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On Thursday, November 7, Slate published a provocatively titled series of photos, "Life as a Nazi Skinhead in Brooklyn." The seven hauntingly beautiful portraits of Neo-Nazi skinheads who live in Greenpoint was written by Slate's photography writer, Jordan G. Teicher. In an email interview with Tei ... More >>
Let me indulge in a little bit of Jay-Z/Kanye fan fiction in the least 50 Shades of Grey way possible: Def Jam President and retired rapper Jay-Z was fed up. 50 Cent had been sending subliminal barbs Jay's way for eight years, starting with a shot Mr. Carter's way on "How To Rob" when they were b ... More >>
You might have heard that the much-discussed singer Lana Del Rey had her U.S. television debut this past weekend on Saturday Night Live, and that the hive mind of public opinion declared that her performances, of "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans" did not go well. The satirical indie-chronicle Hipster R ... More >>
After some unsuccessful press jockeying on both sides, negotiations between Fox News and their cash cow-turned-credibility sucker Glenn Beck pretty much disintegrated and so they worked together on his exit from the channel. Now it's time for him to ride his intensely angry, loyal and crazy m ... More >>
Today, I am suing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Last year, Bloomberg baffled New Yorkers when he appointed publishing executive Cathie Black to be the city's next schools chancellor. Black was an unpopular choice, and for months, responses to her appointment ran the gamut of ridicul ... More >>
A secretive story has been bubbling in Silicon Valley this week, in which the PR firm Burson-Marsteller pitched anti-Google articles to national newspapers on behalf of some unnamed client. Google, they claimed, has privacy issues that the American people should know about -- but it was far f ... More >>
Late Friday night Lady Gaga released the cover for her forthcoming big deal of an album Born This Way, and reaction to it was fairly swift, and mostly "huh?" The cover, as you can see at left, features Gaga as a half-woman, half-motorcycle, and the more vocal Gaga fans out there tried to spin ... More >>
Today, almost every media operation in the world has already attempted or will soon attempt to make a joke at the expense of their readers, viewers, visitors, or customers. Most will actually fool very few, while even less will be funny. We've already noted some of Google's gags for the day, ... More >>
Late last week Gawker posted a story outing correspondence between users thought to be "leadership" members of the internet hacker and activist group Anonymous, one previously referred to in the press as non-hierarchical. In the chat logs, a clear chief can be seen giving orders to his fellow ... More >>
On Tuesday afternoon, the New York Observer, now under the editorship of founding Gawker editor Elizabeth Spiers, published a juicy feature about Scientology by current Gawker editor and investigative journalist John Cook. Atop the article is a purposefully placed Observer editor's note in it ... More >>
New Jalopnik, Gawker's Car BlogGawker, The Daily and NewsBeast, oh my. Three of the year's biggest media launches so far have landed, albeit in different stages, on or around February 1, 2011, making for some vaguely exciting times on the internet, if you're into that sort of thing. Taken tog ... More >>
Press Clips has long, if intermittently, been the name of the media column at the Village Voice, years ago on paper in the hands of journalists like Sydney Schanberg and Keach Hagey, before being brought to this blog by some untamed rabble-rouser called Foster Kamer. But as a wise man once wr ... More >>
Well, here we are. The final Press Clips. COME ON, POOKIE! Let's burn this mothafucka down!
The last week's political and media hoopla over the latest WikiLeaks document dump has had the internet going nuts. Things got so wild online that Julian Assange's official website spent hours over the span of a few days crashed after a series of DDOS attacks. Amazon.com kicked WikiLeaks off ... More >>
ARISE, DAILY NEWS BEAST OF THE WEEK! Press Clips, Day 20, I'm Somehow Writing About The Observer Again edition, right here:
Remember that time earlier this afternoon Gawker took some guy's sleazy story about the time three years ago on Halloween he hooked up with Christine O'Donnell, the would-be Senator from Delaware, and published it anonymously after paying the guy off?
Jenn StergerA year after Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre (then a New York Jet) sent sideline reporter Jenn Sterger pictures of his penis, allegedly to no avail, he gave her another call the next time she was in New York. The man was really into this woman. Or at least really into hi ... More >>
Click to Enlarge. Not like that.What are you going to be gift-wrapping this holiday season? A Squinky? A Sing-A-Ma-Jig? A Gremlin? Maybe for the children. But alas, a gift has arrived that will bring all Americans -- Red State, Blue State, Green Party, whatever -- together. If they're creepy. ... More >>
Earlier this week, after New York magazine published a profile of Gawker Media owner/blog kingpin Nick Denton in their "Who Runs New York?" issue, it was asked by the New York Observer's Nate Freeman: "Did New York Scoop The New Yorker with its Nick Denton Profile?" Freeman noted of the forth ... More >>
Well, when we're wrong, we're wrong: I didn't think AOL was going to pull the trigger, but they just did. Apparently, at TechCrunch Disrupt -- Michael Arrington's cuddlefest of sycophantic entrepreneurs, wannabes, and the Real McCoy, who mostly attend to have their asses kissed -- Michael Arr ... More >>
Another breaking media move: we're now hearing reading that Jeff Bercovici -- AOL's star media reporter at Daily Finance -- is going to work with Lewis "Darth" Dvorkin at Forbes (or True/Forbes, as we like to call it around here) after being courted by a number of potential bosses, according ... More >>
An interview with former-turned-current Gawker scribe John Cook -- fresh out of Yahoo -- had the following money quotes to deliver to his (former Radar co-worker) Jeff Bercovici at Daily Finance about Cook's experience with writing original news for search engine monolith Yahoo's news blog Th ... More >>
4Chan, if you aren't already familiar, is a series of anonymous message boards. The most infamous of the 4Chan boards is the notorious "/b" -- commonly known in tech circles as "the a**hole of the internet" -- the members of whom are known to be relentless, often dangerous pranksters. Reminde ... More >>
Gotham gossip loses grip, fights off rabble. Rattled tattletales tell all.
Click to Enlarge.If you have no idea what the @CrankyKaplan or @Wise_Kaplan Twitter accounts are, or what the big deal with them is, well, here's a primer. And if you already do, well, you'll be excited to know....
Yesterday, The Business Insider's chief Henry Blodget announced a new round of funding to the world in a blog post explaining that the company just scored a cool $3M in the form of backing from a venture capital firm, RRE Ventures. That's more than the company's had since they started. TBI an ... More >>
It's Summer, and as we all know, many businesses get slow in the summer. Media is one of these businesses, and in media, you have to diversify in order to stay afloat, or something. It's bad enough you have to concern yourself with the terrible fate of blogger burnout in this heat! But making ... More >>
If you don't know what Bros Icing Bros is, well, the short version is that it's a drinking game involving "Bros" and Smirnoff Ice. Neither of which I'm willing to venture that Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton has ever had any kind of significant encounter with. Until now.
Kari Ferrell -- the urban celebrity and New York news sensation known to many as Brooklyn's "Hipster Grifter" -- is out of the pen, and (what else?) blogging regularly for ANIMAL NY. This week, however, she used her column space to take those who made her infamous to task.
Do you know what a TechCrunch is? No? Well then: it's a site run by a guy out of San Fransisco for San Fransisco tech geeks, and unless you work for FourSquare or you're a venture capitalist with a few hundred thousand to peel off, don't worry too much about it. All you need to know is that T ... More >>
There's nothing surprising about a late night email fight, especially when alcohol is involved. We've all been there. But when the recipient of your angry missive is Apple's Steve Jobs -- and he takes the time to respond, four times, in the middle of the night -- it becomes news. Gawker Medi ... More >>
Well, journalists, just remember: Off-record don't mean nothing to a court subpoena. Gizmodo, who had a huge, huge story when they paid for an iPhone prototype that was lost in a bar, is now experiencing that wonderful tidbit of information. Their editor, Brian Lam, shot Steve Jobs' public em ... More >>
The Gawker masthead's been pretty busy in the last few months, and they haven't even had any of their doors kicked in! It's about to see a little more action, though, as they've now added another name to their editorial team.
The battle between New York-based blog network Gawker Media and Apple over an exposed iPhone prototype is far from over, having made The Daily Show last night. Looks like they're going to have more legal troubles on their hands, however, though not from Apple this time. We hear that there are ... More >>
"Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade," noted a young Notorious B.I.G. on his way to the top of the rap game, before he was brutally murdered in the climax of a rap war that left both him and his west coast equivalent, Tupac Shakur, dead. Hopefully that won't happen in this case! As ... More >>
Last week, a war of words broke out between two fairly notable New York media presences. It was started after an editor was fired last week, the news of which we broke here. And we thought we'd try to end it here, too, by speaking with both about the spat.
Another Monday, another BlogBeat column. Hopefully, unlike last week's column, this one won't cost us $20,000 a year in advertising money. A former employment situation with Nick Denton and Gawker is assessed, the face behind Newsweek's newest weapon talks, and new hires emerge at the Paris R ... More >>
Gawker Media owner Nick Denton Tweeted earlier this evening, asking if the rumors he'd heard about Business Insider editor John Carney's firing were true. Well, Nick, here's your answer: John Carney, managing editor of financial news and gossip vertical Clusterstock at Business Insider, was l ... More >>
Gothamist -- the New York City metro news blog and subsequent locally-based "Ist" properties -- long a punchline among bloggers who poked at its overly excitable tones about the varying news minutiae it covered, finally gave themselves something to giggle over: a long-rumored multi-million do ... More >>
Gawker tells the New York Times that it's been unable to figure out who was behind the online attack that took down its various websites on Sunday and Monday.For long stretches on those two days, all of Gawker Media's sites were either totally down or just crawling as its servers were overwhelmed ... More >>
Ian Spiegelman is a former Page Six contributor who spent some time as Gawker's weekend blurb jockey.This morning, he left some interesting advice for his replacement. In the comments section of an otherwise harmless entry about (naturally) a piece in the New York Times, Spiegelman let loose with so ... More >>
Here's a puzzle for you: say you belong to a group that gets together regularly to discuss the state of a major industry. Let's also say that everyone in the group aspires to break into that industry, and some have already got a toe in. Now suppose that, to the surprise of the other group members, ... More >>
Fashion Week proves wearing, even to us model citizens
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It has been called the very thing that game is. Some argue it cannot be taught, some say it can, some say you're born with it, while others say it's something that you get through social exposure and environmental exposure. Whatever the case may actually be, it is something you can lose.
Charismatic men are game changers in the social scene, great charisma can raise your attractiveness that no other trait can, save massive fame – with everything else, you can rise above with charisma. It is of course a tricky thing to comprehend, and too much of it you risk coming off sleazy like a used care salesmen, and too little you come off like an omega nerd who is unable to even think of talking to girls without breaking into hives and sweats.
How does one get charisma? You may ask. Charisma is borne out of attention, attention begets charisma and charisma begets attention (positive social attention) – there is little wonder why good looking guys have charisma, especially if they've been cute and therefore charming their entire lives – late bloomers suffer from late blooming in charisma as well. The advantage always goes to the better looking guy who's been cute since he was an infant. Anyone who tells you that people aren't hard wired to pay attention to attractive people needs only to be around people with cute and not cute kids – the attention that the cute kids get is significantly different than the non cute kids – even from their parents. They of course all say he's so cute, and oh what a little charmer… kind of things to cute male kids. At least they used to, I have no idea what they do now. They probably try and put a cute male kid in dresses for all I know of this feminist modern world.
Being a cute kid myself, throughout my whole life, I had gotten attention with doing very little – I have gotten a lot of flirtations from adults when I was a child, from other men, and especially from girls. I pretty much walked around with out a clue as to why I was receiving this attention and was actually self conscious about it for a long time. I was the kid that wanted to be left alone – and again like human nature, the person that wants to be left alone, will never be left alone. What a twisted world we live in – for all those heart twisting beta's longing for the loving embrace of a woman.
Growing up with this I came to learn that it wasn't going away – but because of all this attention I had such a vast array of human social behaviours that I could replicate upon demand as something that I learned from all this attention received, and thus I was charismatic. I learned how to flirt, I learned how to dominate a conversation, I learned how to push back any self consciousness in an interaction, and I learned how to manipulate people into liking me, for no good reason other than the fact that I could talk my way out and in of every situation. Charisma is powerful.
But, as you learn, and being someone who likes to be left alone at times, even now, I've learned that this isn't something that you can switch on and off on a whim, if you aren't constantly practicing it. If you take a job where you aren't able to be charismatic, and interact socially with people on a day to day basis, you can lose this charisma. If you are in a LTR or marriage you can lose this charisma if you aren't gaming your girlfriend or wife and other girls and people anymore. If you get comfortable and lazy, you will lose the ability to switch on your charisma when you want to.
Charisma is like a muscle, you need to keep working it to make it stronger and to keep it active. It isn't really the financial ruin and stress of a divorce that really kills men – it's the sudden transformation of being lazy and uncharismatic from their marriage, to suddenly having to remember how to be charismatic and go out and start dating again. It just seems too daunting. It is to a man's over all long term well being to constantly practice using his charisma and charm. If you lose it, suddenly you're just a boring drone, no better than a beta orbiter or an omega ghost. Charisma gives you the edge, gives you power, and gets you girls. Charisma is the great equalizer. Charisma can get you anything you want in life. If someone was asking for my advice to help himself get better at anything, I would say, learn to be charismatic – you will get away with anything.

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Some Good News
Dear Donors,
Due to a clerical oversight, Okiciyap temporarily lost its 501(c)3 status. It has now been restored, so when you donate, you can now be secure that your donation is tax deductible.
Thank you for your patience!
The School Supply Drive is ON!
In the midst of all the turmoil in the world right now, you may have forgotten that school is just around the corner. This is the third year that the Daily Kos community has been sending school supplies for kids served by the Okiciyap food pantry on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. They have really, really counted on our donations to prepare the kids for back-to-school.
Since 2012 the pantry has supplied vital materials to 179 area school children, and they have no other source for them. There are some things left over from last year, so go by this guide for sending things for 2014
This year, we have gotten a bit of a late start and have relatively little time to get supplies to the children of Cheyenne River. Okiciyap has already received a couple of large shipments from at least one Kossack (I think I know one of you, and thank you very much to anyone who has already sent supplies! They have gotten at least 3 shipments from Kossacks, one today). They were a little anxious since we were so late in starting the drive, but the auto shippers got a head start on us!
Since we started the school supply drive in 2012, you have helped 179 students. This year they hope to serve the same student population in Isabel and surrounding towns as before.
So the process is simple. Take a look at their wish list and put something in the mail. Last year they had some things left over, so the list this year is not as large as it was in 2013.
I don't know about you, but thinking about something as simple and necessary as school supplies and the impact this makes on the kids' lives makes me feel more grounded after the recent pile up of so many disturbing national and international events.
There are now enough staff in the pantry to receive supplies, so send them directly to the trailer:
309 N. Wilson Ave.
Isabel SD 57633.
Just a few updates on Okiciyap: despite some bookkeeping problems the pantry continues to distribute food and is now in the process of developing some health- and youth-related programs. They had a diabetes educator give a talk a few weeks ago, youth development activities are happening, and other health education activities are planned.
A couple of kids happily posing with their back-to-school supplies
Here are some early thank yous from parents (posted on their Facebook page):
Older posts:
Feb. 28, 2014
With the winter wearing on and on, we still need window insulation kits- they'll be up through April at this point. The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has stepped in with funding to help more people with heating costs this winter, so we're collecting funds for those who slip through the cracks, as they're bound to do.
In the meantime, the pantry is still receiving loads of food too. Here are some photos from the most recent shipment earier this week.
An Extra Frigid and Propane Shortage Winter Endangers Isabel's Elders
January 2014
As you know, this winter has been terribly cold for most of the country. Temperatures in the Dakotas have been particularly frigid, going down as far as 60 below zero windchills.
This has meant that many people on reservations have had difficulty heating their homes this winter, particularly the elders. Often living in leaky, substandard houses, many of them ran out of propane weeks ago, and then began heating their homes with their electric stoves. This caused their electric bills to skyrocket so high that they could not pay them. The electric company serving Isabel was close to turning off the electricity for many of them. Others were on the verge of running out of propane.
One elderly couple was in particular trouble because the wife had just fallen and broken her leg and was recovering at home... a freezing home.
On top of this, federal home heating assistance has been a victim of funding cuts, leaving tribes unable to provide real assistance, and there is a national shortage of propane, which has caused prices to skyrocket.
Last week, the Tribe appealed to Okiciyap for help because it is out of heating assistance funds.
Because of your donations, the pantry director was able to intervene with the electric and propane companies on behalf of 23 elders in Isabel, SD. Keeping the electricity on and providing them with full tanks of propane cost $3000.
Okiciyap now needs to replenish this fund it can continue to assist the elders with heating costs this winter.
While the pantry needs money to keep the elders warm, everyone else is also freezing on the reservation right now. The pantry has asked people to send blankets, electric heaters, hand warming packs, thermal shirts and pants of all sizes...AND sheets of plastic and duct tape to put up around windows. You can even send one of those window insulation kits from the hardware store. Thank you!!


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Store the brittle in an airtight container.
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Line a baking sheet with foil; coat foil with cooking spray.
Combine sugar, water, and cream of tartar in a medium saucepan; stir to dissolve sugar. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook until mixture is golden brown (about 6 minutes), stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, and stir in hazelnuts and vanilla. Spread mixture onto prepared baking sheet. Cool completely. Break into pieces.
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Suri's Princess Birthday Party
Suri Cruise is just three-years-old, but she's already a princess!
The daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes celebrated her third birthday on Thursday with a small group of friends and family, People reported.
The birthday girl was treated to a princess-themed party, complete with a birthday cake featuring Belle from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast."
The birthday girl and pals also reportedly embarked on a treasure hunt around the house.
"They just wanted to keep it small," a source to the mag, "And make it fun for Suri and her friends."
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Add a fashionable layer with this Alia burnout jacket featuring a floral burnout design & a zipper front. Jacket length is approximately 23 inches from size 8.
Bealls is a privately held company, rich in tradition, owned by the founding family and its employees. Founded in 1915, Bealls Department Stores now operates 80 store locations in the state of Florida in addition to BeallsFlorida.com. Bealls Department Stores and BeallsFlorida.com are owned and operated by Beall's Department Stores, Inc and Beall's Westgate Corporation.
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hey question for you all.
do you guys bend the bills/ brims on your camp caps? i hate when they're super flat and straight.
i like a bit of a curve in the bill/ brim.
I tend to leave mine straight, no real reason to curve it if you ask me.
This is why we curve the bill.
lol. some justin bieber shit right der. i popped a thread when tryna curve mine. fuck it.


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In which Mike Flynn does another autopsy on the New Atheist creation myth that is Agora.
Mark Shea's Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!
This movie is something from three years ago that only came to the U.S. a year later, and then played in a dozen art house theaters in major cities for like one week. The entire American experience of this film consisted of Robert Barron (who I think saw it in Rome), a handful of other offended Catholic apologists, movie critics, and a double handful of hardcore Rachel Weisz fans.
Junk is junk, I guess that was the point.
Flynn mentions Donald Prothero, who seems to be a perfectly good paleontologist/geologist, but gets quickly out of his depth in human history. His book on the Cenozoic Era, "After the Dinosaurs," has a minor howler when he mentions the great Cuvier being afraid of the Church in the 1790s. Cuvier was a Protestant and the Church was more or less illegal when Cuvier published his theory of extinction. Oops. But his major howlers come at the end of his book. Prothero has just spent pages and chapters telling us how through much of the Cenozoic, Belgium was tropical and Ellesmere Island (lattitude 78• N) was warm-temperate–but Global Warming Is Real and gonna get us. His solution? Contraception. There are other howlers too, where he attempts to make human history fit with various climate changes over the span of the geologic Recent, but the Population Bomb (he uses the term and mentions the Ehrlichs of less than blessed memory) is the howlingist of the howlers.
The usually perceptive Roger Ebert wrote a gushing review of Agora when it was released two years ago. It contains such howlers as this: "Hypatia herself is not interested in religion; she feels passion only for her ideas."
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s3pack -> package advice?
Heya! I'm looking to convert all my sims3packs to packages. What's the best converter out there? Is there one that will retain the name of the S3P or do they all require me to rename them myself?
Any help would be great :D
Trying to get rid of lag…


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Lotus Cobra is Evil is a yonkoma webcomic by Sixten about all sorts of aspects of Magic: The Gathering. It was originally centered around the adventures of planeswalkers Nissa Revane and Sorin Markov, but has since expanded into strips poking fun at cards, characters, or Magic personalities.Notable for having high amounts of moe and random crossovers from characters from other works. Can be found at MTG Color Pie or on the author�s blog.
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The Springfield Ambulance Corps saves lives and now the volunteers and career first responders are hoping to save Christmas for children impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
The Ambulance Corps is collecting new, unwrapped toys at the Corps Headquarters entrance on the Powell Road side of the Springfield Fire House on Saxer Avenue.
They will be collecting toys through Friday, December 14.


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Ask Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you happen to be in Washington, D.C., she won't direct you to the Planned Parenthood on 16th St, NW. Instead, she'll suggest you pay a visit to the 1st Choice Women's Health Center, an anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) in Landsdowne, Virginia, or Human Life Services, a CPC in York, Pennsylvania. Ask Google the same question, and you'll get ads for no less than 7 metro-area abortion clinics, 2 CPCs and a nationwide abortion referral service.
Ask in New York City, and Siri will tell you: I didn't find any abortion clinics.
10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion | The Raw Story (via interweber)
If true, this is extremely important. Not just because of the subject matter but because its important to understand that our access to news and INFORMATION may increasingly be funneled through large companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon, who may have hidden agendas, policies or biases (or work with third-party companies that have hidden biases) that we don't know about.
Updates: My first post about Siri's stumbles on Bits; a series of illustrations of Siri's search failures which extend to requests for birth control and help after a sexual assault (tested out most of these myself and got the same results. Which is disturbing, to say the least.)


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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The Future of Clubbing?
Here's a cool installation/nightclub.... _Many_ is the time I've wished I could affect the music in a nightclub through sheer force of dancing/will/infrared bodyheat ;)
Interactive Dance Club
Thanks to Synaesthesia
Man plays smallest MIDI Drumset EVER!
Excellent... the smallest MIDI drums in the world. Can't find too much info on these. He's using a Crest MMD 1000 Mini Drums and EZ dummer. The kick comes from a pedal. Check out a few more demos HERE.
Monday, July 30, 2007
RAI Studio of Musical Phonology
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"In 1951, the first electronic music studio was conceived from scratch at the WDR Radio of Cologne (Germany) to enable the composition of electronic music sounds.
Briefly, the concept of studios evolved up to the 1955 design of the Phonology studio in Milan by Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna. With nine oscillators, various filters and other sophisticated equipment , the presence of a technician/musician (Marino Zuccheri), the studio was the best equipped in the world at that time. (more)"
excellent clip thanks to usoproject
Robot Love
Have a listen to: Solid Steel Radio
United Visual Artists
The LED monolith plays harsher sound and light the closer one gets to it until standing right in front, when the viewer is bathed in white light.
Allows viewers to wander through the sculpture which reacts to their presence with light and sound.
Nice interview with them too over at PingMag
More kinetic sculpture
(thanks to BruceGray)
Mark Applebaum
More at Mark Applebaum
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello gives a tour of his studio
"Jimmy Tamborello, the all purpose beat genius and mastermind behind Dntel gives a tour of his home studio where the magic sounds of the postal service, figurine, james figurine, and dntel all come to life." - From: subpoprecords
A very modern analogue electronic studio. Is this the vintage gear of the future?
The Tardis Is Out Of Fuel Again Delia!
another one...
The WP-20 is an old Ray Wilson design. Sonique Chef has a good few more vids on his blog and he will appearently build them to order."
" Many moons ago Ray Wilson and Ron Romeo created a small company that sold PC boards and kits. We called it "Waveform Processing" The WP-20 Mini-Synth was our premier product. As I look back at it now I see many things I would do differently today but I wanted to leave it as it was 25 years ago. It's a great project and it makes some very cool sounds. I hope you have fun if you decide to build it. This would make a great junior-high or high-school electronics project." - LINK (for schematic etc)
The Colosso-Synth 3000
I made my mixer into a synth. - By: Dr. Colossus
Not 100% sure how he did this. Usually you feed the headphone out back into the mixer to create a feedback look and then tune it with the e.q's. It doesn't sound like this when I di it though.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Sleng Teng Riddim
Sleng Teng Riddim played on the Casio MT-40 thanks to mkscholar.
"Under Mi Sleng Ting" by Wayne Smith is known as the first Reggae record to use a completely digital riddim. Of course there were others before it but this is the first to get mass public acceptance. "Sleng Ting" was recorded by Prince Jammy in 1985 and is credited with kick starting the dancehall sound. It's big tune for such a small synth.
You can pick up MT-40's off ebay for about $30/40... cheap as chips :)
Mouse on Mars Interview (from Salon Magazine)
Mouse on Mars Jan + F.X. live at the party of "a-musik" Andi's Studio
place: koln, dusseldorf/Germany (more). They mostly talk about the misery of technology addiction :)
NetzpolitikTV: Interview with Peter Jenner
Peter Jenner, British rock band manager, record producer and A&R man talks about copyright law in the digital age. With Andrew King, he was part of Blackhill Enterprises, which managed Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett's solo career, Marc Bolan, Roy Harper (whose records Jenner also produced), The Edgar Broughton Band and The Clash. He also managed Ian Drury, Billy Bragg and the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy among others. Basically he's been around the block and he seems to be worried about the current state of copyright law enforcement.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Doepfer Mogli
MOGLI (Midi Output GLove Interface)
Using the Power Glove by Mattel, MOGLI translates the movement
of your hand into MIDI signal. Scan rate is 10/s
Developed for and used by Kraftwerk in the 90's.
Tired of Synthcakes?
The nice chaps over at MusicThing have had an on-going thing for cakes shaped like synthesisers...in a fit of geeky one-upmanship, we bring you:
Circuit Snacks! You can see a few more tasty circuits HERE.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Brazilian non-interview with Florian Schneider - 1998
"My favorite Florian moment
(I guess it's already published somewhere here on youtube but i couldn't find it)" thanks to Nafoute
Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine / Tv Docu
part 2
"This is a 1982 TV-Documentation about Kraftwerk produced by Austrian television (ORF). It's the last vis-à-vis TV-Interview with Ralf Hütter. For anglophone viewers I`ve subtitled the interview. It was aired on the occasion of the release of Kraftwerk`s Album "Computerworld" and their following World-Tour. This part contains Kraftwerk live performances of: Nummern / Computerwelt, Taschenrechner
NOTE: I´m not a professional translator - it is just supposed to be a little help." - thanks to Nagelbrett
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Synesthesia, Colour Hearing & Electronic Music
What is synesthesia? Synesthesia is a neurological condition where two or more senses become conjoined. Typical synesthetic's see numbers and letters as having colours, or the sounds of words evoking tastes. Using neuroimaging or CT Scans scientists can see the separate areas of the brain, such as the centre for sight and sound, are active when a synesthetic sees a letter or number. This means when a synesthetic sees a number or letter or hears a sound it evokes joined sensations such that they can hear colour, see sound or taste words.
The numbers given for people with synesthesia seem to vary fairly widely. They range from one in every 2000 to one in every 100 or 1% of the population. Professor Daphne Maurer of McMaster University's department of psychology has found that at one time we all lived in a world in which sights had sounds and feelings had taste. At the annual meeting of the American Synesthesia Association November 6, Maurer discussed evidence that all infants are synesthetic.
"Toddlers perceive higher pitched sounds to come from white balls and lower pitched sounds to come from black balls, just like adults with synesthesia," explains Maurer. "With development, the connections underlying synesthesia are inhibited in most individuals." - link
So what has this to do with electronic music? Well I can make some tenuous links by looking at the early instigators of electronic music - proto-electronic music if you like. The Futurist movement, as most of you probably know, is credited with starting the artistic movement that led to electronic music. Futurists advocated the use of new instrumentation, the rejection of traditional scales and notation and the introduction of noise into music.
The picture across was painted by Luigi Russulo one of the founding fathers of the Futurist movement and author of The Art of Noises. "Russolo's painting might suggest a belief in correspondences of colour to music. The clearest clue is provided in a manifesto on "The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells", by his comrade Carlo Carrà: - "...rrrrrrreds that shouuuuuuut, greeeeeeeeeeeens that screeeeeeam, yellows, as violent as can be.". link
Also the form or shape that the music takes in Russulo's painting is quite interesting. It adheres to one of Heinrick Kluver's basic visual patterns. In 1926 Heinrick Kluver carried out experiments on candidates using mescaline. He was interested in categorising the various hallucinations into groups of related visual patterns. He found all the visions fit one or more of four possible forms tunnels and cones, grids and crosshatchings, central radiations and spirals.
This is remarkably similar to how many synesthetics see music. According to Richard E. Cytowic, one of the leading researchers in synesthesia, "When a synesthetic listens to music they don't see a pastoral landscape with sheep gambling through it. They see geometric shapes zig zags, grids, blobs, angular forms." When looked at in this way we can see that one of earliest creative aesthetics in electronic music was driven from the point of view of colour hearing or Sound Art.
A basic introduction into how this might look can be seen in the video clip Synesthesia Synthesizer - thanks to somesecret
Another link I can find between synesthesia and the early development of electronic music is in the work and musical methodologies of Olivier Messiaen. It is difficult to overstate Messiaen's influence on early electronic composers. He was one of the first modern composers to incorporate electronic instrumentation into orchestral music, using the Ondes Martenot in Turangalîla-Symphonie. He taught Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and for a brief period Iannis Xenakis. Also i've often thought that his idea's on serial music and tone rows can be seen as early examples of sequencing; copying basic patterns, reversing them, turning them upside down, randomizing them. Messiaen had synesthesia and often talked about the relationship between sound and colour.
"Messiaen had synesthesia that worked in both directions. Usually it's a one way street, so it's sound to vision. But Messiaen when he saw colours he heard music and when he heard music he saw colours. So when he was commissioned to write 'Des Canyons aux Etoiles' or 'From the Canyon to the Stars' he was in Bryce canyon and he said ' my eyes went up the coloured cliffs of the wall and the music just wrote itself'.
He invented that whole system of modes of limited transposition to convey the colour of the chords... In Messiaen's (mind) it's the vertical intervals between the notes (that triggers colour) that's why you have all those big chord clusters in him and that produces the colour." - Richard E. Cytowic
Synesthesia has been found to be more prevalent in creative people. Obviously people who can see, as well as hear music are much more likely to be musicians than those who can't. So it would be incorrect to claim that the link between colour and sound is unique to electronic music. It might be possible to say it is more fundamental to electronic music.
I can make other links between synesthesia and electronic music like Iannis Xenakis' connection with Kalindinski and his use of polytopes or compositions of sound and light. Also Morton Subotnick's desire to evoke musical images of the electricity fizzing and zapping in the connections between nuerons in the brain. At it's core electronic music deals with sound in terms of shape, structure, density and colour and whilst these are in all forms of music I think in electronic music much of the structural baggage of traditional forms has been striped away in order to express these sensual connections more vividly.
Lets look at one last clip of synesthesia in action. This one is from Streeta it's called Dissociative Fugue and was sent my way thanks to matrixsynth. This one is a little more complex than the last and shows the fluidity of the colours and shapes as the music changes. You can see that Streeta's basic visual patterning is based on crosshatching, the melody is a wiggly line and different instruments have different colours. "This was an attempt to visualize some of the abstract noise that goes on inside my head when listening to music." - Stretta
Well that's it. My longest most coherent post ever :) If you got to the bottom I hope you enjoyed it. I haven't really proven anything and like I said earlier the link to electronic music is tenuous but maybe you have something to think about just before you go to sleep and those visual patterns start floating around in your mind.
If you want more information definitely check out Richard E. Cytowic's roughly 30 minute talk on youtube. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4
Also look at a more in-depth review of synesthesia in music from the very beginnings of western music at Therminvox.
Music With A View - Flea Theatre (Joshua Fried)
Part 2
Joshua Fried playing old shoes, a steering wheel and a radio! - thanks to RitsuKatsumata
Excellent.... well worth the watch. Takes a minute or two to warm.
Music With A View - Flea Theatre (Nick Didkovsky)
Nick Didkovsky composes music live with audience participation and a computer program. Nick's software was written in JMSL. JMSL was created by Nick Didkovsky and Phil Burk, www.algomusic.com
Pretty cool piece of software that uses algorhythms to generate music, such as pitch cycle, density of notes, invert, retrograde, randomise.
Juan Atkins in his Metroplex Studio
Just a picutre and a link to an interview with Juan Atkins the originator of Detroit Techno. He talks about why he disliked MIDI on computers, the equipment in his basement Metroplex studios, synths and the state of techno music. It's not a new interview but it's a good one.
"The Pro One is my heart. I'll use that Pro One until it falls apart, and then I'll probably still use it if it makes any sounds. "These new synthesisers now, I think they're scaling them more to interface with the consumer. Synthesisers used to be synthesisers that a synthesist could play. Now manufacturers are going for presets and they make it really hard to get beyond those presets to program your own sounds." - Juan Atkins
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Stevie Wonder demonstrates an Arp 2600 to David Frost.
"Come on work thing"
thanks to Synthfool and analoghell
West End: History In The Making" Documentary (Extended)
An extended clip from the forthcoming documentary about the history of one of the most important disco labels West End Records. You can check out a good few clips and interviews from the documentary thanks to westendrecords
"West End Records was formed in 1976, by Mel Cheren & Ed Kushins and according to Mel - West End Records was one of these things that just happens... He and Ed were colleagues at Scepter Records and when Scepter was closing down in 1975 they had to do something and they decided to start their own business - West End Records was born!
Mel had been the Head of Production for Scepter Records and he was actually one of the guys who started the Disco Era... Some other stuff he "invented" was to put an instrumental version of the song on the B-side of Scepter's singles, for this new idea Scepter won Billboard's Trend Setter Of The Year Award.
Besides this, and even more important - He created the first 12" single!.
This was still at Scepter and as he says himself; "The idea came from Tom Moulton, because he suggested that if we put the record on 12" we could spread the grooves and make it hotter for the club DJ's. We were the first company to put it out for DJ's. SalSoul put their first 12" record out at about the same time on commercial with "Ten percent" by Double Exposure. That's how it came about to the fact that you could spread the grooves and make it hotter than in the 45 records."
We all know how important the 12" single have been to DJ's all over the world ever since...
- check out the rest of this interview HERE.
Noise-Ode to the Neptune Audio Mixer
"This is one third a tribute to the mysterious and wonderful Neptune 610 Audio Mixer, one third a despairing melodrama of noise/music angst, and one third a documentary on the dynamics of ebay at the dawn of the 21st century. You may think this is rather self-indulgent, but I can assure you it is not, sir or madam!" - thanks to ashfordaisyak
Monday, July 23, 2007
League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots presents :
The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) presents algorithmically-generated percussion music played by modular percussion robots.
thanks to BleakMonk
Copyright Criminals : This is a sampling sport
(work in progress)
as found on http://copyrightcriminals.com/
Make sure to check out the freely downloadable documentary Good Copy Bad Copy.
Gardner Baby Grand Master
I remember THIS post on MusicThing looking at some real expensive ugly piano's... does this one count. This is the Gardner Baby Grand Master and at €50,000 you'd want to be into it :)
Ugly or cool?
Sent my way thanks to Dusty.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
J.C. Judd - 60's Electronic Soundtrack
It seems to have 2 oscillators controllable by keyboard. The oscillators look identical to a similar type of synth used in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Obviously the one at the BBC was bigger with 12 oscillators. I wonder did Judd build them or have something to do with it's design? Wouldn't surprise me.
Lee Perry At Black Ark
Rare footage of the master at work in the legendary Black Ark Recording Studio mid 70s. - thanks to Akira
This clip comes from the excellent 70's documentary Root's, Rock, Reggae. "Ghetto music always drum and bass" - you can catch a link to it over on the right sidebar under DVDs.
A London Something: Drum & Bass/Jungle
Part 2
Part 3
thanks to arcon2
A very early rare documentary covering the early Dn'B Jungle years. I think I remember seeing this on BBC back in 1995. You can download the full thing and get a tracklisting HERE. The YouTube compression really does the audio no favours so if you want higher quality go for the download.
1963 series "Space Patrol"
"The futuristic 1963 series "Space Patrol" ("Planet Patrol" in the US) was an extraordinary, but not widely distributed, puppet show set in the year 2100.
As a kid I could never get into Thunderbirds, but Space Patrol fascinated me. This was mainly due to the soundtrack - no music at all, just weird electronic noises, way ahead of their time in 1963." - From: auspeteFrom: auspete
The electronic soundtrack was created by F.C. Judd. Frederick Charles Judd was born in 1914, and became a pioneer of electronic sound and music in the 1950s and 1960s. As well as writing books on the subject (Electronic Music and Musique Concrète, 1961... which oddly enough I happen to have) and producing records of stock effects and atmospherics (such as Haunted House, Mystery Sounds & Music). There just happens to be one of his soundtrack on Ebay right now. Click the picture to have a look.
The ebay link references Moog synths but I think it was more likely it was home made electronics. For one the series was released in 1963 and Moog didn't show up at the AES convention till '64. Also he has a book on electronic music circuits so I guess he liked building his own.
MIDI Scrapyard Challenge
The MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshops are workshops lead by
Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki since 2003. They
more...are intensive workshops where participants build simple
electronic projects (both digital and analog inputs) out of
found or discarded "junk" (old electronics, clothing,
furniture, outdated computer equipment, appliances,
turntables, monitors, gadgets, etc..). So far the workshops
have been held 22 times in 10 countries with 3 different
themes including the MIDI Scrapyard Challenge where
participants build simple musical controllers from discarded
objects and "junk", DIY Wearable Challenge where they create
wearable tech projects from used clothing, and the DIY Urban
Challenge where they work on public space interventions and
other projects. The MIDI Scrapyard version includes a mini
workshop where participants build simple drawing robots or
"DrawBots" with small, inexpensive motors, batteries, and
drawing markers that can also be connected to Serial or MIDI
interface. At the end of the day or evening, the workshop
participants have a small performance, concert, or fashion
show (depending on the workshop theme) where they demonstrate
and preent their creations together as a group. No electronics
skills or any experience with technology is necessary to
participate in the workshops.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Cinco Midi Organizer
Organize your midis. This is from Tim and Erics Awesome Show Good Job. I thought it was funny :)
From: neomerge
Steve Reich - Piano/Video Phase (excerpt)
The original 'Piano Phase' for two pianos was composed in 1967. Both pianists play the same repeating pattern but one of them gradually increases tempo so as to slowly move one-eighth note ahead or out of phase with the other. This process is repeated with three repeating patterns that get shorter in duration. The video portion of this piece was created by David Cossin in 2000 and utilizes a pre-recorded video of him playing the piece on midi percussion pads that then trigger piano samples of the notes of the piece. Against this pre-recorded video, projected on a screen in front of him, he then plays the moving part that gradually moves ahead, or out of phase with the recorded part. The audience can then see and hear the process unfolding. - Steve Reich
Joyspring demo
A pretty cool idea... an oversized joystick with a spring and some sensors. I could see kids going for this kind of thing... simple and fun.
thanks to chikashimiyama poster and creator of the Joyspring.
Vintage Kitsch Space Drum Dub Disco Synth Sound Effect
The Story of the Birotron
Rick Wakeman of the band "Yes" invented and developed this instrument along with help from David Biro. Wakeman formed the company Birotronics, Ltd. which made just 35 Birotrons. Like the Mellotron, the Birotron "sampled" instruments and uses 8-track tapes for the various sounds. This was necessary before digital sampling became available. They were mainly used for strings, choirs, brass, and flutes; sounds not easily reproduced on the synthesizers of that era.
Interview with Wakeman in 1999 where he talks about the Birotron
Is there any chance of hearing your old Mellotrons & Birotrons again?
RW: Oh no!, I don't have any of them!
YM: They're missing?
RW: Yeah!, I believe there are six Birotrons left in the world. I heard that one was sold in America last year for $ 35,000.
YM: Wow!, you could be rich now! You only made about 30...
RW: 35. I had four, but two were stolen, and two were damaged beyond repair. So we believe there are six left, and one is in a museum, it has been just bought by Hard Rock Cafe in America, I believe also for a lot of money because they bought the very original one. I don't have one. I would like to have one, I must admit, I'd love to have one. The Mellotron... I used to have two single Mellotrons, and a double special Mellotron. And the two single ones I had, I was so frustrated, because of tuning problems, and the tapes... And full of anger, I took the two Mellotrons into a field, a put petrol over them, and I fired them.
YM: You really did that? I can't believe it!
RW: Yeah. And all of them, all the wood, burnt and all the metal just...
YM: Did you enjoy that?.
RW: At the time, at the time I enjoyed it, because they had ruined so many sessions through going wrong and breaking, but afterwards I regret it. Oh, of course I regret it! - - from 8TrackHeaven
This instrument was used on the YES album, "Tormato: Remastered & Expanded" and Rick's solo album "Criminal Record."
Moog Taurus II Synthesizer (Part 1 - 3)
"Here is parts 1 to 3 of the Moog Taurus II Synthesizer. You can hear patches from this synth from 1979-83." thanks to christinag856
"This device is a self contained synthesizer built into an IBM joystick (circa 1984). Because of the simplicity of the original construction, it was quite simple to 'hack' the joystick control to interface with my circuit. Essentially the two axis of the joystick controls two 1 mega-ohm potentiometers. There is also a momentary button which triggers the amplitude envelope. It's fun to play and has lots of expressive potential." - sent my way via Alex.
Check out his blog http://cliplead.blogspot.com/
Friday, July 20, 2007
DJmag M-Audio Torq Xponent Midi DJ Controller Review
"This DJ Midi controller comes with software to DJ with and the hardware has a soundcard built in. It's a the final word in DJ control." - From: djmagtv
From: pyb81
IMO there's still a lot to be said for a set of 1210's and Penny&Giles faders :)
MUNK ROCKER - Circuit Bent Chanting Machine
"This is my first attempt at circuit bending. Made from a Buddhist chanting machine (as seen). Recorded with analog rev/delay. Final version. Created by Kevin C. " - thanks to asmhaxor
As far as I can make out the box he is circuit bending is called the FM3 Buddha Machine. It sounds great, would be useful in a live situation to have something that could chant, make sound effects and degrade into digital noise. I love their advertising picture so I had to post it. I wonder is there a disclaimer "Buddha Not Included" :)
Kidtronics Drum Machine
This is a circuit-bent Kidtronix toy drum machine from the late '80s/early '90s. I added a 555-based timing circuit from a led display to make it a kind of automatic drum machine. thanks to michaeluna
From Sound Synthesis to Sound Retrieval and Back
A 55 minute lecture on sound retrivial techniques being used in sound synthesis. Also a little on Freesound.org. This is part of the Google Tech Talk series.
"In this talk I will go over the technological and conceptual ties that exist between some ... all » of the current trends in sound generation for music and multimedia applications and the techniques for content based sound retrieval. This is because quite a number of the techniques being worked on for sound retrieval come from the field of sound synthesis and at the same time the new developments in retrieval are being applied and are inspiring new directions in the development of sound generation systems. To explain all this I will use examples from the research carried out in the Music Technology Group at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, Spain. In particular I will go over our research on spectral based concatenative synthesis and our work on sound and music retrieval. Also I will link it with the online community that we have developed for sharing sound files, Freesound http://freesound.iua.upf.edu, showing the potential that this open and shared resource has for the research on sound retrieval and for experimenting with new sound generation systems. "
Roland TR-808
A quick look at the Roland TR-808. thanks to losme
The Buchla Easel
Luther Rochester generates some nice organic tones on his Buchla Music Easel at AHMW 2007.
Recently a Buchla Easel was stolen from the Music Technology Labs at The Evergreen State College so if you happen to come across one for sale check for an Evergreen etching and a metal label on the power-supply also it was stolen without its lid.
From: therealretrosynth & ahmwsynth
Edit: Just noticed Matrixsynth had this under a different heading. Go HERE where you can find a link to over 30 clips from the 2007 AHMW meeting.
Theremin BBC clip
"Theremin Bruce Woolley
Hands off Theremin event 27th of July 2007 in Watford (near London) UK don't miss it" thanks to 42hz
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Pollard Syndrum Quad
a friend of mine suggested me, when legendary pro drummer Steve Houghton was looking for someone to unload his syndrum set onto. I was glad to help. You can see lots of high quality photo's HERE.
Milton Babbitt on the lure of technology
Milton Babbitt Interview
Just a picture and a link to THIS interview with Milton Babbitt - line to watch for "Remember, all of this is analogue. We were not working digitally, for which I am most grateful." :)
Babbitt Yoda Morph
Morph of composer Milton Babbit and Yoda from Star Wars.
thnaks to rpatersoncomposer
Roland MC303 Groovebox
"I decided to sell my old roland mc303 so I fired it up and made this pattern to test it out. Then I drank a little to much beer and decided to video it. My wife thinks I'm hilarious and she is probably the only girl who will ever see this. The video stops short of the audio.
+ this mc303 has a gold tooth & custom knobs
+ this is a fast tempo for me" - thanks to spooloops
The Birth of Acid
Fantastic clip with DJ Pierre & Earl 'Spanky' Smith from Phuture talking about the first time they used a TB303.
From: tuneseeker
HEM - Home electronic modular
"synth made of home electronics. the osc's are just tape deck's that are making feedback noise and then there is also a clock radio theremin... (more)" - thanks to dnnny
Kramer & Luttazzi - Pazzi Per La Musica (1957)
"Gorni Kramer & Lellio Luttazzi
"Pazzi Per La Musica"(1957)- Liebig commercial ad -
A great piece of burlesque music performed by Kramer & Luttazzi, acordion and piano plus additional electronic sound effects, excellent sound/image synchronization and ... well, a lot of jokes !" - thanks to phantomoftheradio
Casiotone CT-410V little old Analogsynthesizer
"a short Rhytm Sequence through the real Analogfilter.This Casio Keyboard is very rare to find,and it is better then Casio MT 68,Casio MT68 because there are only Preset Sounds.
Many other Parts will follow.... (more) " thanks to jopachelbel
Blade Runner END TITLES theme
"Here's another piece from the Blade Runner OST, the most famous: End Titles.
All performed in REAL TIME with my synthesizers!" thanks to gattobus.
Same synths again Moog Little Phatty, Korg Radias, Korg Trinity.
Make sure and check out gattobus' Blade Runner Main Titles youtube vid.
New Blog Electric Kingdom
Kode9 & Spaceape - 9 Samurai
I've started a new blog called Electric Kingdom. I'm going to use this blog to compiles video's, music and interviews from the last 50 years of electronic music. If you ever find anything interesting just email me and I'll post it up. I'm going to label things by decade so as it builds up you should just by able to pick a decade an get music video's, interviews and documentaries about electronic music from that decade.
I've put a link feed from Electric Kingdom on my right sidebar.
Label: Hyperdub
Format: Vinyl, 10"
Country: UK
Released: Apr 2006
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Downtempo, Abstract
Check out Kode9 - Memories of the Future
Herbie Hancock Rockit - the making of Interview
Alesis Andromeda mp3's
Aphex Twin - Mathematical Equation
Richard D. James track from Windowlicker "DeltaMi-1=aSigman=1Di(n)(SigmajEC(i)Fij(n-1)+Fexti(n-1))" where a spectrogram on the audio displays his face. It kind of reminds me of a digital version of the Turin Shroud. Is Aphex Twin the new audio Jesus :)
sent my way via paxtronix.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Dub Down Babylon!! Sine Qua Non Sound Clash
Dub Down Babylon!! Sine Qua Non Sound Clash
Tribute to all the great Engineers/Producers and musicians of classic Jamaican Dub Reggae,featuring audio and video samples from the movie Rockers plus pics and video of classic Dub albums,shots of Studio One and Channel One recording studio,Sly and Robbie,Aggrovators,Soul Syndicate,ect.Original music by Sine Qua Non Sound Clash
From: illspektor
Check out Rockers - 25th Anniversary Edition
Blade Runner Main Titles Theme
"Here is a piece from the Blade Runner OST (Main Titles) performed with my synthesizers:
Moog Little Phatty, Korg Radias, Korg Trinity." - thanks to gattobus
Casio VL-Tone
Casio VL-Tone - thanks to analoguecrazy4
Analogue crazy has a good few synth demos so follow the link back to his YouTube account.
Buck Rogers Space Funk
Super cool space funk in the 25th century. I remember seeing this when I was nipper and wondering what the future would sound like... for me it's been electronic music ever since :)
Moog Little Phatty Analog Synthesizer
"Whoa. The Moog sound at an affordable price. www.moogmusic.com" - MoogMusicVideo
At 60'000 views it's hardly a new video but still may as well post it.
Electronic Music in Latin America
Short but sweet clip from Fussibles studio. - thanks to browncheco
Colores is a 22 minute documentary on the state of electronic music in Latin America. One thing is for sure they have some enviable equipment. Plenty of gear shots including the Oberhiem 4 voice and a Vostok being used live (only for glimpse though). - thanks to bulbotv
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
discoDSP Discovery Pro
The odd thing is if you click on the picture above to enlarge it you will see that Discovery Pro is closely modelled on the Nord Lead 2 and not only that it can import Nord Lead 2 and 2x patches. Wonder if they sound the same :?
There is a video demo HERE and an mp3 demo HERE.
Moog FreqBox
"Watch Chachi and Alan from Robotspeak put the Moog FreqBox through its paces. First, Chachi tries it out with a Roland TB 303 Bassline synth. Then Alan runs his guitar through it. If you like what you hear, you can order yours at Robotspeak.com." - thanks to chachijones
"rack title: hatski
mc202+606+metric shitload of fx. You can download an mp3 HERE." - thanks to nevenen
Personally I think a shitload of fx is always the exact right amount :)
Windows Recorder as Instrument
This guy uses Windows Recorder as a musical instrument. It starts off not so good but when the beat comes in it gets pretty good. I wonder how thousands of people have made tunes from the windows media samples. I know I have :)
thanks to mrblintsattic
Computer Chronicles - Computer Music (1984)
A 23 minute program from 1984 looking at the state of computer music in 1984.
Guests: John Chowning (interview), Stanford; Will Harvey, Electronic Arts; Ellen Lapham, Syntauri; Gary Kildall, DRI
Products/Demos: Music Construction Set, Alpha Syntauri Keyboard, Casiotone, Vocal Synthesizer, MIT Experimental Music Studio, Stanford Center for Computer Music.
Matrixsynth found another one from 1986 HERE.
Optigan Vocal Choir (Vox Humana Disc)
"Super-rare Vox Humana disc on the 1970's Mattel Optigan optical organ. Features cello sounds, pipe organ and sampled real human voices. This is the same sample used on the Orchestron that kraftwerk used for many famous tracks, including Radioactivity, Show Room Dummies, etc..." - thanks to RedRoomNW
How & Why They Still Manufacture Vinyl LPs!
"Ever wonder how they made all those vinyl LPs (long playing records) in the past, or why they still do? Find out!" thanks to glenneal
Be warned there is some seriously cheesy library music.
Mister E's Vinatge Tape Delay Echo Box
"Well take a look at this VINTAGE TAPE DELAY ECHO BOX!" - thanks to AMOKIAN
Monday, July 16, 2007
ARP Axxe
A demo of the arp axxe - thanks to vaskuryandex
Roland Junior-106
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Sunday, July 15, 2007
The Perfect Beat
" A little History of Techno & House Music" - From: padams24
The documentary is more about the Americian understanding of word Techno which includes everything from Derrick May, Frankie Knuckles to Madonna, Prince??? and on to the Orb(techno?). Still there a good bit with Peter Hook & Bernard Sumner from Joy Division/New Order.
Daft Punk's ELECTROMA
There'a a good interview over at the Guardian Online with Daft Punk talking about their new road movie Electroma . It kind of reminds me a little of the KLF's road movie The White Room although obviously much more French :)
You can check out the interview HERE.
More Free Samples
25 Essential Electronic Albums
Korg M3 Workstation
Just click on the picture or the link to Karma Lab to get there.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Casio VL-1 VL-Tone
A demo of the Casio VL-1 playing a little bit of Da Da Da. I remember a friend had this when we were in kiddies school. I didn't even have a calculator and this fucker had a sequencer, synthesiser and calculator all in one.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Oberheim SX (OB-SX)
"Looking at the guts of an OB-SX. Pretty neat synth, sounds pretty good...heavy too(weights a lot)." From: zamisers7k
Mantua Festival 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Moog Etherwave in a Reverberation Chamber
Excellent little video of a live improv featuring the Moog Etherwave and a Cello being played in a room with one of Europes longest reverb times. Average room reverbs are about 0.5 seconds, concert halls about 2/3 seconds, tiled bathrooms about 5 secs... the National Physical Laboratory UKs (NPL) reverb chamber has a a 30 second reverb at 100Hz. I can only imagine how great it sounded in the room.
There are a few more video's on Spacedogs website. Make sure to check out the one with the waterphone. Also well worth checking out is the 5 minute BBC Interview. You can get a better idea of the lenght of reverberation when somebody is talking in the room.


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The Riverdale Review published a very negative article about the rink in its February 27th issue.
We are very puzzled as to why we have been attacked. We don't know if you've even seen the article, but in case you have, we want everyone to know what's really correct. Read what we've sent to the Review:
February 28, 2014
To: The Riverdale Review Staff
From: The Van Cortlandt Park Ice Skating Rink Staff
We were quite unhappy when we saw the headline on page one of this week's issue: "Dinky Rink…"
We never thought of ourselves as a dinky rink.
We opened on November 9, 2013 to huge crowds and, except for days when the weather was bad, sometimes bad enough (snow fall this season was nearly double the normal snowfall that the Bronx experiences) that we were forced to curtail our hours or even close, the crowds continued. And on one memorable day, we had a crowd of 1,500 extremely happy skaters.
We had school groups almost every weekday, and on many days two or three groups (some as large as 250 children) , all happily skating together. We had local schools, public and private. We had schools from all over the Bronx. Not to mention Manhattan as well. We heard many comments about how much nicer we were than other rinks and how well we treated everyone. (School names and contacts available upon request.)
We had two elementary schools who brought their entire student body to the rink. Both came last season…one was a refugee from bad treatment at Wollman Rink, and loved it so much that they came again and will continue to do so in the years ahead.
And the other school planned nine trips to accommodate all their grades, but due to weather were only able to come six times. This year, once again, nine trips were planned (they were so anxious to come that the trips were scheduled before we opened) but were only able to come four times because of, guess what, bad weather. (School names and contacts available on request.)
We had multiple birthday parties each weekend, with catering from a local pizzeria. And on week-long school breaks, we had weekday birthday parties.
We had one special event, hosted by a pastor from Yonkers.
We were asked by the NY Yankees to run several ice skating events at Yankee Stadium for children in the neighborhood, held earlier this month. We brought loaner skates and set up right near the field, giving out skates and helpful advice. We had coaches on the ice to give an assist to skaters who needed help and our logo was prominently displayed on the stadium Jumbotron. There are many other local rinks that the Yankees, a sports and cultural icon, could have turned to. But they selected the Dinky Rink.
We modified rink construction to offer the neighborhood even more, and had hockey-based activities on Monday and Thursday nights.
Hmm, hockey. We invited the NY Rangers to the rink, had a Try Hockey For Free day this past December 1, and hosted an entire morning of free skating for neighborhood children.
Some of these children later decided to join our hockey prep program, which we ran every Saturday and Sunday. They became Future Rangers (a NY-Rangers based skills program) and learned the basics of skating taught by professional hockey coaches.
And children who wanted to learn figure skating joined our Learn to Skate program, which was taught every Thursday through Sunday by professional figure skating coaches.
And who were these coaches? Not to mention all the other staffers we employed. They were all local kids, local high school and college students. We provided viable jobs for about 30 people. And everyone loved their job.
Are you getting the idea here?
We are not a Dinky Rink. We served the community. We answered its desire for a local activity where families and friends could spent time together in a fun environment, engaged in an activity that the Bronx had been unable to provide since 1983 when the only local rink the Bronx ever had, closed.
When it was learned we were closed for the season (just one week earlier than planned, due to…weather) many customers told us that they were very upset, that they were not finished skating for the season, and why couldn't we stay open for the entire year.
Clearly the Riverdale Review based its article on…actually I don't know what it's based on. The bottom feeders of journalism don't need facts. Innuendo, hearsay and supposition will do.
To our knowledge no one from the Review ever called, came to the rink or talked to our management. If you had, an honest picture would have emerged. Not the one that was painted in your article. Your editorial staff is clearly not on the side of truth, but more than likely in the hip pocket of others who have a negative agenda regarding our rink.
Whatever your staff believes, it's irrelevant. And we'll see you next season.


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Decided to go for the onsight - wasn't expecting much - and fell off moving up to the good holds after the shake-out. I'd probably have just fallen off later anyway. Great route, hard to read.Nick Russell - Lead dog - 17/May/14 with Alex Winter
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2 falls just ran out of goCheese Monkey - 2nd dog - 14/May/14 with Alex W
Had flashed on a top-rope at the end of a session last week. First go today. Really good climbing. If you make it to the slot in one piece then it's a 7a clip-up! Maybe not 6b -- there aren't really any very hard moves, although it's tricky to read at the top.Alex Winter - Lead RP - 14/May/14 with Ben Darby
Just a clip up, but pretty scary at the top with a very blind sequence on random crystal bumps. Essentially safe with enough good pegs even if the top one blows.Daniel Heath - Lead O/S - 25/Jun/13
Nearly! 1 rest. AJM - 2nd dog - 24/Jun/13 with James Reeley, Mike Goldthorp
Superb sustained wall climbing, quite thin at times but never desperate, not 6b but several 6a moves, such nice rock - cracks, crimps, pockets, a slopey top, classic!Mike Goldthorp - Lead O/S - 24/Jun/13 with James R, Andy
Bold start - Easy when you know how. Better route than I thought it would be.gazhbo - Lead RP - 17/Feb/13
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E5 version. 2nd go today, have worked the route on previous session. Such a nice route.
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Unsure of date. As with all the routes on this wall Low Profile is significantly easier when you know where the holds are. Safe 7a (ish).Richard Hall - Lead RP - Feb/12 with Martin Crocker
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A fairly steady E5, though a couple of sections felt tricky to read in a completely unchalked state.Toby Dunn - Lead O/S - 30/Nov/11 with Pete Saunders
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I actually made it to the top this time, even if I did sit on all the pegs and chicken out up the arete.Paz - Lead dog - 17/Aug/08 with WG
Sat on penultimate peg, did a move then bailed right. Paz - Lead dnf - 15/Apr/08 with WG
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Dear Editor: The October coffee with the Mayor rated two front page stories in the Trail-Gazette on Oct. 9th. It was interesting reading for those unable to attend. Unfortunately, a citizen made a gross misstatement which no Town officials made any effort to clarify or correct. Pat Newsom said that "EPURA gets no money from property taxes," which is misleading. Now for the facts. EPURA does get money from p ...Read more ›


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Returning December, 2014
Thank you Seattle (and Orcas Island!) for another fantastic run. We love you.
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Burlesco DiVino: Wine in Rome
8th season opening night comments from our co-producers
December 12, 2013
In these mad final hours before our premiere performances, we caught up with our co-producers Lily Verlaine and Jasper McCann for their candid thoughts before the curtain rises on our eighth triumphant season. Lily Verlaine: "The source material for The READ MORE»
An interview with our Co-Producers: Lily Verlaine & Jasper McCann
December 8, 2013
First I'd like to start with background in performance. Jasper McCann: I have been a multi-instrumentalist and a theatre performer for most of my life. I began singing – I can't honestly even remember how young I was. My mother READ MORE»
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November 22, 2013
Lily Verlaine and Jasper McCann, producers of 'Land of the Sweets The Burlesque Nutcracker' are in search of several volunteers from December 12th – 28th (with the exception of the 16th and Christmas Day). Perhaps you're an avid fan looking READ MORE»
Interview with Laurel Bourdeaux
October 25, 2013
I'm sitting backstage with Laurel Bourdeaux as she eats an apple and we talk. Laurel performs in Land of the Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker as The Clockwork Doll, Tea Twin, Foliage, and a Snowflake. Let's start at the beginning. Tell READ MORE»
Read the Reviews
December 21, 2012
Seattle P.I. "…a rollicking, frolicking, unabashed and uninhibited celebration of the season." Read the full review» CultureMob:"The Best Thing About Christmas in Seattle is the Burlesque Nutcracker" Read the full review» Seattle Gay News:"…hottest ticket in the Emerald City this READ MORE»
New Faces, New Places, and That Old Winter Magic
November 17, 2012
It's been a prodigious and wonderful year for Lily Verlaine & Jasper McCann! 2012 saw their first new show in the three years, Burlesco DiVino: Wine In Rome come to life, as well as the long-awaited return of their beloved Through The Looking READ MORE»
CultureMob interviews Lily Verlaine
December 9, 2011
Lily Verlaine, our Artistic Director and Co-producer was recently interviewed by CultureMob writer Tom Mohrman. Lily offered a behind-the-scenes look at our sixth season, talking about new cast members and new features debuting this year. Below is an excerpt from READ MORE»
The Producers of Land Of The Sweets interview with Marta Zekan on KING FM 98.1
December 1, 2011
On a sunny but brisk Tuesday afternoon, our intrepid producers arrived at the studios of Classical KING FM 98.1. There, in amongst KING's massive library of classical and orchestral music, they met for an interview with the charming Producing Director READ MORE»
425 Magazine Says We're A "Must See"!
November 7, 2011
The word is spreading! 425 Magazine, the Eastside's premier monthly, says Land Of The Sweets is one of SIX regional events you "Must See" this holiday season. We couldn't be more flattered! The preview in the December issue of 425 calls READ MORE»
Rehearsals in full swing!
November 2, 2011
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What is this thing anyway? Spring Forest Qigong (pronounced chee-gong) is a method of opening up the flow of your energy which can help relieve physical pain, stress, depression and more. These exercises are simple, effective, and easy to learn. The main components of these exercises are breath, visualization, body postures, and sound. You will learn the Small Universe Meditation, which is the strongest meditation in Spring Forest Qigong for helping the body to heal.
Instructor Mary Zelmer is an advanced student of Master Chunyi Lin (founder of Spring Forest Qigong) and has been studying SFQ since 2001. She works at the SFQ Healing Center in Eden Prairie as a Master Healer and Qissage Practitioner. www.springforestqigong.com.
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Archive for the 'Partners' Category
People Want to See All the Listings
There are two types of classifieds listings: private party listings, where consumers buy and sell with each other, and professional listings, where a business (car dealer, landlord, real estate agent) is selling to a consumer. When you're looking to get the best deal, it's important to see both types of listings so that you can evaluate all of your options.
A few years ago, I was shopping for a used Suburban. It was extremely useful to see both what other people in my area were selling, as well as what was for sale at the local dealers. I only needed to pay a little more to get the car from a dealer (which is what I did). If something went wrong, they would be a lot easier to deal with.
Every category has its own natural ratio of private party to professional listings. Merchandise & Personals are made up almost entirely of private-party listings. About one-third of Car inventory is private-party (the other two-thirds is made up of dealers and independent lots). In contrast, Real Estate is almost entirely professional listings (except for a small, albeit growing list of for-sale-by-owner listings). Rentals and Employment are similarly comprised of almost entirely professional listings. Interestingly enough, however, small landlords and employers act a lot more like consumers than professional sellers (but that's fodder for another blog post).
Across our network, we continue to explore ways to better integrate private-party and professional listings to provide the best user experience. One area we are currently working on is better integration of the seller identity in search results. Private-party listings are increasingly tied to a person's online identity (on Facebook, MySpace, Oodle, etc.). Similarly, professional listings will be increasingly tied to the local advertisers brand and online identity.
It's highly unlikely that you'll buy a home or rent an apartment directly from another consumer. So as we roll-out new categories in the Facebook Marketplace, such as Cars, Homes and Jobs, we'll also be experimenting with ways to best introduce professional listings into the mix. Integrating professional listings into Oodle's community marketplaces such as Facebook and MySpace goes beyond figuring out ways to appropriately mix the two types of listings, however. We're experimenting with ways to present professional listings in a way that makes them more social. More on that in my next blog post…
Oodle Teams With MySpace Canada to Address User Demand for Social Classifieds
Today I'm thrilled to announce the launch of MySpace Canada Classifieds http://canada.classifieds.myspace.com/, a new social classifieds service powered by Oodle.
Last year, we launched the MySpace Classifieds channel in the U.S. Since then, we've seen tremendous growth as more and more people are turning to social classifieds as a way to buy, sell and find things — from cars to guitars. We're excited to work with MySpace Canada to bring social classifieds to a broader audience.
Because user profiles are linked to each listing (as opposed to anonymous IDs), there is inherent transparency in who you are selling to, trading with or buying from. These features make MySpace Canada Classifieds a safer environment and provide a more efficient way to connect buyers and sellers.
Users of MySpace Canada can also quickly spread the word about what they're selling or share information about what they are looking for through MySpace bulletins and blogs. Every listing also has a forum for asking questions or sharing additional details about listing.
We're thrilled to be working with MySpace Canada to broaden the appeal of classifieds by offering a safer — and more social — alternative for people to share their listings.
The New Facebook Marketplace Powered by Oodle
Today, we're launching Facebook Marketplace powered by Oodle. Facebook first introduced the Marketplace application in May 2007 as a way for people to post classified listings on the site — helping them buy and sell furniture and household items in a trusted environment. Late last year, Facebook turned to Oodle for our expertise with online classifieds, and we've built an entirely new version of Marketplace focused on giving people a trusted place to buy, sell or give things away to other Facebook users.
We're also introducing a new feature in Marketplace — Sell For a Cause which allows you to donate the proceeds from items you sell to over a million participating charities including UNICEF, the Sierra Club and local organizations like the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco. Right now, I'm selling some things my kids have outgrown (train table, bicycle) to support the Samaritan House — a local charity in Oodle's hometown of San Mateo, California that supports programs for families in need. If even 10% of the users on Facebook sold something for $10, we would be able to collectively raise over $175 million for causes around the world.
In the coming months, we'll be rolling out even more functionality and categories. Please share your feedback on what we're doing.
In the meantime, I urge you to buy or sell for a cause you believe in!
Welcome AOL to the Oodle Network
Today, I'm thrilled to share the news that AOL has joined our network with the launch of AOL Classifieds, http://classifieds.aol.com.
More and more users are turning to classifieds in these tough times. We're looking forward to helping AOL users have a more successful experience. They'll now be able to find the best deals with access to all the listings in the Oodle Index (over 500k new listings ever day). They'll also be able to effectively sell things that they aren't using. Listings posted in AOL classifieds are promoted across our growing network.
AOL joins some great partners who have recently joined our network – most notably MySpace and Comcast.
Comcast Expands its Online Marketplace With Oodle Network
We're excited to share the news that Comcast has joined our partner network. Today, Comcast expanded its online marketplace to include tickets and pets powered by Oodle: www.comcast.oodle.com. Now Comcast users have access to the largest compendium of sports, concerts and theater tickets and events on the web.
We're thrilled to have been chosen by this industry leader and look forward to helping them extend their vision for a compelling local classifieds service.
The addition of Comcast to Oodle's partner network of more than 200 leading brands, including Walmart, Facebook, MySpace, and Cox Broadcasting, now gives Oodle access to over 200 million uniques worldwide.
Oodle and CanWest: Perfect Partners
Today we're excited to announce a major partnership with CanWest, Canada's largest media player. CanWest owns the Global Television Network, is Canada's largest publisher of English language daily newspapers, and also owns many other television channels, web sites and radio stations all over the world.
This partnership is strategic for both Oodle and CanWest. Powering CanWest's classifieds will significantly boost Oodle's Canadian footprint, and we will benefit from the great content CanWest will bring into the Oodle network. CanWest will benefit from Oodle's top of the line classifieds platform, our expertise in content aggregation, and having a unified classifieds service across all of their papers and properties.
If you want to see the Oodle marketplace in action on CanWest sites, check out the Canada.com and its regional network, such as Victoria Times Colonist and the Calgary Herald.
Oodle Partners with The Car Connection
We're excited to be partnering with The Car Connection, a great online resource for car reviews, news, tips and shopping guides.
Users of The Car Connection can now buy and sell their cars using an Oodle-powered marketplace. This means they get to see millions of used car listings from all over the web, and when they sell their car, their listing will be displayed on hundreds of sites within the Oodle network, including MySpace, Lycos and Local.com.
The Car Connection will also be providing Oodle users with car reviews. The reviews, combined with Oodle's largest database of car listings and pricing guide, give users valuable context for an optimal car buying experience.
Cars is an important category on Oodle and we're thrilled to be working with The Car Connection.
Mobile Classifieds? Oh My!
At Oodle, we believe in the phrase "power to the people." We're sort of like John Lennon that way. So what do the people like? Mobile phones. In fact, in many countries, there are more mobile phones than people.
As the leading classifieds network and as fans of John Lennon (before the Yoko Ono days or maybe during the Yoko Ono days, after Abbey Road but before "Cold Turkey") and definitely fans of Gandhi or the Dalai Lama, we asked ourselves "What can we do that will change the world as we know it?" I'm glad we asked.
See, today, we here at the Oodle UK offices began an experiment with the next phase of classifieds – mobile classifieds. We're launching this service with one of our partners, Magic Radio. The service, which has been developed using technology through Mobiya, allows users to post ads directly into the Oodle network via their mobile phones.
If you live in the UK, all you do is take a picture of your item for sale, describe it, and then text the info to 66121. You'll get a couple more texts asking for your location and keywords to better describe the ad. And voila – we publish it to the web (and it reaches over 1 million potential monthly buyers in a snap).
The process is both easy and cheap – you're only charged normal SMS rates to post an ad. If someone replies to your ad, they're charged .25p. If you get a lead and want to accept it, you'll be charged .25p. An easy sale for only about .50p.
Try out the service this Friday, and listen to Magic FM for the accompanying advert. Also, check out: http://magic.mobiya.co.uk/docs/66121FreeAds.php for more info.
MySpace and Oodle: Two Weeks Later
Two weeks ago, we re-launched MySpace's classifieds. The goal for the partnership was to create the best possible classifieds experience for MySpace users – local classifieds from all over the web mixed with the inherently social nature of MySpace. The results and responses from MySpace users have been phenomenal.
Check out some of the Best Of posts from MySpace users.
Looking for some baby fancy rats? Look no further.
Or, if you're in the mood, you could send this guy $1…
Check at all the Best Of posts at Oodle's MySpace profile. While you're at it, become our friend!
New MySpace Classifieds Powered by Oodle
MySpace users now have a smarter classifieds site – more listings, better search and helpful pricing guides. The site is also more social: listings are linked to MySpace profiles – not anonymous IDs, and users can enlist their friends to help them buy or sell through MySpace bulletins and blogs.
We're big believers that classifieds are a form of "social commerce." Transactions start online, but they end in a face-to-face interaction and a handshake. In the coming months, we'll be busy working with the MySpace APIs to make their classifieds experience more social and conversational…
Our partnership with MySpace also represents another important addition to the 200+ sites in the Oodle Network giving private sellers and advertisers such as Prudential the ability to easily reach a wide local audience with their listings.
Go ahead. Try out the new MySpace Classifieds and let us know what you think.
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