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How To Be A Successful Black Artist.

Peter Holmes — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:11:43 +0000

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Peter Holmes — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:19:32 +0000

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An Annoyingly New Discovery: The McGurk Effect.

Peter Holmes — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:23:13 +0000

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The Bias Against Creativity.

Peter Holmes — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:30:19 +0000

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A study to be published in the journal Psychological Science shows that many people harbor an anti-creativity bias that they are generally not aware of. Despite professing a desire for creative thinking, most people are actually unable to identify a creative idea when they encounter one.

Instead, they associate creativity with words like “agony,” “vomit” and “poison”. They also rejected novel ideas for products that employed new technologies.

The study, “The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire But Reject Creative Ideas,” also revealed that novelty in itself made people squirm: test subjects did not like the idea of a nanotechnology-powered running shoe with the ability to adjust fabric thickness and reduce blisters. Even objective evidence was found not to reduce resistance to new ideas. Anti-creativity bias was found to be unconscious, like racism: the bias was also so subtle that they were simply unaware of it, leaving them unable to recognize creativity.

The digitization of biology. Beatbox From All Over the World.

Peter Holmes — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:52:43 +0000

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Peter Gunn – The Blind Pianist 1/3. This is Classic.

Peter Holmes — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:48:38 +0000

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Peter Gunn was an American private-eye television series that aired from 1958 to 1961. Craig Stevens played the title character, a private investigator who was not, however, a standard hard-boiled detective like Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe. Where other gumshoes were often coarse, Gunn was portrayed as the epitome of cool: a sophisticated hipster and a dapper dresser who loved jazz music. The theme music is worth the click.

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Like: Window Shop – Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi.

Peter Holmes — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:11:58 +0000

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The worst cover of a Beatles song ever.

Peter Holmes — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:57:35 +0000

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The Differences Between Multimedia, Crossmedia and Transmedia, Somewhat Explained.

Peter Holmes — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:43:56 +0000

The ad and marketing world has foisted upon itself an ever increasing and confusing layer of terms, abbreviations and re-definitions, over the years. The most helpful ideas need some sorting out and clarification. The rest need to be taken out behind a barn and shot.

Here are some definitions from Advertising Lab:

Myth #1 in Henry Jenkins’s 7 Myths About Transmedia is that ”transmedia storytelling refers to any strategy involving more than one media platform.” It doesn’t, and the following attempt at a classification of *media storytelling approaches could be useful for understanding the difference:

Multimedia:
– A single story is told concurrently via different media, with the core narrative being supported by artifacts spread out across many types of media. None of these artifacts (except maybe one core piece?) can tell a (the?) story on its own, and the narrative can’t be consumed in the absence of the elements. Many ARGs labeled as transmedia actually seem to be multimedia. Many consider traditional merchandising (think Happy Meal toys) to be a form of transmedia storytelling, but I doubt it can be classified even as multimedia.

Crossmedia:
– A single story is interpreted independently in different media. Consider The Lord of The Rings or Harry Potter books and their movie incarnations. Consuming the story in one medium can enhance one’s understanding of the story told via the other, but each individual interpretation is self-sufficient.

Transmedia:
– Multiple stories are set in a single universe, each is told via different media and they complement each other to form an overarching narrative. Example: The Matrix (one of Jenkins’s original examples of transmedia storytelling), with the movie trilogy, the comic books and the virtual world all being self-sufficient but at the same time enhancing each other.

These approaches are not mutually exclusive, of course, and nothing prevents a media franchise from employing all three. Lost, with its combination of the TV series, the ARG, the video game, the board game, the novels and many other media artifacts is a great example of trans- and multimedia storytelling (examined in detail in Ivan Askwith’s thesis).

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Dubstep Bassline Using Kinect. Next: Actually Playing Notes Using an Air Guitar.

Peter Holmes — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:03:04 +0000

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It will be interesting to see this technology used to control 3D video mapping on buildings.

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