Counting, MPEG style

Streamingmedia.com: The MPEG Video Standards – from 1 to 21

There’s more to MPEG than just audio and video compression. There are five MPEG standards‚ÄìMPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MPEG7, and MPEG21‚Äìspanning all aspects of compressing, authoring, identifying, and delivering multimedia. Here’s a quick look at each one and where it fits in the digital media landscape.

Video improvisation group

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From the site:
242.pilots : a real-time video improvisation ensemble

hc gilje (norway)
kurt ralske (usa)
lukasz lysakowski (poland)

three video artists who perform collaboratively.
using their own custom software, 242.pilots expressively improvise rich,
layered experimental video works in real-time (both as a trio and as soloists).

improvising as a group, the three artists respond and interact with each other’s images
in a subtle and intuitive way. images are layered, contrasted, merged, and transformed.
the degree of interplay and unspoken communication between the artists is akin the best
free jazz ensembles.

the end product is a complex ‘visual conversation’: a quasi-narrative exploring
degrees of abstraction; a mesmerizing, immersive journey through diverse landscapes;
or just raw retinal delight.

Bye monkey, you will be missed.

Wired News: Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 ñ 2004
From Wired News:
Launched in August 1996 as part of a fast-growing collection of websites funded by the original owners of Wired magazine, Webmonkey instantly became the surprise hit. Most of Wired’s sites offered the breathless cyber optimism and punditry the magazine was known for. As it turned out, online readers didn’t care for it. What they really wanted was: How do you build that Java-powered interface to your site?