Method Acting

I know I should be blogging about all the creative projects I'm working on and my life, but I saw this and I was in awe. It's like a massive historic battle being reinacted by buffalo and lion actors (with a cameo from an alligator). I suppose it's inspiring in a sense. I love it when the cavalry turn up.

Cloud Inspirations

My collaboration project with Balvinder Singh, David Scharpf and artists from around the world has begun, it's The Cloud Kollektiv. Go to the site to hear some of our grooves and get the latest news. More as it comes to hand.


I am always inspired by PostSecret. It's just beautiful. A place on the net where people can be sensitive delicate raw volatile, honest. There was another site that had a similar vibe but was more direct, called Serendipity Chat. This site had a similarly simple premise. You go there with a webcam setup and chat to someone in the world. That's it. I spoke to a girl in Japan who was studying commerce and a guy in Puerto Rico who was quite funny. It gave me confidence in humanity.

Drillbit Radio Part #1

I just did a podcast. Normally I just mix it and do the music, but this time they asked me to talk too.

On OCAU front page
http://www.overclockers.com.au/

The podcast forum
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=599416

I sound like a complete geek. I'm cooler than that, honest (-1 oct at least). I was just nervous, ok!

Enjoy the Aussie nerdom, oh and this ad

Develop Your Palate

The Debauched Post

80's Comedian's Are Cool



So if 80's Nintendo is Cocaine then the Nintendo Wii is definitely Extacy. It makes you dance around and get fit, grind your teeth in anxiety and stare at the pretty lights. I went to a Wii party (that name is SOoo! wrong) and we didn't really have time to drink or take drugs. We were too busy limbering up and preparing for the next round. The next day my arms were sore. How dare they try to make geeks fit, I mean really! I have to say it was also a bit trippy playing computer games with a 50/50 male female crowd. Half the time your watching the person jump around like an idiot. Yeah, and being an idiot is cool.

60's Porn is Cool



The thing I learnt from this educational movie is that 60's porn was kinda cool. It had a hip nonchalant beatnik vibe and the women were real. That's cool.



Cool,

T


ps. Note to self, promise not to use the word cool in the next few posts.

pps. Note to reader, if you are looking for my new mixes go down two posts and click on the highlighted HERE's in each paragraph.

The Biz

I found these guys through a HipHop music production forum. They are really into new media business models. Here is an interview with some film producers that created a system to find out what cities wanted to see their movie. There is also a cool interview with MC Hammer (really!). click on the YouTube logo to go to the other 'Internet Celebrities' Vidcasts.



Now this is dope. Through my infinite search for rare loops I chatted on forums to LaiF, who has made his own video. It's brilliant, totally real and hell funky.

The artists are out there making it happen. The difference is that the media is not CDs and TV (that are controlled by the labels) it's the web. Get into it!

You can even GET an education at MIT for free. No excuses.

Productive producer kept unkempt!

It's funny. When I am doing heaps of great creative work I have less web presence because I don't have time to update websites and blogs. Well, today I still have heaps of projects to finish but I feel a need to exist (online). I have also been promising people a preview of some of the mixes I have been working on.

Simon Kelly is an up and coming acoustic songwriter that has a cool layered vocal tone and is up for some crazy studio experimentation. I like the idea of doing a DJ Shadow meets JoseGonzalez style track and so does he. Cool, huh?
First off I'm remixing a groove of his called 'Cloud On The Corner'. Note the unkempt look of the studio producer. HERE is a preview of the first track.


Jasmin and Frans are getting me to work on a studio album. As the core writers of the indi band Halogen they have a lot of song writing experience to bring to the table. It's great because they bring in complete songs with just vocals and layers of guitars. It makes my job a lot easier. Together we have a lot of creative power. We just have to decide how to use it (for good or evil). Jaz wanted a gay disco track, so I referenced pet Shop Boys and New Order and went for a indi guitar disco track. All the instrumental sounds are Frans's guitars through mad effects. The only synth is the sub bass (done on a secret synth I am beta testing for Andy at FXpansion-London). HERE is a demo mix of 'Terrible Romance'.


Balvinder Singh, David Scharpf & I have a big project with no name. We have written and produced at least an album worth of dubby jazzy tracks. We are now involving different vocalists in subtle ways. As well as producing, Bal plays and studies tabla and sitar. David is a jazz keys player from Vienna. Together we write very fast, we just have a bit of trouble completing the tracks because every time we get together we write new ones. HERE is a mix of a few of the more dubby deep house ones. We have some heavier breaks/dub tracks as well and a bit of D&B/HipHop. As I said we have trouble not writing. It's a groovy scene man.


PIRACY
If you are concerned about piracy then click these pic ->
We take our movie going seriously, damn it.

RANDOM TUNES
Finally, if you want some random tunes while you work check out this awesome site, tun3r. It's like a world radio. You just turn the dial and tune into Internet radio streams from all over the world. brilliant.

Ahh, it's 4:30am. I better sleep.

enjoy..

T

Crazy Theramins

I have always admired Theramins and people who can play them. I have had a go, but they are a bitch to play in tune. It takes incredible sense of pitch and subtle nuances of touch. One day I will get one and learn it's mystical art.
On an earlier post I had a cool live video of Gnarls Barkley and their hot string section 'The G Strings' and to follow that up and bring this little blurb full circle, here is 'Crazy' being played on Theramins, brilliantly.

Vangelis in his glass studio

I love this interview with electronic/classical film composer Vangelis from 1992 on the BBC. He seems very wise and at peace with composing. With all this technology it's important to remember that it's the music that matters. He is happy "When he achieves a moment of harmony". Cool

rEaliTy pUnkEd

The way we interact with technology is just as important as the technology it's self. There have been lots of technologies that have been highly achieving technically but have given a bad user experience. The classic example is the MP3 player. Till the iPod came along they were not accepted into the popular culture. They were merely geek toys. With Apples design, user interface, software and promotion the general public could understand the MP3 player and thus wanted it. The iPhone I think will be a similar success, purely because Apple makes good GUI (Graphical User Interface). The technology is not that stunning but the impression it will give to the user will be of the software.

This brings me to the most amazing development in user interface. I am still excited about Google Maps and Earth, but this has incredible implication. Cyberspace, The Matrix, Virtual Reality seem so much closer all of a sudden. The idea that the virtual world creates itself with the data we all put into it. Truly inspiring. The implications are mind blowing. This is now! WATCH THIS VIDEO!



Steam Punk is a popular sci-fi concept that stylistically rebels against the common impression of technology and gives it a more classic hands on feel. Here are two steam punked computer parts. It's a Dell monitor and a classic old IBM click keyboard.


There endeth the Trilby thoughts..