We live in an amazing time web development wise and the following link is pretty freaken cool. An interactive music video, that lets you specify the address of the place in the video and draws on a mixture of Google products to deliver it. The link below is to the house I grew up in.
Check it out!
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/#192+Bower+Ave,+New+Brighton,+Christchurch+8083,+New+Zealand
The lovely Caravan of Love by the Housemartins. Great 80's band. Spot the young Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim
I do love good 3D Pavement art and this is a great video about a lovely one being made.
I have been getting quite inspired lately but some brilliant people and concepts I am coming across online. The PostSecret project is one and then.....
This morning I woke and flicked on Twitter and found a message from someone called Janice who I did not know. She was pointing me to a project she is doing. I am a The Smiths fan and so is she. Well, all I can say is it is one of the best Twitter links I have EVER followed. Quite simply Janice is working through the entire catalogue of songs by The Smiths, recording them all just with voice. She uses her voice in a variety of ways to cover all aspects of the the instrumentation of the songs. Most impressively, she is not trying to build direct covers, she is actually effectively remixing the songs as well. What she is building is a marvelous collection of lushly layered and multitracked covers of these beautiful songs. What she is, quite obviously, is bloody brilliant and clever! I am listening to some of the tracks as I write this, each one new to my ears. The problem I am having is everyone becomes my favourite after listening to it, they are all seriously good arrangements. Well done Janice and thank you for the link to your lovely work.
Here is one of her tracks, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.....
Check the rest of her work out at http://thesmithsproject.blogspot.com
Escape by Rupert Holmes..... it doesn't get better than this....
I love this song. My brother had the 45rpm single, which I now have in my collection.
So I have to share that I just made the best roast potatoes ever, after years of crap ones.. So here is the technique:
1) Quarter medium size potatoes
2) Par boil (5 mins)
3) Drain and return to the pot, shake vigorously for 10 seconds
4) Place in an oiled oven tray which has been left to heat up in a 200 C oven for 5 mins
5) Turn Potatoes in the oil and place in the oven
6) Cook for 1 hour, turning every 20 mins
Voila, crispy on the outside, fluffy and light on the inside......
Check out http://www.pogoplug.com/home-en.html?
I saw these nifty devices on http://www.geekbeat.tv
Access your external hard drive from anywhere in the world! I am going to get me one of these.Thanks to my friend Hannah for the pointer to this fantastic song :-)
I just discovered this amazing piece of art..... What a great project :-) This is the kind of thing that makes my heart feel alive.....
It makes perfect sense, but I never really thought about reusable menstrual pads apart from hippies using Sphagnum Moss on the West Coast of the South Island. We do it for babies, why not adults? They look kind of cute too. That said, I can imagine they would not be to everyone's taste.
