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Real Human Moments
Richard Linklater’s animated film ‘Waking Life’ sees it’s UK cinema release this weekend. I think Matt may have mentioned it in the past, but I just saw a short documentary on it Sky News is running and have been completely blown away. The film is of special interest to Mac users as it was made on a host of G4s. Footage was shot by a small crew as normal live action on DV camcorders. The footage was then converted in Quicktime, before being passed through rotoscoping/animation software on the Macs to give it a comic book look. Waking Life is a series of vignettes exploring the boundries between reality and dream worlds, communication and human desires. It opens in cinemas across the UK this Friday, and receives its R1 DVD release on the 7th May.
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Six Degrees of Coveration
I came across the Covers Project while reading up on all this web services malarkey (since it has an XML-RPC interface). It’s much fun, basically a database cross-referencing which recording artists have covered each other, and charting the longest interconnected chain of covers in the process. What’s great about it is that it’s still fairly incomplete. I’d added a Nirvana cover of Devo’s Turn Around, and a Beastie Boys cover of Minor Threat’s Screaming At A Wall within my first couple of minutes.
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Google API Open For Business
Further to yesterday’s post, it seems that Google’s Web Service is now officially open. Or at least ready for testing and tinkering. Oreillynet is punctual as ever with Rael Dornfest’s comprehensive tutorial on how to get started. There’s a devkit available for download from Google with sample SOAP requests/responses and Java and .NET bits and pieces to set you off on the right path. You’ll also need to sign up for an account since they’re sensibly limiting developers to 1000 requests per day, and 10 results per response while still in beta.
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Arab Strap MP3s
One of the best nights of my life involved seeing Arab Strap live, cheap Whisky, a flying kebab, a half ton block of sandstone, my bleeding head and my girlfriends tears in the moonlight. If you’ve never had the pleasure then get over to Arab Strap’s ‘official’ website, the MP3 page has a couple of CDs worth of MP3s to download, half of which are previously unreleased or rare demos and sessions etc. The files are all high quality rips and the music is all up to Arab Strap’s usual exceptional standards.
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Alpha Geek Soothsaying
O’Reillynet has an interesting piece by Tim O’Reilly about what the thirteen-thirtyseven geeks are saying are the technologies to watch in the days to come.
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Drunken Master
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Panasonic Hi-Ho
I can’t even begin to explain or describe this without spoiling it, so just click the link and praise Panasonic for Hi-Ho.
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Landing Joiner
More l’espion fun this afternoon, landing joiner. Think I might try sticking to flatter subjects in the future.
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Tron Kubricks
I got me some Evangelion Kubricks off Tracy for Christmas, JonnyRam’s Tron ones look ace though. Wonder if they glow in the dark?
