Why are so few screen savers shipping on the device? Why isn't there an RSS screen saver? Why isn't there a Photocast screen saver? Why aren't there iTunes visualizers as screen savers? Do the current screen savers run on Core Animation? Does the Apple TV support standard screen saver files (.saver)? Does the Apple TV support Quartz Composer files (.qtz)? Is there a way to put any old OSX screen saver on the Apple TV? Will Apple allow third-party developers to create screen savers for the Apple TV? Will Apple offer add-on screen savers themselves? Will they be for sale? Will they be web-aware? Will the Apple TV become the first cheap networked passive information appliance?
I know what's next in the living room--I'm building it for myself piece-by-piece. Just let me show the others, let me polish that homebrew and put it on that thin, thin device. Just screen savers still? Or beautiful passive information interfaces? Let me help decide, open it up.
"And no, the iPhone's Widgets aren't the same as the Mac's Dashboard widgets. But they do use DashCode and other desktop widget tech, so who knows? I'm really hoping that widgets will be more open to third-party developers than apps." - Andy Ihnatko
TRUE, you tweaked your header the day after I saw Fitzcarraldo for the first time. Of course I thought of your Fitzcarraldo when I bumped it to the top of my queue. And thought of how you saw it, when we watched it and found real work. I've seen it maybe three times since, capping moments here and there. In a way, you gave it to me, pointed out the magic in it, thanx.
Where's the love? Where are the Universal Binaries of iTunes visualizers? Why do I have this flat-panel with it's millions of pixels--millions of colors--hooked up to my mini with it's thousands of records--only to sit static on a cover once it's playing? Sure Cover Flowbrowsing'simmersive, arguably even enchanting, but what happens once you've chosen, once you're pumping bass? Nothing, not until you're ready to flip to your next cut.
There's another opportunity here, when you're actually listening to the music, for the visual. I'd go GasLight if I could (it's beauty led me to Jon after all), but alas. Of all the potential things to break in the transition to Intel, we lost our eye candy. Initially, fair enough--blame it on AltiVec--but enough time's passed. Why have the developers been delayed? What with, Core Animation, Quartz Composer and kin? Where are the updates to old standbys, or perhaps more importantly, where's some new shit?
The HDTV (or similar) is where the next ten years of interface advancement will be hashed out. Big screens filling our field of vision at eye level--so many square inches, just begging to play. How are we to move towards the next generation of music interfaces if we can't yet display on current hardware, what even a humble PlayStation could?
Have you ever tried to identify one voice, one whistle, one set of clapping hands in a round of applause? Once you filter it down to one, does it sound familiar, like you?
The fourth planet out. Found in a puddle in the middle of the middle turnstile going into the booth end of Halsey. A 14K necklace only the faintest yellow. Plating, must have been.
So young to be considered a "classic." So far ahead of its time...how compressed the time has become...H. G. Wells might have written "The Flow Machine." More wonderful accolades...congrats.
Your world rocks! Big screen CoverFlow...nice speakers...no wonder you're always watching a movie when I call...I'm envious!
That is exactly how I pictured that lamp in your lives. orgo+techno.
love you both,
E
Yeah, it's such a warm light. Perfect there.
A.
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