Good artists copy, great artists steal

The above quote of the great thief.. ehrm, painter, Picasso applies to this nice piece about the thin lines between inspiration, a homage and plagiarism in (hip hop) album covers. Great post, even you're only going to look at the covers.

Hitchcock in my pocket

"How do you create a sense of cinema in MySpace-generation kids who wouldn't know Godard from Hitchcock?" he asks. "The answer's in their pockets. The iPod made listening to music sexy again. It's turned music back into a communal experience, because it allows you to walk around with your record collection and share it with other people. And that's going to happen with film.

Gavin Collinson, film & television executive ITV UK, (via Guardian Unlimited)
on the lack of classic (arthouse) cinema on British television.

Full screen picture slideshow in Safari

PicLens
Originally uploaded by Meenhorst.

Yesterday I discovered PicLens. This is a plugin for Apple's browser safari, that enables you to switch to a full screen imageviewer, without leaving safari. Piclens doesn't work on every site that has photographs on it, but the Web's favorites like Flickr, Google, Yahoo and Facebook are supported.

The implementation of the plugin is very neat. It offers an unobtrusive pictureframe icon in pictures on a site. When clicked, Safari switches to the full screen environment of PicLens. PicLens is styled to (somewehat) blend with the current designs of Aperture, Lightroom and several Web 2.0 designs. Apple remote is supported too.

Check it out - it's a great experience.