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emusic assortment
Yet another online electronic music mag: igloo::magazine – found via William Fields (team techno) who by the way makes beautifully squishy and squelchy downtempo electronica. He has several tracks available for preview or download. Linking from there I found the website for DI (DigImpro), which I heard about a while back and then promptly forgot…
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Link: Amateur Movie Portal
One of many “amateur” resource sites, the Amateur Movie Portal has links to tutorials, movie collections, software and libraries, forums and news groups.
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New Publication
This new book from MIT press looks like just the ticket: New Media, 1740-1915 (Media in Transition), edited by Lisa Gitelman, Geoffrey B. Pingree, and Edward Barrett. Blurb: Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to study new media is to study exclusively today’s new media. Examining a…
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Wired Hypes Magnatune
Via Creative Commons, I notice that Wired, perhaps unsurprisingly, is hyping the latest mp3 distribution revolutionary Magnatune to the hilt. There are areas where Magnatune is innovative (particularly in its synergy between filesharing, activist culture and artist promotion), but in other ways the model and the rhetoric have an eerily familiar ring – with amp3.com,…
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Digital Music Symposium
I will be at this with bells on: The QUT Faculties of Law, Creative Industries & Information Technology are presenting a FREE seminar on Wednesday 26 November which will investigate the current issues facing the digital distribution of music. Keynote Speaker Fred von Lohmann is a Senior staff attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), specialising…
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Linkdump: Amateur Creativity Online
Some interesting sites I’ve found that in various ways function as portals for “amateur” creative production, consumption and networking – beyond the well-trodden ground of fan production. Creative Writing Zine5 – very extensive resource/community site with masses of creative writing from various genres – I’m guessing based in India? Photography photoblogs – probably the best…
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Freelance – Photo Exhibition
Photo buffs in BrisVegas might like to pop into the Brisbane Powerhouse and check out Freelance, an exhibition by photography students at Southbank Institute of TAFE. Opening: Friday 17 Oct 2003 7.00pm Spark Bar Exhibition Times Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm; Sat 12pm – 4pm (and 2 hours prior to performances at other times)…
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Another passing
NYU professor and media scholar Neil Postman has died at 72.
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more retro chic: the lofi mixtape network
Via esoteric linkhound extraordinaire metal machine music, I draw your attention to the lofi mixtape network – an audiovisual presentation and ongoing collection project by Visual Stereo. Listen or upload your own for others to hear. There is also a nice little essay on the affective dimensions of the mixtape.
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Fanimatrix
A superb example of the collapsing boundaries between professional and vernacular creativity, and despite squarely belonging to the fan production category, definitely exposing the constructedness of the Hollywood budget-to-quality ratio: The Fanimatrix – Run Program is now available for free download. The Fanimatrix – Run Program’ is a collaboration between over a dozen professional actors,…