Total Recut Remix Culture Contest

Thanks Elana Levine for the notice via Henry Jenkins' Blog:

Create a short video remix that explains what Remix Culture means to you. Using video footage from any source, including Public Domain and Creative Commons licensed work, we want you to produce a creative, educational and entertaining video remix that communicates a clear message to a wide audience. The video is to be no shorter than 30 seconds and no longer then 3 minutes in duration.

This contest is open to anyone of any age from any part of the world. The judges are Larry Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Pat Aufderheide, JD Lasica, Kembrew McLeod, Mark Hosler and Luminosity.

The contest will begin in May ’08 and will be open for 1 month. Public Voting will begin in June and will remain open for 2 weeks, after which the best 10 videos will be put forward into the final and the Judging Panel will vote on each one. The winner will be announced in July ’08.

Photosynth: Movable, zoomable spaces.

Isral DeBruin sent me this link. Also seen at the World Making Conference last month, presented by Anne Friedberg.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces.
Too bad (but of course) it's not available for anything but Windows operating systems.