For the last few weeks I’ve been setting my GoPro Hero3 camera shooting timelapse on the deck of my apartment…partly because the clouds at times look amazing but also partly because in the next year or so this whole building is going to be demolished to make way for two more lanes of roading…. because more roads is the answer to everything #not!
Anyway this is what I ended up with – preferably watch it in HD here
My House In The Clouds from tim prebble on Vimeo.
ONE BABY BAND! (part 2) from Joey Angerone on Vimeo.
> beautiful long exposure shots of a symmetrical Tokyo
> I have been lucky enough to visit the colour grading at Park Road Post a few times and every time it astounded me to see just how beautiful film is compared with the ungraded & compressed Quicktimes we have spent months working to…. Suddenly all the beautiful work of the cinematographer, art department, lighting, make up, costumes and, of course, the actors becomes very apparent…. If you ever get the chance I highly reccomend it, and even better if it is on the basis of needing to see the grade of particular scenes to know how to treat sound (eg ambiences, or emotive sound design) for a particular scene… Anyway as we create & develop a pallete of sound & music for the film, in hindsight it is great to appreciate the colour pallete created for film , so check out this great tumblr: movies in colour
> Interesting alternative for music notation
> hobbyist or professional? the boundary nicely illustrated here
> worth supporting: Landfill Harmonic on Kickstarter
Darsha Hewitt: Electrostatic Bell Choir, 2012 from Perte de Signal on Vimeo.
Beautiful installation where the electrostatic charge from CRT TVs being switched on activate bells – more info here
THE FILM before THE FILM from ntsdpz on Vimeo.
> Whats the question about your field of work that you dread being asked?
- isn’t all the sound recorded when they shoot the film?
- do you really need all this gear?
- what are you doing? (um, recording you asking inane questions)
- will I be on TV? (esp when there are no cameras anywhere!)
you?
Just cleared my POBox and the copy I ordered of In The Field by Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle had arrived! As per the image below, the book features conversations with Manuela Barile, Angus Carlyle, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Viv Corringham, Peter Cusack, Steven Feld, Felicity Ford, Jez Riley French, Antye Greie, Christina Kubisch, Cathy Lane, Francisco López, Annea Lockwood, Andrea Polli, Ian Rawes, Lasse-Marc Riek, Hiroki Sasajima, Davide Tidoni, Hildegard Westerkamp and Jana Winderen.
WTF? Virtual sheeple?
How to Become a SoundCloud Superstar One Fake Fan at a Time
While I guess its not surprising, it is such deeply cynical behaviour…
Seems some things in the music industry change, but some just stay the same…..
James Blake [overgrown] from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.
> wow! This is a feature every sound recordist bag should have: this Crumpler bag has a velcro silencer!
“VELCRO SILENCERS
Lurking behind the bag’s velcro fastener is a matching velcro silencer flap. Pull it out. Press it in position. Open and close on the QT, then lock down with the compression strap. Ssshhhhimple!”
Seems ThinkTank bags also have this feature:
The “Sound Silencers” underneath the main flap eliminate the loud tearing sound hook-and-loop makes while opening the bag. Simply release the Sound Silencer panels and cover the hook-and-loop strips to prevent the hook-and-loop from contacting.
> David Lynch ranks his own films
> Fascinating read about the history of the LIKE button (via The Browser) – I especially like the part about the glaring absence of the DISLIKE button, I hadn’t thought about it that way before….
> The latest VEIMA synth auction has started! (would love to have a play with these Ixu French 50s electrotherapy tools! Never seen this German Echolette S NG-51 tube tape echo before either… Mmmmm an EMS VC3 with interesting history and Pete Namloks (RIP) EMS Synthi! and EMS Vocoder
euphonia trailer from ornana films on Vimeo.
> nifty! – a simulator for learning to use Manual/AV/TV modes with Canon cameras
Fine control at dub from Finecut artwork on Vimeo.
