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/ HAMMER TO NAIL � Blog Archive � Werner Herzog Book Reading in NYC!!!

[...]Tomorrow evening (Friday, June 26th, 7pm) at the McNally Jackson bookstore in SoHo, the one-and-only Werner Herzog will be reading from his new book Conquest of the Useless, which completes the triptych that began with Fitzcarraldo and was followed by Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams. Conquest of the Useless collects Herzog’s personal, diary-like musings scribed during that intense production.[...]

/ HAMMER TO NAIL � Blog Archive � Werner Herzog Book Reading in NYC!!!

Twitch -Magnet Scoops Ti West’s HOUSE OF THE DEVIL

Magnet Releasing buys indie horror flick.

Create Digital Motion � Open Emu: Free Game Emulation on Mac, Quartz Composer - Even VJ with Games

I'm kind of over glitch art nowdays (I was obsessed with it back in the mid 90's when I was making questionable NES and satellite glitch oddities like Binary Cancer Tacos) but this is pretty cool and potentially useful. It might be pretty neat to get a game of some NES goodie like a boy and his blob going inside a vdmx VJ set.

Fans of vintage games with Macs, take note. Open Emu makes emulation of classic game systems a “first-class citizen” on the Mac. But if it were just a game emulator, well, it wouldn’t be news. What makes it news is that at its core, Open Emu is an open source platform and modular architecture into which your favorite game systems can be added as plug-ins. And thanks to that architecture, you can treat your favorite game systems as though they’re modules in a grand, 8-bit modular visual synth, crunching their textures into geometry, adding real-time effects, and controlling the whole thing with multiple controllers, audio, and MIDI.

Create Digital Motion � Open Emu: Free Game Emulation on Mac, Quartz Composer - Even VJ with Games

Anonymous & The Pirate Bay Team Up To Help Iran Democracy Activists at Anonymous Iran

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HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight? by InfoWorld: Yahoo! Tech

San Francisco -
HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.

The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) HTML 5 proposal is geared toward Web applications, something not adequately addressed in previous incarnations of HTML, the W3C acknowledges. In other words, HTML 5 tackles the gap that Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX are trying to fill.

Yes please. How much do you want to bet though, that Internet Explorer will curiously never support HTML 5?

HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight? by InfoWorld: Yahoo! Tech
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iPhone 3GS for video podcasting?

I ordered the new iPhone 3GS (upgrading from a first gen iPhone) as soon as I found out about the added video functionality- shoot video on the fly, edit it with a multitouch video editing application, and email or upload it to either .me or youtube. What I'm not finding much information about is if there's going to be any deeper support for things like iTunes podcast enclosures coming from .me uploads. Sure, I can probably build something myself, but how nice would it be if I finally got the video service I've always wanted- an automated workflow that takes uploaded video, makes a public page with a player, but also provides me with a podcast feed for iTunes. I would love it if I could have one player on wileywiggins.com that always shows the last uploaded video and also displays a feed that people can subscribe to. There's been services that get close, but they usually rely on flash, and they rarely have anything automated other than transcoding, which I don't want anyway, since if I really wanted a flash player, I would still rather play h.264 video in it instead of execrable .flv video.

Regardless of wether I have to build this system myself or if apple or a third party provide it, I'm going to get this figured out as soon as I get my new phone in just a few days. I'll let you know how it works out.

Screens: 10 Pins and a Dream: The Alamo Drafthouse empire expands to include bowling, karaoke, and cocktails - The Austin Chronicle

You know times are tough when the Salvation Army retreats. But William Booth's loss is Austin's gain: The former Salvation Army thrift store at 1142 S. Lamar, all 14,000 square feet of it, has been leased to its neighbor, the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. Construction is under way on what Tim is tentatively calling "the Palace," to be open this fall.

Incorporating a bowling alley, with the actual Fifties-era lanes bought from legendary New Orleans bowler nirvana Rock 'n' Bowl, private karaoke rooms, a cafe, a bar, and oh so much more, the Palace, overseen by longtime Alamo architect Richard Weiss, with interior design by Joel Mazursky (Uchi, the Belmont), is a natural, fittingly organic outgrowth of both the Alamo brand and the Drafthouse's South Lamar location, specifically. And if you've been to just about any Friday or Saturday evening screenings there lately, then you've most likely already experienced the serpentine waiting lines that were the first inspiration for an expanded Alamo South Austin. [...]

Screens: 10 Pins and a Dream: The Alamo Drafthouse empire expands to include bowling, karaoke, and cocktails - The Austin Chronicle

Richard Linklater Script Gets Shelved - Cinematical

From Cinematical:

You know things are bad for the indie world when Richard flipping Linklater can't get a break. The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Biz Blog reports that Linklater's much buzzed-about script called That's What I'm Talking About has been shelved.

Richard Linklater Script Gets Shelved - Cinematical

World of Monofonus

The Rotten Fruit Tardis - James Paterson

The Rotten Fruit Tardis 27/03/2009 from Presstube on Vimeo.

'The Rotten Fruit Tardis' is a software environment created by artist James Paterson. It is the latest incarnation of his online space, Presstube.com (founded in 1999). TRFT is being developed and changed on an ongoing basis; significant updates will be recorded in the form of video screen captures and posted here.

Experience The Rotten Fruit Tardis live:
http://presstube.com/project.php?id=259

The Rotten Fruit Tardis premiered as part of "Harvest", Paterson's 2009 bitforms solo exhibition. For more about harvest visit http://www.bitforms.com/
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