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Star Wars Subway Car (via ImprovEverywhere)

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:06:28 -0700

Star Wars Subway Car (via ImprovEverywhere)

Join Skywalker Sound’s Re-Recording Mixer and Sound Designer...

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:13:00 -0700

Join Skywalker Sound’s Re-Recording Mixer and Sound Designer Tom Myers, Sound Re-Recording Mixer Michael Semanick, Director Lee Unkrich, and Stuart Bowling, Technical Marketing Manager at Dolby Laboratories as they take you behind-the-scenes and discuss the sound of Toy Story 3.

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Pop Song (Jon Lajoie) (via jonlajoie)

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:20:36 -0700

Pop Song (Jon Lajoie) (via jonlajoie)

RIVAL SONS “Torture” (via RivalSons)

Sun, 16 May 2010 07:41:54 -0700

RIVAL SONS “Torture” (via RivalSons)

RIVAL SONS “Soul” (via RivalSons)

Sat, 15 May 2010 18:32:19 -0700

RIVAL SONS “Soul” (via RivalSons)

Darth Vader’s recording for TomTom GPS - behind the scenes...

Mon, 10 May 2010 17:46:57 -0700

Darth Vader’s recording for TomTom GPS - behind the scenes (via TomTomOfficial)

My blog just turned 3!

Sun, 09 May 2010 15:28:21 -0700

My blog just turned 3!

“Get What’s Coming” - LIVE at the Santa Monica...

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:03:41 -0700

“Get What’s Coming” - LIVE at the Santa Monica Hangar (via RivalSons)

merlin: Tumor removal or bigger hat? Video: Time &...

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:37:49 -0700

merlin:

Tumor removal or bigger hat?

Video: Time & Attention Talk (Improvised Rutgers Edition) | 43 Folders

This is a talk I did at Rutgers earlier this month. I kinda like it, but for a weird reason. Something something, perfect storm of technology Ragnarok, and yadda yadda, I had to start the talk 20 minutes late with no slides. Nothing.
So, I riffed.

Many thanks to my hero, Jesse Schibilia, for helping me with this video. I owe you a Coke, J.

Seth's Blog: "Powerpoint makes us stupid"--these bullets can kill

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:15:00 -0700

Seth's Blog: "Powerpoint makes us stupid"--these bullets can kill:

The US Army reports that misuse of Powerpoint (in other words, using Powerpoint the way most people use it, the way it was designed to be used) is a huge issue.

I first wrote a popular short free ebook about this seven years ago and the problem hasn’t gone away. So much for the power of the idea.

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merlin: A new brown thing you’ll totally eat Hi. We’re...

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:37:05 -0700

merlin:

A new brown thing you’ll totally eat

Hi. We’re KFC.

And, it’s become abundantly clear that you sad bastards will eat literally anything that we can find, photograph, and shit into a little plastic coffin.

Believe me, we know. Because, for years now, we’ve been testing you. Aggressively. Time and again. Through a mind-boggling series of product releases that call to mind Europe’s inexorable slide into the Second World War—with each new development bringing something more unfathomable, disturbing, and unspeakably inhumane.

But, just to be dead honest, it stopped being fun for us a long time ago; you guys have been like the Neville Chamberlains of dignified food. At a certain point, we realized you didn’t even need to be sold on this inedible dreck.

Seriously. It became surreal—like you couldn’t stop hitting yourself with your own hand. Only that hand happened to be clutching a glistening piece of fried bird like it was a pontoon on the last chopper out of Saigon.

The game really changed on the day we realized you wouldn’t blink twice at the idea of a junior high dropout serving you breaded chicken, jug gravy, frozen corn, and a rudimentary ecru paste of modified potato starches and salted oil—all in the same fucking death-black wading pool. You’d eat that. On purpose. With a large Mountain Dew and a fucking “parfait.”

Yeah, that was when we had to admit that our once-rewarding experiment on the limits of human despair was no longer even a sporting challenge.

It became more like—what?— shooting diabetic fish in a barrel. Or, I guess, more appropriately, a “bucket.”

(Yes, we’re the same company that first made American adults like your grandparents feel entirely comfortable feeding their family out of a greasily translucent cardboard bucket. High five.)

So, you know what? Fuck it. Let’s go for broke. Go out on a high note, y’know?

Here’s…this. This…thing. Which is…food. Of a kind.

Shit, we’re not even sure what to call it. Internally, we’ve been banging around “the new brown thing.” Although, that’s actually what we call any new atrocity we’ve dreamed up that we’re pretty positive you’ll buy five at a time and eat alone in your Pinto while listening to talk radio and crying.

But, for what it’s worth, this unit’s actually been an interesting ride from a process standpoint. We told our R&D boys they could come up with basically anything they wanted—as long as it could be thrown together from existing ingredients, cost less than 40 cents to make, and looked enough like dog shit that impressionable lardbutts like you would get a raging food boner the first time its commercial ran on whatever basic cable reality show keeps you from killing yourself for another week.

And, yes, if it’s not already clear, we think this new brown thing feels like another big-titted hit for Team Colonel.

So, you know. Go nuts. Buy one. Hell, buy forty.

Ask for “the scabby-looking new brown thing that shiny, out-of-breath people in sweatpants and UGG boots who look pretty much like me keep ordering.” Actually, it’d be awesome if you’d say it exactly like that. Because the counter kids would sure get a kick out of it.

(As your almost-daily visits may have shown you, these youngsters are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. And, frankly, given their lack of benefits and likely-permanent Original Recipe odor, they could really use a good laugh)

Thing is, you’re already pretty into this new brown thing, aren’t you? Sure, you are.

It’s that cadaver-colored cheese product and that bacon-flavored “hickory striplette” and that engagingly pus-like corn starch sauce, right? Totally.

And, you see that outside part? Yeah. That definitely looks like fried chicken or something.

And, if memory serves, fried chicken or something are two of your favorite foods. Just after “anything not made of metal or glass that I can squeeze, fold, roll, fellate, or otherwise manipulate into a shape that can be accommodated by my gaping maw.”

But, if you’re not into it? Eh. You will be. Eventually. Some night when you’re all drunk on peach schnapps and working up an appetite from jerking it to late 80s Penney’s catalogs. You’ll crave you some brown. And that’s fine with us.

And if you don’t? Well, really, who cares? We’ll be fine. We know our customers; those fucking bowls didn’t get famous by themselves.

So, thanks. And, seriously: enjoy the new brown thing. But, thanks, also for whatever brought you to this point in life.

Because, the truth is, we simply couldn’t do our jobs as well as we do without knowing folks like you will devour literally anything we make.

5 Minutes of Star Wars Uncut

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:12:12 -0700

5 Minutes of Star Wars Uncut

Avid Announces Agreement to Acquire Euphonix || CNNMoney.com

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:35:00 -0700

Avid Announces Agreement to Acquire Euphonix || CNNMoney.com:

NAB (Booth # SU902) Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mountain View, CA-based Euphonix, a leader in large-format digital audio consoles, media controllers and peripherals. With the acquisition, Avid will deliver a broad range of audio and video control surfaces and consoles designed to meet the needs of customers ranging from the independent professional to the high-end broadcaster. Avid plans to continue to support and sell both Euphonix control surfaces and Avid’s existing ICON solution, enabling customers to leverage existing investments in industry-leading hardware.

“This acquisition greatly expands our portfolio to offer customers a complementary set of workflow solutions — from independent producers creating music in their home studios to broadcasters preparing segments for national broadcast,” said Gary Greenfield, chairman and CEO, Avid. “We remain committed to driving interoperability and modularity across a vast ecosystem of Avid and third-party creative hardware and software solutions. And, as audio and video workflows continue to converge, we are now well positioned to deliver control surfaces that work across both audio and video applications, making the content creation process more cost-effective and efficient for our customers.”

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tuneage: Phantogram - “When I’m Small” Perhaps 2010 is...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:32:02 -0800

tuneage:

Phantogram - “When I’m Small”

Perhaps 2010 is front-loading a lot of its good music, or maybe I’m just taking my sweet time this year. But whatever the reason, I seem to have a stack of music to listen to that’s a mile high and I’m barely making dents in it. A band that I’ve been hearing a lot about in the last month or two and have only in the last week started to listen to is Phantogram. At times I get a trip-hoppy vibe similar to The xx, though not quite as minimal. Other times I hear tinges of soul and hip-hop and even Beach House in their moody indie-electronic music. It’s a winning combination for me, and my repeat listenings to their debut record Eyelid Movies will no doubt be a factor in me being perpetually a week or two behind the music curve for the first part of this year.

Google’s experimental fiber network

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:01:13 -0800

Google’s experimental fiber network

“Che” and the Digital Cinema Revolution on...

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:53:04 -0800

“Che” and the Digital Cinema Revolution on Vimeo

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The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There) | via techdirt.com

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:07:09 -0800

The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There) | via techdirt.com:

by Mike Masnick:

from the a-thorough-look dept

I’m at the Midem conference this week, and in preparing for it, Steven Masur asked me to write up a chapter for a book he was putting together of thoughts from various thinkers for a gathering of the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers (IAEL) here at Midem. Below is what I submitted. If you’re a regular reader of the blog, there’s little that will surprise you, but even so, it may be a good read, as it’s got a whole bunch of different things I’ve discussed about — things like “CwF+RtB” all summarized in one single place. Later, I’ll do another post on what I discussed this year at Midem, since it builds on what’s written below, and digs in much deeper on how to create compelling reasons to buy.

It’s no secret that there’s a lot of concern these days about what the music industry will look like going forward — especially from those who work on the label side of the business and have been around for a bit. A variety of things have caused rapid change in the market. Competition from other forms of entertainment, such as the internet, movies and video games, have put more pressure on the industry, as consumers have been presented with significantly more options for their entertainment attention and dollars. And, of course, there’s the ever-present specter of unauthorized file sharing — or, as the industry prefers to call it (accurately or not), “piracy.”

While the industry spent many years fighting the rise of the internet as a distribution and promotion method for music, it was eventually forced to recognize it. The labels eventually licensed music to Apple and iTunes (as well as some other stores). It took them way too long to recognize that people wanted DRM-free music, but they’ve finally come around to recognize that as well.

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2010 Oscar Nominees for Sound Editing & Sound Mixing

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:22:56 -0800

Sound Editing

“Avatar” — Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
“The Hurt Locker” — Paul N.J. Ottosson
“Inglourious Basterds” — Wylie Stateman
“Star Trek” — Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
“Up” — Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Sound Mixing

“Avatar” — Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
“The Hurt Locker” — Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
“Inglourious Basterds” — Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
“Star Trek” — Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” — Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Congrats to all…