Twitter of the week

This week’s twitter of the week comes from my friend bradbarbour.

Rachel just said “everytime you lie your rat tail is going to get longer!”

The Brick Testament

I haven’t checked the Biblical accuracy of all of these stories, but I recommend you breeze over The Brick Testament if you’re a fan of Lego and the Bible.

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Google video / audio chat

What? When did this happen, google integrating video and audio chat? Has anybody been successful in getting this to work?

onedotzero_adventures in motion

onedotzero_adventures in motion reel on Vimeo. Lots of eye candy to digest here.

onedotzero_adventures in motion, london 14-16 nov from onedotzero on Vimeo.

G’s Halloween costume

This is a little late (sorry), but I’d like to share a few images of G and his robot costume. If you look closely on the corners you’ll see two old iPod headphones. Internally I’ve wired up an old iPod mini and set it to loop a short soundtrack of robot sounds just to add to the effect. If you’d like to duplicate the effect, you can download the file, or just listen to it here:

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Buzzispace

Loving the cozy soft environments of Buzzispace.

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iPhone music

Creating music on the iPhone continues to consume me. If you’ve talked to me in a while, you have likely heard me rant and rave about how I’m convinced the iPhone will be the next major compositional music platform.

Think about it. It’s always with you, it’s relatively cheap (compared to, say, a desktop computer… plus the fact that you’re likely going to buy a cell phone anyway). The apps are beginning to be realized. They’re pretty inexpensive.

I project that in two years you’ll run into a group of modern electronic musicians in a huddle, bluetooth MIDI sync, creating collaborative, electro/organic music on their phones. It’ll be this weird blend of tactile (due to the touch controls) and electronic. And it’ll be accessible to the slightly technology advanced masses.

Here’s something I ran across today. Sonoma Wire Works has created a pocket 4-track for iPhone. I won’t expect much from the recording quality, but this has to be the start of something. If nothing else, they’ve made it look pretty sweet. I can see a USB recording mic that interfaces with the iPhone at some point.

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I’ve been using Beatmaker for the past several months and haven’t tired of it yet. It’s a 16-pad sampler well stocked with sounds and an amazing sequencer. A friend mixed a live set on it for us a few weeks ago in the car as we headed to the Weezer concert.

Brian Eno’s Bloom is a new foray into generative music and takes full advantage the iPhone’s touch pad and accelerometer. I’ve been known to score by own ambient soundtrack for the walk home at night. Can you imagine the power of an app like this being about to connect over Wifi or Bluetooth to another iPhone. They could start playing off of each other, utilizing the processing power of both devices. This could get very, very cool.

And for the slightly odd, but more expressive, I suggest you try Smule’s Ocarina. A jam session might look something like this (but hopefully less Zamphir-like).

SMule: Ocarina [Stairway] from SonicMule, Inc. on Vimeo.

Keep your eyes open, this little platform could be changing things.

Real life Photoshop

I am really, really loving this. Extremely clever.

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Special roast

It’s a wonderfully cool morning, right at 46.6 F according to my little digital temperature probe in the kitchen. I expect to have a stellar day off with my family, and it begins with this.

Quicksilver Twitter Plugin

There you go, now if you’re a twitter and a Quicksilver addict you can have it all. Does that just describe me? Quicksilver Twitter Plugin.

*** UPDATE – I’m going to recommend a pass on this one after a few days. Keeps crashing Quicksilver. ***

Advantageous – buy

Advantageous mp3 lets you highlight a song in the iTunes store and by running the script port you to that song on the Amazon music store. If you’ve already set up your Amazon account with a prepay gift card, buy away.

This works because (1) you can use the familiar iTunes interface and linking schemes to discover music (Genius anyone?) and (2) your new tracks are DRM free. And hey, if that 2M song catalog disappoints you in Amazon you can always return to iTunes.

Giraffes

Lousy quality, but don’t miss giraffes. (try this one, the other link is dead)

NIN, Nov 1

A little sample of the NIN show this past weekend. NIN, Nov 1, Greenville SC.

NewSpring Greenville

Check it, here’s what the good people of NewSpring Greenville see on Sundays. Look lifelike? Yeah, I think so, too. (thanks Bowlz for the photo).

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NIN, Greenville SC, Nov 1, 2008

NIN, Greenville SC, Nov 1, 2008

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Caught NIN in Greenville tonight. This is my favorite shot from the night. I’ll be upload some clips to vimeo later this week. As last time, it was an awesome show and my brain will have to process everything for days to come.

NewSpring from the sky

So, how’s that children’s and youth wing coming along? Well, courtesy of my friend Barron, you can now view the progress from sky level. (thanks for the pictures).