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October 7, 2017
Book Recommendation: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Book Recommendation: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Let’s kickstart the Weekend with a book recommendation that I profoundly finished a couple days ago. I wasn’t into books until I had more free time on my hands; I also forgot how important it is to read and educate yourself through lecture instead of curated content. There are many reasons why it’s still great to allow time to read. Now let’s take a look at my book recommendation which is about one of the greatest innovator of our time, that is constantly owning the vision of the future. Let’s take a look at Elon Musk, commonly known as CEO and product architect of Tesla Inc. You will read about his hardship and stories about his previous (and actual) ventures including: SpaceX, SolarCity, X.com and a lot more. I’ve learned a lot from this pure fascinating character and it’s a guaranteed reading joy for everyone. Give it a read!
Ashlee Vance is a New York Times best-selling author and feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek. Ashelee is also the host of the Hello World television and internet show.
There are few industrialists in history who could match Elon Musk’s relentless drive and ingenious vision. A modern alloy of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs, Musk is the man behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and SolarCity, each of which has sent shock waves throughout American business and industry. More than any other executive today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as a science fiction fantasy.
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- Get your own copy via Amazon
- Learn more about Ashlee Vance at ashleevance.com
Author by Ashlee Vance
AoiroStudio
Oct 07, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo Books
October 7, 2017
The Filmmaker’s Mental Checklist: 9 Things to Nail Down Before You Hit Record
Ready to shoot? Not so fast! Have you checked these 9 things first?
Whether you’re a professional or a total noob, there are going to be a lot of things you don’t know how to do when you arrive on a film set, but making sure your camera is set up properly shouldn’t be one of them. In this video, Darious Britt of D4Darious provides you with a great 9-step mental checklist that will help you correctly adjust your camera settings so you’ll be ready and raring to go before you start recording.
Source: NoFilmSchool
October 7, 2017
Watch: 6 Ways to Make Realistic Fake Blood
Need a good recipe for fake blood? Well, here’s six.
It’s that glorious time of year again when we inundate you with non-stop Halloween and horror-related content to the point where you are literally sick to death of all of the blood, gore, and grossness. Joy!
To kick things off this year, let’s start with something that all horror filmmakers need to have plenty of when working on set: fake blood. I’m sure you’ve come across many different recipes, including legendary special effects artist Dick Smith’s famous recipe, but if I know anything about fake blood it’s that you 1.) you can’t have too much of it, and 2.) you can’t have too many different kinds of it. This video from Film Riot shares six recipes that give you a little of everything, from runny to goopy to creamy red peanut butter.
Source: NoFilmSchool
October 6, 2017
Watch: Why You Should Study ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ if You Want to Experiment with Time
Nolan and Tarantino took a cue from Lynch. Would you?
More than perhaps any other creative medium, film enables narrative time travel. Immediately, and without any preamble, a story can jump from its present back into its past or fast-forward into its future, and usually viewers simply accept it, often enjoying it. In fact, it would be difficult to think of any film that doesn’t expand or contract time in some way, with jumps from scene to scene or from one character’s perspective to another.
Lynch continually adjusts and re-adjusts our sense of time, to disorienting but also enlightening effect.
Some directors have historically played with time frames in a self-conscious way, making sure we know time is being manipulated, and the effect of this sort of open switching and flip-flopping is usually the deepening and broadening of the film’s symbolism. Christopher Nolan did this to memorable effect in Memento. Quentin Tarantino changed American film by doing it in Pulp Fiction.
Source: NoFilmSchool
October 6, 2017
Google’s Daydream View 2 VR headset more design refresh than big upgrade
Google has announced a new Google Daydream View, a follow-up to its original VR headset. Coming in at $99, the new headset boasts a few important upgrades over the original, including a wider field of view.
The post Google’s Daydream View 2 VR headset more design refresh than big upgrade appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital Trends VR
October 6, 2017
The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, October 6
The week in music news was marked by the tragedy at a music festival in Las Vegas and the death of Tom Petty. The Daily Chord included coverage of these events and more. Stay up-to-date on news about music from a variety of perspectives, read The Daily Chord each weekday and subscribe to our email blast.
Monday, October 2
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Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting leaves at least 50 dead, 200 injured in largest mass shooting in US history
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Marilyn Manson cancels nine shows after NYC stage injury
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Cedell Davis, bluesman who played guitar with a knife, dies at 91
Obituary from NY Times -
My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed
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The Killers earn first no. 1 album
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Lil Wayne won’t go through security check, skips concert
Post from Stereogum
Tuesday, October 3
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Tom Petty, staple of rock radio with the Heartbreakers, dies at 66
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Concert security expert on what Las Vegas tragedy means for live-music industry
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Las Vegas shooting, no matter how horrific, won’t bow music fans; we don’t break like that
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Microsoft axes Groove music service
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Unbalancing act: How conferences perpetuate the music industry’s gender parity crisis
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Tom Petty’s 50 greatest songs
List from Rolling Stone
Wednesday, October 4
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The Needle Drop pioneered music review vlogs. His lesser-known channel pandered to the alt-right
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New music ‘at risk’ through music education ‘neglect’ in England
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The iPhone didn’t emerge from nothing. Here’s what came before it
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An afternoon with one of Spotify’s ‘Badass Women,’ a 20-year-old New Yorker with one pop-rock anthem
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Women in sound: Addressing the music industry’s gender gap
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Promoter Gabe Reed pleads guilty to wire fraud
Post from Pollstar
Thursday, October 5
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Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Kate Bush lead 2018 rock hall nominations
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Should women make their own pop music canon?
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Tom Petty’s final interview: There was supposed to have been so much more
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Google takes on Shazam with ‘Now Playing’ smartphone feature
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Look out America, The Jesus Lizard is back
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All five former presidents to participate in Oct. 21 hurricane relief concert
Post from Variety
Friday, October 6
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Smart speakers are working their way into every home
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Networks need to stop shaking down music composers
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Kamasi Washington on the music that made him a jazz colossus
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Why cover and tribute bands in Dallas have it made, licensing be damned
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Why Terence Trent D’Arby became Sananda Maitreya: ‘It was that or death’
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The Pixel’s missing headphone jack proves Apple was right
Post from The Verge
The post The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, October 6 appeared first on SXSW.
Source: SxSW Music
October 6, 2017
These are the 20 best HTC Vive games available today
So you’re considering an HTC Vive, but don’t know which games to get? Our list of 20 of the best HTC Vive games will help you out, whether you’re into rhythm-based gaming, interstellar dogfights, or something else entirely.
The post These are the 20 best HTC Vive games available today appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital Trends VR
October 6, 2017
UI Inspiration: Some Fresh UI/UX Interactions
UI Inspiration: Some Fresh UI/UX Interactions
Something we should do more often and not enough; getting immerse into a surf on Dribbble. I just had one yesterday night and I was just impressed about all the amazing work by many talented designers out there. I’ve put together a collection with a mix of design and interactions for your UI inspiration. Sometimes I do forget how it’s great to just get a spike of inspiration for your current workflow or project. It’s always needed and adding so much value. Hope you will enjoy this!
In this collection we are featuring the work from UENO, tubik, AgenceMe, UI8 and more.
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Design by Virgil Pana
Design by Jenny Johannesson
Design by Clara Rua
Design by Gene Ross
Design by Jenny Johannesson
Design by tubik
Design by ⋈ Sam Thibault ⋈
Design by tubik
Design by Barthelemy Chalvet
Design by Divan Raj
Design by Leo Leung
Design by UI8
Design by Divan Raj
AoiroStudio
Oct 06, 2017
Source: Abduzeedo UI/UX
October 6, 2017
New Music! SXSW Artist Releases – October 2017
We’re celebrating the arrival of fall, and luckily we will have many new releases from past SXSW Showcasing Artists this month to soundtrack the new season. Each week we will highlight fresh albums from SXSW artists and link to a new Spotify playlist inspired by one of the releases to keep the SXSW community in-the-know. We provide these resources to help you discover new favorites as well as to check back in with veteran artists.
October 6 Releases
This week’s release list from past SXSW Showcasing Artists features an eclectic mix with a focus on electronic pop albums. A new album full of eccentric jazz beats from Shigeto titled The New Monday also arrives on Friday. Singer/songwriter Tamara Lindeman, who performs as The Weather Station, will release a new self-titled album. Canadian electronic pop act Blue Hawaii will drop Tenderness. Sunny indie-pop act Cults are back with Offering. LA electronic artist TOKIMONSTA drops Lune Rouge. New Zealand natives Yumi Zouma release their new indie pop album called Willowbank.
After taking a look at the weekly releases, we pick one new album and make a playlist for fans incorporating new music from past SXSW Showcasing Artists for them to discover. This week’s playlist features electronic R&B and is inspired by Kelela, whose new album Take Me Apart is dropping this Friday. Check it out because these playlists will only be active for seven days before we pick a new artist to focus on.
Keep up with our playlists on the official SXSW Spotify channel, and be sure to follow the playlist.
Past Showcasing Artist October 6 Releases
Alex Lahey – I Love You Like A Brother
Blue Hawaii – Tenderness
Citizen – As You Please
Cults – Offering
Ducktails – Jersey Devil
Kelela – Take Me Apart
Shigeto – The New Monday
Sound of Ceres – The Twin
The Darkness – Pinewood Smile
The Weather Station – The Weather Station
The White Buffalo – Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights
TOKiMONSTA – Lune Rouge
Weaves – Wide Open
Whitney Rose – Rule 62
Yumi Zouma – Willowbank
While we are happy to share music from past SXSW Showcasing Artists with you, the best way to be current is to attend SXSW 2018 in March. Now is the best time to sign up for the lowest rates on badges as well as your hotel. If you’re considering applying to showcase at the 2018 SXSW Music Festival, I recommend taking the plunge now, we process applications in the order they are received and so it is always best to apply as early as possible.
Kelela – Photo by Heather Kennedy/Getty Images for SXSW
The post New Music! SXSW Artist Releases – October 2017 appeared first on SXSW.
Source: SxSW Music
October 5, 2017
From horror fests to shoot-’em-ups, here are the 20 best Oculus Rift games
Jumping into virtual reality for the first time with the Oculus Rift? We’ve rounded up our picks for best Oculus Rift games — whether you’re into platforming, puzzles, or virtual dogfights — available through the Oculus Store.
The post From horror fests to shoot-’em-ups, here are the 20 best Oculus Rift games appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital Trends VR