"Best of Times" is a collection of Jeff Scher's films and blog entries from The New York Times Opinionator Blog. Jeff is an experimental filmmaker who paints and a painter who makes experimental films. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and at many film festivals around the world, including opening night at the New York Film Festival. "Pretty much every one of the films used iStopMotion to shoot with", Jeff says. "It's being released as a "vook", a kind of video book." Available online, for iPhone and iPad. Take a look!

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx, a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. One of these events, TEDxSoMa, is using BoinxTV to record the presentations!

Boinx Software presents the Volcano Layer for BoinxTV. Be ready with this great background for the next big volcano story or for when Eyjafjallajokull, the Icelandic volcano that keeps members of the Boinx Software team grounded in Los Angeles on their way back from NAB, makes his comeback. Perfect for news shows, meteorologists and the natural desaster enthusiast. Control the amount of lava and ash the volcano ejects and the direction of the ash cloud.

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