Emma Pollock, ‘Acid Test’ and ‘Adrenaline’
New artist to the scene, pretty cool, Spinner brings us a new video from Emma Pollock, who’s debut album ‘Watch the Fireworks’ should be on September 11. You can download “Limbs” mp3 from her site here. I could see here making the festival rounds next year, hopefully Bonnaroo 08, maybe Coachella also. Acid Test: Adrenaline:
Your Face, Our Balls
I know, 3 posts in one day, but this was too good to pass up. It’s Faceball! Totally reminds me of working at AOL, or probably most somewhat fun office environments. Myself and other co-workers used to always throw stuff at each other, but these guys made a sport out if. Granted they are using [...]
Early Morning Swim
Yay, Early Morning Swim, my band is playing out in Durham on Nov 9. So if your in or around town, come check us out.
Design day
Gretchen sent me this site, Newsdesigner.com about design in the newspaper industry. It highlighted very interesting video taken at TED, on it now about a Microsoft project Photosynth, a developmental software that takes photos on sites such as Flickr and takes the tags on the photos to create communities within the photos. They use an [...]
Microsoft’s answer to the iPhone
Ok, had to post this cause I though it was funny and since I really can’t stand Microsoft.
Social Networking
Are you in? Seems to be new social networking sites popping up on the web all the time. Well, many are new, many more actually are old, old companies finding new ways to interact with their users, such as Netflix. Anyway, what are you on now? Right now I’m on…. LinkedIn, a professional social networking [...]
Rights grab
Znet is reporting in their article “Web sites out of tune with musicians’ rights” how YouTube basically is grabbing the rights of artist’s works as soon as content is uploaded to their site. As stated, YouTube takes a different tack. It claims a “worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license” to content uploaded on its [...]
Sam Roberts
Sam Roberts Band at Bonnaroo 2007 I came across this Sam Roberts Band video last night, great song and beautiful video. If you haven’t heard of him give him a try, the vocal melodies and song structures are incredible, I can’t stop listening to Chemical City released last year.
New Foo Fighters
I have to admit, I really love the Foo Fighters. The band that showed everyone David Grohl is a damn good musician, not just the “drummer of Nirvana.” I too was disappointed by 2005 release, “In Your Honor.” Not enough rocking, too much slow stuff and not an interesting album. Doesn’t mean I won’t stop [...]
Blogging Photo Rights 101
OK, I’ve gotten a few questions off line about not being able to use photos and what you can use. I use the same mentality we used at AOL for using 3rd party photos. The best idea is to ask to use a photo if you’d like to use it. Be honest and upfront about [...]
mmmm…not bad
Ok, so I’ve been trying this freelance thing out basically since January. Hasn’t been going too bad, I’ve gotten a few good shoots, a wedding or two and thanks to some friends I picked up some contract photo research for college text books. Enough to pay the bills and with my severance package from leaving [...]
…and that’s the News
Ok, to continue on my journalism rant… I think the news is changing and the sad thing is most newspapers are in a not keeping up. How has blogging, the internet, and citizen journalism changed how many of us get news now and how we will find it in the future? At this time newspapers [...]
Ethics
Ethics is a topic close to my heart. Why? Mostly with journalism and the world of photo journalism. It’s fairly simple. You see a photograph, you hope it truthful. I learned and researched photo ethics quite a bit while I was working on the News Channel for AOL (at the time Netscape/CompuServe). I quickly became [...]
Rock Icon: Neal Preston
For years dating back to the beginning of some of the largest rock bands in history, Neal Preston has been there photographing the icons of rock and roll. Spinner recently ran an article highlighting some of Preston’s work. Out of respect to Neal’s work and the rights he hold on his photographs I’m not running [...]
Sousaphone Hero
Ok, I spent time in two marching bands, fairly damn good ones at that. High school marching band is one thing, but being in the Ohio State Marching Band is 100% more work and so much better because of it, that and you are playing for Ohio State. Since I was in the percussion section [...]
