This is hilarious, pretty clever and enjoyable video.
iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.
I was randomly browsing the net when I stumbled upon Templa Simpina’s work. I have developed a great appreciation toward good photography and these fall into that category. Check out Templa Simpina’s work here.
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.
I recently joined SoundCloud and I have a feeling that it’s more popular than MySpace these days. It seems to be a good option for artists mostly because of its unique music player with allowing comments right on the track. No control over how your page looks though which is bad or a good thing.
Check out my new SoundCloud page, click here.
I would like to hear anyones opinion on SoundCloud!
I’ve been wanting to post on this site about my update to this site but it’s taking way longer than I thought. What should I post on then? was the question for quite a while. Sometimes I find it hard to post here because I want the things I talk about to be something I care about. With that thought it reminded me that I should talk about some of my influences which is exactly what I’m about to share with you.
Naked Music is pretty much where I found my love for Deep House music. Their style, attitude and vibe is what I love and I recommend checking out all their releases. It’s the perfect music to chill out to but danceable if you crank it. Nobody does it quite like them.
If you have been paying a attention to what has been going on for the iPad since its release it has been quite interesting how fast things are being develop for it. It seems on many websites there is a new video posted about someone showcasing new software for the iPad.
In my last iPad related post I mentioned an App called TouchOSC and just like I thought it’s doing exactly what I thought but unfortunately it appears there isn’t a native iPad version yet. But from what I’ve seen it seems to be working quiet well on the iPad.
Another App that has caught my eye is called MIDIPad. I’m not sure if it is as customizable as TouchOSC or Jazzmutant Lemur but it looks promising.
I know I am barley scratching the surface on the topic and there are probably a lot more amazing Apps I don’t know about that are aspiring to do what the Jazzmutant Lemur does. We have to look what has Jazzmutant done since the introduction of Apple iPad. To be honest not too much other than the introduction of the software called ‘Mu’. What ‘Mu’ does is be Ableton Live controller for the Lemur.
If you watch all the videos you can tell that Mu for the Lemur is the most polished piece of software. It’s just a matter of time software for the iPad gets as good or better than Mu. So I still feel Jazzmutant will be forced into becoming a software company or at least provide a cheaper hardware model for their software.
Look at what other options you have with iPad over the Lemur with all these digital synthesizers, drum machine software, rebirth, to even DAWs a lot of cool things are happening and with PC Tablets on the way too, the options will become even greater. I think it’s safe to say I much rather just own all of them so I don’t have to choose.
Korg’s first new analog synthesizer in over 20 years and it’s awesome. Korg Monotron. With ribbon control, not over sized for no reason and under $100. Should be coming to North America later this year and I can see myself getting one of these. Check out this youtube video of this dude from Japan making a decent song with only using the Monotron.
Update/Edit: Some cool modded Monotrons!
