It’s not the typical noisy toothsayery dubstap massacre what Scuba serves us in another excellent XLR8 podcast but rather a very deep and flirry mix which accelerates veeery slowly and has a curve of tension which is hardly noticeable. Still, this mix contains some energy which is hidden deep in the bass. I love it.
[audio:http://xlr8r.com/listen/16852/mp3/Podcast_Mix_2008_11_13.mp3]
Check out the whole article and the tracklisting.
Here is another example of fancy touchscreen and visualization gadgtets: An interactive mirror. It could be interesting to leave notes for your roommates or put pictures of clothes on it to see what would be looking good at you. Hm… Myriad possibilities. Plus: This videos has some very pushy old school Dr Dre styled beats beneath.
Interactive Mirror from Alpay Kasal on Vimeo.
Ourmusicmixes is a great source for classic, old and new, deep and soulful house music. Tons of mixes are stored there, Chicago deep Stuff, raw classics, in the ultimate haven for all lovers of what started from disco in the 80ies to warehouse stuff in Chicago, to the big house success in the 90ies. From gay clubs in churches, from Lerry Levan, to Mr Vegas, Kerry Chandler, Moodyman, Basement Soul. Thank you so much guys for giving us music that easily could be forgotten!
Here is one very nice and deep mix from Chicago Deep:
[audio:http://www.ourmusicmixesstore.com/our_music128.mp3]
There are not many streets there. Still, in the very north of Norway, on the archipelago Lofoten two of the most known Norwegian street artists, Dolk and Pøbel have painted some house walls. Poppy, stencil-like paintings in black and white with few colour highlights and some surreal motives like superman with Dialyse, at old wooden houses in the middle of nowhere. Certainly one more reason to travel to Lofoten despite the breath taking nature. [via Elsbe]
Watch more pictures at Nrk.no or watch a slideshow with Lofoten pictures from Flickr
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Many ask: “What’s this track in the ford fiesta commercial with the pink car in front of many moving tv screens” or “Wie heißt der Song aus der Ford Werbung”? It’s “Transient” by Pluxus, Swedes who live partly in Berlin and come out on the label Pluxemburg. The song is very groovy, deep, longing, and a little glossy, perfect match for the commercial. Props to Ogilvy London to buy it!
I alreay mentioned Ofrin here as a very, very good band. Unfortunately I could not see their concert at Glashaus but on Hobnox is a nice feature about the Israelean duo in Berlin who just released their second album (produced by Eddie Stevens) and who are on tour right now.
I wrote the following article together with Max Senges and Peter Bihr for the UOC Fórum Innovació.
Social Communities have grown rapidly over the last years, offering people the chance to publish personal information and connect with each other. The biggest social community today is Facebook with more than 120 million members. Due to the myriad possibilities to use Facebook, there many ways to support teaching and learning.
Facebook started in 2004 at Harvard University and was aimed at connecting students. Now, almost every American student and many Europeans have profiles on Facebook. They use it to share information, such as links, photos and videos, to arrange real life events and to communicate in groups.
From: http://www.apple.com/au/education/digitalkids/disconnect/landscape.htmlFace
The use of Facebook also shows the current cultural differences between teachers who slowly have to adapt to new technologies and students who grew up with digital communication. The differences in media use and learning behaviour between so called “digital native learners” and “digital immigrant teachers” are shown below. Understanding how to use Facebook opens up a way to stepping closer to actual student behaviour and to create a more appropriate way of teaching.
Read on at the UOC Fórum Innovació.
Facebook for Services, students create job and service profiles
The Evolution2 is the sequel of the first, very susccesful talent competition Evolution by Hobnox. The contest is coming closer to the final decisions, though it is still time to submit projects to enter the finals.
While the Evo2 is running hot right now, the winners of the first contest are presenting the results of their work since winning the contest at the big Hobnox launch party and evolution festival in february 08. Missy Magazine, a mag about pop, politics and style from a feministic viewpoint is now available as a good old glossy print mag, while Boombaker, a very energetic live drum’n’bass/breakbeat band are on tour right now.
Here, I’d like to present some of the most interesting pieces and explain the rules in a nutshell. Continue reading
Greenhouse.sproutbuilder.com is an absolute blast. It’s a flash based widget builder which works entirely in your browser window and has a lot of editing features. Build sites with text, video, pictures, slideshows, maps, charts or insert RSS. Define size, fonts, colors, background, effects. Here are the most recent updates from the PANORAMA3000 blog in a widget, it took me 20 minutes to make it nice.
Auf myspace.com/urbanstreetteam gibt es eine nette Competition: Freund werden, Foto in das eigene MySpace-Profil hochladen, mit dem Urban Streetteam Profil verlinken und dann Kommentare auf dem Foto sammeln. Dazu kriegt jeder noch ein stylishes Widget zum eigenes-Bild-promoten.
Das Foto mit den meisten Kommentaren gewinnt – ein Trip im Bus inkl 5 weitere Freunde zum Konzert nach Oberhausen.
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