09 Thursday Oct 2008
Posted in Music
Tom McRae the fine English singer songwriter is releasing his first proper live album from a number of dates on the 2007 tour to promoting King Of Cards.
Currently the album is only available through Tom’s website here.
The track details include:
09 Thursday Oct 2008
Posted in General
I came across an tremendous video on Open Culture which showed what an autistic artist could recall and draw beautifully after a helicopter flight over Rome. The result is amazing in both scale, detail not to mention its simple beauty.
Mental illnesses are often portrayed or seen as an affliction or handicap. But as the video shows it can also be a facilitator to creativity and beauty.
25 Thursday Sep 2008
Posted in Photography
NowPublic has an article about how Maserati’s website has been hacked, and as part of the article they’ve requested to use one of my photos.
The article is here, the picture is : 
19 Friday Sep 2008
Posted in General
Brian Wilson…
Badly Drawn Boy …
Martha Wainwright …
18 Thursday Sep 2008
Posted in Music
A download site for Classical music has just gone live called Passionato offering high quality MP3s (320kbps) and FLAC recordings at what appear to be very good prices. The Guardian has a full review of the site here. It will be interesting to see how the site goes given that classical music fans tend to viewed as snobs when it comes to the source of their music.
18 Thursday Sep 2008
Posted in Music
Lost Highway Records have finally announced details of the next album to be called Cardinology. Lost Highways have indicated a release date of October 28th. A special website for the album has also been setup called http://www.cardinology.com/.
17 Wednesday Sep 2008
Posted in Music
Being a bit behind in my blogging the sad death of Pink Floyd’s Rick Wright to cancer is common knowledge now. If you’d like to read more about Rick then Uncut’s obituary is a good place to start.
Personally, I hope that the discussions and speculation about a possible Pink Floyd reunion are permanently ‘put to bed’ as a Floyd without Rick isn’t really Pink Floyd in my opinion, although the nit pickers will not point out that he wasn’t a proper member of the band, but a hire gun for a considerable period during the 90s.
12 Friday Sep 2008
Posted in General
Tags
artists, concert, FabChannel, Music, performance, streaming, Universal, V2, video
I’ve come across a rather interesting resource called FabChannel.com. FabChannel are providing quality video streams of whole concerts from legitimate sources, either licensed concert recordings from music companies such as Universal and V2 or professional recorded performances from Dutch based venues. The video quality is good enough that it could be expanded to watch full screen with only a small amount of graininess on a 1600x1200monitor with streaming through a Flash player. FabChannel’s performances cover a wide range of well known artists such as The View and Martha Wainwright, and they claim to have got over 900 performances available already.
The site also has integration with last.fm and can also provide useful artist bios etc. To generate income to pay for the service there are some adverts on the site, but they’re not annoying popup’s etc.
09 Tuesday Sep 2008
Posted in Music
The Gutter Twins (Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli) are releasing a new EP to help raise funds for the Natasha Shneider Memorial Fund. The EP comprises of covers ranging from Down The Line (Jose Gonzales) to Deep Hit Of Morning Sun," (Primal Scream).
My only grievance with this is that the download is exclusive to iTunes!
For more information see the following sites:
09 Tuesday Sep 2008
Posted in Photography
The small beautifully detailed models in the Thomas the Tank Engine programmes have a strong place in my life now I’m a parent to a small boy. The question is, is the following image a small model like Thomas or real?
Despite looking very model like, this is in fact according to an article on Wallpaper (here) the photography of Naoki Honji, who creates the model like effect by manipulating the light and colour intensity of the images. Combined with the panoramic nature of the photos they look very model like.
The Wallpaper article provides more example of the images along with details of an exhibition of Honji’s work.
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