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May 10 2012
What I Learned from Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and the Oregon Symphony
A couple weeks ago, I had the privilege of seeing the Oregon Symphony play at the Arlene Schnitzer concert hall. This concert featured a guest violinist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. I’m not exactly a cultural cretin, but I wasn’t exactly leaping for joy at the opportunity to go. I went because my girlfriend (who obviously has much better taste than I do) got tickets and asked me to go. I knew I’d enjoy it. But I didn’t realize I would enjoy it so much. The concert was a blast. It was full of energy, emotional…
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April 17 2012
Bring out your dead: Tupac comes back as a “hologram” at Coachella
Music fans were shocked this week when a dead rap star appeared on stage and shouted “What up, Coachella?” before performing. It was pretty convincing. To say it went viral is a bit of an understatement. If you still haven’t seen it, you can check out the video here. As the twitterverse lit up with tweets from fans and celebs alike, you might be wondering, “So how exactly did they do that?” Well, you start with a vision from Dr. Dre, add an Oscar winning CGI company called Digital Domain, and a…
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March 26 2012
More than Games Part 3: Takeaways from Unite11
(This is part 3 of a series. Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2.) To wrap up my summary of Unite 11, I thought we could talk about a couple of projects that are being funded through the US military. The Department of Defense tries to stay up to date on technology, and are always on the look out for safer, more cost-effective ways to train their troops. Interactive 3D seems to be a good solution, and I can see a lot of potential in the projects that…
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March 1 2012
Trends in Digital Signage, or what I hope to see next week at DSE2012
I attended the Digital Signage Expo in 2010, and wasn’t able to attend last year. I’m looking forward to seeing what’s new and different in the industry. If you want a snapshot of what was happening in 2010 you can refer to this post. http://animationdynamics.com/2010/03/23/challenges-in-the-digital-signage-industry/ One of the biggest trends I’ve been noticing is not around the execution of digital signage, but around mergers, acquisition and straight up closures of many players in the industry. I think that marks a turning point in maturation for the industry as people figure out…
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February 13 2012
Sketchnotes! of an EA presentation
When I went to, and did a presentation at, Interaction12 a couple of weeks ago it was all the rage for attendees to produce a Sketchnote of any and all presentations. (There was a workshop at the IxDA event all about it, actually) I think Chris Noessel from Cooper did an absolutely fab job of sketching one for my Ethnographic Animation preso (and he also wrote up an excellent journal post on his experience drawing sketchnote style at the conference.) He even got in the part about The Don! :)
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