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Can't wait to be finished Uni
Read more . . . →Omfg, procrastination time. Let me tell you I've been so busy writing papers for school and work lately I've had no curative or creative juices left to blog. proof: But persevere I shall. I'm a few hundred words away from being done and free to start clearing the log jam of creative projects I want to get to. For example powering this DSI Mopho up again and making music!
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The Reality of Copyright Complaints
Copyright law in parody form. Corporations have been at this forever and they're winning. Worth a watch.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Lioness - Don't Tell Me
Lioness dropped a free EP and it's a great way to generate buzz for basically nothing. Big respect — go watch the video.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Studio Compression at ATAM Productions: Liquid Mix vs Duende Native Review
(I'm not including the native Ableton and Logic compressors, but they get a bit of use too) The Liquid Mix is a convolution compressor and equalizer that I purchased for my studio about 6 months ago. ... All of the emulation names have been modified for example "BRIT DESK 2/BRIT CLASSIC DESK 2" is modelled on the compressor section of an SSL SL 4000 G+ console and "ZEBRA 2 / US ZEBRA DISCRETE DESK COPY EQ" is based on the Chandler Limited Passive TG Channel MkII Abbey Road Special Edition EMI Equalizer.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Music Mondays: Robots Cover Manson
Robots covering Marilyn Manson. Not what you expected for Music Mondays. That's the point.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Lady Gaga March 3, 2011 (Bad Romance, Born This Way}
Lady Gaga live, part 7 — Bad Romance and Born This Way. More Monster Ball Toronto footage. The series continues.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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How to manage a cluttered email inbox
Read more . . . →Let's be frank here for a minute. The only reason that I use a hardware email client is for the instant search capabilities that I have. I was an early adopter of gmail and one of my favourite features was the instant search speed of the google servers. When you wanted to find a key word it would look at a huge number of emails instantly and the search provided relevant results too! When I started using multiple emails on different domains I quickly needed to find an email client to aggregate multiple accounts and gmail didn't seem to fit...
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Comments now powered by Disqus
Read more . . . →I have been looking for a few more ways to improve this site and lately I have added Disqus to handle all the comment and trackbacks for ColdplaySucks, just some mostly under the hood improvements!
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How to remove red eye and glare from the LED flash in the iPhone 4
Read more . . . →Well a long time ago I was going to write a tutorial about how to get that weird glare out of eyes in Photoshop, basically the idea is to make two masks around the glare and lower the brightness or saturation until it looks normal. Now, in iOS 5, we get one touch red eye correction, huzzah, finally iPhoto meets the iPhone. [caption id="attachment_1270" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Quick shot of me in the studio with half red eyes, mid correction"][/caption]
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Drumcell Interivew
Drumcell interview: deep techno, warehouse parties, and a guitarist who got into electronic music by reading about a self-producing musician. Great studio segment.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.