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Audio Video Edition: Specially Selected Free and Open Source Software | Audio/Video ngo-in-a-box

Nice collection of links to the best Open Source digital media software for all platforms.

The physical ui (the table) is nice, but isn’t new (MIT has been demoing something like this for many years). However, I really like the UI between the different blocks on the table. It is one of the clearest mechanisms I’ve seen for showing the interactions between oscillators and filters and other such analog-y synthesizer pieces. I’d love to see someone code that up in a flash demo or to see Native Instruments incorporate it into a new view for Reaktor. This would be a great tool for teaching synthesis concepts to students.

Cuts Launches Amidst Online Video Editor War

Pretty amazed at the wealth of riches in this space all of the sudden.

whatitscolor.com

A tool that will let you upload a picture and then it will figure out the dominat colors and given you them so that you can design around it. Very useful!

I was reading up on my Tilt/Shift photograpy, and I came across this link on how to fake it in PS. If you pick your images well, it works pretty well. It took me several tries with different pictures before I got the one above, which came out pretty well. It is a picture of Les Baux, France, by the way.

Fake model photography

I hadn’t seen this one in a while, but discovered it again. It’s got some meat in there about their approaches to music.

Tom Waits – in conversation with Elvis Costello Interview
Option magazine, July/Aug 1989

Lawrence Lessig – Copyright Policy: Orphaned Works Reform
Master Plan – About the power of Google

Both of these pieces are doing something similar. They are using motion graphics and typeography to help illustrate and enliven spoken word material. I think that the Master Plan piece is better visually (which is admittedly much easier at 3:15 instead of 36:00. However, the content of Lawrence Lessig’s piece is far more effective if only because he is much more experienced at speaking and he is much more knowledgeable about his topic. It definitely shows how substance can beat out style, but it also shows how compelling voices and messages are really the most important part of a informational, educational or political piece.

The Lawrence Lessig film is below:

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welcome to Ruairí Robinson’s webpage. No loitering.

Once nominated for an Oscar, Director Ruairi Robinson has since been doing a lot of commercials. He has decided to post his newest short film on his website in both standard and HD, which I very much dig as a way to promote your work.

MographWiki – Main Page

I like the idea and hopefully it will be a good resource eventually, but right now it seems that it is just a way for indie folk to post links to their sites.

Picnik – “edit photos the easy way, online in your browser”

This is cute. Not insanely featured, but a nice proof of concept for Flex. Maybe ’cause I write image processing code for a living, these things are really interesting to me. This would be a great Apollo shareware app. I also like that they are in Seattle. Maybe the local startup market is improving.