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...fall 2004-05 collection, Prada spent three months working with textile mills developing first a very fine thread and then a computer-graphic print that was inspired by images of 18th century ruins. Using pixelated computer screen grabs, she reprinted copies of the original images onto faille and brocade, giving them a moiré effect. The final print had a high-tech feeling, but the fabric was traditional...
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Encryption wasn't the biggest problem in creating Joost. The primary puzzle was piecing together a network powerful enough to stream near DVD-quality, full-screen video to millions of computers simultaneously. The trick, it turned out, was to employ distributed computer power, using viewers' own PCs to speed video along. Having developed similar person-to-person networks for Kazaa and Skype--to transmit music files and phone calls through the Net--Joost's engineers finally nailed the solution last summer. Shouts of joy went up when they streamed their first video. It depicted, appropriately enough, sharks circling prey...
...Goodbye” finds its influences not in the sexiness of the band’s name but rather in its Japanese background. The aesthetic scheme of the video is origami, and little happens besides the shifting of a number of colorful designs decorating the screen and Yuki singing and moping around the paper landscape. I mentioned Yuki’s “potential” attractiveness because it’s hard to get a good look at her face, what with her side bangs and all the millisecond close-ups. The song is actually pretty good, though...
...Kars’ own “National Theater” serves as an inset critique of media power in the broader world. With his daughters and Ka gathered around to watch the broadcast, a family patriarch abruptly changes the channel, putting a strange, new image on the screen. To Ipek’s question of what her father is watching, the father tersely replies, “It’s snow.”Melvillean in its championing of indeterminate imagery, “Snow” makes gazing at television static the act of resistance to fixed...