Now that one of the world’s foremost authorities on economic development declares capitalism “superseded by creativity and the ability to innovate,” it’s a good time for designers to find work. Here are some recommendations for getting seen and getting paid.
Television is losing viewers, and iPads and their cousins are ready to replace it.
LA Metro 206 bus at Florence Ave & Normandie Ave Today is the 20th anniversary of the LA “Rodney King” Riots that began, visibly, on television news showing footage from helicopters of rioters attacking cars at the intersection of Florence Ave & Normandie Ave in South Los Angeles (at the time more commonly called South [...]
Augmented Reality just got a lot more fashionable. That wasn’t hard, as the previous standard was pretty much Geordi La Forge‘s automotive-filter visor. That said, Google Glass looks pretty serious–like having Siri behind your eyeballs.
Skateboard manufacturers, coffee bars, and tattoo parlors are all new media industries–they just don’t know it yet. Here’s how to convince them to hire you.
From assignment to App Store in five months: After creating a demo version in her New Media class, UMaine Intermedia student Jennifer Hooper teams up with NMD alum Justin Russell to release a Community Connector mobile app for local riders. Jennifer Hooper liked this post
Want to learn new media skills but don’t have the cash for pay-to-use services like Lynda.com or Codecademy? The U-Me New Media Department is planning to launch a repository of how-to screencasts and other educational resources in the coming year–for free.
The third dimension isn’t just a Hollywood contrivance for repackaging old movies–it’s cropping up in everything from tablet computers to museum exhibits to Web design.
Who’s got the right strategy for uniting content across desktop and mobile devices? (And who’s utterly failing?)
Call centers? Check. Custom software? Check. Music videos? Yes, now creative work can be outsourced to Bangalore. Does this threaten the livelihood of North American artists, or just give them more options to choose from?
Have you ever entered (shudder!) a fake name into a Web site? Now that Interpol has helped arrest 25 alleged Anonymous hackers, you might be interested to learn that behaviors most netizens have practiced since the third grade qualifies as hacking under current US law.
Bored of the same old movies and TV shows? Flicks programmed by computers are making a debut at prestigious venues like the Sundance film festival, while TV watchers and video artists are turning to unusual processes for making decisions. Can creative formulas make video less, well, formulaic?
Based on an assignment for a class in variable media. Rory McGuire’s to blame for inspiring me to waste 30 perfectly good minutes of my life. If you have no idea what this is, try these links entries on the pepper spray and Han Shot First memes.
The average new media student might hesitate to rent just one application at Adobe’s asking price. But Adobe’s throwing in all its apps, plus the ability to swap work on your project from mobile to desktop application with all changes stored in the cloud.
Thanks to new, easy-to-use standards, the Web just got a lot more animated.
This month’s debut of Apple’s digital textbook venture met with mixed reactions. Who’s right?
Hollywood’s resort to draconian tactics like SOPA may have cost them the moral high ground.
Last fall Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun offered his CS221 course ‘Introduction to Artificial Intelligence’ online, for free. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/23/udacity-and-the-future-of-online-universities/ Thrun told the story of his Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class, which ran from October to December last year. It started as a way of putting his Stanford course online — he was going to teach the whole thing, for free, [...]
by SARAH VAN GELDER, DAVID KORTEN, AND STEVE PIERSANTI Many question whether this movement can really make a difference. The truth is that it is already changing everything. Here’s how. 1. It names the source of the crisis. The problems of the 99% are caused by Wall Street greed, perverse financial incentives, and a corporate [...]
The biting video promo for “Fotoshop by Adobé” (pronounced a-do-BEY) imagines the popular image editor marketed by Revlon et al. The scary thing is how close the video is to reality.
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