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Staff Picks: TedSmooth X Cornerstone Mixtape 2013
2013’s just about over. We’re going to send it off proper. Herewith: a year in sound, created by the Global Spin Awards’ Remixer of the Year, TedSmooth. Cornerstone’s Mixtape #167 (The Close Out) is the radio and record industry’s most trusted mixtape. This year’s tape is curated and produced by TedSmooth, the force behind some…
Amanda Palmer Calls an Internet Town Hall at BitTorrent HQ
The folk-punk artist and DIY music icon has a few words for BitTorrent. Every week, we meet up for Tech Talks. It’s one hour devoted to sharing the stuff that keeps us busy/keeps us up at night/keeps us coding. In tonight’s Tech Talk: words with Amanda Fucking Palmer. The DIY icon is calling a Town…
Movember at BitTorrent
December 1st marked the end of BitTorrent’s 3rd year participating in Movember. Movember is a yearly fundraising effort toward prostate cancer research and other men’s health initiatives. The object is simple: start fresh with a clean shave on the 1st of the month, then grow out a moustache that suits you best during the month…
Staff Picks: Things Are Never as Bad as They Could Be
An irreverent, outrageous short film. Staff Picks is dedicated to surfacing the best music, film, and art downloads on the Internet; digitally handmade by BitTorrent Publishers. Read on for this week’s finds. In this week’s Staff Picks: A short film by Thomas Schumacher. Things Are Never as Bad as They Could Be is an experimental…
Friday Download: Being Big
Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for Publishers. Check out more Bundles here. 62.7% of American adults are overweight or obese. Despite representing the majority, big Americans face discrimination, hatred and insidious stereotypes. Being Big is a documentary film that explores fatism in America,…
Staff Pick: NOAH
Staff Picks is dedicated to surfacing the best music, film, and art downloads on the Internet; digitally handmade by BitTorrent Publishers. Read on for this week’s finds. Photo via noahmusic.com NOAH is a New York City based recording artist and songwriter making electronic dance music. His new single Keep On Movin’ is now available for…
Lady Gaga X BitTorrent Bundle to Premiere Next Week
The first video in an original series from VICE and BitTorrent takes fans behind the scenes of “Do What U Want”, the new single from Lady Gaga. In October, we announced a Bundle partnership with VICE media: an original video series exploring the link between open expression and open technology. Next week, we’ll share the…
Tech Talks: Start Developing GUI Tools in WPF
In Tech Talks, we share the stuff that keeps us busy, keeps us up at night, and keeps us coding. Often, we have a bunch of data that we want to view or edit over and over again. Here’s how to get started with a graphical user interface (GUI) tool to simplify your workflow, help…
Staff Picks: Jasper Dickson, 2MORROW2LATE, Schwarz Nelon Licht
Staff Picks is dedicated to surfacing the best music, film, and art downloads on the Internet; digitally handmade by BitTorrent Publishers. Read on for this week’s finds. Jasper Dickson Jasper Dickson mixes country, rock-n-roll, and soul to make you nod your head, even if it breaks your heart. His debut solo EP Living in the…
40 Million BitTorrent Mobile Installs, and Counting
Back in June, we announced a major mobile milestone: 25 million installs. Over the course of the past five months, we’ve welcomed an unprecedented 15 million new devices into the fold.