Fora.tv, Guy Kawasaki @ The Commonwealth Club

The Power of "No Bull Shitake" lecture featured on www. Fora.tv which aggregates the best in todays thought leadership!



http://fora.tv/2008/11/17/Guy_Kawasaki_The_Power_of_No_Bull_Shiitake

Commonwealth Club, Silicon Valley

iPhone Music Applications - Best Sellers in UK & US

iPhone Music Apps are best sellers in UK & US

http://thumblounge.com/topapps/top-iphone-apps/

http://www.appcraver.com/category/music/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2008/07/top_5_iphone_music_application_1.html

iPhone Best Selling US Phone Q3 08

Brian Eno - Bloom for iPhone, Ambient Music Generator

Brian Eno - ambient thought leader, progressive technologist has created the hypnotic "Bloom" for iPhone visual composition of ambient music. What would Erik Satie - the original piano minimalist and "phonometrician" think after 120 years of technological advancement? Eno calls it "a music box for the 21st century"

Bloom supports single and multi-touch for melodic or harmonic composition and has its own song representation format.

http://generativemusic.com/



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Amy Seefeldt- Contemporary Art Portfolio 08, Developed By MB

This is a beta version/partial compilation of Amy Seefeldt's (San Francisco artist) Contemporary art portfolio project I concepted and designed using Keynote/Quicktime and staged for the web on Vimeo (so here the encode quality/frame-rate is 2 stages degraded from the ultra crisp HD original).

The concept/brief was to deliver:

• A branded portfolio - immersive, kinetic but with a contemporary gallery/postcard feel rather than MTV fast-cut aesthetic

• Progressive visual assembly, paced to elegantly reveal the key information in series for optimum absorption

• Positioning thought-provoking verbal fragments about each work with a consistent design theme for the series

The earlier working versions stubbed Chicane's/Saltwater as a more ethereal soundtrack as opposed to Goldfrapp/Deerstop, both groups being amongst the best in UK progressive electronica. The Goldfrapp song has a timeless ambience with a piano motif similar to french romantic minimalist Erik Satie's "furniture music".


Amy Seefeldt -Modern Art Portfolio 2008 Beta from Mike Barnes on Vimeo.

LAVA (Live Audio Visual Animation) Madonna 3D Demo, 2000

This real-time rendered demo of LAVA (Live Audio Visual Animation) was made back in 2000 by Alan Seefeldt/Mark Buchanan/Mike Barnes/Alan Peevers.

All the movement is triggered by audio analysis linked to kinetically animated meshes and the camera and scene cuts are controlled by a custom real-time automation/scripting language.

www.LAVA.com was founded in 1999 by Alan Seefeldt/Mike Barnes (me) & Alan Peevers and incubated by Creative Labs Inc.

LAVA pioneered MV3 (Music-Video-3D), POD's (embedded webpages & 3Dobject hyperlinks) & a push ad engine ORBS (Objects with replaceable banners), Graffitti ( Text FX) and a multitude of realtime generated texture and scene visual FX implemented first in OpenGL and later in Direct3D.



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