In the past few years, a lot of my favorite Arkansans have set up shop in Brooklyn. And they’ve been doing some cool stuff. Steve and Heath started a production company. Jack kept working with his band Life Size Pizza. The three joined forces, and behold: “El Diablo”
Both of these outfits keep getting better and better, and will have new work to show soon. Life Size is almost set to release their sophomore album, the song above being the first release from it.
Phoon Bonair‘s first feature, ‘Space,’ – with a tiny appearance from me – hits the film festival circuit this summer. Check the trailer to the mumblecore-y meta-movie below:
NEXT UP: Keep track of Phoon Bonair on Twitter while streaming Life Size Pizza’s first raucous album.
My pal Jared Rickman has spearheaded a fantastic cooperative learning initiative here in Little Rock – aptly titled “LR Summer School” – and I’m stoked to be co-teaching a class on building one’s own personal site, and to be doing so alongside a couple talented friends.
I encourage you to join up or volunteer to teach your own class here.
Spring has hit hard here in Arkansas, and I thought I’d finally develop an old reel and look back as I brace for another sunny finals season. Pics span from last fall to last week. More to come soon!
It’s hard not to hear somebody laughing at the 180° in Google’s mobile platform strategy.
There will be no more willy-nilly tweaks to the software. No more partnerships formed outside of Google’s purview.
via Business Week.
iPad 2 Beats Out MacBook Pros In iMovie Speed Tests
See here. Fairly staggering iPad 2 supremacy over three tests. I bet the unintuitive (but happy) results stem from a combination of two factors:
- The encoding is hardwareacceleratedon that new GPU silicon ( and the GPU is a whispy speed-demon)
- iOS’s overhead is so low that the N+15% of resources go right to the encoding task, vs. the MacBooks Pro’s N%.
In any case, here is another boot to the construction of iPad as dumb-reading-terminal. Still not enough to induce me to buy an iPad – that’ll take a squared pixel count – but I wouldn’t be surprised to see a gang of camera-connected iPad 2s out in the field at SXSW this weekend.
In the longer term, expect a flood of video content made by 5 year-olds in iMovie. And dang if that’s not a great thing for the generational media horizon.
Nixon In China (Opera): Act I Scene 1
How very strangely cool this is. As China’s rapid ascent continues, the Nixon visit feels like 120 years ago.
With CES over, and some Apple announcement’s ahead, I totally missed the big picture as remarked upon by market analyst Horace Dediu.
At this year’s CES two unthinkable things happened:
- The abandonment of Windows exclusivity by practically all of Microsoft’s OEM customers.
- The abandonment of Intel exclusivity by Microsoft for the next generation of Windows.
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These actions confirm the end of the PC era.
Heavy stuff, but: yep, check: Apple made substancial gains in the enterprise, especially in mobile. And Microsoft is gonna support ARM on ‘Windows’, ending a seemingly eternal commitment to x86.
One More Thing: App Store and Touch Interface
I’ll argue that the dual developments of the Mac App Store announcement AND the emergence of the tablet further supports such a position on the end of an era as such:
- The centralized application distribution center – even mirrored as it is by the repositories of Linux – is a sign of the maturation of the personal computer as a device, further away from specialized machine and more towards general-human appliance.
- The emergence of touch-interface tablets in appliance-like devices is a sign, of well, the exact same fissure. Doubly so given that the generative competition is between Apple and Google, with Windows nowhere in sight despite a decade of generalized vision of tablets as the future of the market.
Well hey. THE END OF THE PC ERA. I buy it figuratively, and literally still really rather want a 2nd Gen iPad.
Dediu via Daring Fireball.
“An Israeli motorist runs down a masked Palestinian youth who was standing among a group of youngsters throwing stones at Israeli cars on October 8, 2010 in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.”
via the Boston Globe
Appeals Court holds that email privacy is covered by Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure.
This line of reasoning will continue to hold up as we see more cases on the matter.
Read more from the EFF.
