Speed Ramping
Speed RampingSpeed RampingDavid CoxMany ads and feature films these days use a process described by industry insiders as "speed ramping" in which onscreen characters and events are shown to suddenly...
View ArticleThe Ideas of The Rennaissance Persist in Games, Simulations
Pierro De La Francesca, the famed Renaissance painter and architect built arcane secrets into his pictures. Trained in the then very new technique of perspective painting, Pierro integrated systems of...
View ArticleRecording out in the Field with the iPhone iPad and iPod Touch
iRig Mic FieldPocket-sized, stereo digital mic for mobile audio/video field recording I remember in the 1970s and 1980s to get a good recording on anything other than professional equipment out in the...
View ArticleMedia Magazine "INCITE" Issue 5 "Blockbuster" Published
INCITE Issue #5: BLOCKBUSTERFall 2014ISSN 2163-9701Edited by Peter NowogrodzkiFounding Editor and PublisherBrett Kashmere Art DirectorEliza KochContributing EditorsChristina BattleDavid BurnhamWalter...
View ArticlePlay Anywhere with IOS and Android with the iRig2 Guitar Interface
An electric guitar, it is a truism to say, needs to be connected to be heard and recorded. The art of mating the instrument with various other FX devices and amps can be said to comprise much of the...
View ArticleInterview: Professor Steve Mann, about Augmented World Expo 2015
SuperPowers to the People: Augmented World Expo 2015: An introduction to an audio interview with Professor Steve Mann (see link at end of article). The augmented reality conference AWE2015 is coming...
View ArticleIK Multimedia's Mic Room - Microphone Modeling for IOS
The idea of a mic room is a luxurious concept. A room full of the very best microphonoes, each with its special qualities, plugged into a fancy mixing board, ready to enable the recording of a radio...
View ArticleiRig Mic Studio: A mighty powerful microphone in a tiny package
Condenser microphone technologies advanced hugely in the last several years to the point now where microphones would only been found in studios 10 years ago are freely available in the open...
View ArticleIRig UA - Guitar Interface for Android
IK Multimedia’s IRig UAThe first universal guitar effects processor and interface for all Android devicesThese days everything hinges on the interface with whether it's the dashboard of your car on...
View ArticleThe Language of Virtual Reality
First Published in Otherzine as "Mise-en-Experience"by David CoxWe are all spied upon, archived, forgotten. What are the new meanings that define this aesthetics of experience? What are the aesthetics...
View ArticleThe Selfie Stick on Steroids - iKlip Grip
Sometimes a product comes along that tries to do lots of things at once and finds a way for all of these functions to complement each other nicely. Such is the case with IK Multimedia’s iKlip...
View ArticleAmplitube 4 - the Amplifyer Modeling Resource for Guitarists
Most of the guitar amplifiers I've owned have had stenciled numbers on the side, been passed on from five other bands before landing in my garage or bedroom. Amps are like that, are a bit like old...
View ArticleReal portability comes to a studio-quality music interface device
iRig Pro Duo is a studio-quality 24-bit audio box that is very easy to use, solidly built and is effectively, a bridge between the real world of microphones, guitars, basses, keyboards and those...
View ArticleFilms online about Earth and Man
The Holocene is over and the Anthropocene defines our epoch. Mankind’s irreparable and irreversible influence on the face of the planet will totally define its fate from now on. Several films that...
View ArticleNew acoustic guitar microphone
The first ‘contact microphones’ as they were called in the 1970s came in a small plastic boxes and were disk-shaped. With them came this strange putty-like material that was a bit like a cross between...
View ArticleThe Original Videogame Museum in California Will be Moving to New Home
Oakland, California - October 5, 2015 - The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (The MADE) is gearing up to move into its new home. This non-profit videogame museum is nearing the end of its...
View ArticleVirtual Reality and the return of the Movie Intermission
A memory of my travels as a young film maker with a suitcase of 16mm film prints traveling around the Pacific North West. I was hanging out with Bob Basanich (sometime guitarist for Negativland and...
View ArticleAugmented World Expo 2016 - Superpowers to the People!
Augmented World Expo to be held from the 1st to the 2nd of June is an extraordinary event that over the past four years I’ve watched grow into a major hub of ideas and activity. Augmented Reality...
View ArticleTrash Amps - Amplifiers built into jars and cans!
When hackers make things that are normally the preserve of professionals the results can often be disappointing. Today however because of the amazing advances in components and the access to very very...
View ArticleA place to learn Unity Game Engine in San Francisco
It's a rainy night in the Mission people move back and forth along Mission Street. There is the smell of burritos, tobacco, perfume and the effervescent sense that something is happening. There is...
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