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The new Ikono Blog should work on pretty much any gadget you might have. We’re still unpacking boxes, testing things and fumbling around with the plugins. So, even though our folders are exploding with new stuff we need another day here.

Dude, looks like we're moving to another dimension!

More tomorrow!

While we're lying under the tables here at ikono labs, we got a nice exclusive for you to celebrate in the meantime. Dude, we got Weezer live with "Perfect Situation" (featuring Jorge "Hurley" Garcia from LOST aka. the dude who's on the cover of the album for some reason...)

- Cheers, Jorge, you're "The Dude"!

What is "The Event"?

I guess this trailer is all you need to know about "The Event" right now.

A "jigsaw", "post 9/11", a "mix of 'Lost' and '24' minus the madness"... Any other obvious remarks after the premiere? Here at ikono labs we were watching the pilot of the most anticipated new TV show of 2010 without too many expectations or any prejudices.

Flashbacks again? Another plane? We hope the answer wont be aliens, zombies or time travelling! If you cut the fake myth and the very bad CGI, you could do some storytelling and this one could actually be a surprise winner. Please surprise us!

Two Year Anniversary!

Cheers, folks!

Check out the ikono blog from September 2008. Operation Reconnect.

Mawaly Brings Free Legal Arabic Music to the Masses

the next web: "Mawaly.com is probably the largest legal online music service in the region providing both independent and signed artists’ music to it’s 1.2 million users from the Arab world, and their based in the Ukraine.

Mawal which is a popular form of Arabic singing often used in music to express agony and display the singer’s ability (or lack of) powerful and capable vocals. The ‘y’ in Mawal(y) adds the first person ‘my’ to the term making it translate to ‘My Mawal’.
(...)
Mawaly successfully provides a selection of 2,691 Artist to choose from boasting a whopping 5,916 albums that contain 70,000 songs to a 1,278,023 fan base that’s growing by the day.

Foraoon the company behind Mawaly is an Arab development firm based out of the Ukraine that has provided some interesting services to the region such as Egyptian Facebook spin-off Banady.com, Iraqi classifieds service Mredy.com, and gaming platform elGame and many more.

So instead of a standard review of the service, we thought we’d head to Mawaly.com’s Ukranian (with Egyptian roots) founder Sherif Amin and ask him a couple of questions."

Interview over at the next web

Turner Prize winner slashes painting to highlight arts cuts

This is London: "Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger has taken a version of one of Turner's most famous paintings and torn the heart out of it in protest at the Government's proposed arts cuts.

Wallinger, 51, has captioned his take on The Fighting Temeraire from the National Gallery: “If 25 per cent were slashed from arts funding, the loss would be immeasurable.”

The new work, called Reckless, was being unveiled today on a website that is home to a petition calling on the Government to save the arts."

More at This is London

8BITS

8BITS_hd720 from 8BCREW on Vimeo.

Phantastic killer tribute to classic videogames in full 3D HD by the 8BCREW

FullHD version with subtitles (EN/FR/ES/JAP)

DIRECTED BY
VALERE AMIRAULT
JEAN DELAUNAY
SARAH LAUFER
BENJAMIN MATTERN

More at 8bitsmovie.com

Anormal - X-Ray Musicvideo

Anormal from Jarbas Agnelli

Vimeo: "Music Video for the brazilian pop band Pato Fu.

We scanned all the instruments and props on an big X-ray machine, and then modeled and rendered everything with CG.

Since we couldn't put the musicians in the machine (the career of the band would end abruptly), we filmed everyone on green screen, at the same time capturing their movements with a motion capture system. We then genereted CG skeletons, and applied over the footage.


Shot with Sony HDR-FX1 on Green Screen."

Hulachess (2009)

Superjenium : "Jennifer Shahade's submission for YouTube Play Biennial: Project with Guggenheim Museum. Hulachess explores themes of multitasking, the feminine, circular side of chess and the surprising parallels between chess and hooping. The chess moves are based on a game Duchamp lost against the Romanian master Davidescu. The video features a possible improvement by Duchamp, which would have led the game to perpetual check.

The video, created by chess champion and artist Jennifer Shahade and filmmaker Daniel Meirom, features Shahade playing red and choreographer & dancer Gabrielle Revlock playing White. Cinematography by Blake Eichenseer."

Diana in the UAE in 1989

Photograph: John Stillwell/PA

Very interesting short historical celebrity fasion update with rare photos from Abu Dhabi TV! Unfortunately we can't embed this video from The National Newspaper, but over there they say, "in the few days she was here, her fashion sense and warm smile won many hearts. Tahira Yacoob reports on Princess Diana's desert charm offensive in 1989."