the title says it all, go see a beautiful stop motion/time lapse/motion control video by Ollie Larkin here FWIW after watching it three times I actually prefer it synced up to the Rhythm & Sound tune ‘Truly’ remixed by Vladislav…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFRzjl7XYas

Cornelius is a Japanese band who have released a few albums – this video clip is for a song on their first album & I still enjoy seeing it now as much as the first time – great audio visual…

Receiving a copy of a new book by Haruki Murakami is very much like being served the freshest sashimi – you have to pause for a moment while all of your senses have time to excitedly join your brain’s anticipation……

While a lot of big budget 3D work in film aims for the holy grail of photo realism, very little of it ever achieves it, or when it does it falls into the genius area of the audience being oblivious…

I have a new secret (not very) weapon & it looks a bit like this: LowEnder is the first plugin to provide a digital replacement for the much loved & adored dbx subharmonic synth. I’ve had an analog outboard subharmonic…

In the news on the BBC this week was a report on a company who has developed a means of tagging sounds to specific locations via Google Earth which is a great idea! Just as finding a beautiful panoramic photo…

4 days of bliss! the grumpy tired me that left on thursday… has returned totally chilled out! first stop was Morere hot pools – pictured is one of the private pools; 40 degrees celcius and $8 for half an hour…

The temp mix is finished, we’ve layed back the 5.1 mix stem to HD tape, checked it & I’m officially exhausted…. No posts until next week – I am heading to the beach for a few days recovery. For now…

When I was a kid we used to listen to a radio show in the weekends where they would play kids stories/radio dramas & in hindsight this would be one of the first places that I became aware of audio…

Excuse my lack of posts this week – we are hell busy doing a temp mix… lock the cut on friday, conform 7 reels, predub the atmos, cut a LOT of new FX and be ready to start temp mix…

arg please excuse the hexadecimal HTML garbage above….. something screwy has happened with this post when i changed wordpress themes, please read it here amo, amas, amat… I studied (and I use the term loosely) latin for two years at…

Do icebergs sing? Do electric sheep dream of rechargeable batteries? Between July and November 2002 researchers picked up incredily clear acoustic signals when recording seismic signals to measure earthquakes and tectonic movements on the Ekstroem ice shelf on Antarctica’s South…

Culturally & musically Gamelan is incredibly interesting & beautiful music…. friends returned from a holiday in Bali recently & aside from successfully avoiding stupid drunk Australian tourists they recounted the most amazing tales of gamelan performances that they witnessed… If…

Well to be honest this short film is actually called ‘One Apartment and Six Drummers’ but in all reality (well reality as I know it) it could equally be called ‘One Apartment and Six Foley Artists” but hey, who can…

If you work/create your art in a ‘sound studio’ then you will appreciate your work is only as good as it sounds on someone elses sound system… and one of the keys to insuring it translates well, requires a short…

Check out this clever bit of rhythmic editing, using a red bull can as the only source… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-HGLA6SvfQ i’d prefer a V myself but hey….