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546This fake scratching sounds almost better than scratching
By Todd Vanderlin:
AR scratching from vanderlin on Vimeo.
Make sure you watch the 2nd half of the video, it gets pretty bugged out.
This text is taken from the Vimeo description:
“I was playing around with some AR markers the other day and came up with this idea. taking just a plain old vinyl record and attaching an AR marker to the label you can track the record in 3D space. The next question was, can you scratch the record? So by figuring out the velocity of the records rotation and applying it to the payback of the audio you can scratch. There is some digital noise that needs to bee worked out, but sounds pretty good. Its still really hard to scratch, it takes some practice but is super fun.”
Then this guy Theodore Watson created this iPhone app as a response:
Spinning vinyl ipod app from Theodore Watson on Vimeo.
Shout out to Martelo for the inside scoop!
The search for the 10,000LB Hamburger begins
Make sure you cop your advance tickets for the 10,000LB Hamburger Tour which starts this weekend! Ticket links are here.
Amazing gizmo! The Void LP player
By Korean designer Rhea Jeong.
This is not an illusion. This thing is said to actually levitate vinyl and play it in the air through that red ball. Check the description:
“The record player uses a carrier and dock outfitted with a magnetic and auto-calibrating control system which carries the LP into thin air as it is playing music. A self-running record player shaped in the form of a red sphere, contains a needle, amplifier and speaker, spins around the record, bringing the music to life.”
Wawaweewa! From designboom blog. More pics after the jump.
Fashionable swine flu masks
The other day as I was waiting in line at immigration in Hong Kong observing all the swine flu masks, I wrote a quick twitter saying I wanted a an actual swine mask with just a snout to cover my nose and mouth. I quickly found out there is already such a thing, and not only that but a whole slew of designs for masks.
This girl Irina Blok is selling all these designs and giving the proceeds to Children International to help Mexico fight the swine flu epidemic:
And then there’s all this stuff:
However this blog had an interesting article quoting a specialist who explained that these masks couldn’t work because a reusable mask defeats the whole purpose of protecting yourself from germs!
Other sources: oddee.com, William Earnhardt.
Amazing gizmo: the Flowbee
Big shout out to the homie Tittsworth for putting me on to this revolutionary invention. He was actually hoping to find a Flowbee at his seat in a utopian business class flight. As you can see it’s a clipper-vacuum combination that eliminates the mess for “professional style haircuts at a fraction of the cost!”
See your computer in Kanyevision
The smartasses over at F.A.T. (Free Art & Technology) made this code that allows you to “view the internet the way Kanye sees it”, i.e. through shutter shades.
I think this is for PC’s. Go to their post and drag some button onto your toolbar (that sounds like a PC word) and then allegedly every time you click it you can see the compooter like Kanye!
Actually the funniest thing when you go that page is the little player on the right where you can listen to Yeezy’s songs replayed on MIDI stock sounds.
Super engineer Mike Chav: how to mix a kick drum
How to Mix. Mixing with Mike Chav – Lesson 1 : Kick Drum from Mike Chav on Vimeo.
Very informative video from super engineer Mike Chav giving you tips on how to mix a kick drum. I love watching these sorts of videos because I really enjoy mixing but I’m self-taught so I always pick up on tips that I wouldn’t have tried otherwise. I like how he says that he tends to start most mixes with the vocals because they’re the focal point. I always start with the drums! I should try that. And once he gets into the kick drum, he shows how he duplicates it and mixes the kick in 3 frequency bands with their own compression. I remember my man KLC (of Beats by the Pound) told me about that technique a while back but I never tried it. For the Kid Sister album we got another big-name engineer, Tony Maserati, to mix some of the tracks. I watched him work and he did that on my kicks for “Get Fresh”.
Art Vinyl “Play & Display” frames
It was only a matter of time before someone came up with an alternative to those record frames from Urban Outfitters. This Art Vinyl frame is different in the sense that you can remove and replace the records without taking the frame mount off the wall. Maybe you actually want to record to those records! More info on the site, it’s also available in white.
Mutant fruit from Australia
Chromeo just came back from the Good Vibrations tour in Australia and my brother warned me that he was bringing back a picture “for my blog”. Really? What could it be? Duh, why didn’t I guess… it was a picture of a double banana of course! They said they had a bunch of these in their catering: a Siamese banana twosome in one peel. Ayoooo!
Next level crossfader
I never thought I’d see a dude scratch through a talkbox and actually play melodies. This is wild.
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