parts of ITV programs (because they stream in realtime), and fixes a field length bug in metadata tagging of mov files. Android netbook port leaves some pondering Google OS
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Published on : 2009-01-05 23:35:00 Will Google aim its OS sights at the PC market? A recent port of Android to a common netbook suggests that Google Linux could become a reality. |
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