xmas cover party in the maze. 5 bands doin some cover songs. christmas or not. recogniseable or not. but still very nice. good christmas decoration. very nice atmosphere. here some expressions:
cuban crime wave playing again in the maze on the 5 of january. i need to go there.
evil hawk. the singer/keyboarder is such a good musician. i saw him before in the maze at the concert of howlin' rain on the 26th november. just him, the keyboard and his lovely voice..
.. says the last line of simone whites beep beep song. the song is used for the commercial of the new audi r8.
a commercial made by richard mcgrann and andy clough who are working for bartle bogle hegarty (bbh) a british advertising agency since 1982. this agency worked for global brands including audi, vodafone, levi straus, british airways, johnnie walker & axe/lynx. another well-known ad from this agency:
.. was the name of a song from a guy i saw yesterday in the bodega social club. duncan oakley. he was the support from a guy called huw costin. both artists were just a man and a guitar with songs about love and other stuff that was very thought-provoking. i liked duncan pretty much. he has a very beautifuly voice and is able to sing the high notes in a very clear and soft way. i found out that he is actually doing comdey music. which is kind of shocking cause the music yesterday was defenitely not comdey and it's hard to imagine that this guy is doin this. the main act, huw costin, did actually the same: singing with his guitar thoughtfully contents. but the whole appearence didn't convinced me so much. on the website of the social club they say: "[...] something truly special that will just break your heart!!!". no. defenitely not.
anyway. huw says that amongst others he is inspired by jeff buckley. that brings me to my actual reason for this post: jeffy the jeff. the lovely jeff. on cd. in my room. 2 times. wohooo! i went into this nice cd shop on mansfield road. the bag says: good vibrations - second hand records. i bought everything i could find from jeff buckley. just two cds. but still. first: mystery white boy: live '95~'96 second: sketches for my sweetheart the drunk the first one is a double cd with 21 songs. the second one has 12. i know pretty much all songs from the second one. but. now i can hold it in my hand. touch it. browse through the booklets. with pictures. lyrics. handwriting stuff. awesome!
but this is not all. no no. what is thin, old, black, round, has lots of rills and smells like the old attic with grandmas stuff from the 60ies? yes! records.
- pete townshend with empty glass on the sleeve cover is a quote printed from meher baba saying "desire for nothing except desirelessness, hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes, want nothing and you will have everything". the lyrics of all songs are printed on the back. so it will be very easy for this guy whos christmas parents those records are to sing along. -the who - the story of the who - dire straits i don't know much about the dire straits. but i know this great song. and it's on this record.
there are so many things i want to do when i finished my coursework. first: research about swiss typography second: research about dutch graphic design third: split toning fourth: and fifth: split toning. soo amazing: i bookmarked several tutorial links for this in mister wong. i can't wait! i think this is what i'm goin to do the whole christmas time: split toning.
thermo is a new project from adobe. its a new programme that ought to help designern to create rich internet applications. for example, if you want to present a tentative draft of an internet application there are always buttons that doesnt work not yet, drop down menus that doesnt exit not yet. its pretty hard sometimes to get the right idea about how it will look like. thermo offers the possibility to animate the single photoshop files so that you really can feel how it will work. on the adobe edge site you can get a rough idea how thermo will look like.
last night i had the inspiration to make a banner where the user can click on a button that says 'let it snow!' and then some wonderful snowflakes fell from the top. this is a very beautiful idea. because snow is just beautiful! and everyone knows this christimas song. so it is kind of helping the people to prepare for christmas by giving them a song they can't get out of their minds... hähä i found the first tutorial that hopefully helps me with the snow flakes: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/snow.htm
ok, but what is the product? a quick brainstorming and now i cant get the snow dome out of my head. the user can shake the snow dome and let it snow. how about a society snow dome? rock soc? yes, this is defenietely THE THINGY thats missing in my room!
oh how beautiful is this animation. and i DONT want to know how long it took and how much workload is in it.
btw. this band is grandiose:
i love the combination of heavy rock music and classical instruments. as they use the violin. same with apocalyptica. 4 guys playing the cello. uhhhhh.... birmingham i'm comming! *jump*
its not doing what i want. of course! for my country banner i wanted some nice mouse-over and on-click effects. but flash is doing something different and i have no idea why it is doing what it is right now. i think i will leave it for today and eat some sweets to feel a bit better... i think i'm very close. i hope! here we go for the first shitty try with flash: i'm too dump to put the .swf file here. sorry.
addition: ok, i tested this link in the uni. it worked. it probably looks VERY bad, because i used strange fonts. i will change this.
what a beautiful and coltish website i found. as well the design as the programming. a few days a go i head the idea to use a specific tag. inspiration. the list is growing and growing. i would say this website is the most dreamfully one so far. lots of things to discover. and the music is very nice too.
