Remember creating mix tapes for your friends, carefully choosing their audio experience? Me neither, but I wish I did. Muxtape endeavors to bring that feeling back for the first time.
They used to be a fast rising star in the internet world until the reality of band labels hit them. It’s an interesting story. Now they seem to be creating a service that if you want in, you have to play by their rules. They are fair rules; fair to the content creators, fair to the users, and fair to the good folks at Muxtape. Independent labels recognize the value in Muxtape and are signing on. Big labels recognize the value, but their lawyers want money first. At some point the business people will hopefully convince the lawyers that the money will come in some other way and roses will bloom on the mountainside and beer will flow from the heavens. It will be sticky.
If you happened to try a Google search sometime this morning between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST you would have noticed that every result was marked as potential unsafe to your computer. That’s because Google decided that the entire internet is probably malicious.
Google attempted to fix this problem by unchecking the “entire internet” option on the list of bad sites, rather than actually address the issue at hand. To really fix the internet we’d pretty much have to start all over again with new people. Blogs would definitely be out.
This is no photochop. What you are looking at is a genuine, Vietnam era camera gun. It gives new meaning to photographers everywhere saying they’re going to go “shoot” their subject! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!1!
But seriously, it’s pretty impressive from a situational engineering standpoint. Gizmodo was able to get a hold of a guy who was a war photographer in Afghanistan recently. He gave a good, detailed explanation of the why behind carrying a camera gun. He has some other term than “camera gun” (rifle stock), but really camera gun is pretty much the coolest term I’ve heard in a long time so we’re going with it.
It was developed as a way to have really steady long zoom shots, while being able to get out of your way in a hurry. I think rally car photographers should think about this one too. And maybe wedding photographers who specialize in the action sequence of the ceremony.
All owners of the Xbox 360 received an extra Christmas present when they updated their console a month ago. I know I am a big fan of the new look and feel. I just ran across a post by the design firm Gridplane that came up with a competing concept for the New Xbox Experience. Behold what might have been:
Update: I have added an image gallery with all the concepts available at Gridplane’s site. You can view the original article here.
While I love the color palette they have chosen, I think they took a few steps back on functionality. The white gradient is very subtle and pleasing, and the shade of green reflects the history of the Xbox color palette while moving forward. Functionally, however, I think the way they present the different groups of information does not give the user enough information about where they are. What comes next? What group were the just viewing?
It is a great attempt, and I appreciate Gridplane sharing it with us.
(via Gizmodo)
