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Fans of this blog will, for many reasons, enjoy this documentary: Which is actually viewable online, apparently this weekend only in association with the Hamptons International Film Festival & Snag Films. Watch it. Be inspired. Share. http://snagfilms.com/films/title/between_the_folds/

Web creative types listen up! Wouldn't it be cool if you could take all your favorite creative desktop applications and wrap one web community around them, track sources, attribute authors, create, and share! Seems impossible... but that's just what the folks of worth1000.com are trying to do with their new effort, called Aviary [ http://a.viary.com ]! Currently they have a few tools, all written as web-served Adobe AIR/RIA applications, in private Beta. Primarily Pheonix, their brush-based image editing tool. But they also are dropping tantalizing teasers of their others tools on their tool blog , which uses range the gamut including font-creation, pattern generation, 3d-works, image fingerprinting, etc etc. A designer's dream suite, free... and on the web. These insane folks in New York have rolled in an impressive list of up and coming technology, not to mention embracing some ideals about content and rights management that are long overdue. More on that in the b...

I've had magic lanterns (invented in the 1600s) on my links page of my personal site for a while now. But the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin is hosting an event on the subject. I'll be there. Here's the excerpt of the email notification: Jack Judson brings alive the world of the magic lantern, a form of animated optical projection used to educate and delight audiences for centuries, in his talk “Magic Lanterns: Father of the Motion Picture and Grandfather of Television” on Tuesday, July 17, at 7 p.m. at the Harry Ransom Center. Judson, owner of the Magic Lantern Castle in San Antonio, discusses the history of magic lanterns, which date back to the 1600s, and how they contributed to the development of cinema. He’ll project slides using his own restored magic lantern to illustrate his talk. Seating is free, but limited.

The first post in what will eventually be a series. Great concepts I've encountered online... hopefully most having to do with media, art, and photography... but not promising I won't stray from that theme. So the "crank/shake/generally-perturb" devices designed with energy generation coming from the user, such as the hand crank radios , the eventual laptop for 3rd world countries have finally hit home in an area I pay attention to. Seen on the Make: Blog , a camera you never have to charge or replace the batteries in! Sony is behind this product. And personally, I WANT ONE . Although it's a good thing I am not too into nature photography. I can't imagine this thing is very "silent". *imagines the whirrrring sound of the charging mechanism as you spin it around on your fingers* Maybe they could alter it to match at least one animal's mating call. Translated version of original article, with more pictures .