09 Tuesday Sep 2008
Posted in Photography
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
09 Tuesday Sep 2008
Posted in Photography
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.
08 Monday Sep 2008
Posted in General
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.
22 Friday Aug 2008
Posted in Technology
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.
22 Friday Aug 2008
Posted in Music
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.
22 Friday Aug 2008
Posted in Music
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.
Dido related site:
22 Friday Aug 2008
Posted in Music, Technology
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.
22 Friday Aug 2008
Posted in General
The Daily Telegraph have written any interesting article about Faithless’ Sister Bliss who recently released a solo effort called Nightmoves.
The article can be found at : Telegraph – Sister Bliss. The Nightmoves album is available here.
22 Friday Aug 2008
Posted in Music, Technology
The International Herald Tribune has interesting piece on Peter Gabriel and his subtle but important influence on music in the digital age – Cutting edge rocker blazes trail in digital age – International Herald Tribune.
22 Friday Aug 2008
Posted in General
It looks like the Imperium has arrived at the planet earth, or at least San Francisco, checkout this video footage …
The footage is very clever.
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