Monday, April 21, 2008
Bonus points if you can tell me how this connects to other sightings
Alice in popular culture sighting no. 49: In Pulp Secret's coverage of New York Comic Con, Jeremy Love describes Bayou as "...a mixture between Alice in Wonderland and the Br'er rabbit stories...".
Thursday, April 17, 2008
TED's been talking to me again
So, once again I've been watching various TED talks and there's a couple I'd like to bring to your attention.
The first is Johnny Lee's "Wii remote hacks". While the possibilities he's realised for a (relatively) cheap piece of technology are astounding, what interests me most is the end of his speech, where he talks about how the web has enabled the sharing of his ideas. He mostly talks about online video distribution and YouTube, but it relates to other community/collaborative/web 2.0 technologies that allow for the sharing and development of ideas.
The second features Tod Machover, the creator of Guitar Hero. He talks about his various other projects that bring the ability to create music to anyone. These kinds of projects were something
that we somewhat touched on in my undergraduate music tech course, but taken much further. That part of the course was something that really interested me as it really fully went against the side of the course that encouraged convoluted approaches to music creation that I really didn't enjoy.
The first is Johnny Lee's "Wii remote hacks". While the possibilities he's realised for a (relatively) cheap piece of technology are astounding, what interests me most is the end of his speech, where he talks about how the web has enabled the sharing of his ideas. He mostly talks about online video distribution and YouTube, but it relates to other community/collaborative/web 2.0 technologies that allow for the sharing and development of ideas.
The second features Tod Machover, the creator of Guitar Hero. He talks about his various other projects that bring the ability to create music to anyone. These kinds of projects were something
that we somewhat touched on in my undergraduate music tech course, but taken much further. That part of the course was something that really interested me as it really fully went against the side of the course that encouraged convoluted approaches to music creation that I really didn't enjoy.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
It's such a small world
Alice in popular culture sighting no. 46: In the inside front cover of the "author's preferred text" of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, there's a quote from the Minneapolis Star Tribune that describes the book as "A dark contemporary ALICE IN WONDERLAND... Imaginative, well-crafted [and] highly visual".
Alice in popular culture sighting no. 47: In his TED talk, back in February, about finding the true face of Leonardo Da Vinci, Siegried Woldhek shows portraits he's painted. He zooms in on three specific portraits, these are of Audrey Hepburn, Saddam Hussein, and Lewis Carroll. Carroll appears to be taking a picture of Alice Liddell.
Alice in popular culture sighting no. 48: I was bored the other day and started stumbling. The first page I came to was two pieces of Alice inspired art by Eva Soulu, apparently for an album entitled "Wonderland" by The Penultimate Truth.
Alice in popular culture sighting no. 47: In his TED talk, back in February, about finding the true face of Leonardo Da Vinci, Siegried Woldhek shows portraits he's painted. He zooms in on three specific portraits, these are of Audrey Hepburn, Saddam Hussein, and Lewis Carroll. Carroll appears to be taking a picture of Alice Liddell.
Alice in popular culture sighting no. 48: I was bored the other day and started stumbling. The first page I came to was two pieces of Alice inspired art by Eva Soulu, apparently for an album entitled "Wonderland" by The Penultimate Truth.
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