Kevin Rose on the iPhone: "It´s Gonna Be Small as Shit"
In case you didn´t catch the Diggnation podcast we told you about earlier, here´s a video recap of Kevin Rose´s iPhone leak. Host Alex Albrecht had to pull teeth to get Rose to talk, but eventually he succeeds and gets Rose to admit that the phone will be running a mini version of OS X and include a slide out keyboard and a touch screen, yet still be "small as shit." Pricing will be $249 for the 4GB model and $449 for the 8GB version. We´re only weeks away from knowing the full truth, so you may want to take it with a grain of salt. – Louis Ramirez
Win an ADC Cube before the End of the World
This year´s Art Director Club´s Call for Entries poster addresses the turbulence of our era and where we seem to be heading, as well as the desire by those in the industry to win a Cube. "The ADC Cube is the award that every creative wants to win at least once before they die," says TBWAChiatDay co-creative director Ian Reichenthal, who guided the effort along with co-CD Scott Vitrone. "And the clock is ticking."
"There were lots of disasters and apocalyptic trends that deserved mentioning," Reichenthal adds, "but we scaled it down to our favorite 20 or so. Our choices were based on which ones lent themselves to being illustrated in an interesting way."
The TBWAChiatDay creative team that worked on the assignment reports that, as they researched the history of Armageddon, they turned to medieval woodcuts for inspiration and received a "sign" that they were pointed in the right direction. "In one we saw what looked like the Art Directors Club logo," explains art director Matt Sorrell. "We thought, is this a message?" (Actually, the original logo of the Art Directors Club was inspired by Albrecht Dürer´s signature initials. A German Renaissance artist, Dürer is known for his engravings, particularly his Apocalypse series, which dates to the late 1400s. )
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EMI will allow cricket songbook to be published Cory Doctorow:
Tim sez, "EMI have rescinded their copyright warning about the parody cricket songbook,
according to its distributor."
Unless you´ve been living on another planet you would have surely
been hearing about the Fanatics songbook over the last couple of weeks.
Just 5 days prior to the commencement of play at the Gabba it looked
like we were going to have to shred the recently printed 100,000
copies.
After a slight misunderstanding with our good friends at EMI, we´ve
been reliably informed that the songbook isn´t in breach of any
copyright laws and in turn the songbook is once ahead downloadable and
fully legal.
Fantastic news for Aussie cricket fans the nation wide!!"
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