R.E.M. in Dublin

R.E.M. in Dublin: REM went Web 2.0 during their Dublin shows and allowed the fans, the band and the label (me) to collaborate on a site. It was very interesting in that not many people (ultimately) were in Dublin, and yet for everyone, it felt that we were all there.

Through YouTube, audio, photos, the Murmurs.com boards and blogging, the experience carried worldwide so that at the end of the 5 day stint, all of us were smiling, whether in Dublin or not. Some choice quotes:

“they really went out there for the fans (as well as for themselves, of course) in a very heartfelt manner, and they deserve standing ovations for that.”

“I think the whole experiment was the best thing they’ve done in years. Even from a far distance, this was a fun week to be an REM fan. Probably the most I’ve enjoyed following this band since the Monster tour.”

“So a big thank you to the guys for a personally great night on Saturday – and to everyone else for enabling me to live vicariously throughout the other nights, enjoying the excitement and verve of each ‘not a show’, thrilling at the setlists, and listening to the download from Saturday. (Come on, guys, I need the other nights as well). Everyone: R.E.M., techies, fans one and all, have made this a week to remember……..THANKS”

If we’re to evaluate what “the new web is” in terms of the music business, I think the shambolic chaos of REMDublin.com and the following photo sum it up:

Thanks REM for letting REMDublin.com happen, and thanks to all the fans who made it possible.

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07/06
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    Andreas Schlegel currently lives in Singapore. He likes to write programs that generate audio, visual, and physical output. He enjoys doing projects with syntfarm.

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    ["Five measures prove to be useful: A, the area of the isovist, which gives us a measure of size (in 3-D this is a volume); P, the perimeter of the isovist, which gives us a measure of the boundary length (in 3-D this is an area) excluding the horizon and excluding Q, which is a measure of the length (area) of the radial, component of the isovist boundary; M2, which is a statistical measure of the variability of the boundary’s distance from x; and M3, which is a measure of the asymmetry of M2." From Benedikt]

    If we dimensionalize the data from any given social framework online, could we apply isovistic theory to the quantification of perceptual awareness around a user in this textually augmented reality we now find ourselves?

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    Infra-mince, Duchamp declared, cannot be defined, but can only be described by examples, such as the difference in displaced volume between a clean shirt and the same shirt worn once, or the taste of one's mouth lingering in exhaled smoke.

    Infra-mince was a new way to think about physical and temporal dimensions (decades before Mandelbrot discovered fractals). Holes in some of Duchamp's artwork link the 2nd to the 3rd dimension. Sometimes he shot the holes out with bullets, echoing infra-mince again in the delay between the sounds of the shot and the impact.

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    Add this to the isovism concept and you basically describe a social network.

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    A single isovist is the volume of space visible from a given point in space, together with a specification of the location of that point.

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    Isovism is an interesting concept when applied to the creation of a website. Quantifying the perception of space in a given point. How far can you see from your homepage for instance into the larger n-dimensional world a site creates?

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    The new iPad has lots of space. The screen offers 1024x768 pixels.

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    What excites me the most about the iPad, I think, is that it takes paradigms and approaches and lets us expand them. Good art, whether visual or interface, comes from working against constraints imposed by the medium. The iPhone imposed very strict constraints and amazing new paradigms of interface design came out of that. These new approaches have bled their way into Mac OSX apps, Windows 7, etc. I expect the same to happen with the iPad.

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    The funny thing is, if Adobe does not take the steps to make tools to address a future with HTML5, what we'll be left with is tools others create. And chief amongst those others will most likely be Apple. Flash's stance here reminds of Microsoft's during the creation of Blackbird and later their migration toward Visual Interdev and Frontpage. When you build the walls so high around your garden, the fall will just kill your plants.

    [From Flash, iPad, Standards – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report]

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    [From xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe]

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    [From What We Learned About Apple Yesterday]

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    [From Apple Tablet: The Second Stage Media Booster Rocket ]

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    [From Boxee Blog » Coming soon: Boxee Payments]

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