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FabChannel – Quality Streaming Live Concerts

12 Friday Sep 2008

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I’ve come across a rather interesting resource called FabChannel.com.  FabChannel are providing quality video streams of whole concerts from legitimate sources, either licensed concert recordings from music companies such as Universal and V2 or professional recorded performances from Dutch based venues.  The video quality is good enough that it could be expanded to watch full screen with only a small amount of graininess on a 1600x1200monitor with streaming through a Flash player. FabChannel’s performances cover a wide range of well known artists such as The View and Martha Wainwright, and they claim to have got over 900 performances available already.

 Martha Wainright on FabChannel

The site also has integration with last.fm and can also provide useful artist bios etc. To generate income to pay for the service there are some adverts on the site, but they’re not annoying popup’s etc.

 

Gutter Twins Release EP called Adorata on Sept 2

09 Tuesday Sep 2008

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The Gutter Twins (Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli) are releasing a new EP to help raise funds for the Natasha Shneider Memorial Fund.  The EP comprises of covers ranging from Down The Line (Jose Gonzales) to Deep Hit Of Morning Sun," (Primal Scream). 

My only grievance with this is that the download is exclusive to iTunes!

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Real or Thomas Tank engine like models?

09 Tuesday Sep 2008

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The small beautifully detailed models in the Thomas the Tank Engine programmes have a strong place in my life now I’m a parent to a small boy.  The question is, is the following image a small model like Thomas or real?

Despite looking very model like, this is in fact according to an article on Wallpaper (here) the photography of Naoki Honji, who creates the model like effect by manipulating the light and colour intensity of the images. Combined with the panoramic nature of the photos they look very model like.

 

The Wallpaper article provides more example of the images along with details of an exhibition of Honji’s work.

 

famous photographer Annie Leibovitz talks to Vanity Fair

09 Tuesday Sep 2008

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The famous portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz, probably best known the many for the recent ‘scandal’ when having a photographic session at Buckingham Palace with the Queen has been interviewed by Vanity Fair. The article can bee read here.

In the iinterview she talks several of her best images including that of the Stones whilst at Rolling Stone magazine, Demi Moore for Vanity Fair and the recent Queen portrait.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to BOfH for the link

Hurricanes, as seen from orbit

09 Tuesday Sep 2008

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With the current run of Hurricanes hitting Haiti, Cuba and the United States a friend pointed me to some amazing images from low orbit, such as:

Hurricanes, as seen from orbit – The Big Picture – Boston.com

 

The Big Picture at the Boston.com website has a collection of amazing photos.

 

Hi-Q acquired

08 Monday Sep 2008

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I’ve just heard some interesting news – it would appear that my former employer Hi-Q systems has just been acquired by BMT Group. Its good to hear that they’re doing well and developed a strong position in their specialisation of architectural frameworks such as MODAF and DODAF.

Press Release – 27 August 2008

SeeWhy for jBPM video demo

22 Friday Aug 2008

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SeeWhy for jBPM now has three videos that have been put together that illustrate SeeWhy what it is, and what can be done. Although the videos are aimed at jBPM they’re just as applicable to any BPM solution, not just jBPM. The videos also give some sense as to what SeeWhy has the potential to be able to do.

The videos are freely available from Google, and higher res versions that can be downloaded from the SeeWhy website. With the higher resolution versions you can see in detail what is being done.

Part 1 – Introduction to SeeWhy for jBPM

Part 2 – Business Activity Monitoring

 

Part 3 – Event Driven Business Intelligence

Paul Westerberg :: 5:05

22 Friday Aug 2008

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The strangeness around Paul Westerberg’s 49:00 album is ever increasing as Aquarium Drunkard explains here with the disappearance of the album and the appearance of  5:05 which just coincidentally is the difference in running time between the original album and its title.  We blogged about the original appearance of 49:00 here and Aquarium Drunkard did here.

 

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Free Dido mp3 – Look No Further

22 Friday Aug 2008

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The promotional engines have stepped up a gear for Dido with her thirds album finally due for release soon.  As part of this a new song is being made available as a downloadable free MP3 download called Look No Further taken from the new album.

 

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Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE

22 Friday Aug 2008

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With the increasingly aggressive position being taken by organisations such as the RIAA, BPI, MPAA, the British Games Organisation it is not surprising that a new advancement in peer to peer technology has occured to make the P2P data transfer anonymous.  This article on O’Reilly describes a new bread of P2P that makes the traffic anonymous – ONLamp.com — Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE.

 

The effect of P2P clients such as this getting traction is that it will become increasingly harder for industry bodies to understand how to at least try and contain losses to piracy (real or perceived) and utilise the technologies to propel marketing and promotional activities – so shooting themselves in the foot.

 

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