Tag: Music
My 3 Favorite Sites to Play Music on Twitter
Music is one big source of inspiration for me, helps me relax. Puts me in the mood for work. Cheers me up when I feel blue. But since most of my time is spent online and on Twitter. Allow me to share my 3 favorite sites I like to use when I play music. My first is Blip.fm - A blip is a combinat ...
Typography | The Essence of Inspiration
I usually work until the sun starts rising at the horizon. I can't think of anything better than to just sit and bit by bit add stuff to a progressive design. Have the window open while the silence slowly turns into the busy life of daytime. Smelling that fresh air gently touching my senses and insp ...
Funny Animation | Music Hits
Music videos have come along way now, music seems to be associated with video even on Blip.fm, most of the music played there is accompanied by video. When I was researching, I found some very funny and cool short music videos but this time they were done thru the magic of animation. What is al ...
The Best $99 Headphones Money Can Buy
Recently I set out to buy some reasonably priced high quality headphones to listen to as I write my articles. I ran out to the local music store and was amazed at how
poorly made virtually all of the headphones seemed to be. I looked in the price range of $50-$150 US.
I went to a local electro ...
Get Ready to Rock! Guitar Hero 5 is Released.
A few days ago, on September 1st, the much anticipated Guitar Hero 5 was released. I'm so excited about this; after all, what could be better than linking your avatar to see yourself on stage jamming out to rock music? It sounds like the perfect Saturday afternoon entertainment to me.
Guitar He ...
Lego Bricks with Over 2M Views? WOW!
Lego is one of my favorite topics as kids and the young at heart can truly relate to the many hours of fun one can have with the colorful bricks and the amazing stuff you can build with them.
Came across this video with over 2M views and over 41K rating. The title is 8Bit Trip. 1500 hours of mov ...
Flash Mob on the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock
Anyone remember woodstock? I was still a kid then when that occured but it has been one of the most remembered concert. Woodstock Music & Art Fair (informally, Woodstock or The Woodstock Festival) was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", held at Ma ...
The iPhone Orchestra Plays Led Zeppelin
This is going to blow your mind!
According to the Stanford University website, MoPHo (short for Mobile Phone Orchestra) is a new repertoire-based ensemble using mobile phones (iPhones) as the primary musical instrument. This particular orchestra, made up of 10 members, performed at this year's M ...
Musical Paper
Imagine being able create music by just punching some holes on a specially designed paper kit and viola!
Found this Mechanical Music Box Kit. You got to admit that we've always had a soft spot for these little music boxes, especially the ones that play "Imagine". But this one is truly special. It ...
Free Music Album: Undertheigloo
I found Undertheilgloo a few years ago now, I bought their first album, well actually I had their first album given to me by my sister for my birthday... I loved that album, especially the song "Donnie" so I was excited to learn they were recording a new album.
The new album is here! Not only t ...
Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?
Felicia Day, known best for her webseries, The Guild, is an insanely creative risk-taker. Her webseries, now sponsored by Microsoft and Xbox Live, just entered its third season. In case you are unfamiliar with it, it is a comedy that makes fun of the massively multiplayer online role playing game ...
The Fast and the Furious – Home-Brewed Carputers
I’m one of those dorky people that gets nauseous in the car when I look down. I cannot read a magazine or access the internet from a handheld device without feeling sick. However, I don’t like feeling left behind by not being able to tweet or send email while on the road. After a ...
Let’s Mix it! | Share your Music
Check out the new Pacemaker! Stuff magazine calls it the Ultimate Portable DJ. Its sleek, its compact and its powerful. Pacemaker’s two independent audio channels let you play two tracks side by side. Beatmatching is easily done by the click of a button, and with a full set of profession ...
Thinking outside the box
What kind of person would even think to record the sounds you can make using nature as your instruments? Diego Stocco blew me away when I stumbled upon this fab recording of him making music using a tree in his garden. Not only are the sounds astounding and wonderful to listen to, but the recording ...
Elements of Life | DJ on Tour
Design as I have always pointed out does not necessarily mean you have to use photoshop or sketch pad and pencil but can also be applied using lights and sounds and video as well as the stage set up. Good example is the shows produced by the #1 DJ to date DJ Tiesto. specially with his latest tour E ...