MP3.com arrived on the internet scene in force in 1999. It shook up the record industry with artists having the ability to directly communicate and market to listeners. It was ahead of its time it even paid artists for the number of listens and downloads they had.
The offered a service so listeners could upload their music to MP3.com so wherever they travel they can access their own music. Listeners could even buy CDs from stores and have them digitally stored on MP3.com before the physical CD was delivered to their house. Most of the major labels saw the value and went along. Universal did not and sued and won the settlement forced MP3.com to sell ownership to Universal. Suddenly Universal artists dominated the site and royalties for downloads of indie artists were reduced to nearly nothing. If the court would not have sided with Universal regarding music storage, the music scene now could be very different. So dont be to shocked about the Japanese situation, its the same here.
Laser Video has been talked about for decades and was a reality in the 90s. When properly done its resolution is infinite. It also has great possibilties for large images so you can have a wall of video image or even a cyclorama in your home. It also has tremendous potential for large screen projection on building etc. If this Australian company has produced a machine that has those advantages and is reasonably priced that could be very cool. Laser crystalscan 3D would be very amazing as well.
the 10,000 stars claim is sort of marketing hype on an average night the sky yields about 2,000 visible stars. I have concerns about the units ability to accurately project the correct star color. I used to work with a major planetarium projector that went to a magnitude of 6.7 which is about 14,000 stars. A xenon lamp illuminated each hemisphere and light was focused and filtered for each star and nebula. The problem with this unit as I see it is it would work well with a domed ceiling. If you have a light fixture in the center of the ceiling that could seriously mess things up as well. This sounds like a fun projector though but a visit to a planetarium will give a more realistic perspective. Better hurry, planetariums are easy targets for budget cutters.
Myspace makes kids think corporations are their friends by promoting movies and records by making them seem like they are cool indies that have a cult following.
Socialism is a mix of government control and free enterprise. Communism is control of property and commerce by the people. P2P sites while claiming to be a form of altruistic communism are really capitalists, advertising is there in various degrees. I was traded on Grokster and I felt as an indie artist it was a good promotional vehicle. In fact because of my postings they started an indie forum on the site so indie artists could post concerns as well as draw attention to themselves. Suddenly to get posted and promoted on Grokster or the indie forum you had to be a member of a promotional company. So I was excluded from the forum that I had helped to form.
I dont mind having my music copied and shared but if the indie artist is still alive buy something...anything. A T shirt, pin, CD or even 1 download just as a token of appreciation. If enough people buy music based upon a genuine appreciation of the music, the music industry will have to either change or die.
Dennis Jennings ASCAP
Celestial Image http://celestial-image.com/
Ideally that is the way it should be. However, people still are influenced by the media in purchasing music. Despite the ability to get it direct from indie artist for free or without protection. People prefer to risk penalties and strive to acquire label music because of label promotion.
Yes you can do wonderful things with a home studio.
However people are still programmed to think if they hear it on the radio it is good. The labels have a lock on commercial radio and except for college and some internet stations independents dont get play. There is a ton of free music on the web that is just as good if not better than the label's but people still bypass it and try to acquire the label's music because they hear it on MTV and the radio etc. If you want to loosen the label's stronghold buy some indie downloads or CDs. Most indies dont have the resources for protection schemes.
The internet enables the musician to sell directly to the public. People can stream and download some music and then buy the CD. In theory the middleman of record companies is no longer necessary.
The rub is the Media exposure and promotion. Record Companies are in bed with Media conglomerates. The days of bringing a record into a studio and having the jockey play it are gone except on internet and college radio. However to get your music on the air in major rotation on commercial radio you have to be a signed artist.
People will then buy your music because they percieve it as valuable. There are many artists on the net that are better than the people the record companies put out but since they are not part of the media machine they are not percieved as valuable. It should not be this way, but it still is.
forget about seeing stars windows are going to be shaded like the space shuttle and other spacecraft. Most of the astronauts got great views of the earth and moon but didnt see much else. They may run a video of Starwars hyperspace sequences on the vid screens so you wont feel cheated.
Interactivity has to one the most used and abused words. Is the ability to point and click on things really a good definition of the word? I was involved with the museum world when "Interactive displays" started to appear. While the administrators view it as a way of creating relatively inexpensive exhibits while eliminating staff. The reality is within a few months they have little signs that read "Out of Order". The problem as I see it is who is the user interacting with? The software programmers, the computer or himself? This stuff sounds as bad as the "Make a Movie" software that is being developed.
Movie Exhibition has become a market research and promotional vehicle for video sales and rental. If it does well at the box office it generally will do well in rental and that opening promotion gets the word out. Even well done Home Theaters do not have as large a screen as a standard cinema. Some movies are made for a large screen and should be seen on one. Anyone that saw 2001 when it came out and then eagerly watched it on television understands the difference. Now if only film producers and directors understood that!
I know the Imax/Omnimax medium very well. The irony of this posting is that the movie that catapulted this medium from a few specialized theater to a worldwide network of Imax/Omnimax theaters was the movie "Genesis" produced by the Science Museum of Minnesota it was a stunning visual film on plate tectonics. It premiered in 1978 in Saint Paul MN.
I knew the producer and conflicts between science and religion were not a concern then. He was concerned that there may be some confusion between the film and a male magazine also named "Genesis" that was being published back then. A bit more irony I suppose.
Dennis Jennings http://celestial-image.com
Every child in America should be able to use Windows and look up things in the Microsoft encyclopedia and write in Microsoft word and make pictures in Microsoft publisher. All children should be shipped to Seattle for serious training the Microsoft way.
its a rehash of the dome screen simulator that the military and manufacturers have been using for years only has one player. Its a variation on the old link trainer. Every once and awhile someone reinvents the wheel and people get excited.
The first year of operation at Cedar Point the "Top Thrill" was down most of the time. So if this one is going to be higher and more complex. Expect the first 2 years to basically be beta testing. Four hundred and thirty five feet is not a cool place to be a guinea pig.
At first when I read your article I thought it was kind of a dumb idea. Then I thought " I wonder if there is much of a market for people to mix their own songs?" With some inexpensive software people can make their own versions of artists they like. This can easily be done with DVD data disks or even a CD for one song. So the consumer (hobbyist) can create his own music to show off and do what he likes with. Club DJs might be a possible market.
Dennis Jennings ASCAP
http://celestial-image.com
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MP3.com arrived on the internet scene in force in 1999. It shook up the record industry with artists having the ability to directly communicate and market to listeners. It was ahead of its time it even paid artists for the number of listens and downloads they had. The offered a service so listeners could upload their music to MP3.com so wherever they travel they can access their own music. Listeners could even buy CDs from stores and have them digitally stored on MP3.com before the physical CD was delivered to their house. Most of the major labels saw the value and went along. Universal did not and sued and won the settlement forced MP3.com to sell ownership to Universal. Suddenly Universal artists dominated the site and royalties for downloads of indie artists were reduced to nearly nothing. If the court would not have sided with Universal regarding music storage, the music scene now could be very different. So dont be to shocked about the Japanese situation, its the same here.
Laser Video has been talked about for decades and was a reality in the 90s. When properly done its resolution is infinite. It also has great possibilties for large images so you can have a wall of video image or even a cyclorama in your home. It also has tremendous potential for large screen projection on building etc. If this Australian company has produced a machine that has those advantages and is reasonably priced that could be very cool. Laser crystalscan 3D would be very amazing as well.
the 10,000 stars claim is sort of marketing hype on an average night the sky yields about 2,000 visible stars. I have concerns about the units ability to accurately project the correct star color. I used to work with a major planetarium projector that went to a magnitude of 6.7 which is about 14,000 stars. A xenon lamp illuminated each hemisphere and light was focused and filtered for each star and nebula. The problem with this unit as I see it is it would work well with a domed ceiling. If you have a light fixture in the center of the ceiling that could seriously mess things up as well. This sounds like a fun projector though but a visit to a planetarium will give a more realistic perspective. Better hurry, planetariums are easy targets for budget cutters.
The original definition of the word "planet" is wanderer. I suppose anything that wanders along the ecliptic can be a planet.
Myspace makes kids think corporations are their friends by promoting
movies and records by making them seem like they are cool indies that have a cult following.
some people meet at family reunions and have underage sex
Socialism is a mix of government control and free enterprise. Communism is control of property and commerce by the people. P2P sites while claiming to be a form of altruistic communism are really capitalists, advertising is there in various degrees. I was traded on Grokster and I felt as an indie artist it was a good promotional vehicle. In fact because of my postings they started an indie forum on the site so indie artists could post concerns as well as draw attention to themselves. Suddenly to get posted and promoted on Grokster or the indie forum you had to be a member of a promotional company. So I was excluded from the forum that I had helped to form. I dont mind having my music copied and shared but if the indie artist is still alive buy something...anything. A T shirt, pin, CD or even 1 download just as a token of appreciation. If enough people buy music based upon a genuine appreciation of the music, the music industry will have to either change or die. Dennis Jennings ASCAP Celestial Image http://celestial-image.com/
Ideally that is the way it should be. However, people still are influenced by the media in purchasing music. Despite the ability to get it direct from indie artist for free or without protection. People prefer to risk penalties and strive to acquire label music because of label promotion.
Yes you can do wonderful things with a home studio. However people are still programmed to think if they hear it on the radio it is good. The labels have a lock on commercial radio and except for college and some internet stations independents dont get play. There is a ton of free music on the web that is just as good if not better than the label's but people still bypass it and try to acquire the label's music because they hear it on MTV and the radio etc. If you want to loosen the label's stronghold buy some indie downloads or CDs. Most indies dont have the resources for protection schemes.
The internet enables the musician to sell directly to the public. People can stream and download some music and then buy the CD. In theory the middleman of record companies is no longer necessary. The rub is the Media exposure and promotion. Record Companies are in bed with Media conglomerates. The days of bringing a record into a studio and having the jockey play it are gone except on internet and college radio. However to get your music on the air in major rotation on commercial radio you have to be a signed artist. People will then buy your music because they percieve it as valuable. There are many artists on the net that are better than the people the record companies put out but since they are not part of the media machine they are not percieved as valuable. It should not be this way, but it still is.
I was following the article and trying to understand what it was saying.....then I got to the Stonehenge part and my Bullshit alarm went off!!!
forget about seeing stars windows are going to be shaded like the space shuttle and other spacecraft. Most of the astronauts got great views of the earth and moon but didnt see much else. They may run a video of Starwars hyperspace sequences on the vid screens so you wont feel cheated.
then again they could just be downloading porn
heinlein just said that because he is crab(cancer)
Interactivity has to one the most used and abused words. Is the ability to point and click on things really a good definition of the word? I was involved with the museum world when "Interactive displays" started to appear. While the administrators view it as a way of creating relatively inexpensive exhibits while eliminating staff. The reality is within a few months they have little signs that read "Out of Order". The problem as I see it is who is the user interacting with? The software programmers, the computer or himself? This stuff sounds as bad as the "Make a Movie" software that is being developed.
Movie Exhibition has become a market research and promotional vehicle for video sales and rental. If it does well at the box office it generally will do well in rental and that opening promotion gets the word out. Even well done Home Theaters do not have as large a screen as a standard cinema. Some movies are made for a large screen and should be seen on one. Anyone that saw 2001 when it came out and then eagerly watched it on television understands the difference. Now if only film producers and directors understood that!
There you have the scientific proof of devolution!
remember how you felt when you found out Santa did not exist?
the filmakers that began Imax were also the same people the created the "kekoorikookookoo" sound made infamous my doug and bob mackenzie on SNL
I know the Imax/Omnimax medium very well. The irony of this posting is that the movie that catapulted this medium from a few specialized theater to a worldwide network of Imax/Omnimax theaters was the movie "Genesis" produced by the Science Museum of Minnesota it was a stunning visual film on plate tectonics. It premiered in 1978 in Saint Paul MN. I knew the producer and conflicts between science and religion were not a concern then. He was concerned that there may be some confusion between the film and a male magazine also named "Genesis" that was being published back then. A bit more irony I suppose. Dennis Jennings http://celestial-image.com
Every child in America should be able to use Windows and look up things in the Microsoft encyclopedia and write in Microsoft word and make pictures in Microsoft publisher. All children should be shipped to Seattle for serious training the Microsoft way.
its a rehash of the dome screen simulator that the military and manufacturers have been using for years only has one player. Its a variation on the old link trainer. Every once and awhile someone reinvents the wheel and people get excited.
The Dell interns? or do we blame it on the Dell dude
The first year of operation at Cedar Point the "Top Thrill" was down most of the time. So if this one is going to be higher and more complex. Expect the first 2 years to basically be beta testing. Four hundred and thirty five feet is not a cool place to be a guinea pig.
At first when I read your article I thought it was kind of a dumb idea. Then I thought " I wonder if there is much of a market for people to mix their own songs?" With some inexpensive software people can make their own versions of artists they like. This can easily be done with DVD data disks or even a CD for one song. So the consumer (hobbyist) can create his own music to show off and do what he likes with. Club DJs might be a possible market. Dennis Jennings ASCAP http://celestial-image.com