“O Octagon, O Octagon,
You have eight sides u-pon you”
The Defective Yeti re-writes “Oh Christmas Tree” for his Squirrely. Always a good read.
Also – one of my heroes, and one of the few celebrity types I seriously want to take out to dinner for a nice chat: David Bowie turns 60. Found at TMN.
Also. There is so much good stuff over at BLDG.BLOG lately, you should just read all day. Want a Banana?
Joy Division Atmosphere
This is such a great video.. love the people (druids? monks?) carrying the huge shapes across the beach. I was just searching around youtube, and figured I would drop it in here for the weekend. Enjoy.
A couple of weeks ago my friend Mike Feldman came over with a huge bag of audio gear, and I took out all the analogue sound-making things I could find around the house, and we dumped it all on my desk. Then we grabbed a nice shotgun mic that is on loan to us, and proceeded to record a lot of sounds. We did a mix (well, Mike mostly mixed it while I watched and had him move a few things around). And here it is. It’s got some guitar, bamboo flute, glass vases blown across the top, singing bowls, steel chime balls, a folk hand-piano thing (I don’t really know what to call it), an ice-skating 45 on my Fisher Price record player, computer keyboard, mouth harp.. I don’t remember what else. Oh, and sounds from the camera as it takes the photos shown here. That is the only non-acoustic part I guess, is a digital camera an electric instrument? It was a whole lot of fun, and is about 10 minutes long. I recommend headphones, as there are a lot of little fun sounds in there.
For the past couple of days our friend Orrin has been hanging out at the Rise Industries studios, editing a new music video he directed for Kristin Hersh at one of the editing bays (read: my old G4). He is currently putting the finishing touches on that one, but he does have a very nice video for +/- (Plus Minus) up on YouTube that you can check out. It’s created entirely from still shots (yes, even when you are absolutely certain there is some video in there. All stills) using After Effects. Nice, nice and nice. He takes a lot of photos.
Also. He brought one of these over, and I am going to play with it all weekend. You know the intro to In the Air Tonight, by Phil Collins? Yeah, it makes those sounds.
Alright. Back from a bit of vacation. Holiday you know, might have noticed it yourself. Firstly was Hanukah. It gets spelled all kinds of different ways, so hopefully you know what I mean. That lasted one Beatles week (you know, eight days a week and all that). Then there was this whole Christmas thing, then the year sort of ended, and a new one started. That was a celebration too. Thanks from us to everyone who either came over, invited us over, or wished us a happy one or both of those holiday things. It was a great week, even though we didn’t get to hit the east coast this year to see family, friends, and the lovely cold snow.
We did do a few things. Went on a camping trip to the desert for one – Joshua Tree in the Mojave. For those who don’t live out west, the desert is a very nice place in winter. Its clear, sunny. Warmish during the day. That means could be 50 to 70 degrees most of the time. Coldish during the night, to sometimes being damn cold at night. We had nighttime temperatures in the mid 30s. Not bad. So, I put photos from the trip up on the flickr site – hit the link to your left-hand side there.
Also, since I can’t stay away from the computer for 10 days in a row (or even two apparently), I have started working on a complete site overhaul/redesign. This clunky late 90s interface is going away, and we will bring out some less clunky kind of thing. Possibly bright orange. I hope. Anway. The design is moving along, and several nice designer friends are helping me learn how to actually implement what I want to do. So, look for that maybe later this month, though it could take longer to move all our info over.
Alright. So lets get back to it.
Alright. Back from a bit of vacation. Holiday you know, might have noticed it yourself. Firstly was Hanukah. It gets spelled all kinds of different ways, so hopefully you know what I mean. That lasted one Beatles week (you know, eight days a week and all that). Then there was this whole Christmas thing, then the year sort of ended, and a new one started. That was a celebration too. Thanks from us to everyone who either came over, invited us over, or wished us a happy one or both of those holiday things. It was a great week, even though we didn’t get to hit the east coast this year to see family, friends, and the lovely cold snow.
We did do a few things. Went on a camping trip to the desert for one – Joshua Tree in the Mojave. For those who don’t live out west, the desert is a very nice place in winter. Its clear, sunny. Warmish during the day. That means could be 50 to 70 degrees most of the time. Coldish during the night, to sometimes being damn cold at night. We had nighttime temperatures in the mid 30s. Not bad. So, I put photos from the trip up on the flickr site – hit the link to your left-hand side there.
Also, since I can’t stay away from the computer for 10 days in a row (or even two apparently), I have started working on a complete site overhaul/redesign. This clunky late 90s interface is going away, and we will bring out some less clunky kind of thing. Possibly bright orange. I hope. Anway. The design is moving along, and several nice designer friends are helping me learn how to actually implement what I want to do. So, look for that maybe later this month, though it could take longer to move all our info over.
Alright. So lets get back to it.
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