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/



Press Coverage:

Intomobile

iPhoneBus

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.



Interview: 3D Sound Surge: Mike Barnes & Alan Seefeldt

PC World Story

CNN Coverage

ZD Net Asia Story

ALIVE Story

Ge Wang Presents ChucK/Audicle

Ge Wang, CTO of Smule (social sonic iPhone apps) presents the innovative ChucK audio/music live interactive programming langiage for computer music.

http://www.smule.com/

Tim Ferris- Do Lecture/Author Of "Four Hour Work Week"

Profile:

Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Business People of 2007," is author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek.

He has been featured by dozens of media, including The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, and CBS. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change.

http://www.dolectures.co.uk/speakers/timothy-ferriss

Diane Warren/Realsongs-Publishing Leader/Songwriting Entrepreneur

Diane is the best in the business and completely independent. You likely do not know her name, but you will recognize all the songs she has written/published and the Artists that have recorded those songs. She is a musical genius and another hero that has succeeded as a businesswoman/songwriter on her own terms, with her own vision without diluting her artistry! She is unique in the industry.

http://www.dianewarren.com/

Richard Branson @ TED Monterey, March 2007

Well, Richard Branson (Virgin founder) is one of my personal heroes. This video extract is from the 2007 TED Conference. Another inspiring Brit (Thomas Dolby) was musical director for the TED conference and performed afterwards at the Kuumbwa Jazz Club, Santa Cruz.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/richard_branson.html

Janus Friis @ Midem

Founder of Kazaa, Skype & Joost...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis

http://www.joost.com/