Photo by Kevin Scanlon ©2008
My good friend Jonathan Wells the founder of RES back in the day has recently been featured in the LA Weekly… His new project is called Flux… Nice one JW!
Designers Note: Meg Wells chose that lime green paint color… it is a no-VOC, environmentally friendly paint from Yolocolorhouse.
Utah Saints, Something Good 2008 Remix from Jason Fields on Vimeo.
Director: Eran Creevy
Musical Artist: Utah Saints
Song: Something Good 08
Production Company: Between The Eyes, London / Sleeper USA
Producer: Ben Pugh
Director of Photography: Ed Wild
Art Director: Mac Cox
Choreographer: Kate Prince at Zoo Nation
Telecine: Kenny at MPC
Editor: Dan Sherwen at Final Cut
© 2008 Glossy NYC
One of my favorite Italian composers of the late 1960s lounge pop scene is Piero Umiliani, who wrote one of my favorite kitsche ‘out sound‘ songs of all time ‘Mah Na Mah Na‘… which was made famous by the muppet monsters on TV in later years…
Check out ChomChomp which has a great online video retrospect with a whole slew of versions, here dis!
In addition this great site that has loads of detailed information on the composer and his catchy song as well… Worth the read!
Watch HALFBY「RODEO MACHINE - SCREW THE PLAN」 music video.
Watch HALFBY「STAR TRACK」 music video.
More information on über cool and stylish Japanese design shop Groovisons…
‘My god, its full of stars…’
- Daves final words in 2001
I LOVE the visualization aspects of iTunes. As I mentioned awhile ago here on my blog the Whitecap plugin for iTunes was pretty amazing. Now I am mentioning the Magnetosphere plugin as my new favorite. Its by far THE coolest piece of iTunes kit you can get. Dont take my word for it though, download it and run it yourself…
Magnetosphere was born of some experiments in Processing that Barbarian Robert Hodgin (of Flight404 fame) was conducting on his experimental blog. We got a lot of positive feedback from the visualization style, and a lot of requests to “use this in our project.” Too many, actually, for us to handle, so we figured we’d get the thing into a form that anyone could use. Basically, we made Magnetosphere by making a Processing application, and then porting it line by line to C++ so we could use the iTunes visualizer SDK to develop an iTunes plug-in for the Mac and PC.
Magnetosphere iTunes Visualizer
I have been doing research on super compact speaker systems for quite some time now. It basically started when my wife said we needed to get some smaller speakers for the house. The ones I had previously were Infinity Reference 2000.5 three ways (mini towers at 2.5′ in height). The Infinity speakers took up alot of space and are totally over powered for the small house we have now.
A friend of mine has the Anthony Gallo Nucleus Micros, and I have been keen on the for awhile now. Since I own a house now, price is more of an issue for me than it was in the past. So, I had to find an alternate to the Nucleus Micros.
I found another high end brand called Mirage, they had a compact system called the Nano, this was an intersting setup, as its an omnidirectional system. The speakers fire striaght up and then are deflected in a 360degree spread. Any spot in your home you are listening from you get the same audio fidelity. I listened to them and was pretty much sold. But…
I did have one more more research expedition to make, to Orb Audio in Sherman Oaks. I really wanted to listen to the Orb Audio speakers. I saw them online, and read some reviews in Wired Magazine, so I figured it was worth a shot.
Well, when I got to the demo showroom, it was a very very pleasant surprise. It turns out that the president/founder of Orb Audio, Gary Pelled, was co-founder of Anthony Gallo Acoustics, and THE man responsible for the innovative globe product design for the Nucleus Micros! Gary explained that after years of working at Gallo it was time for him to start his own company.
When I listened to his speakers, I was converted from the Mirage system immediately, the Orbs sounded as rich and saturated as the Gallo Micros, if not even more so! The best part, since Gary sells his product factory direct, its a major savings for a similar high end and deep sounding compact 5.1 system.
I ended up buying a 3.1+ System (4 Orb speakers plus the Super Eight Subwoofer) and it cost me around $700! Still def. not cheap, but compared to what a Gallo system would have cost, a steal!
The Orbs really are amazing in size and sound! YOu can set up a demo for yourself at the site (they have show rooms ins LA and NYC). Check them out!
View: Orb Audio site
Yesterday Nokia announced three new phones as part of their Nseries Multimedia Phone product range. They all are 3G capable, can play MP3s, and all but one have high resolution cameras (2MP w/ Zeiss lenses)… The most notable is the N91 which has a 4GB HD built in. This is Nokias answer to the Apple/Motorola iTunes Phone that has been delayed again.
Nokia today introduced the Nokia N91 multimedia, the company’s latest device optimized for mobile music consumption. With room for up to 3000 songs on the integrated 4-gigabyte hard disk, the Nokia N91 delivers a premier music experience. In addition, the industry standard 3.5mm stereo headset jack and easy transfer of music files from your PC help make the Nokia N91 a connected mobile jukebox. Encased in stainless steel, the Nokia N91 has dedicated music keys on its face, which slide down to reveal the phone keypad. The Nokia N91 is a part of the new Nokia Nseries range, bringing you the latest multimedia technologies and smartphone functionalities.
via Nokia Press Section
via Nokia Multimedia Section
That’s right, it’s Reznor, and it’s a free download for garageband. get it here before it’s gone.
You know that Gameboyzz Orchestra Project is cooler than blue man group (hehe), they use Nintendo Gameboys to make music, common now!
Gameboyzz Orchestra Project is an experimental sound - visual project, basing on the use of GameBoy console as a music instrument. Main assumption of project’s authors is to create new sound space on the base of tones generated live from console during the performance.
Our generation has been dealing with computers since childhood. We have witnessed an evolution in computer processesing power, from 8 bit processors to 32 bit processors. Computer technology has grew with us. Our free time has increasingly been spent playing computer games.
Download: MP3 Library of Blips and Blops
the term ‘oyayubizoku’ literally translated from japanese equates to ‘thumb-gang’ or ‘thumb-tribe’ referring to the masses of young people in japan that use mobile phones for texting, email, and mobile phone conversations.
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