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“Circa 1948” by Stan Douglas, a 3D historical augmented reality app that captures the stories and architecture of a transitional post-war era Canada.

Apple - Making a difference. One app at a time. (by Apple)

iOS apps can make a difference because of the people who make them and the people they are for.

Ellen at Tulane Commencement 2009 (by Tulane)

For all of you experiencing “Common Cement”

I can’t believe it’s been forty-five years since RFK was shot. When I heard I went to tell my Mother and she said, “I know he was shot years ago.” No Mom, the other Kennedy, Robert was shot.” She just sat there in disbelief for awhile. I sketched this top image, then colorized the second. the poem, I also wrote the same day, I gave to me English teacher who just gave it back crying.

The assassination of Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of assassinated President John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy, took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California, during the campaign season for the United States Presidential election, 1968. 

Luv this what’s up next online public sign post? If you are in Brooklyn, NY,  Breakfast NY’s new Points sign is much can spin its arrows toward locations on demand or as they become relevant, whether it’s a ball game or concert stage in the afternoon. 

Sound Cloud ~ Two tracks from each of the four albums of “Holy Soul Jelly Roll” by Allen Ginsberg. fi you are in the SF Bay Area check out:

MY MOM ON MOVIES - web series by filmmaker Joshua Seftel talking with his mom about movies, pop culture. Featured on NPR.

“MIDI Makes Music” - MIDI was first demonstrated at the National Association of Music Merchants  in 1983. 

Web articles about the 30th Anniversary of MIDI:

• Fortune/CNN: Successful Inventors Never Made a Cent
• MPV Hub: MIDI Marks 30
• Marketplace (NPR): Happy Birthday MIDI
• PCR Online: MIDI-celebrates-30th-birthday-at-2013 CES
• Engadget: MIDI turns 30, gets year-long birthday bash from daddy
• BBC Online: How MIDI Changed the World of Music
• The Register: MIDI Merry Unbirthday

and on NPR today ~ “The MIDI Revolution: Synthesizing Music For The Masses”

SOUND POSTER 1.0 ~ Visual Storytelling

Saul Bass Google Doodle [HD] (by oceparx)

Did you visit Google today? If you did you had a cinematic minute as Google marked the birthday of Saul Bass with one of the search engine’s most elaborate “doodles” yet – an animated sequence based on his designs for film title credits, film posters and corporate logos.

Cinematic Storytelling everywhere beyond screens and monitors ~ I just watched #DisplAir; the 3-minute documentary from Focus Forward’s “Short Films, Big Ideas” series. 

futureoffilm:

What We Can Learn From Defiance and the Future of Cross-Media Storytelling

Using the Sun to Make Music (by vice)

Solar music ~ Composer Robert Alexander is helping NASA make new discoveries by turning raw data into music through a process called Data Sonification.

A transmedia project with 30 webisodes, an alternate ending, a secret shortf ilm and associated books.

“The Cosmonaut” four years in the making, is pushing the boundaries of alternative distribution, copyright and financing. Crowdfunded the film is creative commons-licensed with all the raw materials released for the public to reuse!