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An interface exploration for the Apple TV

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The Apple TV interface is designed to move one object at a time. Press the right arrow key on your remote, move to the next movie in your list.

Radu Dutzan had an idea for a more direct interface (think mouse instead of arrow keys) and built this conceptual prototype using an iPhone and AirPlay.

Unedited footage of a bear…Wait, what?

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From Kottke.org:

Following in the footsteps of Too Many Cooks is Unedited Footage of a Bear. It aired for the first time on Adult Swim this week in their 4am infomercial slot. It starts off as a nature thing with a bear which is interrupted by a fake infomercial and then. Gets. WEIRD.

First things first, weird does not even begin to describe this experience. I found it riveting and, more importantly, disturbing. So don’t watch this if you are not in a safe place, personally, and I wouldn’t share this with kids. But if you feel up to it, dig in.

Johnnie Walker commercial

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A Johnny Walker commercial, embedded in a video showing how the spot was filmed. Fantastic to see this all unfold. Notice the starting and ending parties are the same, bookends on a theme. Also, note that the actor wore wires all the way through, even walking through the seemingly solid doorway.

Apple releases “The Song”

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From Apple’s holiday campaign comes this sweet film about a girl’s gift to her grandmother.

Grappling with the culture of free in Napster’s aftermath

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Terrific article, partnered with the video below. Clearly, the culture of free is at the soul of many new business models. As you craft your business plan, you must consider the possibility that someone out there will do the same thing for free.

News organizations fight to release Steve Jobs deposition video

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CNET:

Some of the last video footage taken of the late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs shown in antitrust court last week may see the light of day after lawyers representing the Associated Press, Bloomberg and CNN filed a motion with the court to have it released.

Bond. James Bond.

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Bond is back. More importantly, Daniel Craig is back. The new Bond movie has been announced, and I am excited!

Shrimp cannon promotes wireless service

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Japan’s largest wireless carrier, NTT Docomo, put together this video to promote its new LTE service.

Not sure I would ever, in a million years, eat those shrimp, but the video definitely made me laugh, especially the deadpan from the woman on the left at the end. Heh.

Terrific case for seeing Interstellar in IMAX

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M. G. Siegler:

All the scenes in space? IMAX. All the exterior scenes on different worlds? IMAX. Most of the scenes inside the spaceship? Regular film. Interiors on Earth? Regular film. Scenes out in the corn fields of Earth? Largely IMAX.

Not a lot of movies live up to the IMAX format.

A boy and his atom

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IBM made the world’s smallest movie by using a pair of electron scanning microscopes to move a series of atoms to create a stop motion effect. Truly astonishing.

Watch a handcrafted neon Apple logo being made

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Matt Fuller collects all things Apple and he wanted a neon Apple logo to hang in his home to highlight his collection. Here’s his story, with the “making of” video. Badass!

My brother works at Sears

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Find out who stopped by our Toronto office to visit his brother! Watch as Peter (long time Sears associate) explain to his brother what Sears Canada is all about and why we’re here to stay.

Yup. His brother works at Sears.

The Sorkin sketch

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This sketch from Late Night with Seth Meyers struck me as a pitch perfect parody, with a perfectly appropriate cameo at the end.

DirecTV follows Netflix lead, offers 4K Ultra HD video

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It’s clear that 4K video is coming. The question is, will the tipping point be a business as usual delivery mechanism as it makes its way through the usual suspects, first DirecTV, then the cable providers?