“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners I wish someone told me. All of us Who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.

It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

- Ira Glass

I wish I heard this when I first was starting out.

If you were here a couple of weeks ago you would have seen the grey themed design. There was a lot of things I liked about it but felt like why not use what I already have and take all the cool stuff I learned and incorporated into what you see now. Just a quick run down. Music player, Soulfrost Newsletter, Tour dates in sidebar, New shop/print area, New music area, added fancy css3 stuff, Disqus comment system and a lot various updated through out the site.

I know I am a bit late on this but hey happy new year. I wanted to at least post something while I wait on NYE media.

2011 started out with a bang. The gig at Opus went down good. People seem to enjoy it. When will there be some pictures/videos? Soon, I took a bunch of video with my phone and no one knows when the photos taken from that night will show up. Hopefully sooner than later.

2011 looks like it’ll shape up to be better than 2010!

I decided to give Minecraft a go.

edit: I’m aware the R sucks..

One of my more popular posts is when the iPad was first announce I compared Lemur to the iPad. In the end I felt like Lemur would have to change somehow or face death and as I’m sure you have heard already the Lemur is discontinued. I’m not surprised mainly because of their price.

This one came to a surprise to me though. I heard rumours on the internet about it’s soon to be discontinued. I did buy turntables a long time ago, I ended up going with some digital/analog hybrid Numark one instead of 1200s. Don’t ask me why because I have no idea. I’ve moved far away from dealing with turntables but I thought the Technics 1200s would always be around. Not like I care though. I’m sure if there is enough of a demand for them and they’ll do a lame limited collector edition runs.

After posting two posts on Lemur I thought it would be right to make a third ending it with the death of Lemur with a bonus of the death of 1200s!

So much for that nanoPAD. I had it sitting in the box for about a year now and thought I’ll try to use that XY pad on it but really I was just wasting time like I am right now doing this. USB plug in on the nanoPAD was loose so I decided to open it to attempted to fix which in the process everything inside basically falls apart. I guess there is a reason why it’s so cheap.

Edit If anyone one want the Korg nanoPAD Ableton Live code for $50 off if you purchase, just either leave a comment or contact me. First come, first serve situation.

Save the internet is something you should have heard about and you will keep hearing out about more and more. What does that mean? save the internet. It means to keep the internet neutrality. What these companies want to do is cable’ize the internet. Meaning who has money will be in front and blogs/websites like these will not even have a chance. So urge you to educate yourself and go to http://www.savetheinternet.com/.

Last Minutes with ODEN from phos pictures on Vimeo.

“Thank You Jason Wood for allowing us this moment.
Oden’s struggle with cancer finally came to an end.
May he rest in peace and his memory be eternal.

A story from the 8 LIVES Documentary.
For more of Jason Wood’s story from 3 years ago
see http://vimeo.com/14047489 “

Would you stand in line for this? I wouldn’t. Where does an artist go from here? I know I should be keen to keep on making better art but maybe all of this networking business that I feel like I have to do is ultimately stopping my creativity. I remember a time where I could sit down and not worry to much and just let the process happen. I feel like I’m close to getting back there but I’m not quite there. You put in so much with little return. Other than putting up sites and networking them with this site and with each other how do you let people know you exist? Do I want everyone to know I exist? It’s a really odd situation I find myself thinking back and forth. Oh this track/print is good I should not share it just in case for something and that something I have no idea.

I have been watching Moby interviews and music videos tonight and he brings up a point of being free of the idea of your art for something. It reminded me of something I saw on TV I think it was Bono from U2 saying along the lines ‘if you don’t want to have your art in other peoples hands why are you even an artist? isn’t that the whole point is to have your tunes be heard?’. And I completely agree with that, thats why let people listen to full tracks and download them.

I feel this way I think because I’m reaching a point of my little check list of things I know I should get done is getting near the end and I’m uncertain where things go from there. From what I have been listening to from Moby he doesn’t know and he still doesn’t everything has happen by surprise.