TECHNOLOGY

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6
Mar 10

Armory Arts Week & Artlog

From Fashion to Food it seems like every industry has their week in the NYC sun or snow depending on what day it is. MY favorite week of them all, The Armory Arts Week started this past Thursday. The week’s main event, The Armory Arts Show takes place at Pier 94 exhibiting contemporary art from more than 30 countries. In addition there are dozens and dozens of smaller events and parties happening all around the 5 boroughs. So how does anyone know what are the best places to go, what parties are hot, or what exhibits are cool? The answer is artlog.com. Their slogan “Art and Culture in Real Time” says it all. This is the ultimate destination for real time updates on what is going on during Arts Week. They utilize social media via their Artlog live link where peoples tweets about Armory Art Week are redirected directly to the live section of their site. Recently as a part of the Pernod Creator Of series, I interviewed the founders Manish Vora and Dylan Fareed about Artlog.com and got a first hand demonstration of Artlog Live in action. Check it out.

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TrevzNewPop

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18
Feb 10

The Digital Magazine War is On!

Thanks to the folks at HypeBeast, for the third time in a month I have seen some prototype of the future of the Digital Magazine format. So I am making it official, I am calling it… The age of the Digital Magazine has officially arrived! You heard it here first. This week Adobe throws it’s hat in the ring with their version of the Digital Mag. How it matches up against the contenders remains to be seen? Will the front runner iPad take the title? Will underdog Bonnier steal the throne? Or will Adobe make another splash? (You flash geeks probably caught that reference.) Personally my favorite is the Bonnier device. It’s more elegant, smaller, has better graphics, and had the best video presentation. Yes that counts in my book. Check out the Adobe video below and do your own comparison. I included links to the other devices beneath the last embed. I also included a scene from Minority Report 2002. It’s the first time I remember thinking how cool would it be if they could invent a Digital Magazine/Newspaper like the one in that scene. Who Knew?

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TrevzNewPop

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Bonnier

FASHION / PHOTO / TECHNOLOGY — No Comments
12
Feb 10

Theophilus London in Complex Mag

Theophilus London The Hip Hop Crooner who has hosted a couple of episodes on New Pop has a feature in the February/March issue of Complex magazine. It’s a fashion feature so there isn’t much substance in terms of the Q & A, but the photos are great. Also there is a cool little widget where you can mouse over the fashion pieces and see a pop up window that tells you everything you need to know about the gear. Check it out here.

TrevzNewPop

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10
Feb 10

Interview Mag brings in 40 on the iPad

I am still not convinced that the Apple iPad will have anything near the type of market penetration as the iPhone did. As I stated in a previous post which you can read here “I’ll use my iPhone as my mobile device, and my laptop for the heavier lifting. This has no home.” However today I ran across a video that caused me to take a second look. It is a preview of the Interview magazine 40th anniversary edition as demonstrated on the iPad. I have to admit it is supercool! What stood out is the integration of the video elements with the written elements. It is definitely a big jump forward in how we can consume media. However I’m not jumping on the bandwagon yet, I still think this will be a device that will appeal to a very niche art techie demographic. We will see.

TrevzNewPop

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27
Jan 10

iPad. Big Fuckin Deal!

I am a big fan of the iPhone, and today’s iPad unveiling was a huge letdown. It’s a big iPhone. It falls somewhere between the iPhone and a Laptop. Guess what? It also falls somewhere between me wanting to pay for it, and ever actually paying for it. I’ll use my iPhone as my mobile device, and my laptop for the heavier lifting. This has no home. That Verizon misfit commercial where the iPhone lands on the isle of misfit toys would be more fitting for this device.

I prefer to use something like this. Check out this product by Bonnier

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

TrevzNewPop

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13
Jan 10

Fiction Meets Fact. “E-Paper”

There is this clip from Minority Report (one of my all-time favorite films) where Tom Cruise’s character tries to flee capture by casually strolling on a metro train. Just then an image of him pops up on a E-Newspaper being read by a fellow passenger. It was one of the more memorable scenes from this movie that made me say, wow!!! I thought how cool it would be if someone were able to invent something like that. Well 8 years later it looks like someone is getting ever so close. Yesterday I ran across this really cool post on HypeBeast about this cool new device that just might revolutionize and save print. Its from Bonnier and it is what a true Digital Magazine should look like.

Check out the two clips I posted below. The first is the short clip from Minority Report that I mentioned above. The second is a feature on the prototype from Bonnier. Maybe one day you will see TheNewPop published on one of these babies

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.