sean tubridy

I’m in love with the Polaroid photos of Sean Tubridy, so much so I’m seriously considering his book. Simply intriguing.

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Awesome book

Meg’s hosting a giveaway and review of An Awesome Book. As the one who read and demoed the book I can say with complete authority that it, in fact, is an awesome book.

Head over to Meg’s blog to enter the giveaway (contest link). You only have today to enter!

Coffee science

For you coffee addicts out there (yes, I’ll be your leader, unless you are driving to Starbucks, then I’ll happily be your follower), here is an article on the science of coffee.

Unleash question: what are you reading?

In an ongoing series of posts I’ll be answering questions raised from Unleash (or linking you to answers). Today’s question: “Wanted to get some info on research and resources from video production team. Websites, magazines, etc…”

First answer, as for websites, here is a post with some recommendations. Would you faithful avclub readers will be kind enough to fill in some more suggestions in the comment?

As for magazines, we’re crazy about reading ‘em. What do we subscribe to?
Digit
Computer Arts
Stash (a DVD magazine, highly recommended)
Wired
How
Esquire (at least Will loves this one)
ID
Readymade

Books? We don’t normally read a ton of them for video / design ideas primarily because the web and magazines seem to be a little more timely. However, there are a few on my shelf in front of them you might enjoy.

1,000 Type Treatments
Creative Sparks
Type in Motion 2 (No. 2)
Creating motion graphics – anything in this series
Motion Blur: Graphic Moving Imagemakers
Neubau Welt 01
Neubau Modul 02

How this helps. Be sure to read anything else here tagged “Unleash.”

Unleash 2009 counter soundtrack

After Unleash 2008 we got a lot of requests for a track listing of some of the music we use in our counters, openers, and general all around the office listening. I wrote this post with some suggestions which you’re free to browse.

For Unleash 2009 I figured I’d jump the gun and get the info out there as you’re leaving (thank you time-delayed WordPress posts).

First off, for these 10:00 counters I thought it fit to (1) build energy into the room, (2) show a representation of the style of tracks we play, and (3) create a cohesive mix rather that just laying some music down. All told I’ve spent about 4 hours preparing these two mixes, one per session. The tracks are cut and mixed in Soundtrack, but you could use just about any DAW including the free Audacity. It just takes dedicating the time.

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Counter session 1:
- “Wasted,” by Andy Dugid feat. Leah from DJ Tiesto’s In Search of Sunrise, Vol. 7: Asia
- “You Keep Me Hanging On (Extended Club Mix),” by Rockell
- “Booming Right At You” by Junkie XL
- “Thunder” by Prodigy

Counter 2:
- “Alice (Drop The Lime-Heavy Bass Remix)”
by Moby
- “Give it up (Kissy Sell Remix),” by Datarock
- “This Time (Klaas Remix),” by DJ Antoine from Ultra Trance 8

Monome experiment

One of my first monome experiments. You should know @stevengrey was present at the time. This was conceived with the muon patch. Muon is an “emergent feedback sequencer” and I won’t even begin to act like I know what that fully means.

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Noooooo

Consumer Reports Picks the Best Cup o’ Brew. And Starbucks isn’t in there.

Star Trek Super Bowl Spot

Say what you want, I’m stoked as heck about the new Star Trek movie. Ever since I used to sit and watch the original 1960s Star Trek with my Dad I’ve been a fan of the series. I grew up as a geeky middle schooler on The Next Generation (and have since renounced it), but with JJ in charge of this current iteration I think it will be worth the hype.

And if not, we still have GI Joe.

Synthpond

This is one of my current favorite apps, Synthpond.

synthPond 2.0 Tutorial from zach on Vimeo.

I’m also pretty stoked because the newest version of Synthpond will include OSC support.

synthPond + OSC from zach on Vimeo.

My abs hurt

Seriously, if you never click on a AV Club link you need to change that policy right now. Meg shared this with me today and I just read the entire page. I laughed so hard my abs ache and my contacts nearly came out. So, please join me in the hilarity of Great Olan Mills photos.

A sampling:

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NIN does it again

Trent Reznor released a post today linking to this (or here). I’ve got your crowd-sourcing right here. He’s releasing 405 GB of HD video content from the past NIN tour. It’s out there free to the community to download, edit, compile, and make him one heck of a great concert DVD.

Design feeds?

Part of this year’s goal was to reduce my RSS / Blog reading by 40%. I did just that a week ago and while I’m glad to not be weighed down by the excess reading, I’m finding myself in need of some fresh design / artistic blog reads.

What sites do you guys recommend I begin reading? A few criteria, I like a site with good pictures in the RSS feed, full posts are preferred (though notcot.org still sits high on my list), and my preferred posting frequency is in the 1-20 posts per day (for a design / art news site). Current sites I’m reading; Shape + Color, Motionographer, and Abduzeedo.

So, what’s it going to be?

Best Word Book Ever

Meg sent this my way the other day. Our son, G, loves Richard Scarry’s books, all of them. I grew up on them, too. Well, in this comparison of the 1963 version vs. the 1990 version it appears there are some differences. Nice.

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nice…

Love this.

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Incase Messenger Bag (NOTCOT)

Dang it! I don’t need to wantin’ another bag but this Incase Messenger Bag looks sweet.

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LittleBigPlanet™

LittleBigPlanet™ makes me want to renounce the Wii.

What Makes for a Good Blog?

Nice points from Merlin Mann at 43 Folders on what makes for a good blog. Seems pretty on point.

Star Wars family

Read this article a while back. If you’re a dad and a Star Wars fan you’ll really appreciate it.

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Charlie Bartlett (2007)

I caught Charlie Bartlett last night and really enjoyed it (official site). The best way to describe it is an edgy, darker Ferris Bueller. It’s an indie film, a comedy, part social commentary. That sort of thing.

The theme of looking for acceptance and the abuse of common psychological drugs and counseling prevail. It’s told with a light and breezy wrapper (hence the Ferris Bueller flavor) makes the fairly serious subject matter entertaining without diminishing its weight.

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I would recommend it, but only if the R rated content (which isn’t pervasive, but is present) doesn’t bother you.

cool stuff to make you appear smarter and good looking and stuff

From the bowels of the web today:

(1) a reason I wish we had subways in Anderson
(2) eat your heart out, Dark Side of the Moon, this shirt is sweet
(3) formerly called Summize, this is a great Twitter search feature recommended for judging what techies everywhere are currently discussing.