HBO Voyeur – This is great site and the quality of the video clips is amazing – super crisp!
It reminds me of the Tram ride I take from 60th Street & 2nd Ave to Roosevelt Island (where my wife and I live). When we take the Tram you get a bird’s eye view hundreds of apartments. Unfortunately, the ride is too quick to see anything spicy. 🙁
So I stumbled upon AOL Video for the first time tonight and I noticed something interesting – all the videos I clicked on are from YouTube! Is there anything wrong with this? Absolutely not. I guess I just expect this sort of decision from an amateur – not from an established (and outdated) company like AOL. I guess they must have some amazing editorial skills for extracting video ‘gold’ from YouTube to make themselves a profit. (update: It looks as though their premium video content that they sell is in Windows Media format, and it doesn’t seem to play nice with my Mac.)
I guess they’re running out of ideas, I mean shit, they did rip of Yahoo with their beta site redesign. See below…
Touch-Screen Phones Poised for Growth – Wow. Ya think? You figure Apple would have thought of something like that already.
Gates, Pace Say More Casualties Ahead in Iraq – But Bush doesn’t like using stem cells. Let’s em get killed fighting a bullshit war. Makes so much sense.
EMI sales climb on iTunes Plus plan – See you pea-brain, old fart, music execs?
Yang replaces Semel as Yahoo CEO – Bout time.
Microsoft claims faster patches than Apple – I hope so Microsoft, WIndows has more holes than a spaghetti strainer, and more susceptible to viruses than a whore. … You ‘win’, ok?
Since we’re talking about MS, this is great:
Ladies – you’re not allowed to wear sandals or any other fashionable, toe-exposing footwear if you haven’t had a pedicure. If you have nasty feet, keep em covered.
This holds true for the guys too. If your feet look like Godzilla’s … I don’t want to see them.
A Really Big Show | The New York Times – “Vincent Laforet describes the process of making a series of tilt-shift photographs at sporting events. The feature allows users to view images at a significantly larger size.” (thanks Larrick)
Photo by Vincent Laforet
Studio Output – nice transitions, clear, very readable.
Screengrab: Studio Output website
Most of the articles I’ve come across regarding AT&T’s stipulation that an iTunes account is required for iPhone setup are pretty negative. People seem to be under the impression that Apple has some sort of evil intention, or trying to lock them into something.
From Engadget:
This should come as no surprise to those familiar with the practices of Apple, who regularly confines its users to fairly enclosed systems out of “ease of use” or “privacy” concerns, but anyone who was hoping to manage the iPhone and its contents with open and free (as in speech) software should probably give up hope now.
Despite all the outcries from haters, this is actually a good move, and particularly beneficial to the owner of the iPhone, regardless if they buy anything from the iTunes Store.
Comment overheard between 2 Human Experience people today:
“Did you decide on radio buttons or check boxes?”
Looks like CNN, has started posting links to its new Beta site. The new site has definitely been simplified and is much less cluttered, but doesn’t seem to have eliminated those ‘Latest News’ short absurd news headlines, like “Tests show zilch about dead whale shark”.
Guess I can’t have it all.
Check out screengrabs after the jump below.
iPods to blame for total eclipse of the art, says Hockney (via Engadget)
Speaking on the eve of his 70th birthday, Britain’s best-loved living painter said the proliferation of iPods – Apple has sold more than 100 million worldwide – and other digital music players has combined with a decline in art education to create a “fallow period of painting”.
“We are not in a very visual age,” Hockney said. “I think it’s all about sound. People plug in their ears and don’t look much, whereas for me my eyes are the biggest pleasure.
Dude, Hockney, what are you talking about? Not a very visual age? I guess Hockney has only been watching the proliferation of iPods and hasn’t been observing plasma/LCD television sales. Or computer displays, or time spent playing video games by people 13 to 40.
The reason we’re in a ‘fallow period of painting’ is because everything has been done in visual arts. Occasionally I’ll see a contemporary artist doing a good rehashing of abstract expressionism or minimalism, or something faintly resembling the collages of Robert Rauschenberg.
We might be in a fallow period of painting but I’ll bet you sales from painting retrospectives are high. The great art exhibits I can recall recently are all retrospectives the most recent being Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years and Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005 .
It’s the end of an era for painting. What will be interesting is to see what comes to fill the void.
USA Networks has some nice typography and design/grid consistency going on across all their sites and series. Thanks for the heads up Dalematic.
WWDC 2007 – Keynote Address (Quicktime video stream) – Like most of you, I already have all the details from the Keynote, but half the fun is watching Steve Jobs deliver the news.
Regarding Apple’s announcement that iPhone apps can be developed as web applications (sites), here are 2 different POV’s:
“If you don’t know Kiera Knightly, she’s a slightly more mannish version of Orlando Bloom.”
Classic. God that ninja has a way with words.
Netscape releases Navigator 9 – I just installed it. It works. It has tabs. The few sites I’ve checked out seem to render ok CSS-wise. Problem is I just still have that bad Netscape 4.7 aftertaste in my mouth… (Hey, cut me some slack, I started web design in the 90’s, it was rough and left some scars.)
Movable Type 4.0 Beta Released – This site was built in Movable Type 3.3, I can’t wait to upgrade, it looks pretty hot.
Kurt Noble ditches Flash for tight HTML Relaunch (via NT) – Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, but there’s something to be said for nice, clean, functional HTML site with a dash of Ajax-y loading content for flavor. I dig it.
Humans make sense of the world through pattern recognition, here’s a pattern I’ve picked up on (and I’m definitely not the first):
August 29, 2006 Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt joins Apple’s board of directors
9 October, 2006 Google Buys YouTube
9 January 2007 Apple launches Apple TV
2 April 2007 Apple and EMI Music agree to DRM-free tracks on iTunes
30 May 2007 Apple to feature YouTube video content on Apple TV
May 31, 2007 Youtube Signs Deal with EMI
Do you see where this is going? Apple (and Google (and EMI)) is no dummy. The iPod was tossed aside by initial critics…. Apple retail stores were said to go under within a year…. Apple TV is a dud says critics….
I’m not saying Apple is guaranteed success in the everything, but just keep your eye on them, before you know it, they might be in your living room (and phone, and music player and computer).