Detroit is dead.
A flickr set of Detroit photos.
Detroit neighborhoods status updated.
Detroit or Dresden after the war?
Royksopp videoclip Senior Living was entirely filmed in Detroit. No changes where made in the places the footage was made. Filmed as it is.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1818.htm
Where to buy a theremin:
http://theremin.tomfarrell.org/buyTheremin.html
It was a year of sad depressing songs....and excellent reissues.
Outstanding:
- Man man – Rabbit habits ( Best Album of the year 2008)
- Santogold - Santogold
- Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
- Beach House - Devotion
Very Good:
- M83 – Saturdays=youth (If you close your eyes you can float)
- Hercules&love affair - Hercules&love affair (outstanding when Anthony sings. Crap otherwise)
- The Duke spirit – Neptune
- X-Wife- Are You Ready For The Blackout?
- Adele- 19 (outstanding singer. Minimal use of instruments. Mostly voice)
- Lykke Li – Youth novel
- Devotchka- A Mad and Faithfull Telling
- Last shadow puppets – The age of understatement (well balanced not brilliant)
- Tv on the radio- Dear science
- Francis Black – Svn Fngrs
- Mates of state – Re-arrange us (light happy pop)
- Neon Neon – Stainless style
- Deehunter- Microcastle
- Islands- Arms way
- The Dodos- Visiter
- MGMT- Oracular spectacular
Best Re-issues:
-Pavement - brighten the corners (Matador records)
-Mission of Burma - VS. (Matador records)
-Liz Phair- exit in Guyville (ATO)
-New order- several albums (Rhino) (unfortunately with several sound problems)
-Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Union cafe
- Robert Wyatt- several albums
- BBC radiophonic workshop ( Delia Derbyshire and others!)
- Liquid Liquid (Domino)
Artist of the Year:
-Chad vanGaalen. A musician and singer that also produces and directs his own animation videoclips.
Videoclip of the year:
-Radiohead - House of Cards
-Bjork - Wanderlust
-Chad VanGaalen - Molten light
Weak, bleak and meek (Bad harvests):
- Portishead, Beck, Fleet foxes (this San Francisco 60´s songs do not work for me)
REM, Goldfrapp, Elbow (the 2008 album is crap despite winning the Mercury, the 2005 album- Leaders of the free world- was excellent), Fuck buttons (boring!), Magnetic fields.
The above artists either needed money, were in a rush or were just having a bad day. This is not to say that the albums are not good...They just do not rank high when compared to previous work!
Worst nightmares of the year:
- Coldplay- Viva la Vida. Overhyped shit playing over and over on TVs and Radios. Very bad.
- Scarlet Johansson- Anywhere I lay my head. Someone please tell the lady she is unable to sing.
Didn´t listen to (yet): Of Montreal- skeletal lamping
Outstanding:
- Man man – Rabbit habits ( Best Album of the year 2008)
- Santogold - Santogold
- Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
- Beach House - Devotion
Very Good:
- M83 – Saturdays=youth (If you close your eyes you can float)
- Hercules&love affair - Hercules&love affair (outstanding when Anthony sings. Crap otherwise)
- The Duke spirit – Neptune
- X-Wife- Are You Ready For The Blackout?
- Adele- 19 (outstanding singer. Minimal use of instruments. Mostly voice)
- Lykke Li – Youth novel
- Devotchka- A Mad and Faithfull Telling
- Last shadow puppets – The age of understatement (well balanced not brilliant)
- Tv on the radio- Dear science
- Francis Black – Svn Fngrs
- Mates of state – Re-arrange us (light happy pop)
- Neon Neon – Stainless style
- Deehunter- Microcastle
- Islands- Arms way
- The Dodos- Visiter
- MGMT- Oracular spectacular
Best Re-issues:
-Pavement - brighten the corners (Matador records)
-Mission of Burma - VS. (Matador records)
-Liz Phair- exit in Guyville (ATO)
-New order- several albums (Rhino) (unfortunately with several sound problems)
-Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Union cafe
- Robert Wyatt- several albums
- BBC radiophonic workshop ( Delia Derbyshire and others!)
- Liquid Liquid (Domino)
Artist of the Year:
-Chad vanGaalen. A musician and singer that also produces and directs his own animation videoclips.
Videoclip of the year:
-Radiohead - House of Cards
-Bjork - Wanderlust
-Chad VanGaalen - Molten light
Weak, bleak and meek (Bad harvests):
- Portishead, Beck, Fleet foxes (this San Francisco 60´s songs do not work for me)
REM, Goldfrapp, Elbow (the 2008 album is crap despite winning the Mercury, the 2005 album- Leaders of the free world- was excellent), Fuck buttons (boring!), Magnetic fields.
The above artists either needed money, were in a rush or were just having a bad day. This is not to say that the albums are not good...They just do not rank high when compared to previous work!
Worst nightmares of the year:
- Coldplay- Viva la Vida. Overhyped shit playing over and over on TVs and Radios. Very bad.
- Scarlet Johansson- Anywhere I lay my head. Someone please tell the lady she is unable to sing.
Didn´t listen to (yet): Of Montreal- skeletal lamping
Radiohead's " Nude" (in rainbows) remix using:
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX
Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX
Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
The new Radiohead video for "House of cards" was made without cameras. 3D images were generated using a LIDAR ( essentially an array of lasers used to scan surfaces. Applications of LIDARs include terrain surface mapping and 3D objects detection. By pointing the lasers to different points of a surface you can measure precisely the distances between one reference location and the points were the lasers are pointing) and 3D real-time animation methods ( here applied to models of people and facial expressions).
in this Google page you can see the clip, a making-of video, read tech related information and even donwload a google gadget. If there are not millions of people accessing it at the moment ....
in this Google page you can see the clip, a making-of video, read tech related information and even donwload a google gadget. If there are not millions of people accessing it at the moment ....
