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Visual News is a wonderful website collecting unique and interesting collections of art. This particular piece features photographs of abandoned NASA stations and offices, offering a unique glimpse into America's space age.

"So you can thank photographer Roland Miller, who, for 25 years, has traveled to more than 15 NASA launch and research sites across the country to document their current state." Wow, so beautiful and sad... and i think we will only see more of this. Thanks for posting.

File Management and Exchange in depth in Logic Pro allows the sooth and easy transformation to share your music!

Van Gogh painted two version of this infamous "Bedroom in Arles". Thanks for a recent technology called "X-ray fluorescence", the original colors of the paintings can be seen for the first time.

This is amazing! "He described it in a letter to his brother Theo: "I have painted the walls pale violet. The ground with checked material. The wooden bed and the chairs, yellow like fresh butter; the sheet and the pillows, lemon light green. The bedspread, scarlet coloured. The window, green. The washbasin, orangey; the tank, blue. The doors, lilac. And, that is all." "Casadio said Van Gogh had a room ready for Gauguin and he had worked for weeks to decorate the walls with art. "In the myriad letters he wrote to his brother Theo and friends, he said the color has to do the job here," she said. "When he was finished he slept for two days." And now there is an Air BnB where you can stay in his room! ( I'll post about it!) I'm in, he's a favorite of mine! Great post, thanks!

I love playing around with browser based music creators. I recently found this one, and it's pretty great. It's all royalty free loops and effects, and it's easy and fun. I wouldn't use it for writing music or anything I would try to promote, but it's an easy tool to get some ideas going.

OK now! Your giving me too many cool distractions, I'll never get my work done at this pace.

Mechanic arm allows drummers to augment their playing. The arm's technology allows the arm to tune into what the human drummer is doing and follow along. Interesting technology that perhaps could find its way into other areas of music (the three handed piano player, or allowing people with one arm/hand to play instruments formerly difficult to play).

The GUI has been redesigned with a great new look and many time-saving enhancements! The Toolbars and Song Title Area have been redone, and the chord sheet now has a "Real" looking handwritten font for chords. We've added UserTracks. Now you can make your own RealTracks to add to your song.

I think this is kind of cool tool, it gives a new look to music and is a way to customize your work a little. Saves time.

I purchased this software several years ago and found it interesting. The RealTracks sounded clean and followed my chord and time changes as good as could be as expected for a computer program. Sadly, my computer was not powerful enough to run the program without it jamming/freezing/lagging. I think with a proper computer system, a lot of time, and some creativity you could produce a pretty professional backing track for gigging out or creating your own studio tracks without the help of other musicians.

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"Technology and the Arts" is a podcast hosted by Brian and John, Brian is a communications professional, comic book-style artist, songwriter, and blogger. John is a designer, artist, writer, poet, technologist, consultant, open web advocate, and open source evangelist. Episode 56 has some good apps for you iPad musicians Both Brain and John are from Jersey and haven't been active since Sandy went through…

A selection of free and paid apps for use in stage and theatre designs. Especially useful for lighting designers and technicians is the portable gel book. Very cool!

On U2's 2015 tour, the jem of their stage was the "video cage"; two massive video boards spanning the length of their two stages (linked by a walkway). Whether you are a U2 fan or not, the stage is pretty remarkable. A clip of the screen in action can be found here (start at the 3:30 minute point): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YylDq4BlkRI

Booktrack has created a new genre of digital storytelling entertainment. The patented technology lets anyone add a synchronized movie-style soundtrack-including music, ambient audio and sound effects-to an e-Book or other digital text content, with the audio paced to each individual's reading speed. This innovative platform enables users to create and share stories-on a mobile or tablet device-in a unique and exciting way, transforming the "written" word.

I have used GIMP for years. It is a really powerful image program. But it does have a learning curve, that is well worth climbing. From their website: " It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X."

Interesting, I actually have this on my computer and never paid any attention to it...I will now!

A group started for participants in Dickinson College's POSC290 - Mass Media, Communication, and Political Identity in MENA. Now open to all who are interested in the intersections of media and politics in the region, particularly new and emerging digital media. When requesting membership, please explain why. Note that this is for academic purposes, not for marketing.

The Whitney Biennial offers an insightful and introspective look at culture and society in 2017 through its various themed collections. Instillations commenting on the social-media-obsession and paintings illuminate issues of censorship scattered throughout the exhibition. Controversial topics like police brutality and student debt are also tackled in art pieces, such as the series of works on debt by Occupy Museums and THE TIMES THAY AIN'T CHANGING, FAST ENOUGH! piece by Henry Taylor on the fifth and six floors respectively.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins conducted a study on the neuroscience of creativity and our response to art. They have established a new field called "neuroaesthetics." The BSI website is really a thing of beauty: http://www.brainscienceinstitute.org/

Very interesting, it seems to me that these scientists are looking beyond the aesthetics of art towards it use as language or even medicinal. Look at an Escher and a Klimt and call me in the morning :)

The ability to create art and to think creatively is something that truly sets us apart yet they still know so very little about how it occurs in the brain. What exciting and important research!

This is more about using dance instead of technology to teach a concept. Less about integration but I thought it was pretty awesome.

What leaped to mind was choreographed speech...I enjoyed the dancing, but found it also distracting...still an interesting concept.

The end is kind of hilarious. When he proposes that with all the cuts in ed funding for the arts that you will be able to get dancers super cheap thereby making them a cost effective replacement. :). Some people have loved the dancing and others not so much. I am a dancer and I connected immediately. I thought it was hilarious but it was presented as a way to teach concepts to children and I think the context of live movement is so incredibly effective. I certainly understand a super fluid now. I can only imagine if I had actually danced the concept.

Several cool links to free and paid apps that are useful tools for costume designers or anyone working with textiles and designs. As a costume designer for my school's theater and musical productions, I have used several of the applications listed here.

This discussion-based blog explores the intersection of arts management and online technology. Technology in the Arts is a service of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Arts Management and Technology.

"The internet and social media are integral to the arts in America. A survey of arts organizations that have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) finds that technology use permeates these organizations, their marketing and education efforts, and even their performance offerings." An interesting report revealing the (mostly) positive effect technology has had on arts organizations.

This is an article on a new iphone and ipad app designed by ShinyArt and created by Mobovivo that allows you to view video art exhibitions on your phone or ipad.