Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol will become the first artists to deliver an interactive album application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, ahead of the release of their fifth studio album next month.
The application, which will be downloadable online, will enable fans to access a raft of extra content including artwork, behind-the-scenes images and lyrics via the touch screen of their handsets, marking the first time a music artist has made use of the iPhone’s extra capabilities.
Gotta Catch 'Em All
Google Chrome
In its most frontal and aggressive attack on Microsoft yet, sources with knowledge of the project said Google is preparing to unveil a new browser–ready for download to users as early as tomorrow–to try to loosen Microsoft’s iron grip on the most important piece of software to navigate the Internet.
[...]Before the Google-Microsoft battles felt more like a Cold War, mostly limited to Google (GOOG) poking at Microsoft (MSFT) via the development of small-scale Web-based software to compete with Microsoft’s dominant Word, PowerPoint and other such products and Microsoft’s thus-far unsuccessful attempts to break Google’s lock on the search market.
Tomorrow?! Can’t wait!
More on BoomTown and here’s the Comic introducing Google Chrome on Blogoscoped. Update: Google announced Chrome a few minutes ago. (Windows first, Mac and Linux next, damnit!)
The Sopranos
Guerrilla marketing has emerged as one of the most effective methods marketers use to break through the omnipresent ‘ad overload’ that society has trained itself to tune out. These 15 awesome guerrilla marketing campaigns build on the history of guerrilla marketing to illustrate where, why, and how the media markets their message in unexpected ways.
Find more on WebUrbanist, with campaigns of Adult Swim, Firefox, D&G, AT&T, Hopi Hari, 3M, YKM Sport, Nike, …
Rock Band 2
Gamespot has setup a Last.fm radio with the ability to play songs from Rock Band 2 (so you can start getting warmed up). They will be updating their station with new songs that show up in weekly download section of Rockband 2.
Rock Band 2 is being developed by Harmonix Music Systems. The game will be released in North America on Xbox 360 in September 2008, with Wii, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2 versions released later this year.
Listen on the web or in your last.fm player.
Tintin
Although Brussels’ Herge Studios seems to think otherwise, Steven Spielberg remains committed to directing the first in a planned “Tintin” trilogy for DreamWorks. [...]
Herge Studios, which holds the rights to the iconic comic strip character, said Tuesday via a spokesman that Peter Jackson was moving into the director’s chair for the first film. But both Jackson’s and Spielberg’s camps say that Jackson in fact remains attached to direct the sequel, though he will still be a producer on the first.
AND…
They went on to confirm what’s long-been rumored; the first film will adapt Herge’s two-part Tintin story, “The Secret of the Unicorn” and “Red Rackham’s Treasure”.
Grandeur Nature 2007 Time-laps by Ridindav. 15 minutes of really cool shots. Watch it in HD.
Mickey Mouse
Film credits from the 1920s revealed imprecision in copyright claims that some experts say could invalidate Disney’s long-held copyright, though a Disney lawyer dismissed that idea as “frivolous.”
Although studio executives are not yet hurling themselves from the parapets of Sleeping Beauty’s castle, the unexpected discovery raises an intriguing question: Is it possible that Mickey Mouse now belongs to the world — and that his likeness is usable by anybody for anything?
The Red One
The Red One records motion in a whopping 4,096 lines of horizontal resolution—”4K” in filmmaker lingo—and 2,304 of vertical. [...] Film doesn’t have pixels, but the industry-standard 35-millimeter stock has a visual resolution roughly equivalent to 4K. And that’s what makes the Red so exciting: It delivers all the dazzle of analog, but it’s easier to use and cheaper—by orders of magnitude—than a film camera. In other words, Jannard’s creation threatens to make 35-mm movie film obsolete.
Would you drink that?
Japan Tobacco, Inc. recently came out with “Unagi Noburi,” or “Surging Eel,” an eel-based carbonated beverage. Made from (among other things) the head and bones of eels, the soda contains several of the vitamins that are contained in the fish. The company is marketing it as a sort of energy drink, designed to extend its drinkers’ stamina.
And… Yuk.
