Book Review: Creative Music Production: Joe Meek's BOLD Techniques
OnJoe Meek via last.fm [Purchase Book] Barry Cleveland’s book (and CD!), Creative Music Production is an interesting, great look on Joe Meek‘s work. It glosses over the more lurid parts of the story (which are available in many places, and as such,…
I think this guy likes Terry Gilliam
OnYouTube user “cyriak” is definitely getting his money’s worth out of that copy of Adobe AfterEffects. (I dig the 8-bit soundtrack, too.)
“I know it’s early there…”
OnThe Beach Boys on Good Morning America, sometime in 1980 or ’81. This clip is kinda funny, but also heartbreaking. Dennis Wilson is in no shape to be on TV or even out in public, yet the clueless interviewer asks him the…
The Fingertips Project: Please Pass The Milk
On“Please pass the milk, please.” “Stop it!” “Please pass the milk, please.” “I know that’s all you can say. There isn’t any milk here.” “Please pass the milk, please.” “It’s not even proper grammar!”
Music & Gender
OnImage via Wikipedia One of the things I’ve always been interested in is pop music. Well, that should be obvious, don’t you think? I mean, really — it’s probably less an interest than an obsession. But that’s all right, too. However, one…
The Kruger Deception
OnI love, love, love these Holga photos of (I think) stuffed animals in a museum. I emailed the guy who took them, and told him, “Wes Anderson has dreams that look like this.”
The Fingertips Project: Lookin' For The Guy
OnSo like OK I was there right and just mindin’ my own business when all of a sudden bam just like outta nowhere this guy comes up and slugs me right in the face and i’m like man, I can’t even see…
Interview: Lamprey Systems
OnRobert Carr, the man behind Lamprey Systems, is pretty dang creative. He’s made one full-length DVD of music videos, 3 albums, lzines, lots of software, robots, computer sculptures, and probably some stuff I don’t even know about. Not to mention that he’s…