Pixar Art Exhibit at MoMA, with Podcast

yodelingjedi writes "Pixar's CG models, paintings, pencil drawings, maquettes, color scripts, and sketches are the subject of the special exhibit Pixar: 20 Years of Animation, now being held at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC until February 6 of '06. A complete Pixar film retrospective is being shown as well. What's especially cool is that MoMA, like some other museums, is providing a Podcast you can load into your mp3 player and listen to as you're standing beside a specific artwork. Be sure to check out MoMA's RSS feed and listen to the Exhibition Guide (entries 670 to 688.) Each mp3 file corresponds to a numbered artwork. A link on the Pixar exhibit page, Listen to the audio program, brings up a Flash presentation with the same audio as the Podcast, but of lower quality. It does have sample images though. Perhaps MoMA should provide an enhanced Podcast? Enjoy!"

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pixar cult

[Keyframe2]

it's like a sociological phenomenon.. pixar is very "in" and "cool".. which is nice, I really like it - refreshment from disney doing old tricks for years now. It's funny to see how pixar is at moma being displayed, while they don't have that much work to display yet. However, their work is groundbraking. In Tokyo there is Ghibli museum of Studio Ghibli, which is animation studio famous for work of Hayao Miyazaki (spirited away etc..).. Hopefully, one day soon, pixar could have such a museum, or more of a display if you will, with permanent hands-on display of how their work is done, and all of their works in one place. On a sidenote, I really like podcasts, they turn me - the lazy bastard - into actually "reading" TFA :)

not a podcast

[That's Unpossible!]

This mis-use of podcast is what causes similarly clueless people to say things like, "Why did they need to create this word, podcast, when all it means is an http link to an mp3 file?"

A podcast is typically an audio presentation that you can subscribe to receive on a regular basis, simplified with RSS, and tools that sync the audio up to your player du jour. There wasn't a word to describe this succinctly, so "podcast" was born.

What MoMA has done is provide an audio file you can download on your audio player to explain an exhibit.

Now pass me a kleenex.

Re:not a podcast

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This mis-use of podcast is what causes similarly clueless people to say things like, "Why did they need to create this word, podcast, when all it means is an http link to an mp3 file?"

hahahaha - cute.

I'm afraid this is going to be like the hacker vs cracker definition battle - and its a battle that you have already lost.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines the term (their word of the year) as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player"

So by this dictionary's definition, the museum is perfectly correct - who do you think the general public is going to follow?

Oh - and for the record, I find the term "podcast" extremely irritating, whatever the definition. General purpose words should not be tied to a particular product.