Remember the days when games were based on other media? Now that games outpace music, the tables have turned: music now borrows from games. Sarah Brightman’s latest album, Symphony, features concept art from ArenaNet’s online game Guild Wars.
Sarah herself approached ArenaNet art director Daniel Dociu. Who says artsy chicks don’t dig geeky stuff?
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Dating coach Wayne Elise once said women don’t want an engineer who looks like an engineer, they want an engineer who looks like a record producer. In that case, women will want Douglas Merrill. The eminently progressive CIO of Google is leaving his illustrious post to become President of EMI Digital Business on April 28.
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The rise of geek culture has created a convergence of culture vultures and number crunchers. No truer is that convergence than in the song chart meme going around Flickr, where the central ideas of classic song lyrics are depicted as pie charts, line graphs, Venn diagrams, map overlays, bar graphs, flowcharts, and other graphical geekery.
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Stan Schroeder strikes an interesting comparison. Journalists freely distribute content and still make money. Why the Hell can’t musicians do the same?
The thing is, us journalists are often criticized by musicians and music label execs when we write about the zero cost of copying music and the pointlessness of RIAA’s desperate schemes; the criticism is […]
Have you heard of Ashley Alexandra Dupre? Thanks to MySpace and the clued-in folks at the New York Times, you will.
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See, this is part of the reason Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor is so enduringly popular. Unlike Metallica, he knows what the Hell’s going on.
At first, Reznor considered putting his new album Ghosts I-IV out on a pay-what-you-like basis, a la Radiohead’s In Rainbows. Fortunately, Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig convinced Reznor that attribution would […]
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