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Canadian producer Brad Fox blogs on visual media, and living in the digital wild west

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Entries from April 2009

Live NHL Radio on the iPhone – Flames / Blackhawks Edition

April 15th, 2009 · 12 Comments

EDIT – This information is now out of date. Read the comments for information about ootunes – an excellent iPhone app and the most painless way to get a huge assortment of NHL game radio. Happy Stanely Cup Playoffs hockey fans! By far the most popular thing I have ever written on this blog was […]

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Tags: Uncategorized

Do it right, or don’t do it at all (Associated Press, I’m looking at YOU)

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Sorry – it’s been a busy week, but this one was too good to pass up. I got an invitation to internet-eavesdrop on a marketing conference presentation a few weeks ago that quickly devolved into “social media for corporate marketers”. The content wasn’t all that compelling (to be fair the presenters did a great job […]

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Tags: A series of tubes · electronic entertainment · media ramblings

2009: The year we discovered 2001 was eerily prescient in 1968.

April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Just a quick little space/cinema mash-up today, starting with a cool video from over at New Scientist; Andrew Hamilton and Gavin Polhemus from the University of Colorado, Boulder, took Einstein’s general theory of relativity, and built a computer simulation of what it would look like if you fell into a black hole roughly the size […]

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Tags: filmmaking · welcome to the future

And we’re back – with something cool.

April 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

I’m back from television-shooting purgatory (mostly) in one piece. Shooting at the CBC is always fascinating, last week (given the unusual surrounding circumstances) especially so. An unexpected benefit of dropping off the map for a few days, I missed April 1st (a.k.a. “just lie about stuff on the internet day”) one of my most hated […]

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Tags: A series of tubes · copyright reform · design · filmmaking