Archive for March, 2007

get fit

Published by boz at March 28, 2007 in webage. 0 Comments

So I was thinking about getting fit and how I might go about it when this turned up on metafilter. I’m sending my $20 today.

If you like it, there’s more here and here.

a small rant with news

Published by boz at March 13, 2007 in dance, gear, opinion, production, projects, software and theatre. 0 Comments

Saw this article in today’s AGE about Chunky Move’s “Glow”. I’m heading up to Sydney next week to put the show into the Sydney Opera House and operate it for a weeks worth of shows. I really dig this show. I think it’s one of the only successful ‘multi-media’ (…worst term ever - it makes me want to scream, or at least say a bunch of nasty & amusing stuff..) performances I’ve worked on.
I was chatting to some friends the other day about how it has taken about the last 10 years for ‘new-media’ work to start being interesting - rather than just stuff + screen, of which most is crap and dull. I think that it’s taken this long for artists to a) get a handle on the tech and b) start to be able to conceptualise from the ground up a place for the computer in performance. Thankfully the ideas seem to have moved on from the more process focussed stuff like, “Check me out - how awesome is that I can move and the stuff on screen does as well!?” or “I’m moving pixels in Melbourne and on the screen someone is moving the same pixels from Canada. It’s like talking on phone but slower and crapper. It’s the future.”

Apart from multi-media rants, I’ve been flat out mixing 2 records, one for a band called ‘Dust’ whose music I can best describe as ‘folk rock streaked with country, psychedelic and prog rock flavors’. The other disc I’m in the midst of is for ‘The Red Tree’ whose music is somewhere in the Sigur Ros territory of vast and expansive beauty. Then there has been the first two weeks of a new semester at RMIT, and more besides…

Sleep is for losers.

loudness in mastering

Published by boz at March 11, 2007 in mastering and uncategorized. 0 Comments

Maybe some of you know about how modern mastering takes most of the dynamics out of music for the sake of loudness. For those of you that don’t know what all this is about, check this out.

Britney Spears: REAL ULTIMATE POWER

Published by boz at March 6, 2007 in webage. 0 Comments

Britney Spears: REAL ULTIMATE POWER: “Xeni Jardin:


Britney Spears can kill anyone she wants! Britney Spears cuts off heads ALL the time and doesn’t even think twice about it. This chick is so crazy and awesome that she flips out ALL the time. I heard that once Britney Spears was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon Britney Spears killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw Britney Spears totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.

And that’s what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don’t believe that Britney Spears has REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or she will chop your head off!!! It’s an easy choice, if you ask me.

LINK!!!!!. Oh also: Ninjas are pretty sweet, too. (Thanks, Sean Bonner)

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(Via Boing Boing.)