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Hello there everyone, this is my new weekly Best of Twitter series, sharing with you all of my favorite tweets from the week. I follow a lot of creative people so it's no surprise that some of the best links I come across are on Twitter. Follow me at twitter.com/ZoomInDesign and post some great stuff!

For all you Twitters (Twitterers? Twits?) you can now follow us on Twitter at ZoomInMusic. There will be daily updates on music news, blogs, and videos, as well as very important information including humorous links and how much coffee we've had had on any particular day.

I really enjoyed this quote from the always informative, always thoughtful Sonic Blog.

“The necessary condition for an image is sight,” Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: “We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”


Roland Barthes, 1915 - 1980

While you were busy milking Zoom In Online for all it's worth (scientific studies say it's a lot, by the way), you may have missed some other great film related content available on the web. Here's a roundup of just some of it:

I am of the camp who believes the megapixel craze has gotten a bit out of hand. Particularly when it comes to consumer point-and-shoot cameras, many companies market on the basis that the more megapixels they provide, the better the camera. The reality, however, is that most point-and-shoots are just too small to effectively translate all those megapixels captured into a better image. The greatly informative website 6mp argues that for most cameras this size, 6(ish) is the magic number, meaning relatively lower numbers of megapixels are best handled by smaller sensors, creating optimum results. Today I came across this article on Sony's soon-to-be-supposedly-anachronistic 7mp Cybershot W120 model. 

Tonight (January 8th), the Hasted Hunt Gallery (cleverly named for owners Sarah Hasted and W.M. Hunt) in Chelsea opens what looks to be a great exhibit — Contradictions in Black and White, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. It'll be worth the trek in the cold weather, I promise!

In this series of photos from Madrid's Plaza Mayor, photoblogger Francois-Noel Masson includes images of statues with photos of mimes (1 2 3

While you were busy milking Zoom In Online for all it's worth (scientific studies say it's a lot, by the way), you may have missed some other great film related content available on the web. Here's a roundup of just some of it:

Today NME.com ran a story about Spotify, a new and legal online music service that, they say, "offers users unlimited music for free." Sounds too good to be true, right? Apparently not. Everyone I know who's tried it says it's every bit as wonderful as you can imagine.

Spotify is made to look like iTunes, but you can stream full length songs for free rather than pay to download them.