from The Media Blog http://themediablog.typepad.com/the-media-blog/

Our free media, including our largely unfettered press, are a hugely important asset for democratic India. And yet the celebration of the Indian news media can go only so far — and no further.

2012-06-08 18:30:00 - 2012-06-08 23:59:00: Jan Jelinek and Andrew Pekler Perform Ursula Bogner: "Sonne = Blackbox"
Jan Jelinek’s approach is all about the transformation of sound, about translating parameters of popular music into abstract, reduced and textural electronics. Andrew Pekler integrates elements of jazz, pop, electronic music, exotica and modern classical into his own looping and sampling-based musical sensibility.

2012-06-10 22:00:00 - 2012-06-10 23:59:00: Clark
Chris Clark recorded his new album "Iradelphic" in Australia, Berlin, Wales, Brussels, Cornwall and London using vintage microphones, harpsichords and orchestral drums. "Iradelphic" also features the vocals of Martina Topley-Bird.

2012-06-15 18:30:00 - 2012-06-15 23:59:00: The dBs
The new album, produced by the band—with additional production by longtime cohorts Mitch Easter and Scott Litt—finds the seminal quartet reenergized and inspired, delivering a dozen new original songs that rank with the group’s finest and most influential music.

2012-06-18 18:30:00 - 2012-06-18 23:59:00: So Percussion’s International Night of Awesome(ness)
For one incredible night, So Percussion brings together multiple generations of percussionists to celebrate the percussion community. The event headlines Nexus Percussion Ensemble and Amadinda Percussion Group, plus many others.

2012-07-17 00:01:00 - 2012-08-11 23:59:00: Soho20 Gallery Non-Juried Show
This exhibition addresses the current political climate towards women. This is a non-juried exhibition for artists working in all media. All artwork must address the theme of women’s rights and freedoms and be 30 inches or under in any direction, including the frame.

2012-05-30 00:01:00 - 2012-08-11 23:59:00: World Science Festival 2012: Surface Tension: The Future of Water
This striking interactive exhibit, created by Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, explores water through the exceptional and unexpected. Showcasing more than 40 different artworks, "Surface Tension" underscores the urgency of the looming global water crisis.

2012-05-31 20:00:00 - 2012-05-31 22:00:00: The Creator: Alan Turing and the Future of Thinking Machines
The world premiere of "The Creator," a beautiful and surreal short-form film by award-winning British filmmakers Al+Al, which follows sentient computers from the future on a mystical odyssey to discover their creator: legendary computer scientist Alan Turing.

2012-06-01 19:00:00 - 2012-06-01 21:30:00: Robot & Frank: The Future of Computerized Companions
"Robot and Frank," the winner of the 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation feature film prize at Sundance, is a dramatic comedy, about a curmudgeonly old jewel-thief whose robot caretaker becomes an unlikely partner-in-crime and soulmate.

2012-06-27 00:01:00 - 2012-08-18 23:59:00: Matter Out of Place
Taking its title from anthropologist Mary Douglas’ analyses of how disturbances arise in the city’s physical contours and social order, "Matter Out of Place" presents new work by New York–based artists who observe, represent and activate public sites.

2012-06-01 16:00:00 - 2012-06-01 17:00:00: World Science Festival 2012: Alan Alda’s Burning Question: What is a Flame?
Actor and science advocate Alan Alda invites scientists, teachers, and others who care about science communication to join in the discussion of one of the vital questions of our time: how to help society understand science better.

Press releases
http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/2012051821933/revolver-fires-first-social-video-on-demand.html
http://www.creativetimes.co.uk/news/revolver-entertainment-launches-the-world%E2%80%99s-first-social-video-on-demand-so-vodtm-service-at-cannes

CatDV Forum on creativecow (dot) net. CatDV is media asset management.

forum creation announcement: http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/142/868170

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The last image of the series shows a police officer cocking his fist to punch a protester. By itself, it’s easily read as (another) act of police brutality against citizens exercising their constitutional rights. But context is everything, as the rest of Cassella’s images illustrate: The police officer is throwing the punch to stop a protester from swinging a heavy stick (for the second time) at the head of another police officer who had lost his helmet.