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"The Beaver." Seriously. At SXSW.
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 19, 2011  | 

In her latest film, director/co-star Jodie Foster has Mel Gibson speaking almost exclusively in a Cockney accent - the "voice" of a beaver puppet.

Is this the recipe for a train wreck?

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Mitsubishi to exit LCD TV market
Michael Berk  |  Mar 21, 2011  | 

As noted by HDGuru over the weekend, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America has confirmed that it will indeed "exit the LCD-TV market entirely" by the end of 2011, concentrating from here on out on its consumer rear-projection televisions (including its highly regarded

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Dynamic Range Day 2011
Michael Berk  |  Mar 22, 2011  | 

 

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Cover Flow: Whither the iPad Album?
Michael Berk  |  Mar 23, 2011  | 

 

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Beautiful nostalgia...for CRTs
Michael Berk  |  Mar 24, 2011  | 

Via adafruit...Berlin-based photographer Stephan Tillmans has a new show up, Luminant Point Arrays, consisting entirely of photographs capturing CRTs as they're shut off.

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Met, MoMA display the guitar as (and in) art
Michael Berk  |  Mar 24, 2011  | 

Since it appeared in the seventeenth century, the guitar has been a work of visual art in its own right, as well as a powerful influence on artists in other media.

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SXSW Music: The Good, the Bands, the Ugly
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 25, 2011  | 

Back in NYC - after 9 days and nights of SXSW Music, Film, and Interactive in Austin, Texas - I finally have time to mull over the 21 acts I managed to see during the music portion of the festival.

That perfect 21 might suggest that I had a lucky hand at SXSW this year. But as is the case every year, I heard much that was good and some that was . . . not.

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Three opinions on the iPad at SXSW
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 27, 2011  | 

The iPad is cool for a lot of things, but does it work for music? Various opinions came from the SXSW Music Festival, and together they're an interesting follow-up to Michael Berk's earlier post here on the concept of the iPad Album.

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Radiohead's Universal "King of Limbs"
Michael Berk  |  Mar 28, 2011  | 

Today's the day Radiohead's The King of Limbs (which has managed to generate a pretty complex release history in its short life) finally hits stores.

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"The Ten Commandments," Today!
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 29, 2011  | 

 

Behold this mighty box indeed. (Click on image for larger view.)

It's a Limited Edition Gift Set of 100,000 copies, and here's what you get:

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Cloudy with a chance of downloads
Michael Berk  |  Mar 29, 2011  | 

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Stormy weather for Amazon's cloud services?
Michael Berk  |  Mar 30, 2011  | 

Like everybody else who covers media technology, we were excited by yesterday's announcement of Amazon's Cloud Drive remote storage and associated Cloud Player streaming media

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Harman teaches you How to Listen
Michael Berk  |  Mar 30, 2011  | 

This past week Harman International quietly released a public beta of How to Listen, a freeware application used in-house at Harman as part of a listening course for train staffers in product research, development, and testing.

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Radiohead's Thom Yorke: paperboy
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 31, 2011  | 

 

(Photo by David M. Bennett)

Couldn't resist sharing this photo with everyone.

It's Thom indeed, hawking The Universal Sigh in England.

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GOT SPL?
Michael Berk  |  Mar 31, 2011  | 

 

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