02011-04-14 | Uncategorized
WVIL – Wireless Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens
Concept Camera
swissmiss
Old Typewriter, by Todd McLellan
Bond Mixology (for Stephen)
Popwuping
How kids consume media
Spike Jonze Presents: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma (YouTube)
Like a saw, back and forth… on the analog side:
Wasting Light by Foo Fighters on SoundCloud
Produced by Butch Vig and mixed by Alan Moulder, Wasting Light was recorded entirely on analog tape in the garage of Grohl’s home in California’s San Fernando Valley. The no computers/no software back to basics approach…
02011-04-14 | Uncategorized
What we learned from our Istanbul experience is that this touring group, band and crew together, can cope with surprises and make the best out of a given situation, and also that we need a different drum kit… something better suited to our music. The conventional drum kit tends to sound great in large venues, but can overwhelm the guitar in small venues. So, Michael is cooking up a new kit. The snare has to go for starters. It is an instrument that was designed for military use, like the bagpipe, to be heard far away, bright and insistent. Fine for an electric band, but perhaps not well suited to our music.
Michael wants to put something acoustic and organic together, rather than going the way of the tupperware kit from 1996, and came up with several great ideas. We hope to have everything in place for the Spring tour that starts in less than three weeks – I think we added a show in Buffalo in the very beginning of May – but perhaps we should keep it a surprise, shall we…
02011-04-13 | Uncategorized
This is a quote from the book “Confessions of an Atheist-Buddhist” by Stephen Batchelor:
The last quotes I showed were hard to read and so I thought I’d make the letters a little bigger… well, now they are much too big… next time I’ll find a setting in between.
I often wondered about the meaning of the word “atheist”, because it did not make sense to me. Apathy, for example, means without pathos, and not against pathos. Over time a perfectly good word came to mean something completely different. Being against something is very different from having no interest in something. I will let the fervent theists and the equally fervent anti-theists fight their battle (although I hate to experience the fallout from their epic battles) and I’ll be the atheist sitting at the bar sipping an Aperol Spritz…
