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The Evolution of Music Online | Off Book

by Dan on January 12, 2012

Related to the previous, the latest PBS Arts Off Book documentary short is about the massive changes that have occurred in the music industry in the last twenty years as a result of new technology and the Internet:

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PressPausePlay

by Dan on January 12, 2012

The full-length documentary PressPausePlay is now available to watch on Vimeo. The film, which somehow manages to be simultaneously both inspiring and melancholic, looks at the effects of digital technology and the Internet on the creative economy. Worth watching if you have a spare hour (although depending on your attitude to these things it might make you smile in joyful validation or retreat to your bed for about a week to weep quietly to yourself:

PressPausePlay was made by creative agency House of Radon.

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Novum 11/11: The Making Of Cover

October 20, 2011

Yes, yet another “making of” video, but before you roll your eyes and click away, take a moment to watch this one. It shows the cover design for the latest issue of German graphic design magazine Novum. Designed by Paperlux, the tactile cover bends and folds in small triangles. I don’t know how it would work [...]

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J.J. Abrams | Fresh Air

June 17, 2011

One last miscellaneous post before the weekend… Filmmaker J.J. Abrams  talks about his new movie Super 8 and, perhaps most interestingly, his storytelling process with Terry Gross for NPR’s Fresh Air: In a movie like “The Graduate,” Ben and Elaine had their first real date and they’re, you know, sitting at a restaurant eating in [...]

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Evgeny Morozov: The Internet in Society

June 2, 2011

In this RSA Animate video, Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion, takes a critical look at the role of the internet in global politics: (via Kirstin Butler)

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