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SHARE Festival 2009

*Here I come!

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Newsletter 31.10.2009

Share Festival – Market Forces 2009 - Torino

SPOTLIGHT ON….INAUGURAZIONE e CONFERENZE

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Inizia Share Festival!

Inaugurazione:

*Martedì 3 novembre ore 18.00*

Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali

via Giolitti 36, Torino

CONFERENZE

Tutti gli eventi sono ad ingresso libero.

Le conferenze saranno visibili in live streaming dal sito www.toshare.it.

*MERCOLEDI' 4 NOVEMBRE*

Virtual Reality ...

Italian Futurism — film festival in New York

*I had no idea there was a workable, if fragmentary, version of the film "Thais" anywhere. I'd really like to see that movie.

*Look at the amount of cinematic stuff here. It's fantastic. I had no idea.

"André Deed
THE MECHANICAL MAN / L'UOMO MECCANICO
Italy, 1921, 46 minutes (incomplete), 35mm, b&w, silent.
A colossal robot runs wild in an unstoppable crime spree in this rare fantasy-horror epic by André Deed, protégé of George Méliès, that culminates in a wild showdown between the evil robot a...

Wander the Virtual Berlin Wall With Nothing Much To Do

*Maybe they can liven up the exhibit: give half the users guns and get them to shoot everybody trying to reach the other side of the wall.

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/11/02/twinity-berlin-wall/

"[Germany:] With only days away from the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, how best to mark the occasion? Rebuild it or at least a virtual two kilometer stretch. That's the approach being taken by Metaversum, the Berlin-based company behind virtual world Twinity, who have constructed a...

I've Got Levitation

*So long for now, Austin — y'all stay weird, y'hear?

The High Water Mark of Japanese SynthPop

*And a major subterranean soundtrack of cyberpunk. It runs through those Japanese-influenced cyberpunk texts of the 80s and 90s like a huge, hidden river.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandii_&_the_Sunsetz

The Less Than Free Business Model

*This is capitalism, but not as we knew it, Jim. Now awaiting less-than-free food, less-than-free clothing, and less-than-free shelter.

http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/10/29/google-redefines-disruption-the-"less-than-free"-business-model/

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"That's right; Google will pay you to use their mobile OS. I like to call this the "less than free" business model. This is a remarkable card to play. Because of its dominance in search, Google has ad rates that blow away the competition. To compete at...

My other car is a Twitter stream

@bruces

*Pretty much the same themes as the blog here, but with 140-character fetters.


http://bit.ly/uHYpZ Female Ukrainian sand-animator really whippin' it with the Slavic melancholy.



http://bit.ly/2bc7g8 Twittering the transmediated taco truck.


Superstruct meets Wired Italia through Density Design (map): http://bit.ly/sACM8 (I need the T-shirt)


Wall Street has been "temporally truncated." http://bit.ly/1GaqDL #atemporality


The Urban Cursor. http://icio.us/yyqa5l Via @ _neural



Gorgeous...

Christoph Rehage's one-year time lapse

*Makes you realize how many backpackers have been up to wild stuff like this, but lacked digital media to document it.

The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.

Spime Watch: The Internet of European Things

(((I keenly appreciate the hard work that went into this Internet of Things report, but if the actual Internet, 40 years ago, had received the sane, thorough, well-considered institutional support that this report recommends, the Internet would never, ever have happened.)))

http://www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2009/10/28/32068/casagras-sets-out-road-ahead-for-the-internet-of-things/

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Delegates from 19 countries attended the project's final conference in London, where eight key...

Augmented Reality: Kitty's Wizard Mirror

http://www.hudson-powell.com/kitty-key.html

*Really liking the trippy, gritty, underground-comix abstraction here.