Digital Motion dot net

by way of Music Thing

Come to Dark Roasted Blend for the weird music scores, but stay for the equally weird pictures of strange tanks and a lot more fun and interesting imagery. Not really a resource for imags themselves, but definitely a resource for creative inspiration. I often poke over there when I’m trying to find new ideas. Just looking at their collections of pictures recharges my batteries and gives me ideas.

Firebug - Web Development Evolved

This looks pretty cool.

[via Chris Pirillo's Picks]

Audio Video Edition: Specially Selected Free and Open Source Software | Audio/Video ngo-in-a-box

Nice collection of links to the best Open Source digital media software for all platforms.

Cuts Launches Amidst Online Video Editor War

Pretty amazed at the wealth of riches in this space all of the sudden.

MographWiki - Main Page

I like the idea and hopefully it will be a good resource eventually, but right now it seems that it is just a way for indie folk to post links to their sites.

Picnik - “edit photos the easy way, online in your browser”

This is cute. Not insanely featured, but a nice proof of concept for Flex. Maybe ’cause I write image processing code for a living, these things are really interesting to me. This would be a great Apollo shareware app. I also like that they are in Seattle. Maybe the local startup market is improving.

Good sites for creative professionals

This is a nice list of creative pro blogs put together by James Dempsey over at Macworld.

Amie Street

These guys are doing something really smart. All songs are free to start with, and increase in price as they increase in popularity. This is insanely smart for musicians and for music fans. It makes trying out a new band nearly painless. It is also DRM-free, which I have to admit I like as a music fan (but am a bit more dubious about as a content creator).

If these guys can get some traction, this would be a great site for new bands to build an audience. My one complaint is that actually finding music on the site wasn’t as easy as I’d like it to be. I had to search for a band before I could find charts, but even then, I wouldn’t mind some sort of flat list of bands by genre or something so that I could really explore. That is a major nit for this kind of site, but is easily fixed.

One other thing I like about these guys from their for-artists page:
# Amie Street takes no ownership of your music, nor do we ask that you sell exclusively on Amie Street. There is no digital rights management software (DRM) on Amie Street.
# Amie Street does not charge a monthly fee or a sign up fee.

Something that is very cool about all these new web 2.0 music sites is that they are blazing the trail for the indie film sites of tomorrow. Pandora or last.fm could just as easily be customized video channels. Amie Street could sell video downloads just as simply…

Courtesy of TechCrunch

Want to learn about remixing, but don’t want to make the investment in software or hardware? Splice is a nice combo between social network and an online flash-based remixing tool. A great way to get started and get advice and support as well.

I like simple, but well executed, internet art experiments; especially when then combine more traditional forms.

David Crawford’s Stop Motion Studies are little slices of time, capturing motion, but in an obviously artificial way. Constrained to subway shots, he catches people in the quasi-personal-but-very-public times when they are seemingly relaxed, but also very aware. I think that these are incredibly effective at showing the thoughts in people’s minds much more than a single still image could be.

Urban Ghost is similar, yet different. Urban Ghost catches people in motion, on the street (for the most part), not in repose. These are not people consigned to getting there when they get there. These are people doing something, moving forward, even if they are just looking in a store window. Their dynamism is expressed in the single frame rather than in the multiple frames of the stop motion studies. As I said in my post on another blog, it reminds me a lot of Gary Winograd in the journalistic, yet voyeuristic nature of the images.