Winter holidays and The Spanish Inquisition

Sigrid and I went on a short weekend holiday to Margaret River last week. We stayed at this cool studio (small challet) called 'Wood & Earth'. It was seriously indulgent. A beautiful place in the forrest near a field. We did have trouble leaving the 5 seater jakuzi. It was deliscious.


I know it sounds kind of boring but there is some crazy action happening in American politics. This link shows you one of the cadidates from Alaska in the running. "Tell me, Barack, who do you want to nuke?" classic stuff.

I wonder if he will get assassinated.





As I'm showing some holiday pics, it remided me of this Monty Python skit. Couldn't find the exact one with the holiday slide show (it might have been from 'Live at the Hollywood Bowl'), but here is the gist of it. It's also worth checking out John Cleese's Eulogy for Graham Chapman as well.



Oh, ok. One more.



Enough. I can take any more. ;-p

Free to be

Falling to Earth
I am a big fan of Google Earth, or more to the point I am a big fan of the Earth, that Google, Nasa and others capture so well. Here is the simplest most beautiful way I have seen to explore the Earth. It makes you want to go study an atlas. You will need some serious broadband to freely fly through the satellite photos. Check out the NASA daily shots if your interested in the weather. www.flashearth.com


First there was YouTube
This is a viciously great idea. It's like online stand-up. People send in their clips and the popular ones stay up the bad ones get sent to the crypt. So if you bomb on this stage the whole world knows, but they don't really know who you are. Hmm


PORN... but not as you know it Jim
Who is she. Where is she from and what is she thinking at the end. It doesn't matter, we have just seen her at her most intimate and we are online so that's all there is, simple. This is YouPorn.

Like an erotic sand castle that gets washed away in the morning with the tide. Hmm2

We are now free to be: funny, sexy, stupid, beautiful... YouChoose

D e S i g N

On another note I have been doing a little bit of design work. Here are some of the more creative projects:

Next post I will show some of my musical
adventures.

TT

Cycle into the Universe, 8-bit stylee

I have a heap of new mixes are nearly complete. Including the dub sessions of Balvinder and I.

A preview of the remix for Pablo and Ceci in Buenos Aires can be heard on the Res MySpace. I will be updating it as it is finished. Feel free to leave a comment here or on MySpace.

Click the pic to go to MySpace









Wow, man. The Universe is so small and we are so big.. oh wait. I may have got that wrong, better check the NIKON UNIVERSACALE!


Oh yeah, it's an 8-bit tie. I want an elite geek 8-bit suit. Dom wants 8-bit contact lenses and friend Sarah wants an 8-bit mirror. This was actually an April Fools, but it has been so popular that they are going to manufacture them. Click pic for more.


A cool website promoting cycling and some stylin' bikes. I like the idea of having a cruiser as well and a sports bike, but I ride quite urgently. I like to have a goal and get there, I don't really cruise. I'm not really a stoner more of acaffienater. Maybe I could cruise intensely. YEAH, MAN! I'M GONNA F*CK'N CRUISE!!


Ok, back to my jazzy Latin remix, now I got that out of my system.

Voyeurism is boring!

Sig, Me, Andy and Emma at Cottesloe beach as the sun sets. Andy popped in from London for his birthday. He is a software programmer for FXpansion. They write brilliant music software. The demo tracks below features one of his latest synths that I am beta testing.

This new track I am producing with Frans and Jasmin (members of the band 'Halogen') is getting really good. It has become one, as opposed to lots of bit's. It has a lot of work to be done on it but the vibe is there. It's like Air, My bloody Valentine and Massive Attack's mutant love child. Here is the build up when the drums drop out. I frack'n love it (yes I like BSG too). geek, geek, geek. . .

JasFransTrilby - CooCooCoo MP3


If your looking for a seriously dope mix of deep groovy tracks check out this from SanDiego label Sleeping Giant. It's seriously jazzy bad (that's good). The groove at 42 minutes, just does it. Hmm

http://www.giantsarise.com/downloads/mixtapes/l-r-g2007.mp3

Check out their site for more mixes.


..and Yes, Voyeurism is boring





http://www.justin.tv/

Strange times, these.
T

Electronic Musician Porn

I caught up with my good buddy Andrew Simper the other day, he popped in from London. It was great ot see him and his beautiful girlfriend Emma. We ate gourmet pizza on Cottesloe beach and drank champagne. There were a hoard of colourful rosella parrots having a party in the trees. I will update this post with some photos in a few days. This has nothing to do with the title of the post it was delightful, thats all.

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Google Earth is cool.

T

Go with the 'Flow'

I really didn't have time. Deadlines were killing me, but there was this interesting concept for a game called 'Flow'.

Biologists will love this. The scene is a view of a petri dish through a microscope. You are an organism that must evolve. You start as a schematic of a little worm like amoeba. Then through eating other little amoeba you grow and also create your own siblings (that you will probably eat later). At the end of the level is the evolving gene. Once you eat this organism and get it's gene you evolve to the next species. Cool!

After playing for a while I felt so focussed and got heaps done (till 4am!). I recommend you download the full version and play it out of the browser.
For a more relaxing space, this game is like a meditation. It also has a more attainable goal. It's one of those seriously simple games. The simplicity is brilliant. The music is nice (all very New Age). this is a great example of a way to promote music and interactive art. Now for something completely different. Here is a crazy interactive animation with a strange lateral sense of humour. What does it all mean? Feel free to leave a message.

I have been producing the Overclockers Australia podcast and have written the theme song. So I am interested in the use of music in podcasts. the laws in the US have just got serious about music copyright in podcasts. There is an interesting chat about music in podcasts on the TWIT podcast here is a link to the MP3

GEEK WARNING! this is seriously a elite geek podcast. Only the tech savvy should check it out, otherwise you may go into a coma of tech boredom and feel a need to play football and get drunk with ya mates.


I have heaps of new mixes for Halogen, Pablo in Buenos Aires and Balvinder Singh and I (check links on the right). But I am a notorious perfectionist. I promise to put up a mix for the next blog entry. There! I set myself a deadline. There is also a cool new album cover for The Resonance by a photograper in Taipei (Ooh, global).

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.