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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

A free animation app for making videos. This site has more features in free mode than Xtranormal does. It is useful for students for use in alternative learning exercises or for anyone who wants to make a simple animated video. This site/app was recommended to me by my animation major daughter.

I always wanted to make an animated story. I'm going to use goanimate for this weeks technology assignment.

There are orchestras being formed, mainly by students, to perform video game music, and they collaborate with professional orchestras i. Also, video game makers are turning to professional composers and musicians for musical accompaniment so that music for video games is becoming more symphonic. However, the performances with orchestras are not interactive, which seems to me to defeat the purpose.

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.

Software for video, audio, image converting and editing. Support all popular formats and devices. This is a subscription ( paid ) service. It is pretty easy to use and has many different tools available.

A few years ago video projection mapping was a fledgling artform, with a handful of noteworthy examples. Now, no building opening, product launch, award ceremony, or birthday party worth its salt would be seen without a head-turning projection. Video projection mapping has the capacity to transform any object into a screen.

This is an article on visual mapping that links up with music for concerts. It is a new realm in experiencing sound which I am very excited about.

"Clip Converter is a free online media conversion application, which allows you to convert and download YouTube URLs to formats like MP3,MP4,AAC,3GP." This is a great resource for saving videos for offline viewing as well as converting media to viewable formats.

This blew me away completely. Bjork has always been on the cutting edge of tech with her instruments. This shows off a few of them. After you watch, check out some more videos on the reactable (the blue table with the shapes on it).... it's pretty nuts.

This triggered various images: instrument statues that are also kinetic...sound made visible...most intriguing!

This article is about Art.sy, which is an artwork bookmarking site similar to Pinterest. Here you can bookmark favorite art pieces from museums and galleries around the world. (You can actually bookmark favorite pieces in Pinterest). Artsy.net is an automated guidance system for art lovers that does for art what Netflix does for videos or Pandora does for music. It allows the user to sift through parameters using keywords to discover artworks from around the world. http://artsy.net/

Vine is an app for twitter that allows you to make short looping videos, which you can share with the world. I linked the wiki page here, as it has more information, but you can visit them on twitter at: https://twitter.com/vineapp The Tribeca Film Festival opened a competition for Vine videos for this year's event. http://www.tribecafilm.com/blogs/six-second-films-vine-competition

Create your own whiteboard video (like those by RSA and AsapSCIENCE) without having to be a great artist. VideoScribe does all the work for you. There is a free trial you can use to test out the software before you purchase a subscription.

ThingLink is the leading platform for creating interactive images and videos for web, social, advertising, and educational channels. Be creative! Make your images come alive with video, text, images, shops, music and more! Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories.

Filmora is free, well-reviewed editing software that is easy to use. Here is the tutorial on how and you can find the download with a quick Google search. Have fun!

Daniel Levitin is the Author of "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession". He is a musician and neuroscientist and this post is him giving a talk about his research and book at Microsoft Research. One of his main premises from his research is that music may be more fundamental to humans than language.

This is a very riveting talk. I didn't come away with the idea that music might be more fundamental to humans than language, but that music is fundamental, as is language, and that each of us is a musical expert, if not expert performers!

I have continued thinking about this topic...Levitin also intimated that musical capacity is similar to language acquisition in that there is a window of time in which that capacity needs to be triggered in order for fluency in music to be attained. The window for language acquisition is birth to puberty. If your language capacity is not triggered within this time frame, you can't learn to speak as we understand speech. I wonder if this is really true of musical capacity...perhaps, but perhaps not in the way that it is of language. Of course they massive amounts of research have been applied to the question of language.

A variety of essays and videos by and about artists and actors. They discuss how technology has changed the entertainment industry.

A new ballet uses video live-stream technology to get two different ballet schools, with students from 18 different ballet schools, in two different parts of the world to create a joint performance at the same time. This is a pretty great experiment and experience for the students. I would say it's a rather unique experience. But maybe it will become the norm?

(Please watch the informational video on page) Website showing the 'Cintiq Pen'. A tablet-like device that merges an LCD computer screen with a drawing tablet. With the Cintiq pen, you can draw directly on the screen.

This is a look at some videos demonstrating live action art exhibits. I like the 'laser cave' installation the most. None of these would be possible without the use of technology.

A video and discussion of a software used to take 'snapshots' from movie scenes. Once compiled, each movie has a unique 'fingerprint'. Strangely enough, many of the fingerprints resemble the over all feeling of the film. I particularly liked 'Alien'.