13 Jun
Drawing from the vast pool of Getty Images videos, photos and audio, MoodStream is a flash application that combines sound and vision according to your mood and settings. I did not expect to end up looking at this cute application for so long! You can tune MoodStream according to current level of happiness, how calm [...]
Posted in art creation, internet by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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21 May
Steven Spielberg walks the Cannes red carpet for the first time after 22 years for the occasion of the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And guess what! He considers digital cinema inevitable. Really? Here is what he said on digital or not digital:
“The film is being released digitally on a [...]
Posted in art creation, cinema by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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20 May
Super heroes are having a huge comeback this summer, Iron Man has only been the start. Dark Knight, the new much awaited Batman film is arriving on the July 25, but like in the case of the Matrix it will be preceded by a DVD called Batman: Gotham Knight, a collection of six short Batman [...]
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08 May
Nokia and famous director Spike Lee signed an agreement for the later to edit user generator cellphone videos and create a mini 3-part series of 5-minute episodes. That’s fine and Nokia does well to contract a big name of modern cinema to promote the video capabilities of its phones.
But stating that in five years’ time [...]
Posted in art creation, cinema, mobile by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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06 May
Having now watched Iron Man, I can express relief that it is a rare sample of a movie that is as good as the comic deserves. I believe that after the Batman Begins movie we have entered a new superhero cinema era and that from now on comic heroes will not be used just for [...]
Posted in art creation, cinema, technology by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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06 May
The Slip is Nine Inch Nails‘ new album. Nothing special so far. But hey, it is officially offered as a free download! And not in just one file format, so choose what suits you best:
MP3: nice and space saving for your portable player.
FLAC lossless: with the right codec, you can play this directly, but do [...]
Posted in art creation, audio, internet by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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02 May
Following the lead of music and software, movies might be the next thing that becomes more easily distributed, and more importantly, simply and cheaply produced. Wreck A Movie is the open-source Finnish platform that wishes to free creativity from the bounds of Hollywood and the studio system in general. Board member and entrepreneur Peter Vesterback [...]
Posted in art creation, cinema by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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28 Apr
Major Hollywood studios are going online to draw entries from filmmakers from all over the world. You do not have to be a big name any more, people that have the technique and imagination are given the chance and -equally importantly- the cash to make their projects real full feature films, documentaries, advertisements or series.
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22 Apr
Source: IGN
What is for you the most anticipated game this year? GTA IV? For me not really. I can tell you from now that the two new Lego games are top of my list. As Yahoo! Games reports, Lego Indiana Jones is going to hit shelves this May and Lego Batman will arrive later this [...]
Posted in art creation, games by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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06 Feb
Source: CGSociety
If you love technology, gadgets and movies, it’s almost certain that you also love those movies that involve heavy 3D effects or even the complete computer 3D generation of the environments in which the scenario takes place.
Issue #100 of the popular 3D World magazine had as its main feature the 100 greatest 3D movies [...]
Posted in 3D, art creation, cinema by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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05 Feb
Source: Thinkgeek
Things are simple. You have six hearts. To activate all of them and be in full strength you have to be near the love of your life. Stray away and your power falls to two and a half hearts. Although a present of limited usability apart from valentine’s day, it is a fun proposition. [...]
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24 Jan
It is common for novels to inspire films or films to inspire games -and vice versa- but cellphones inspiring novels? It’s already happening in Japan, and in fact last year novel downloads that were written on cellphones and are read on cellphones have outsold traditional print publications! And not only that, the more popular forms [...]
Posted in art creation, mobile by: Dimitrios Matsoulis
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