I’ve been pretty inactive on the blog lately, so I’m trying to get back into the groove. I’ve been testing out some new technology on the web recently so I thought that would be a good place to start. I recently purchased an iPhone 3G and have been exploring some of the apps from the Apple App Store. One of the coolest apps that I’ve discovered is a streaming music service called Pandora. (more…)
I saw this really cool video today in Mac|Life’s weekly newsletter that featured a fan-made music video of the song “Again and Again” by the band, The Bird and The Bee. The video is a montage of various applications and features of Mac OS X that are edited together using Screencasts, which are basically a series of video screen shots. Pretty cool stuff… it’s creator, Dennis Liu says it took one month to plan and three months to create. Check out the video below… Enjoy!
Trent Reznor & Nine Inch Nails continue viral internet marketing barrage by releasing the new album titled “The Slip” 100% free online download at http://theslip.nin.com.
Reznor states, “as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.”
the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE.
I encourage you to check out this latest release and support a band that’s changing the way you buy music and actually acknowledges their fans.
So late Tuesday night I received an e-mail from the Sick Puppies inviting me to a free acoustic show in Dayton. I wasn’t really interested in driving to Dayton at 10:00 in the morning, but when I woke up on Wednesday I decided that this would be a great photo opportunity, and I was really wanting to get some photos of the Puppies. So, I hauled my butt up to McGuffy’s outside of Dayton and it was AWESOME! The acoustic set sounded really great and as an added bonus there were only around 150 people in attendance, so it was really intimate and I was able to get really close… which helps when you’re shooting with a fixed focal length lens. Unfortunately, the lighting sucked as the bar had a four light setup with a red and blue light in the front and rear. So after downloading my photos into Aperture, I thought I had a real mess on my hands… but thanks to the flexibility and power of Aperture I was able to salvage some beautiful black & whites. Click on the thumbnails above to view some of my favorites or jump over to Flickr and view the entire higher-rez set. Let me know what you think!
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So Trent Reznor has done it again… causing another ripple in the music industry by re-shaping the way that artists sell and distribute their music. Yesterday, Reznor “quietly” released a new Nine Inch Nails studio album called “Ghosts I-IV” from their website NIN.com only to have their server crash from huge demand. The collection of 36 tracks is available in a variety of formats including a $5 digital download, a $10 2-disc CD, as well as a $75 Deluxe Edition Package that includes 2 audio CD, 1 data DVD with all tracks in multi-track format and a Blu-ray disc in high-def 96/24 stereo.
In an unprecedented move, NIN has also released Ghosts I, the first 9 tracks from the Ghosts I-IV collection, free for download on their website as well as through various torrent sites. Reznor states, “Now that we’re no longer constrained by a record label, we’ve decided to personally upload Ghosts I, the first of the four volumes, to various torrent sites, because we believe BitTorrent is a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them.” A visionary move that the record industry should pay attention to. To download or order a copy of Ghosts I-IV visit NIN.com or if their servers are down again you can download it at Amazon.
