Archive for the ‘New media’ Category
9
Oct
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in New media, Philosophy, Tech, author. Tagged: dare, entrepreneur, greece, jason calacanis, mahalo, open coffee athens. 3 Comments
Jason Calacanis, love him or hate him, is definitely a very successful entrepreneur. And he is also extremely generous about giving advise to you entrepreneurs in the making. I stumbled across this video of him giving a speech at the Open Coffee Athens XV. Yes, the video concentrates on Greece, but everything he is saying [...]
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24
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, New media, Personal, author, books, update, writing. Tagged: "bishops arm", "culture night", bokmässa, book, con, flickr, göteborg, gothenburg, irish, kulturnatten, library, litteralund, mushroom, session, updatem "jonathan coulton". 3 Comments
So, I thought maybe it was time for a general update of things. As you might have seen I recently went pro on Flickr and updated for the entire summer. Sorry about that, but my internet connection over the summer was really sucky…
In other news: I am attending the Book and Library con in Gothenburg [...]
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8
Sep
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, New media, books, writing. Tagged: blog, books, communication, cuniform, dilemma, hieroglyph, history, parchment, smiley, typography, writing. 3 Comments
I recently began a course in the history of handwritten texts, and I must say it has made me think a lot about communication.
Throughout history we are inclined to think that we as a race have evolved into more and more advanced creatures, which in turn has led to more and more advanced communication. We [...]
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12
Jun
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Movies, New media, Streaming, apps. Tagged: big buck bunny, blender, elephants dream, open movie. Leave a Comment
Due to “public demand” I have decided to post Elephants Dream here too. It is not as good looking as Big Buck Bunny, however it is interesting in many ways. Partly because of the open ended and rather mind bending story. The visual do take you on a journey through the mind. The other reason [...]
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12
Jun
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Movies, New media, Philosophy, Streaming, Tech. Tagged: 3d, animation, big buck bunny, blender, elephants dream, floss, open source, pixar, weekly. Leave a Comment
Blender is an Open Source 3D animation program with a lot of promise. But perhaps the most intressting thing about it that there is also an Open Source based moviemaking community around it. They have previously released Elephants Dream which was OK, but nothing special. However, the look and feel of this movie, Big Buck [...]
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27
May
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, New media, Philosophy, Podcast, Tech, author, books, web 2.0. Tagged: Alice in Wonderland, archive.org, books, Cinderella, denmark, digitise, Dvorak, europe, european, finland, google books, history, Howell, iceland, Kahle, Laporte, literature, microsoft, norway, open library, scandinavia, scanning, sweden, Tech, TWiL, TWiT, yahoo. Leave a Comment
In listening to the latest episode of This Week in Tech, I was at first horrified that I would not get my normal weekly dose of half-arsed, funny but still very informative insights into the world of tech and Web 2.0. The tone was serious! Well, I still clung on, and in many ways this [...]
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22
May
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Horror, Legends, Monsters, Movies, New media, Streaming, web 2.0. Tagged: archive.org, christopher lee, cinema, hammer horror, Movies, peter cushing. Leave a Comment
In a continuing theme of testing different things with wordpress, I decided to take VodPod for a spin. This is because, while I do like the blogging system that is wordpress, I find it extremely annoying that you can’t post Flash nor JavaScript. To a certain extent this is alleviated by VodPod. It’s a service [...]
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20
May
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in New media, author, update, writing. Tagged: endorsements, twilightshadows, update, wiki. Leave a Comment
As you may have noted by now, I’ve been tinkering with the visuals of the site. Well, those things I can do with a free account. Anyway, I’ve added some endorsements, some links and a credits space. Just so you can check out stuff I like.
There is also the new TwilightShadows wiki at zoho.com, which [...]
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16
May
Posted by Tobias Vemmenby in Humanities, New media, Philosophy, Tech, apps, mac, web 2.0, writing. Tagged: atm, font, fontexplorer, fontfetishist, linotype, mac, typography. Leave a Comment
People who are into design and layout tend to be FF; Font Fetishists. As such it after a while tends to get difficult to keep track of all the fonts. And even thought Mac OS X handles fonts in a better way than the good old classic Mac System, there is still room for improvement.
So [...]
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