A couple weekends ago, some coworkers and I traveled to New York City to visit The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). This trip marked the first time I had been to the museum. Here are some of the photos I took.
Road trip? More like a rail trip:
Walking from Grand Central, I ducked inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral:
“Cinema Redux” of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. A frame was captured every second in the film, and each row represents one minute of the film. More here.
In the same section of the museum, there was this amazing touchscreen application called “I Want You to Want Me.” The application pulled together information from multiple dating websites and created this interactive display of what people want and who they’re looking for. Read more about the project here. The official video:
Via TUAW, the 2010 edition of the MLB At Bat iPhone app will allow you to stream audio in the background while you accomplish other tasks on your iPhone.
While Apple doesn’t allow 3rd party apps to run in the background on the iPhone or iPod touch,* Silicon Alley Insider notes that you can listen to audio in Mobile Safari while using other applications. It’s this trick that MLB exploited with At Bat 2010. With the tap of a button, At Bat will push an audio stream to Mobile Safari.
Note that MLB didn’t come up with this trick, nor is their app the first to exploit it. ESPN Radio does it, as well as Scanner911 and FlyCast. Still, it’s nice that MLB’s devs acknowledged that some users might want to check email or hop onto Twitter while listening to game, and made it easy to do so.
Dear Apple: please make this available sans-jailbreak and sans-hack. Thank you.
Thus always to fans of Rome? Entertainment Weekly is reporting the HBO series Rome may finally be headed to the big screen:
Fans of HBO’s critically-beloved (but short-lived) series Rome may not have seen the last of Vorenus and Pullo. Multiple sources have confirmed to EW that a big-screen sequel to the sword-and-sandals series is well underway. Rome creator/executive Bruno Heller who went on to create CBS’s hit The Mentalist has finished a script for Morning Light Productions, which financed the development and will produce the film. Series stars Kevin McKidd (Lucius Vorenus) and Ray Stevenson (Titus Pullo) will likely sign onto the movie, which picks up in Germany four years after the series ended. The next step for Morning Light is to find a director and a studio, since HBO Films won’t be involved.
Fantastic news if you enjoyed the short-lived series. I caught the series on DVD, and I wasn’t disappointed. The production value of Rome was astounding the costumes, the set pieces and the play on Roman history was delightful. I hope this film happens.
Back in January, I wondered why there was no web-app that transformed a photo you upload into a Na’vi character from Avatar. While I still haven’t found one (although I really haven’t been looking), I did find these fantastic instructions to Photoshop yourself as a Na’vi. The example the author walks you through creates a Tom Cruise avatar:
Apparently this was a known thing amongst the LOST internets, but in looking for the sound effect made by the Smoke Monster this morning, I learned something new. Note the sound Locke’s calculator makes in this scene from “Walkabout” (Season 1, episode 4):
I’m not really sure why, but for some reason, I’m really looking forward to this film. Maybe because the original was so good. Or maybe because Pixar is amazing. Whatever the reason, I’m looking forward to seeing this. Here it is, the final poster:
The Olympics rarely fail to disappoint in the orchestral music category. Usually the gems come from the ceremonies (think John Williams’s classicthemes that have become a staple of NBC’s music package and Basil Poledouris’s Atlanta piece), but in this case, this gem, composed by Canadian composer Darren Fung, was in a network commercial highlighting their coverage and the success of the Canadian Olympic team.
This short film by H5 is nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the Oscars on Sunday. “Amazing” doesn’t begin to describe the creative achievement in LOGORAMA.
In a world made up entirely of trademarks and brand names, Michelin Man cops pursue a criminal Ronald McDonald.
From Funny or Die, President Obama is visited by past presidents trying to convince Obama to fight for the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. All-star cast and directed by Ron Howard:
The core idea behind the proposal, supporters say, is to pull together consumer oversight powers that are now scattered among various agencies, and to put consumer interests where they should be much higher on the priority list than they were during the years leading up to the housing and credit bubble and bust.
