news & olds on the infosupernet!
In prelude to their upcoming gigs here in Ireland…
Their album Angles is super fantastic..
7 Feb 2009 Roisin Dubh Galway
8 Feb 2009 Cyprus Avenue Cork
9 Feb 2009 Whelans Dublin
all @ 8pm
[EDIT: Well Unfortunately I never got to see the gig.. it was sold out the week before.. good going for a Monday night gig. Even blagging didn't work. Anyways hope to catch them next time round]
“Shook All Up” by You™ vs. Elvis was one of my favourite entries in the WFMU Sixty Second Song Remix Contest. If you haven’t heard of this before, do check it out.. there are some amazing minute versions of lots of well known tunes and other experiments like Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album squeezed into one minute. The Elvis mix by You™ is a quirky cut-up of his hit “All Shook Up”. So I decided to put video to it as I was using some Elvis moments in another project. I found a few versions online and it was amazing to see the change in the way Elvis sang it over time. Especially in the later Vegas years where he seems to just want to get it over with as quick as he can. Perhaps he should have remixed it! Anyway.. here goes it..
It’s all synced up!
for all good music
go to…
wfmu.org
Here is the music video I made for the track “Prairie” from the new Halfset album “Another Way Of Being There”
The CD version of the album comes with an excellent DVD, which I produced, with a different artist interpreting each of the tracks. I made this one and two live videos shot out in RTE. Some of them are online.. check them out..
The album is also available on the iTunes music store here
Bliss me blog for I have been lockedinned, it’s been 19 days since my last post!!
Well, it has been a busy couple of weeks so I have a lot to post about here, where I will get into in the next post. The last one was 19 days ago and I haven’t got my Nine Inch Nails cd yet, but not to worry as it is still been by soundtrack for the last few week. Class album, nuff said.. well except that I must make a video for them (along with all the other videos I am making!).
Talking about video, that is what this post is about.. well one aspect of it… online video.. and how you search and view it. One of my favourite web apps from the last couple of months has been Cool Iris’ “PicLens“. I gave it a mini review in the asides post on the, well, side of this page. Really I should have gave it more of a review as I think it is a fantastic little add-on for Firefox and really puts an new slant on image search. It is so slick and I reckon we will be seeing a lot more webapps in this style over the next few months. I guess they are built in the Adobe Flex environment, but I can’t be sure. Anyway I was showing it off the other day and was thinking “wouldn’t it be really cool if it done video too?”. Well, guess what… it does!! Just as I got online today there was an update for it.. for YouTube videos and it works a charm. You can see it in action in the images above where I did a search for remix (something on my mind a lot this week) and the random video I pulled up is from Matt & Kim… and here it is…
(can you guess where they got that riff from?… answers on the back of a postcard or in the comments!!)
The new NIN album is out now. Well that was dropped without much fanfare, but it had been expected to soon follow Trent’s outing with Saul Williams. It is a four part album and available at different ‘fair enough’ price plans and you can get part one for free. It was released yesterday and gave the servers a bit of a battering so the site is temporarily down while they work a fix. However, in a first for sure, you are directed over to The Pirate Bay to download a torrent of the free songs!
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