Here are some of the leading contenders in the next hopeful Academy Award Winners. Which one is most likely to win? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/awards/2011/03/poll-what-will-win-best-picture-at-the-next-oscars.html
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone App Development, Step 2
Ok, so now you’re an Apple Developer and you’ve got the SDK installed. Great. At least it was until you opened one of the applications in the SDK and realized you had no idea what to do next. Here’s what you can do next: learn how to use the iOS SDK to make iPhone apps. […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: iPhone App Development, Step 1
So you want to build an iPhone app… Do you have an idea? Something people can’t possibly live without? Well, this is a good place to start. In this series of posts (iPhone App Development), I’ll go through all the major steps of how to develop your iPhone application. All this information also applies to […]
Continue readingInteractive Media: An Introduction
Over the past few years the amount of interactive media available has increased exponentially. Video games were only the beginning. Then there were smart phones which began supporting a HUGE variety of applications. Now a myriad of other media areas are beginning to break into interactivity. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp recently released an iPad application […]
Continue readingRemembering Professor Emeritus Arnost Lustig
Read one of the many recent articles on Arnost Lustig:Prague Post, NY Daily News, ABC News, Variety The following Memorandum was sent to the AU Community by Phyllis Peres, Interim Dean of Academic Affairs yesterday, March 2, 2011. I regret to inform you of the death of Arnost Lustig, professor emeritus of literature, who passed […]
Continue readingFilm Screening – The People Speak – Tonight in Wechsler Theater 5:30pm
The School of Communication and Center for Social Media and the Department of Justice, Law and Society of the School of Public Affairs are hosting a screening of The People Speak tonight in Wechsler Theater at 5:30pm. See their invitation below: Dear students and faculty, What do Matt Damon, Pink, Josh Brolin, Kerry Washington, John […]
Continue readingHollywood star Jane Russell dies at 89
Former Hollywood actress and sex symbol, Jane Russell has died at the age of 89. Read more.Obituary: Jane Russell Come to Media Services and check out the following Jane Russell classics from our Home Use Collection.Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – HU DVD 244His Kind of Woman – HU DVD 2409
Continue readingAU Professr Russell Williams Returns to Oscarland
Twenty years after becoming the first African American to win two Oscars, Russell Williams, SOC/BA ’74, returned to Hollywood for the 83rd Academy Awards to commemorate that historic occasion. Williams won Oscars for his sound work on Glory and Dances with Wolves. Since 2002, he’s been an artist in residence at American University’s School of […]
Continue readingOscar Wrap Up – Best Week Ever – Favorite Oscar Tweets
It’s certainly debatable that Twitter during the Oscars was more entertaining than the Oscars themselves. Here are some of BestWeekEver’s favorite Oscar tweets.
Continue readingSelected New Home Use Titles
Inception – HU DVD 8000And Now for Something Completely Different – HU DVD 8001Word is Out – HU DVD 8002Broadcast News (Criterion) – HU DVD 3501 copy 1Broadcast News – HU DVD 3501 copy 2Brooklyn’s Finest – HU DVD 7991The Town – HU DVD 7992Alligator – HU DVD 7988True Grit – HU DVD 7989Space Jam […]
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