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SPINE (by Kollision)

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:27:35 +1100

SPINE (by Kollision)

(via Thelonious Monk’s Advice, Archived By Steve Lacy |...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:53:12 +1100

(via Thelonious Monk’s Advice, Archived By Steve Lacy | Heck Of A Guy)

ThrillseekerXTC – behind the scenes

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:19:00 +1100

ThrillseekerXTC – behind the scenes:

The basic idea to build a VoS style Enhancer/Exciter was already there way earlier but to that time it simply wasn’t doable until my ‘stateful saturation’ approach emerged.

— via Pocket

Rhythm And Proportion In Grids And Type

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:13:00 +1100

Rhythm And Proportion In Grids And Type:

Last week I offered some thoughts about rhythm, specifically the rhythm of visual elements. Those thoughts were focused more on the theory. Today I want to lean more toward the practical side and talk about aspects of design we work with regularly and how we can add rhythm to our work through them.

— via Pocket

"Have you ever tried to have an idea. Any idea at all, with a gun to your head? This is the daily..."

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:57:14 +1100

“Have you ever tried to have an idea. Any idea at all, with a gun to your head? This is the daily reality for the creative drone. And when he’s done, sometime in the wee small hours, he then has to face his two harshest critics. Himself, and everyone else. “Ah. Sorry. Client couldn’t make the meeting. I faxed your layouts to him at his squash club. He quite liked the green one. Apart from the typeface, the words, the picture and the idea. Oh, and could the logo be bigger? Hope it wasn’t a late night. Thank god for computers eh? Rightho! I’m off to lunch.””

- A Short Lesson in Perspective - The San Francisco Egotist

(via What, me experienced? – Variety Of Sound)

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:51:10 +1100

(via What, me experienced? – Variety Of Sound)

thekidshouldseethis: Oh Japan, you have delivered once again....

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:34:21 +1100

thekidshouldseethis:

Oh Japan, you have delivered once again. This time, it’s in the form of Wrecking Crew Orchestra, a dance team that’s perhaps perfected the art of TRON-like illuminated dancing. (No, we’re not sure who came first.) The tight light sequences were fun to watch, especially because they look edited, but aren’t. The co-curator and I kept trying to figure out where the darkened dancers would turn on next.

For a higher-quality look at Wrecking Crew Orchestra’s work, check out one of their DOCOMO Xperia commercials.

Thanks, @cosentino. Via reddit.

“More awesome than a monkey wearing a tuxedo made out of bacon...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:54:23 +1100

“More awesome than a monkey wearing a tuxedo made out of bacon riding a cyborg unicorn with a lightsaber for the horn”

(via The Most Insane Letter Ever Written By A Child To A TV Weatherman | Happy Place)

(via Forget Your Past – Timothy Allen | Photography | Film)

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:05:02 +1100

(via Forget Your Past – Timothy Allen | Photography | Film)

(via Practice Makes Perfect - Music FAILS)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:49:52 +1100

(via Practice Makes Perfect - Music FAILS)

Cats as fonts - Bombi(llo)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:20:03 +1100

Cats as fonts - Bombi(llo)

(via Tiny chameleon ranks among smallest reptiles - ABC News...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:00:53 +1100

(via Tiny chameleon ranks among smallest reptiles - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation))

Starry Night (interactive animation) (by Petros Vrellis)

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:45:16 +1100

Starry Night (interactive animation) (by Petros Vrellis)

"Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir:..."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:41:16 +1100

“

Dayton, Ohio,

August 7, 1865

To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee

Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin’s to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.

I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, “Them colored people were slaves” down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.

As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor’s visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams’s Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.

In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.

Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.

From your old servant,

Jourdon Anderson.

”

- Letters of Note: To My Old Master

Returning - a short film score

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:07:00 +1100

This was my entry for APRA TropScore 2012, a competition to create a score/synch for a short film to be shown at TropFest 2012. There were 895 entries submiited, and it turned out that there would only be 20 shortlisted entries.

Unfortunately mine was not selected. Truthfully, I was initially a bit disappointed, but was soon just looking forward to hearing the winner’s entry.

I’m now released to present the track to the public, so here is Returning, a soundtrack for a short film of the same name by Amelia Olsen-Boyd.

I’m not sure how the music will translate without viewing it with the accompanying film (I can’t upload that due to copyright issues), but here it is nonetheless.

For anyone interested, the track was composed using the following:

Reaper - recording, production
Notion 3 - complete score
Native Instruments Kontakt 5
IK Multimedia Miroslav Philharmonik (orchestral)
AcousticSamples TheBox (bass cajón)
FXpansion BFD Eco (drums)
8DIO Glass Marimba
8DIO Barbary
Camel Sounds Dream Voices
Mildon Studios rainstick samples

I’m looking forward to seeing/hearing the finalists’ competition entries. I’ll aim to link to the film when the winner is selected.

I’m still pleased with the final result of my labours, and hope that you enjoy listening.

This was my entry for APRA TropScore 2012, a competition to...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:44:00 +1100

This was my entry for APRA TropScore 2012, a competition to create a score/synch for a short film to be shown at TropFest 2012. There were 895 entries submiited, and mine was not selected as one of the 20 shortlisted submissions.

I’m not sure how the music will translate without viewing it with the accompanying film (I can’t upload that due to copyright issues), but here it is nonetheless. I’ll aim to link to the film when the winner is selected.

laughingsquid: What Your Toilet Paper Says About You

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:44:14 +1100

laughingsquid:

What Your Toilet Paper Says About You

(via How Musicians Really Make Money in One Long Graph - Derek...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:49:08 +1100

(via How Musicians Really Make Money in One Long Graph - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic)

Mindrelic - Manhattan in motion (by Mindrelic)

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:26:12 +1000

Mindrelic - Manhattan in motion (by Mindrelic)

"My modus operandi is this: I try to be the bass player I want to hear and the teacher that I wish I..."

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:52:15 +1000

“My modus operandi is this: I try to be the bass player I want to hear and the teacher that I wish I had. I try to serve the music and not my ego on stage and best serve the student and not the school, program or parent when teaching someone.”

- Damian Erskine - Playing by Ear (and Self-Evaluation) | notreble.com