From O’Reilly…
” Seattle’s McLeod Residence currently has photomosaic mirrors in the bathrooms. The McLeod Mirrors track your image and in (relative) real-time generate your image with hundreds of other images. The images used in the display come from powder room visitors.”
If the mirror takes pictures, and has a “memory”…wow, I don ‘t know how to [...]

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Copyright, an important issue to us creatives, is sluggishly moving it’s weight around. Where sites like YouTube, who blatantly ignore the creative food-chain (that it takes money to make these well-crafted videos, and that stealing them causes someone harm somewhere, if not a rough ripple through the creative community), Grouper has decided to modify itself [...]

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“Here’s a safety alert. Jogging + iPod + thunderstorm = very bad idea. A letter published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reports that a 37-year-old iPod-listening jogger in Vancouver, British Columbia, suffered serious injuries when he ran by a tree as it was struck by lightning.”
From The Machinist (Salon.com)

We often get the question(s) of whether an artist should chose to advertise in a source book (such as the Workbook), do a direct mail piece, or do email broadcasts (like with Wise Elephant). Our answer is typically “all of the above, wisely, and if your budget affords it.” We often point out the larger [...]

from TGdaily:
“Following a contentious feud between the two web services, Myspace will reportedly acquire the photo sharing site Photobucket.  The straight cash buyout is in the area of $250 million, reports Reuters.  Photobucket is the reigning market share leader of online photo storage.

Nearly 2.8 billion images are stored on Photobucket’s servers, with 41 million registered [...]

“…Canon is hoping its new HR10 HD camcorder will be a winner in the end. It certainly looks like a serious contender to us, even though it wasn’t the first HD DVD camcorder out of the gate. In addition to being able to record high-def (1920 x 1080) content to DVDs via the AVCHD video [...]

Avenue A | Razorfish have purchased Duke, a Paris based independent-interactive agency. Ave A | Razor has been purchasing smaller international agencies, those in the UK, Japan, and Australia. Why?
“The rate of international Internet advertising growth [is] out pacing that of the U.S…”
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