George Lucas DVD Audio Commentary Leaked

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George Lucas Does Dystopia, Too

George Lucas Does Dystopia, Too 09/15/2004 05:32 AM
The Star Wars director's first film, THX 1138, is no masterpiece. But it shows glimpses of the storytelling skill and imagination that became evident in his later movies. Jason Silverman reviews the re-released film.

George Lucas To Attend Celebration III

George Lucas To Attend Celebration III 04/05/2005 10:04 PM
As Threepio stated , "Thank the maker!" literally. George Lucas is scheduled to make an appearance on the Sagamoore Ballroom stage at Celebration III. Additional details can be found here! In response to the news, GEN CON LLC has reopened its advance ticket sales from now through 5:00 PM PST this Friday, April 8!

George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes

George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes 09/17/2004 11:52 AM

George Lucas incluye un troyano en Star
Wars

George Lucas incluye un troyano en Star
Wars 09/25/2004 05:35 AM

photoshop ist ein nebenprodukt von
george lucas star wars

photoshop ist ein nebenprodukt von
george lucas star wars 12/05/2003 05:35 AM
while working on Star Wars .. MacWorld

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Slate to George Lucas: slap a Creative
Commons license on Star Wars

Slate to George Lucas: slap a Creative
Commons license on Star Wars 06/05/2005 11:41 PM
The online magazine Slate has a great review article on the Star Wars fan-created movie Revelations. Slate's Clive Thompson gives the film high marks saying the story and special effects are better than the recent Star Wars prequels and even goes so far as to say:

George Lucas has always encouraged Star Wars­-inspired fan movies, so long as the wannabe auteurs didn't try to make a profit. (That's the case with Felux—he isn't selling his movie or any associated merchandise.) Lucas should do more, though. Once he stops polluting the world with prequels, he should slap a liberal "Creative Commons" copyright license on the Star Wars franchise. That would explicitly allow any fan to remix an existing movie, or create a new one in homage, so long as there's no profit involved. Everyone wins: Movies like Revelations keep the fan base alive, and Lucas can continue selling figurines until the sun explodes.

Sounds like an idea we at Creative Commons could get behind. An attribution-n oncommercial-sharealike license would allow fan created side stories, prequels, or follow-ups, and they'd never be sold or charged for and a credit would always be given to Lucas. It'll be interesting to see if any aging properties with a large cult-like fan following adopt something like this. One could speculate that fan art would drive sales of the original, when outsiders take a liking to these offshoots, and in the end mean more sales of DVDs and toys for creators like Lucas.

"audio files of George W. Bush's
speeches"

"audio files of George W. Bush's
speeches" 06/18/2004 11:21 AM

Lucas, Seb and Alf

Lucas, Seb and Alf 04/15/2004 03:52 AM
Jon Udell on musiclogging. Jon Udell has been watching the recent going-ons around closing the loop in musiclog ging, and seems as enthusiastic about both the specifics and the general vision as I am.

I'm not much of an audiophile, to be honest, and there are lots of other people who will get more deeply into music-blogging and playlist-sharing than I'm likely to. But the process at work here is deeply fascinating to me, and generalizes to other realms. Every kind of digital experience can thrive in the virtuous cycle of the blogosphere: use it, capture part of it, link to it, write about it, search for it, read about it, aggregate it, rinse, lather, repeat.

Udell quotes a post in which Jefferson Provost (correctly, in my view) observes that since "consolidation has turned music radio into a steaming pile of crap", word -of-mouth recommendation is pretty much all that serious listeners have got left to find the good stuff. I wholeheartedly agree.

I've been collaborating with Lucas and Alf (okay, rather coaxing them into working things out) to make the experience tighter among Winamp (the player I use), Webjay, and feedroll so that bloggers can easily post their finds, promoting good free music and musiclogging itself at the same time. Once things get nice and usable enough I think we'll be close to having a decent model case for the open, collaborative media filtering and recommendation networks of the future. I'll probably post more about it tomorrow.
[Seb's Open Research]

Looking forward to seeing what happens when Lucas, Seb and Alf get together.

Josh Lucas for hire

Josh Lucas for hire 01/24/2004 02:51 PM
Josh Lucas (who shares a birthday with me) is looking for a new job.

Lucas Gonze and Webjay in the NY Times!

Lucas Gonze and Webjay in the NY Times! 07/08/2004 12:27 AM

Congrats Lucas.....

Here it is.....

Multimedia Scrapbooks, to Create and Share
By NEIL McMANUS

HANDFUL of Web users are programming their own virtual TV newscasts and eclectic collections of video clips using a free media-sharing tool called Webjay (www.webjay.org). The site makes it easy to build, share and watch playlists of audio and video links culled from around the Internet.

Webjay, developed by Lucas Gonze, a programmer who lives in Brooklyn, has already built a following among music lovers. They have used it to assemble sets of legally available music links from all over the Web, then play the whole list with one click, using Windows Media Player, RealOne, Winamp or QuickTime. Now some people are creating video shows using Webjay and streaming Web video.

Nobody is doing this with more panache than Brett Singer, a New York theater publicist. Mr. Singer's shows include a music video show, collections of campaign videos and a variety program called Webjay TV.

A collage of news, music, comedy and found video, Webjay TV includes video clips like Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" interviewing Howard Dean, a lesson on how to play Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on guitar and George Lucas discussing the "Star Wars" character Jar Jar Binks.

"For me, Webjay has taken the place of little online games like minigolf or solitaire," said Mr. Singer, who started making playlists as a hobby, using home videos of his young son. "Webjay has become more of an obsession. It's a way for me to be creative with minimal effort."

Mr. Singer said he took particular pleasure in making mashups, playlists that mix videos, photos and music in a multimedia scramble. In a playlist called The Politics of Dancing, a BBC News video about Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Iraq prison abuse scandal is accompanied by the song "We Will Rock You" by Queen.

In another playlist, Mr. Singer somewhat more artfully sets to music a shot from a live traffic cam at the Cross Bronx Expressway; a hypnotic tune called "Cars for Christ" from a band of the same name plays as commuters find their way home.

Mr. Singer also produces a daily news program on Webjay that uses videos from a variety of sources. Recently, the news program stitched together a BBC News tribute to Ray Charles, a Gallup Poll report on how much Americans remember about D-Day, and highlights from the N.B.A. finals, playing alongside Kobe Bryant's mug shot.

Webjay's creator, Mr. Gonze, is among those who think technologies like his may someday stir up the conventional television industry. Mr. Gonze, who spends his summers in Canada without a TV, said that recently, as an alternative to network news, he had watched Mr. Singer's Webjay compilation. "It was embryonic and crude, but also mind-blowing," he said.

Andrew Nachison, director of the Media Center at the American Press Institute, said that Webjay video playlists were "a fabulous example of remix society."

"It's an outgrowth of hip-hop and DJ culture," he added. "People aren't just remixing music, they're remixing the news."

Webjay news mixes can be politically charged. "Brett's a New Yorker," Mr. Gonze said, referring to Mr. Singer. "He's a liberal. He's into show business. He's definitely not playing to the mainstream. NBC has to appeal to the great swath of viewers across America. Brett doesn't."

Webjay may eventually face a backlash from record labels and TV networks, but Mr. Gonze maintains that the site is legal because it assembles the Web addresses of media files, but never stores or transmits the actual files themselves.

Michael R. Graham, an intellectual property attorney and a partner with the law firm Marshall, Gerstein & Borun in Chicago, said that although Webjay itself "appears to be legal," users should be careful.

"There are a gazillion legal questions," he said. "It's a classic example of how technology has leapt over our ability to trace rights and what might be infringed, and in what ways."

If anyone who holds the rights to an audio or video clip objects to Webjay carrying a link to it, the site offers a tool, called Tattlematic, for removing links. "I believe in peace through politeness," Mr. Gonze said. "If somebody doesn't want us to link to their stuff, we won't link to their stuff. They don't have to sue. They just have to ask."

Mr. Nachison said television news organizations could benefit from technologies like Webjay, because they are making news video easier to find on the Web.

"The audience for television news on the major networks has been declining for years," he said. "These mashups are bringing the news to a new audience. That's not just a good thing for the media business. That's a good thing for society."

Steve O'Brien, executive publisher of the Gallup Poll, said he did not mind that Gallup's videos are being used in Webjay's news reports, as long as Webjay doesn't charge subscription fees for the videos or sell advertising on the site.

He said he would prefer that people visit Gallup's own site (gallup.com) to watch the videos. "But at least Webjay is meeting one of our goals, which is getting our information in front of people," he said.

He added that Webjay may soon provide a benefit for Gallup.

"We're thinking about putting ads in our videos," he says. "Our advertisers will be happy to get the extra viewers."

[via pho list - Jim Coffman]

Lucas On Charlie Rose Tonight

Lucas On Charlie Rose Tonight 09/09/2004 08:33 PM
Lucas is on PBS' Charlie Rose tonight. Check local listings on PBS ... this should be a pretty good interview since it isn't really so canned and mainstream - something very different than he normally has to do. Send us a summary if you catch it or we will after the MNF premiere tonight, too! Thanks to Darth Indy for the alert.

Rachel Lucas: holy crap I did it

Rachel Lucas: holy crap I did it 05/08/2004 02:04 AM
she has risen .. Rachel Lucas .. It worked

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Lucas Talks Star Wars TV Series

Lucas Talks Star Wars TV Series 09/15/2004 07:11 PM
This should help convince those naysayers . . .

Lucas Group Expands With New Office In
Las Vegas

Lucas Group Expands With New Office In
Las Vegas 04/05/2005 02:17 AM
Lucas Group, a respected leader in professional recruiting, announced its expansion with a new office in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas operation marks Lucas Group’s fifteenth location and brings expertise in human capital management in the Information Technology (IT), Construction and Hospitality industries. [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]

Lucas put malicious Xbox trojan on Star
Wars DVD

Lucas put malicious Xbox trojan on Star
Wars DVD 09/24/2004 05:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: The new Star Wars bonus DVD erases elements of your Xbox's firmware without informing you or giving you a chance to decline. This is apparently deliberate, as part of an "anti-piracy" effort aimed at punishing people who play the Star Wars DVD bonus disk in a modded Xbox.

The 'StarWars Trilogy DVD' (video/movie DVD) has an 'Extra Special Features Disc'. If you try to launch this on your Xbox it will automaticly update your dashboard ... NO confirmation will be asked. The bonus disc has extra features including a documentary on the star wars saga, footage from the making of all three films and a preview demo of the new 'StarWars Battlefront' Xbox game (that's why there's a default.xbe, dashupdate.xbe and update.xbe on the disc).

This information can be important for some people with older bioses (booting xboxdash.xbe), people using exploits or simply those who don't want their dash upgraded.

Link (via Gizmodo)

Lucas Arts makes a Make-A-Wish
kids-wiith-leukemia game

Lucas Arts makes a Make-A-Wish
kids-wiith-leukemia game 06/29/2004 03:40 PM
A kid with leukemia worked with the Make A Wish foundation and Lucas Arts to produce a leukemia-themed kids-game.

The game he created is about fighting cancer, and it reflects Ben's own battle with leukemia. It takes place inside the body, on a playfield of mutating cells. The hero, a boy on a hovering skateboard, uses high-tech weapons to destroy these cells by collecting the seven shields that protect against common side effects of chemotherapy.

It's not easy to get the shields -- they're in the hands of monsters that have to be zapped. FireMonster guards the fever shield and hurls molten lava. VampMonster guards the bleeding shield and sends out vampire bats. Robarf guards the vomit shield "with big smelly green globs." And QBall, guardian of the hair-loss shield, shoots out billiard balls.

Link (Thanks, Adam!)

Sound Audio Systems Announces Huge Sale
on Selected Professional Audio Products

Sound Audio Systems Announces Huge Sale
on Selected Professional Audio Products 03/14/2005 05:26 PM
Sound Audio Systems announced today that the company will have a huge sale on selected items. [PRWEB Mar 1, 2005]

Lucas Group Appoints Larry Austin as
Managing Partner - Executive Search

Lucas Group Appoints Larry Austin as
Managing Partner - Executive Search 04/05/2005 02:17 AM
Lucas Group, a respected leader in professional recruiting, recently appointed Larry Austin as the new Managing Partner of Executive Search in Las Vegas. [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]

Elemental Audio offers Neodynium audio
compressor

Elemental Audio offers Neodynium audio
compressor 09/14/2004 07:23 AM
Elemental Audio Systems on Tuesday introduced Neo dynium, a plug-in for RTAS, Audio Unit and VST-compatible audio software designed for compression and dynamics processing. It uses an "I/O Map" visual interface that helps audio pros optimize and direct their efforts, rather than relying on more common transfer curves and displays. Neodynium costs US$159 (and is available for $139 for a limited time). It works with Digidesign Pro Tools, Emagic Logic and other software. System requirements call for a G3 or faster with Mac OS X v10.2 or newer and a compatible host application.

Westec InterActive Selects the Voice
Tracker™ Array Microphone for Enhanced
Audio in Retail and Restaurant
Audio/Video Surveillance and Operations
Audit

Westec InterActive Selects the Voice
Tracker™ Array Microphone for Enhanced
Audio in Retail and Restaurant
Audio/Video Surveillance and Operations
Audit 03/17/2005 03:36 AM
Westec InterActive, the leader in interactive remote security monitoring for convenience store, retail, restaurant and other business applications, selected Acoustic Magic’s Voice Tracker™ array microphone to be used for enhanced audio for audio/video monitoring. Enhanced audio is especially important for Operational Audits, enabling clear reception of conversations between employees and customers. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

Audio controller promises next gen audio
systems

Audio controller promises next gen audio
systems 06/25/2004 11:57 AM
The latest version of Oxford Semiconductor's OXFW970 FireWire audio controller IC allows next generation audio systems to be easily added to desktop and notebook systems on the Mac and PC platforms, reports electropages in an article noted at MacSurfer...

Enhancing all audio output via Audio
Hijack

Enhancing all audio output via Audio
Hijack 09/03/2004 08:46 AM
This is kind of a followup to this previous hint regarding an iTunes equalizer setting. Something I do as a matter of course is configure Audio Hijack Pro to enhance the sound that iTunes (and DVD Player, Real Player, you na...

M-Audio introduces Revolution 5.1 audio
card

M-Audio introduces Revolution 5.1 audio
card 08/04/2004 10:03 AM
M-Audio on Wednesday introduced the Revolution 5.1, a surround sound audio card compatible with both Macs and PCs. The PCI card comes bundled with Aspyr Media's Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray, billed as the first Mac game optimized for surround sound. The Revolution 5.1 is available for US$99.95.

AAC Audio Format Selected for DVD Audio

AAC Audio Format Selected for DVD Audio 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
Tony Smith writes for the Register, “The AAC (Advanced Audio Codec), the audio format supported by Apple’s iTunes Music Store, has been chosen as a key future DVD Audio disc technology by the standard’s governing body, the DVD Forum.” [Mar 25]

Rogue Amoeba Updates Audio Hijack Pro,
Audio Hijack, and Nicecast

Rogue Amoeba Updates Audio Hijack Pro,
Audio Hijack, and Nicecast 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
Rogue Amoeba Software has released a flurry of free updates for its products. A moderate update to Audio Hijack Pro, the company's feature-rich application for recording any audio, has bumped it to version 1.3. This update includes a fix for recording iTunes when crossfades are on, as well as other small improvements. Audio Hijack Pro 2 is in heavy development, and is expected to be released sometime this summer.

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Commentary: Hop on the bus?

Commentary: Hop on the bus? 07/09/2004 08:46 AM
An enterprise service bus can help companies meet basic integration requirements, but there are limits to what a commercial ESB product can do without custom-developed extensions.

Commentary

Commentary 08/14/2004 10:41 PM
"World War IV: How it started, what it means, and why we have to win." .. In Praise of the Bush Doctrine .. rather long, hawkish article .. the neocons urge .. Commentary

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"commentary"

"commentary" 02/10/2004 04:15 PM

War commentary

War commentary 03/19/2003 10:26 PM

Paolo Valdemarin: "After September 11 the US were leading the largest coalition of countries ever seen. Now, whatever the US administration is saying, they are going to a war alone." Actually the British are fighting with the US.

Lance Knobel: "I'd like to have seen an alternative to war, but that would have meant an international commitment to intrusive inspections, backed by the threat of force. In the light of French and Russian vacillation, it's very unclear whether that could have worked."

Megnut: "I'm uncomfortable with the idea of America unilaterally removing someone from power. And I am very disturbed by the approach the American government has taken to achieve its goals."

Karlin Lillington: "The Bush administration has been utterly hopeless and inept in creating a coalition abroad, in showing leadership overseas, in working towards consensus."

"enough commentary from others "

"enough commentary from others " 10/31/2003 03:55 AM

Commentary: Baghdad Bug Out

Commentary: Baghdad Bug Out 07/01/2004 05:15 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 1 2004 9:35AM GMT

Commentary: Nader

Commentary: Nader 08/10/2004 05:47 PM
Free Internet Press Aug 10 2004 10:21PM GMT

"more sage commentary"

"more sage commentary" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

Commentary: Spammers must pay

Commentary: Spammers must pay 12/16/2003 11:19 AM
CNET Dec 16 2003 10:49AM ET

interesting commentary

interesting commentary 01/05/2004 01:10 AM
ceded the protections .. WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ? .. Sasha Castel

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Commentary - The UN and the Jews

Commentary - The UN and the Jews 02/18/2004 05:11 AM
"What that something is has become too clear to deny: over the past several decades, the UN has fashioned itself into perhaps the foremost global platform for anti-Semitism." .. full Commentary article .. Anne Bayefsky

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AEI - News & Commentary

AEI - News & Commentary 02/14/2004 06:37 PM
AEI - News & Commentary - An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World .. Charles Krauthammer .. Democratic Realism .. writes .. on

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Commentary: HP gets organic

Commentary: HP gets organic 12/09/2003 02:35 PM
In a consolidating IT industry, Hewlett-Packard is charting a path toward the Adaptive Enterprise, its name for a new set of IT and business capabilities that has captured the industry's attention.

Commentary: Don't bet more than you can
lose

Commentary: Don't bet more than you can
lose 07/28/2004 12:51 AM
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