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Eric from DevonTechnologies on DevonAgent

12. July 2006 Keine Kommentare

Have you ever wondered what all that fuzz about DevonTechnologies is all about? What exactly DevonAgent does more than just google? Check out this interview with Eric on Computer America, a radio talk show dedicated to computers and technology — „the only daily tech show airing at midnight“.

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Contrapunto

4. July 2006 Keine Kommentare

Contrapunto A short tango clip called Contrapunto (by Jean-Pierre Jacquet, 2004): hand-drawn animation of a dancing couple in Buenos Aires, exploring the details of the tango.

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tango ghosts

2. July 2006 Keine Kommentare

Tango Ghosts

The short clip „Tango Ghosts (2005)“ is a tango nuevo style video clip to Gotan Project’s Santa Maria…. Interesting visuals — the whole clip is in inverted colors, making the dancers appear like ghosts on a one-colored background. In addition the scene is shot from multiple angles, projected on top of each other, just the first few seconds are single-scene. The dancing is OK, but nothing too fancy, stylish or „high class“ — as far as Ⅰ can tell.

Much more interesting is the real background story to this clip: is creators are Beatfix, a group of VJs who do stuff like this in real-time as video performance. And Ⅰ have to say, this really looks cool. Imagine the possibilities… many more examples can be found at beatfix’s website!

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tango.info

1. July 2006 Keine Kommentare

Ⅰ just want to point out to all tango people out there — as well as everyone interested in the semantic web, metadata, structured blogging or whatever: tango.info (and the wikipedia entry about it) is a website dedicated to providing data on tango worldwide: places, events, teachers, festivals — tango poets, composers, musicians — tango songs, titles, CDs — and it does so in multiple languages (english, spanish and 25 more languages!). The stored data can be accessed by anyone and in convenient open formats.

Please: if anyone of you is a teacher or runs a milonga/festival: check out this site and add your information! It will make the web a better place ;)