Entries from October 2009

October 30, 2009

Gooogle – OneBox, Many Beats, More Profit

Right.
Reading the Beeb News again (the source of many a good story) and learn that Google is getting into the online music market with the launch of OneBox, an alliance with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike.
When users search using OneBox, a pop-up widget powered by iLike or Lala offers to play the entire song.
Interesting [...]

October 18, 2009

New Music I like – October 2009

Computer Camp Love.
Who needs a reason?  Don’t remember this exactly, but somebody obviously does and was very scarred by the experience.

October 18, 2009

Powers of Ramsey – An insight into the Celebrity Chef on an Atomic Level

“Here’s something silly I made for the bbc comedy website,” beams Mutated Monty.
He’s taken a powerful microscope to examine Gordon Ramsey at every visual level.

Interesting stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree.
On a related note, it was sad to see the passing of Keith Floyd recently, who was the daddy of them all.
Celebrity [...]

October 8, 2009

SOUND DESIGN LECTURE

These are the notes on a lecture we gave on sound design, pitched at animation students.

HISTORY OF SOUND DESIGN:

In motion picture production, a Sound Designer is a member of a film crew responsible for some original aspect of the film’s audio track.
The terms “Sound Design” and “Sound Designer” were already in use in theatre and [...]