Draw on the walls

This is the era of change, of lateral thinking. Especially for the tv & music industry and soon the film industry. New global business structures are being invented, but not by multinationals. By anyone with a good idea. Companies like Opera, Skype, Google are the obvious challengers to the old school, but there are other small companies trying out new ideas with all this free communication power. These are exciting times.

The trick is to take the power from the gate keepers. I know that sounds trippy and religious, but it's quite simple. The five record companies, the three big film studios are the gate keepers. They are the conservative filter that stops the crazy, risky new ideas getting through. Now, they can be bypassed by putting a video/music on YouTube or MySpace. The more accessible the art becomes the more power to the artists and the more interesting and fresh it is for the audience.

Just a thought.

T

Vienna and the blob

The Vienna scene is so happening, G-Stone Kruder and Dorfmeister, K7! it's all go.. Here is a cool promo video for Makossa &Megablast. I'm so there..

Makossa & Megablast



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Here is a cool blobby game. It's so simple it will drive you nuts, but it's so smooth and asthetically pleasing that you'll want to hang it on your wall. ..Hmm interesting deilemma.

Vibrating fluro doodle

<- play with your doodle in 3D!

This is another cool online sketch program. It simply enables you to draw in 3D and rotate the picture by going to the edges of the screen. It's nice.. not rude.


-> I often get colour schemes from nature. They have a certain balance. they inspire me to go for more radical ideas with colour and design.



Sigrid and I went to the dance festival 'Good Vibrations' it was a blast. I didn't dance as much as I would have liked, but there was some groovy music. The main problem was the sound. The highlight would have been beatboxer Rhazel. man it was amazing what that guy can do. I looked forward to the Beastie Boys, but I couldn't hear the music, so it was just them yelling. not good. it supposedly got better but I went to the amphitheatre and got down to London Electricity which sounded fab!

Buenos Aires

The package from Buenos Aires musician Pablo Gimanez arrived today. International collaborations are so exciting.





The track is called 'Cecilia' and features the gorgeous sounding singer Cecilia Elias. It's a sexy summery Latin groove that will be a joy to remix and play with. It's great to be able meet such soulful musician and just work with them, easy. We hooked up this project through our MySpace pages. It's a beautiful thing.

Beatbox Kitchen!

Since YouTube beatboxing has had a big comeback (along with atheism). Here is a very creative beatbox video:



Very tricky

Halogen Lightning

This is such a great photo (click to enlarge). This was taken at the Australia Day fireworks Skyshow on January the 26th 2007. It was a hot balmy night and there was some crazy lightning going on. It was as if the earth was saying 'You call that a skyshow, well check this out!". Even more impressive was when the massive fireworks barge in the middle of the river exploded. If you look closely at the middle of the photo you can see the Comet McNaught that was only visable in the southern skies. The photo is by Antti Kemppainen.

On other news, I am working on Perth band Halogen's new TripHop album. This should be fun. I have some of the grooves allready and they are dark and groovy. I'm adding a bit of Hip-Hop and tweaking the melodies a bit. I want singer Jasmin to record in her own studio and bring in crazy experiments for me to play with. More as it comes to hand. Here is Halogen's MySpace

Balvinder and I continue to create heaps of heavy dub grooves , even Jeremy Balius is getting into it. I will put some of them up on The Res site and MySpace soon.

More news as it comes to hand.

Trilb

GUI Daphnie and the Apple phone

Ahh, Daphnie

Actress Jane Leeves better know as Daphnie from 'Frazier' (or 'Brazier' as I now like to call it) used to be a Benny hill girl. Thats so cool.

HERE is a video and HERE is a second. Short but oh so sweet.








While I'm being tacky. Here is the original iPhone from Apple. This is the patent from 1985. No joke. How cool is that? Well, not very. Probably good idea for them to wait till now before they released it. Try fitting that in your pocket. Classic

I am a notorious GUI jukie. Thats Graphical User Interface for the uninitiated. This is a new GUI that uses a pen or touch screen.

Shebang Accomplis Phone Weird Planet Prop Fire

It has been an eventful week, full of success, doubts, affection, worries, the whole shabang. As I am not one to dwell and this is my inspiration blog I will mention the cool stuff. The bad stuff isn't very bad it's just insecurity, so forgettaboutit!

My new accomplis in musical espionage Mr Balvinder lent me his CDJ800 CD scratcher. As in Hip-Hop scratching not fingernails down blackboard. It is a serious tool for sound manipulation and sample searching. Hooked into my Numark DMX06 mixer with filters and effects it is a weapon not to be used lightly (as opposed to a pillow I suppose). Jeremy Balius is bringing over some vinyl and a deck and we are going to have a big sound making/finsind/destroying session. It's fun stuff.

Bal and I are writing at the speed of..um sound I suppose. Anyway we are getting deep into our mixes and really enjoying it. I have also been taking this new found creative freedom and trying out an idea I had a while ago of asking bands from MySpace if they wanted to collaborate on a remix or new track. I asked a great Latin Jazz group from Buenos Aires, Argentina if they would like a mix and they jumped at the chance. Their stuff is so rhythmically and melodically rich it will be easy for me to simplify and solidify into a cool club summery track. It's all about being inspired.

Oh, and the Res got nominated in the WAMi awards along with Pendulum and F'Del. Cool huh.

Stuff the iPhone, I want one of these. It's beautiful.


Check out this brilliant web game. I love seeing the evolution of art from technology. This is a beautiful example.

Enormous blades are also cool but in a different way. Click the pics to see more.

More updates soon. I'm on fire!

T

Surrounded by NYE

Here are some great QuicktimeVR shots from around the world on New Years Eve. You will need Quicktime installed on your computer to view them. Check out all the camera phones. You can view heaps of different countries (top right menu). Very atmospheric.

The sound of touching

Ahh.. 2007

I'm excited! So is Eddie and Sig (left). I have so many plan for this year it's nearly daunting, but not quite. The excitement out ways the pressure. Jams with Indian muso Balvinder are going sweet, The Res has some great deals, I'm starting my business as a audio producer/multimedia guy. I have been asked to write music reviews. The trick it to do it all, just go for it and make it happen. Vibe is infectious. The more I do the more people will want to work with me. Definitley exciting times.

Now for some weird things I have found on the net.

VISUAL ACOUSTICS

This is a nice little music experiment. It's like a nicely written song that changes every time you listen to it. Interactive music.

RETOUCHING

This site is great. It's the site of a photo retouch artist to the stars (well, the black American ones). He obviously works for a magazine. It is insightful what is retouched and what is seen as attractive. The second one is hilarious, as you pass your mouse over the pic her ass increases in size. ha ha

Sorry, got carried away. obviously this is serious ass politics. ;-p

LATERAL
Here are 42 Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy games. See how randomly skilled you are at solving pointless random problems, fast.
click HERE



Last, but not least, some great live soul. OK, now I want a string section.