Archive for the ‘Interesting’ Category
|Birthday trip to Wales
Monday, July 12th, 2010
At the start of may a group of us went to Wales for my friend Tom’s 25th Birthday, I’ve been meaning to edit the footage together for ages and finally got round to it this weekend. I’ve never edited or colour corrected anything in final cut pro before. I found once I got the basics, it wasn’t too difficult to achieve what I wanted.
I can’t wait to make the next one, i’ll shoot a lot more footage for it. I’ve certainly got my eye on a 7D.
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A Journey through Asia
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Late this year or early next year i’m going to be travelling on the trans-siberian from Moscow to Beijing and then i’ll be travelling around asia. I just found this beautifully edited video that excites and inspires me. Whilst I can’t guarantee that mine will look as good as this, i’m definitely going to be documenting the journey all the way.
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Letter Cult: Folded Font
Monday, November 17th, 2008
(via ilovetypography)
Tags: typography
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The Atlas of Hidden Water
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
A map (pdf) published by new scientist magazine documenting the worlds hidden water supplies.
(via bldgblog)
Tags: Atlas, Hidden, new scientist, Water
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Brokers with hands on their faces
Friday, October 24th, 2008
I just stumbled on the brokers with hands on their faces blog.
(via subtraction)
Tags: brokers with hands on their faces, credit crunch, finance, ouch, recession
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RIP Muxtape
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Justin from muxtape has written on the muxtape home page his experience of dealing with the RIAA and the record industry giants.
“Around the same time I got a call from the VP of anti-piracy at one of the majors. After I picked up the phone his first words were, “Justin, I just have one question for you: where do I send the summons and complaint?” The conversation picked up from there. There was no summons, it was an intimidation tactic setting the tone for the business development meeting he was proposing, the true reason for the call. Around the same time another one of the big four’s business developers reached out to me, too.
It’s a really interesting read that comes straight from the heart. The great news is that this isn’t the end of muxtape and it will support smaller bands looking for their break. I’m looking forward to seeing what comes out of muxtape and will be recommending all my friends bands to sign up to it. I’m confident that this will be really, really good!
For now there is Favtape
Tags: Music, muxtape, RIAA
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The Old House and the Sea
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Another Interesting article from The New York Times about a 23 bedroom, 103 year old mansion in the Narragansett Bay.
“In 1961, when Mr. Wood bought the house with his ex-wife Joan, who is also an architect, for $3,600, it had been empty for two decades. All of its 65 windows were smashed, and its slate roof was wide open to the sky. Vandals had been creative: on the second floor, the interior shingles were embedded with marbles (they still are), which had been blasted there by some sort of firearm.”
Sounds like they have a really nice community there. It’s really nice that this house is being used by people that really appreciate it, instead of it being a rich mans play thing. If only more people thought like Mr. Wood.
Tags: Clingstone, New York Times
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A House By The Park…
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
A House By The Park is the latest blog by Mike Davidson, it’s a really nicely written real time account of his experience in designing, planning and constructing his new home in Seattle. He has written more than 20 posts so far so there is quite a bit of catching up to do if your not already following. Definitely worth the read, i’m looking forward to watching this story unfold.
Tags: Good Reading, Mike Davidson, Newsvine
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Vertical Gardens
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Some really cool vertical gardens by Patrick Blanc. I’ve never seen anything like this before. Also did a search on flickr and found some even better pictures of his work.
Quote from Patrick Blanc’s Website:
“The Vertical Garden, known as Le Mur Végétal in french, was conceived after many observations in natural environments. The Vertical Garden relies on a new way to grow plants without any soil”.
Vertical Gardens in Madrid
Tags: garden, patrick blanc, patrickblanc
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