> The Sound of Snow & Ice is a fascinating BBC radio doco about Jyväskylä School for the Visually Impaired, where kids learn to use sound to navigate….

thanks for the tip Michael!

FUTURE SELF brought together a media artist collective, rAndom International, a choreographer, Wayne McGregor, and composer Max Richter in a unique project at MADE

> The hypnagogic is the ultimate paradigm-busting tool, zzzzzzzzz….

> Sound waves 57 octaves lower than middle-C are rumbling away from a supermassive black hole in the Perseus cluster, apparently…

> wow! a bell so huge it sank the ship they tried to transport it with!
(& its remained underwater ever since)

> If you are in LA you should check out Sonos Studio – an “acoustically-designed gallery” which currently is host to a touch-activated sound installation by Luke Fischbeck – read more here

> Love this resin incased headphone amp

> Can music learn from the slow food movement?

> George Lucas vs his rich neighbours (using the force for good?)

CG birds for Mothers Day? Nicely done – Happy Mothers Day to mothers everywhere!
(& nicely done sound effects/foley too by uncredited people?)

Shot just south of Raglan on 16th Feb 2008

“Taxi Driver” by Disney – genius by Bryan Boyce

> Interesting developments at soundcloud and also an interesting discussion of its growth & having to deal with the inevitable copyright issues… – I personally think issuing take down notices or removing content is not the smartest way to handle a situation of music being uploaded to a streaming site, one of the few videos I have ever uploaded with unlicensed music (this one: Auckland to Wellington: an 8 hour trip in 5 minutes) I received an email a while ago saying something like “we noticed you using track X which is owned by artist Y…” but rather than mute it, or make me take it down & replace the music, they simply added a ‘BUY THIS TRACK’ button. Which turns an everyone loses scenario (take down) into the potential for the artist to gain from anyone who likes the music track (But if they didn’t want their music associated with the video at all then a take down would be fair enough)

> This could well be the best UK city stealth mobile recording rig yet! (Except its in the USofA!?) (thanks for the tip Tom!)

> Quite beautiful wifi speaker

Carsten Nicolai’s unidisplay exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal till June 17th

shot in Tokomaru Bay, East Cape on 12th May, 2007

imagine how proud the first owner of this car was….
and the lives lived in it