Work has made me appreciate my free time digging around for new things to play and/ or listen to. And usually my free time is either on public transport or whilst driving (basically, the times I'm in transit). And thanks to the amazing thing called the radio, I heard this nifty Pivot remix of Temper Trap's Fader.
A Pivot touch to anything is always a marvelous thing to hear
This entry was written by , posted on October 25, 2010 at 1:36 am, filed under Food for your ears and tagged pivot, temper trap. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
A second series has been announced, after a ridiculously popular first series run. This Green Machine has a blog post full of awesome pictures of the first series.
The second series will feature artists including Andrew Bell, Gary Ham, Doktor A and a few from the folk behind the Android team at Google, huzzah! Won't be out until sometime in the first quarter of 2011 so there is only a teaser banner.
The good news is a standard 3" vinyl figurine will be available in November in limited quantities. Sexy beast, ain't it? Looking at between AUD$10-$15 each.
And to top it off, a Do-It-Yourself one will be available for you to customise. Also at 3" and will be disassemble-able for easier decoration.

Will be stocking these via Klaus und Sven
This entry was written by , posted on September 8, 2010 at 5:37 pm, filed under plasmo. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
My friend wrote an article for News on American Apparel's recent financial woes.
Then I found some articles about people who really don't like American Apparel ads.
And then I found some images that suggest that I might.
NSFW; over the fold
This entry was written by , posted on September 3, 2010 at 4:02 pm, filed under Blueprints and tagged ads, American Apparel, clothing, print, sex. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
After news broke that Cheezburger Network's Ben Huh was offering to buy the ailing Reddit, it was natural to investigate what role Ben Huh plays and what he did to capitalise on something I'd dare say is phenomenal on the internet: lolcats (cat memes). Reading through his blog, he posted up a talk he did at a Ted conference in Seattle around April about the "19 debts" he owed himself; i.e. his 19 goals he has set himself out to do.
This entry was written by , posted on August 30, 2010 at 1:39 am, filed under plasmo. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Directed by Swedish director Jessica Nilsson, caught this one at Flickerfest two years ago at a best-of compilation screening. It's pretty morbid, but everything about the pace, the music, the vintage film filter and the fact that it made very little sense made this a crowd favourite. Towards the end there is a cat on a piano. Yes.
spotless
Jessica Nilsson | Myspace Video
It's a good idea to be inspired by your favourite music.

This entry was written by , posted on August 29, 2010 at 3:27 pm, filed under Moving Pictures, plasmo and tagged cat piano, flickerfest, jessica nilsson, short film, spotless. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
How can so much drama, selflessness, a beautiful soundtrack, poignancy and a silly bit of humour be packed into a 4 minutes and 37 seconds clay animation?
Plasmo, a little alien, risks his life by flying his spacecraft into an oncoming comet to deflect it. In doing so, the core of a certain planet gets filled by a naturalistic/ forest-like utopia. In his last seconds, he sends a photo of himself and Pasty, as a gesture that she was probably the last thing on his mind before he hurls himself and his spaceship into the comet.
This entry was written by , posted on August 1, 2010 at 11:34 pm, filed under Moving Pictures, plasmo and tagged abc, drama, plasmo, youtube. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
This is the type of movie where you will feel like a bit of a jerk for downloading because it is pretty genius. And you should pay for good things.
I was going to write up some review, talk about some of the ideas, appreciate some of the artists, love the characters, etc.
But it is wrong because this movie provided a canvas for anti-establishment, and writing anything remotely about the movie's ideas would prove its point.
So don't watch it because you should.
This entry was written by , posted on June 5, 2010 at 2:28 am, filed under Moving Pictures and tagged exit through the gift shop, youtube. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Had a massive nostalgia trip. Even though the 'Tom Baker' years technically occurred outside of my existence, they were the only ones I watched during my upbringing. The intro is so iconic and synonymous with the science fiction genre. Doctor Who > Star Trek. When developing the Tom Baker Doctor character, he was described as a 'cosmic hobo'.
I wonder who really planted the seeds to eventually give birth to the whole rave scene in the UK back in the 80s? Club owners, the drug culture, or quite simply, everyone's fascination with Doctor Who?
This entry was written by , posted on May 23, 2010 at 6:09 pm, filed under Food for your ears and tagged doctor who, electro, science fiction, tom baker, youtube. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Boards of Canada sampled the beginning chorus of the famous 'Oh Mickey' song by Toni Basil and distorted it into their own electro version.

It came as a hidden track after the actual 60-90 seconds of 'Iraq says':
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This entry was written by , posted on May 19, 2010 at 10:30 am, filed under Food for your ears and tagged boards of canada, clown, hidden track, iraq says, mickey, naked girl, youtube. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Latest offering from the Chemical Brothers; following from the Escape Velocity public release, put yourself at ease with another dose of what's to come in their up-and-coming album.
This entry was written by , posted on May 7, 2010 at 10:35 am, filed under Food for your ears and tagged chemical brothers, youtube. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Heard this on the radio and couldn't resist doing a quick write-up. Hailing from Chelmsford, UK and currently hanging around London. Has done remixes for a few big names and is now releasing some of his own stuff.
There is something particularly hypnotic yet simple about 'You'.
Soundcloud
Official Website (in good 'ol fashion HTML)
Myspace
This entry was written by , posted on May 5, 2010 at 8:11 pm, filed under Food for your ears and tagged electronic, gold panda, youtube. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I shared this on my twitter the other day, but I'm still not over it. There is something fundamentally right about EVERYTHING in the video; the lyrics, the ridiculously cheesy background images/ video, the complete disregard to how uninterpretable it is. Oh and there is a wookie on a guitar halfway through the video.
Celebrate the love!
Yeah, they actually say that. Tear-jerking stuff, eh?
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