Published on
January 13, 2006 in
music.
Life is full of surprises and sometimes good ones too:
The “Superthriller” concert in the Botanique was a blast. Never heard of the guys, just thought that the word “funk” in the concert announce was not a bad sign, but boy, what a discovery! Like they say on their site: a mix of Prince, Beck and Scissor Sisters, and they don’t take themselves too seriously at all.
Keyboard player: “The next song is by a very close friend of ours … John Lennon.”
Singer: “It’s called ‘Cold Turkey’“
Crossdressing background singer: “It’s a song about Christmas at my place“
Or the song that started with “This is a song about my girlfriend“, and the song title turning out to be “Fat Ass“.
Or the sensitive ballad on just piano and vocals: “When the bitch gets cranky“.
We had fun.
Their album is called “Superthriller 1″ (on iTunes or Amazon)
Here are some songs, but as good as they are, they’re no match for the live experience!
webjay.org/by/pforret/superthriller
Technorati: music – superthriller
Published on
January 11, 2006 in
podcast.
A couple years back, Lucas created Webjay, a site for easy creation and playback of playlists from the Web. Users can create playlists using music/audio/video from around the Web (with a simple Web form, from scraping a Web page, or with a fancy Ajax interface created by a 3rd party using Webjay APIs), share them with others, include them on their Web sites, browse other users playlists, play the playlists in any media player, or cannibalize the playlists to create new ones. With Dave Goldberg (head of Yahoo! Music) running around telling people that the playlist is the next frontier in digital media, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that we’re interested in what Lucas is doing with Webjay. Y! Music Engine has some interesting playlisting features, open APIs, and more goodies on the way. Lucas will help shape our strategies around playlisting in the future.
from ymusicblog.com
via google.blognewschannel.com
I discovered Webjay around about the same time I got into podcasting, and I got into contact with Lucas after I did a survey of web-based Flash players and explored the whole playlist formats issue. I ended up creating a Webjay button wizard because I wanted to link Webjay’s playlist conversion to Fabricio’s Musicplayer.
I like this news for a number of reasons:
- I like Lucas. He takes and welcomes initiative, is smart and has a vision. Yahoo!’s brainpower just went one notch up.
- A guy starts an initiative because he has a vision, not because he wants to make money. The site takes off, he builds a recognized brand without patents, seed capital or X rounds of financing, and eventually gets rewarded. A geek story with a Hollywood ending.
“Eigen lof stinkt” as they say in Dutch, but who told you back in August of 2005 that RSS + images made sense (‘Photofeed: image podcasting’)?
A major new feature of iLife ‘06 is what Apple calls “Photocasting.” Described as podcasting for photos, photocasting makes it possible to share photos over the Internet using one mouse-click. The photos are updated to your .Mac account, where users can subscribe to them using Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
from macworld.com
and
Take Photocasting, for instance. A brand-new feature in iPhoto 6, it lets you share full-resolution photos with friends and family who subscribe via an email invitation you send using your .Mac Mail account. As you update photos in a Photocast album, they appear in your subscribers’ iPhoto libraries automatically — ready to print or add to iPhoto books, calendars, or greeting cards. And anyone can subscribe to your Photocasts: even if they don’t have iPhoto, they can still access your photos via any RSS-compatible web browser.
from www.apple.com/ilife/dotmac/
Photocasting, photofeed, tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to, whatever. It’s great to be right! Just send that MacBook Pro my way, Steve.
Continue reading ‘Apple reinvents photocasting in iLife ‘06′
Two geek girls ‘in the know’ have just published their “top 10 reasons to date a geek“, which can also be read as: 10 indicators to check if you’re a real geek.
First one is Maryam, Robert Scoble’s wife. I met her briefly when the Scobleizer visited Brussels in December, but I had no chance to talk to her since I had to leave early, and she was totally absorbed by Coolz0r. She struck me as a much warmer and kinder person than the ‘materialistic’ list below would suggest.
1) He can fix your computer
2) He has friends who can fix your computer
3) He can hook up the TV, connect the DVD player and Tivo your favorite programs
4) He has friends who can hook up the TV, connect the DVD player …
5) He can fix your friends’ computers
6) He’ll make you shine every where you go (basically because he has no sense of style)
7) Your geek will give you the hottest techie gadgets
Your geek will worship the ground you walk on
9) He won’t cheat on you either
10) Did I mention he can fix your computer ???
(for details, check maryamie)
Let’s say I score a 8/10 on this one.
Continue reading ‘Geek love checklist’
I was checking out the Deus website to see if their new video for the Pocket Revolution album was already online (a friend of mine, Sachli, is playing in it with four other cute girls).
There was a link to another Tom Barman project, Magnus, and I remembered being an ‘extra’ in one of the music videos Tom directed for “Jumpneedle”. The official Magnus site only has a 1-minute excerpt, but I did find a full version on anti.com. So where am I?
I’m the one on the right, with the blue drumkit.
La petite histoire
Tom Barman had asked on Studio Brussel that he was looking for 40 drummers for a music video, and I called in to say I would be there. I also invited Teun Verbruggen, who I knew through Muzikant-zoekt-muzikant, and we spent half a day in Antwerp shooting the 5 seconds of video with 38 other drummers. (Check the video around 2:45)
The video
The whole video is about a dream of a guy entering a sleazy motel and doing some kinky stuff with women in underwear (now there’s an unusual dream) and features Tom Barman himself, CJ Bolland, Mauro Pawlowski, Kim Peers, Zohra, Tim Van Hamel en Peter Vermeersch.
Technorati: music – video – deus – magnus
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