Participatory Culture Foundation’s Miro

The Participatory Culture Foundation works on the development of Miro, which is a free open-source desktop video application that is designed to make mass media more open and accessible for everyone. From the screenshots, it looks so seamless it’s almost too good to be true.

Free-Codecs.com

Free-Codecs.com offers the latest in audio and video codecs, plugins and tools.

VirtualDub

VirtualDub is not only a free, powerful video processing application, it is also one of the most cleanly written applications that I’ve ever come across. An outstanding example of quality software: zen-like user interface, stable, fast and adaptable.

Video

Video technology initially fascinated me in school for reasons I can’t write about here It later fascinated me because of the fact that anything to do with video was either very CPU-intensive or very disk space-intensive. It now fascinates me because of the potential of parallel/distributed computing in video processing.

Oh, did I mention I also like watching movies, too?

Doom9 is the definitive resource on DIY video. There’s also VideoHelp.com.

SequoiaView and TreeMaps

SequoiaView uses the concept of squarified treemaps to present the contents of your computer hard disk in a novel way. Also see the website of their spin-off company MagnaView, which specializes in visualizing huge amounts of data.

libpr0n

libpr0n is the official Mozilla pr0n image rendering library… I’m not kidding.

7 Days of Modern Warfare

Each day for the seven days leading up to the November 6, 2007 release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, developers Infinity Ward released new media for the world to see. It’s definitely worth a look.

This Binary Universe

“It could well be studied as the first major electronic work of the new millennium… it’s that good…”

-Keyboard Magazine

Electronic music artist BT’s fifth studio album This Binary Universe was probably the first of its kind. It was composed and produced specifically for 5.1 channel audio, and was accompanied by a DVD featuring videos by a collection of computer artists and animators.

Read about the one-of-its kind theatrical release of TBU here.

BT maintains a fantastic journal and art collection over at DeviantArt.

Fragile-Dreams.com

Tanja from the Netherlands has an interesting collection of digital art here.

Darker Digital Art

Here’s a selection of some digital art sites with darker and more surrealistic themes, perfect for freaking out people you don’t like at school or work :

• IMMAGINA/E - The surreal weirdness
• Fantasy Fine Art Gallery - Is what it says it is
• Mappa del sito - Probably means “Site Map” in Italian, but the links on the main site are all broken, which is just as well
• AndroidBlues - The art of Steven Stahlberg (and some amazing tutorials)
• DeadDreamer - The art of Wilhelm Steiner