About
Hi, I'm Andrew, from Melbourne, AustraliaI love looking at the person not speaking when there are two people presenting on TV.
This is my hub for largely anything I find interesting. This is generally music, photography, marketing and other various bits and bobs.
Me Online
FlickrOther blogs I love to read
Marketing/Online
Photography
Digital Photography School
Photoshop Insider - Scott Kelby
Photojojo
Music
Gorilla VS Bear
Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good
Chrome Waves
Music Feeds - Australia
Coke Machine Glow
Strictly Social
Other
The Age Travel Blog
Lifehacker Australia
Gizmodo
Spacesick
Justin David Cox
Following
Moondog - Lament 1, ‘Birds Lament’ (From DJ Yoda’s - How To Cut & Paste - 30’s Edition)
Actually from ‘69, not the 30’s, but still sounds great with some scratching and samples and stuff.
This was also used as the main sample in Mr. Scruff’s - Get A Move On.
Volcano Choir - Island, IS
Great clip, simple (very), but effective.
It’s mesmerizing, I just want to stare at it.
I read this yesterday.
I really like it, and now I want to try and make perfume myself, but with a much smaller degree of grandiose.
I arrived a little early for my business trip in Sydney. I’ve never been at the beach in a suit before. So corporate right now… Hope I’m nor harshing anyones buzz.
![megbeme:thedailywhat:
Food Art of the Day: Artist Prudence Staite recreated a number iconic scenes from Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs using 14 different varieties of apples.
See a sample of her work here.
[h/t.]](http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktl6so7tJb1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Food Art of the Day: Artist Prudence Staite recreated a number iconic scenes from Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs using 14 different varieties of apples.
See a sample of her work here.
[h/t.]
Devo - Head Like A Hole (Nine Inch Nails Cover)
unicornology:seymourglass:merricat:(via jifs)
alexjcampbell:somethingchanged:
Four years ago, Lady Gaga performed these jazz piano pieces under her real name via nickdouglas
On a side note… How do you make Lady Gaga cry?
Poke-poke-poke her face.
Thank you thank you… I’m here all week.
Video explains the world’s most important 6-sec drum loop
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
meganmcisaac:smut-to-go:aar0n:
This is a great interview. Here are a few of my favourite bits :
Q: What’s heaven for you?
A: Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.
Q: What’s wrong with the world?
A: We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.
Q: Can you tell me an odd thing that happened in an odd place? Any thoughts?
A: A Japanese freighter had been torpedoed during WWII and it’s at the bottom of Tokyo Harbor with a large hole in her hull. A team of engineers was called together to solve the problem of raising the wounded vessel to the surface. One of the engineers tackling this puzzle said he remembered seeing a Donald Duck cartoon when he was a boy where there was a boat at the bottom of the ocean with a hole in its hull, and they injected it with ping-pong balls and it floated up. The skeptical group laughed but one of the experts was willing to give it a try. Of course, where in the world would you find twenty million ping-pong balls but in Tokyo? It turned out to be the perfect solution. The balls were injected into the hull and it floated to the surface, the engineer was elated. Moral solutions to problems are always found at an entirely different level; also, believe in yourself in the face of impossible odds.
Q: Do you have words to live by?
A: Jim Jarmusch once told me “Fast, Cheap, and Good… pick two. If it’s fast and cheap it wont be good. If it’s cheap and good it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good it wont be cheap.” Fast, cheap and good… pick (2) words to live by.
Q: Tom, you love words and their origins. For $2,000…what is the origin of the word bedlam?
A: It’s a contraction of the word Bethlehem. It comes from the hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem outside London. The hospital began admitting mental patients in the late fourteenth century. In the sixteenth century it became a lunatic asylum. The word bedlam came to be used for any madhouse- and by extension, for any scene of noisy confusion.
Q: What is a gentleman?A: A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
