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I’m occasionally asked why I don’t put more photos from gigs on-line. I mean, out of the last two gigs I’ve been to, two photos made it on to electricana, and one of them was distinctly borderline.
The best answer I can give is: when my gig photos are of a standard with andrewkendall‘s, I’ll put them on-line.
Which is by way of saying: check out his work, if you haven’t already.
Don’t panic, I’m not going to be doing this to all my photos from now on, but this is another one from the archives that I just couldn’t get the tone I wanted for it. It’s probably the single photo I played with longest, trying to get a lomo-like look to it and never quite getting it right, and it suddenly sprang to mind on the bus home tonight.
There may be a few more of these yet to come – I’m racking my brains trying to thing of the shots that I took in 2005, and gave up on because they looked too real. I’m sure I won’t be able to simply Lomo them all, but you never know, I might be able to retrieve one or two more.
If I start to bore anyone with lomo stuff, do say.
If I were to be in Edinburgh from the 19th of December until the morning of the 24th, who would be around? Could I get crashspace off someone? Would there be enough going on, or will everyone be off doing family stuff?
I’m occasionally asked why I don’t put more photos from gigs on-line. I mean, out of the last two gigs I’ve been to, two photos made it on to ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
electricana, and one of them was distinctly borderline.
The best answer I can give is: when my gig photos are of a standard with andrewkendall‘s, I’ll put them on-line.
Which is by way of saying: check out his work, if you haven’t already.
If I were to be in Edinburgh from the 19th of December until the morning of the 24th, who would be around? Could I get crashspace off someone? Would there be enough going on, or will everyone be off doing family stuff?
I need something that will let me edit MP3s. I need to be able to trim them, stick them together, add noise and crackle, and generally make them sound strange and distorted.
In a perfect world, free, also, but I don’t mind paying up to a tenner.
Suggestions?
I need something that will let me edit MP3s. I need to be able to trim them, stick them together, add noise and crackle, and generally make them sound strange and distorted.
In a perfect world, free, also, but I don’t mind paying up to a tenner.
Suggestions?
Like every other Londoner with a pulse, I did indeed go an see the Sultan’s Elephant, back in May. And I took a shitload of photos. And some of them were adequate compositions, but mostly, they just looked like shots of a couple of bloody great mechanical contrivances. Impressive, sure, but I didn’t feel the photos had any magic in them. The show was all about magic and wonder, I just didn’t feel the pictures caught it.
And then last night, I got the provebial thunderbolt regarding a way of maybe making the shots a little less real, adding that dreamlike hint I thought was missing.
Yeah, it’s “just” a lomo style filter. But with this shot, I think it makes all the difference in the world.
Yeah, I know what the rest of you are thinking. “God, he’s off being all starry-eyed about something really basic like having Broadband again, isn’t he?”
Yes, I am. Up Yours.
I have a long fucking last, got a photo from the Sultan’s Elephant that I like. I got the tools to get it right off the internet – some clever bastard’s script achieving exactly the effect I’m not good enough to get with PotatoShop myself. While I was getting them installed, and fiddling with various settings to fine tune the effect, I was also downloading an album called “Beast Moans” by an outfit called Swan Lake off Emusic. warren_ellis bunged an mp3 up, this massive tsunami of reverb and echo, guitars and strange chimes, just made for my mood right now, sitting here.
I love the fact that I can get a whole album of perfect mood music, on a whim, completely legally, in less time than it takes to make a slice of toast, without leaving the house. I can do it while I finally crack a bit of work that’s been bugging me since May. I love the fact that it cost about a quid to do it. Suddenly, music is a disposable consumer experience – a thing to be had for the price of a coffee.
A thought to come back to tomorrow, I think – I know I’ve got a lot more to write on that topic, beyond my “oo, isn’t that neat” reaction, but bed is calling.
Yeah, I know what the rest of you are thinking. “God, he’s off being all starry-eyed about something really basic like having Broadband again, isn’t he?”
Yes, I am. Up Yours.
I have a long fucking last, got a photo from the Sultan’s Elephant that I like. I got the tools to get it right off the internet – some clever bastard’s script achieving exactly the effect I’m not good enough to get with PotatoShop myself. While I was getting them installed, and fiddling with various settings to fine tune the effect, I was also downloading an album called “Beast Moans” by an outfit called Swan Lake off Emusic. warren_ellis bunged an mp3 up, this massive tsunami of reverb and echo, guitars and strange chimes, just made for my mood right now, sitting here.
I love the fact that I can get a whole album of perfect mood music, on a whim, completely legally, in less time than it takes to make a slice of toast, without leaving the house. I can do it while I finally crack a bit of work that’s been bugging me since May. I love the fact that it cost about a quid to do it. Suddenly, music is a disposable consumer experience – a thing to be had for the price of a coffee.
A thought to come back to tomorrow, I think – I know I’ve got a lot more to write on that topic, beyond my “oo, isn’t that neat” reaction, but bed is calling.
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