This is from (almost) two years ago, but is just to say farewell to what has seemed like my own personal sunset generator. I shall miss this field and the views. Especially the convenience!
On to new fields and new views from tomorrow.
I need to get my life so it’s single piece flow, but in the meantime I seem to be working in batches. And this batch is music.
School of Seven Bells - Disconnect from Desire. When something gets mentioned enough it’s worth checking out, but after first listen (It was at work and I was totally “in the zone”, so not paying full attention, trying to get some JavaScript in XSLT to work cross browser: Chrome, Firefix and IE6 - yes IE6. But Firefox gave me as much grief!) I can only say it’s ok-ish. Need to listen again. Was a bit like background music, but that could be because it was. It’s a bit - no, very - Stereolab-ish (especially on Babelonia). Which isn’t a bad thing, but I’ve not listened to Stereolab in years. Perhaps it’ll grow on me after a few more listens - if I notice it’s playing. And, also, “electronic dance-floor beats”? Where? I missed them.
Herbaliser - Herbal Tonic. Sensual Woman. Awesome. Been listening to this track for many years. Have no idea how I came across it, probably back in days of Napster, so a lovely surprise that this popped up whilst listening to this album. Made me smile. Made my day.
Chemical Brothers - Further. From Brothers Gonna Work It Out (whichever track those lyrics are actually from; that’s the first time I recall hearing the Chemical Brothers) up to Push the Button, loved it all. But that weird Salmon Dance thing really put me off. This is more of a return to form. Bit slow to get going, but skip about the first 6 minutes and it’s there - of course to be fully appreciated probably requires you to be stood in a field off your tits.
Mumford & Sons - Sign No More. Got the free track on iTunes ages ago, wasn’t that fussed. Also, bit disapponted to find out they aren’t really a “Mumford” and sons; not even related! But, have been watching Glastonbury and T in The Park on the box and The Cave is just so good to watch live - more so because the crowds just look so happy. So I love The Cave and the rest of the album is ok too. Reminds me a bit of Fleet Foxes, but much better.
Massive Attack - Heligoland - Meh, sounds just like 100th Window to me, so a bit dark and depressing.
Pendulum - Immersion - I feel a little bit wrong to be listening to these. Like I shouldn’t be allowed (Am I too old?). But I love the stuff they do with Freestylers and I remembered watching them last year (on the telly) at a festival and, much like watching Mumford & Sons, it just looked like a hell of a lot of fun. I like Waterclour, But otherwise. Not quite for me.
Audio bullies - Higher Than the Eiffel - Awesome. There’s your electronic dance floor beats. This is going to get some listens.
- via choschiba in the Flickr 110 Format group.
Adox are hand making 110 film cartridges. Available for pre-order. Plus, it looks like they are in talks to take over 126 format production, if all goes well it would be available again in 2012.
Photo blogged with kind permission of iri5 (and on that note if you want to reblog, it really wouldn’t do any harm to ask her permission, she seems very nice).
It’s not exactly uncommon for me to see or come across things that are better than anything I could do, be it bits of code or bits of art or anything else. We are surrounded by people who are better than ourselves. That’s a good thing as long as you let it give you hope and let it inspire you, or at the very least just enjoy what other people can do.
But then there’s the things you come across that are not only good, but also fall into the category of something I’d never-in-a-million-years have thought of doing.
It’s difficult to pick an overall favourite from The Ghost in a Machine set, but I’m going to with this one (this work-in-progress one a close second), since I was a bit partial to Nine Inch Nails back in the day and the Broken EP was on tape, but recorded on one side only (well, that’s how I recall it, but Wikipedia says side two was 15mins of silence and then two hidden tracks - I can’t recall if we ever twigged that as kids; wonder if my old school friend still has the cassette?; it was in the days where we would take turns to buy albums and then lend them to each other to tape; ah! high speed dubbing - ripping CDs or downloading from iTunes is just not the same).
iri5 is an Georgia based artist who is amazingly talented. And I’ve detracted far too much with my inane ramblings.
Wow. I didn’t even realise they were still going. Brings back memories - not that I’ve seen them; never did get to see them live when I was really into them (school years), but I associate them with good times. Plus Pokin’ Around is on my (now defunct) Muxtape (basically my all time favourites mixtape).
Unfortunately I think my gig days are over, which is a shame as this is actually in reach.
Rex the Dog - Synthpop set recorded live at Musicalia May 2010.
This is ace. Ghostbusters and Kids in America. Genius.
(Not a video, by the way)
My Flickr all time search stats, since late 2007, click on the image to get more info.
Awhile ago Flickr changed from providing all-time stats to a rolling 28 days. They then made available for download, for a limited time, the historical all-time data. This ‘limited time’ comes to the an end at 01-Jun-2010, and to be honest I wasn’t going to bother downloading almost sixty Excel/CSV files dating back to 2007, because the likelihood was I’d never do anything with them. But then I heard about flickrstats by visp, simply authenticate the app and it gets you files for you, analyses them, and presents them in a lovely graph. Visp has also put together a demo video of it in action.
So if you are a Flickr Pro member, it’s well worth using this app before the 01-Jun.
There ends another Roidweek. It’s been fun, as ever - that’s my third one now. I got four (maybe five) shots I’m really happy with. Which isn’t too great considering there’s only ten in a pack, but I wanted to be a bit braver with the camera and try things like multiple exposures, wide angle lens (plus tape to hold it on) and manually exposing using the f/58 aperture - none of those attempts came out great, but it was still fun trying.
