Two is just taking the piss

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I stole this picture from StevieG's blog. It's of some RedFM gig that the Republic of Loose did. I have to question yer manno's use of not 1 but 2 MicroKORG's. There are so many multitimbral synths out there with better keys than those fiddly little ones on the Korg, if thats indeed what he's using them for, but isn't the MicroKorg multitimbral anyway? Ah well, whatever does it for you I guess.

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Missing the 'h' but I had less luck on the A Station's display :)

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Define: Train Wreck

The enema bag hanging on the door is the coup de grâce

Going along with the picture I had for Valentines Day, I present this classic of the pornographic industry. Just look at the luxurious setting (all mod cons) and what about that guy! His demeanor betrays him; surely this is the picture of a lad wandering in expecting a fine young nubile lass only to be greeted by Jabba the Hut lying on the bed. Or perhaps its the poise of a man who has readied himself to do battle with the mighty ancient Cracken! Whats with the guitar? I'm betting it's not a genuine stratocaster. Maybe he's going to try and calm the beast with a Greg Lake number. But the real question is: whos going to drink the bottle of distiled diesel in his hand; the address says drunkmoms.com but by the look of fright on his face I'm sure he's about ready to down the lot in one gulp, in the hope of its alcoholic content killing him within seconds, or at the very least, cause spontaneous blindness.

Dr:rex or: How I learned to give up snobbery and love da bomb

I've been using Reason, in one shape or another, for years now. The combinator in version 3.0 is a delight to use and the mastering suite is a great way to punch up dead tunes, but the one thing that I ignored throughout all incarnations of Reason is the Dr:rex module, out of pure snobbery to be honest. I resisted the urge to pop a loop into it and see what it could do, "I dont need none of that gangsta shit in my music" I used to say. Well with Reason 3.0 I gave it a whirl and to my amazement I took to it like Rick Wakeman taking to a gold lambé cape.

I was an absolute midi whore! Everything; every note; every change in the timbre of an instrument had to be recorded in midi form otherwise someday the samples would go missing and I'd have nothing left but a trigger list. At least with a midi file you have the core of the song left to rebuild on. To an extent thats true but using loops in Dr:rex allows for great diversity plus its fast! I can just whack a complex drum loop into it and start improvising over the top instantly, and thats exectly what I did with the tune I'm including with this post. As with 99% of my stuff, its rather unpollished but unlike most its actually got a bit of time put into it (most are just one track at a time jams where I improvise over improvised tracks, a one man band if you will), I think the top end could do with some work; those hithats are a bit shrill. It has no title, but I saved it as "spin" for whatever reason. Its an odd little ditty with a hint of Jon Lord at times :)

Spin

Skull

2" skull model on tinfoil. Concentrated flash, minimal post processing (white balance and minor curve adjustments)

Me Dancing

A rotoscoped animation made from a real video of me dancing, flattend temporally

I was going to upload the actual animation but it turned out on the large size. It might appear later.

The Final Synapse

Image by Graham Johnson

This is my first non-midi multitrack tune. It's just a glorified test really, kinda like what would be left on the floor after a fight between Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream. There was no reason behind it, the title took longer to come up with than recording the music. Theres quite a few layers to it, which are almost entirely made using the Korg Wavestation soft synth although there are one or two time/pitch stretched samples of my own in there. Anyway, here it is warts and all.

The Final Synapse

Secret regarding the third season of Dr. Who

Just an excuse to use the scratchy thing above really

Knocknamocka Woods

I went off taking photographs with a friend yesterday. Everywhere we went was mobbed with grannies in speedo's so we finally happend upon some wooded place that just had a few boy racers in the car park. I dont know where it was; Kilwacka or Sheibhdurra Woods or something.

Dr. Who - 2006

I'm going through the episodes of the second season of the new Dr. Who series. Wow! I'm bored to tears! David Tennent is absolutely useless; The Doctor regenerated into a right turd this time. If Ecclestone was the James Bond of Doctors then Tennent is the Austin Powers. Imagine Joe Pasquale travelling through time and space defending the universe, thats the level drama involved with this doctor.


Come into the Tradis for the 'Pasquale Finale'

Mr. Fibble? and Dr. Who shiz

While not a major Red Dwarf fan I did live with one for a few years allowing me to appreciate the humor of this goof by play.com. They did manage to get it right on the product page though.

I was viewing the sales on play.com when I spotted the mistake. By now a plethora of drooling RD geeks will be emailing play to inform them of their mistake, no doubt offering "Mr. Flibble is very cross" as a "witty" opening line and threatening to use their hex vision on the webmaster.

So anyway, I was viewing the cheap Dr. Who stuff they were selling off. I want to pick up something with Christopher Ecclestone as the Doctor (a proper Doctor). I wont buy anything though, I just like looking. Then I spotted her!



Oh man, someone lash me the cash for this. I had my finger on the buy button when I saw it was just a 6" bust (no jokes). Think of the possibilities with a life size bust of Billie Piper. There's one thing you can't disagree about Billie Piper; there were at least 2 weeks, while she was with Chris Evans, that went like this "Come on hun, let me poke you up the bum!" and Billie would protest "but baby why do you want to do that?" to which Evans would reply "Cos I want to! Cos I want to ... bitch!"

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3 of my Terragen landscapes

More random crap I'm finding in folders on my computer.







Terragen is a 3D landscape modelling tool kind of thing. The above are just crap examples I made for myself; just for the novelty of waiting 3 hours for the image to render but that wore off quickly. I wish I had enough interest to find out how to include grassy areas. Oh and theres a video add on thing called cam path that allows you to trace out a fly-by but rendering a decent quality small movie would take days to render.


You can do some great stuff with it if you spend some time with it though.

Get the point!

I drew this at work one day after listening to an ear full of slick politicians congratulating themselves over penalty points making the roads safer. Well months later and theres more road kill than before. People are always going to speed, people are always going to drink and drive, its the cases where shit roads were at fault that we should be worrying about. Only in Ireland can you find road signs such as dangerous junction ahead or the dreaded black spot... if these areas are so bloody dangerous, then fix them! Bad roads are to blame for 91% of fatal traffic accidents.

Saw this at the Kinsale "magic" roundabout

Alright, so maybe I'm being ignorent, but I dont know what the hell that thing on the back of this car is.

Without Permission

This is up without the rightful owners permission. 50% ruined candid; 50% fine art

The Terminator uses QuickTime Player

So it's not just a piece of crap; proof that Quicktime is actually evil!



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Masters of War

More Roger Taylor now, this time its a video I made myself back in 2004. I made it using flash but the only way I could get the size down to something reasonable was to convert it to an avi file and upload it to google. The quality should be good enough to watch anyway. I wont say anymore about it, just watch it and see... oh and listen to the lyrics :)

You should be able to make them out as you watch, but if not...


Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know I can see through your masks
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water that runs down my drain

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
While the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies and into the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You're not worth the blood that runs in your veins

And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I'll follow your casket
On a pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
I'll stand over your grave
Till I'm sure that you're dead

And now for some Rogering

The thing is, they aren't acting; they really are that money hungry

As I predicted!

What smells of garlic and gives you chest pains? Zinedine Zidane's head. I was watching the France v. Brazil match and I thought to myself, Zidane has to win player of the world cup with the way he was playing, and after hearing that he was retiring after the world cup I said to myself the best way he could end his career would be getting sent off, maybe standing on the ref's head or something. Well both came true, except the ref's head, and I'm delighted it was a decent foul he got sent off for! The French have a good way of being vicious. Roo-nay could learn a thing or two from the French and not foul like a girl standing on a guys balls. It's a pity Franch didnt win, just so the sending off would be validated. I'm not unhappy that Italy won however, unlike most people for some reason.


Je t'aime, je t'aime!

Back again! Back to how I got it... now the "fun" begins, uninstalling all that shit I dont want and all the goodies that I do!

Here we go again!

The new pc lasted just over a year but not its time to reformat and reinstall. That should sort it out. Now, how do I fix the gaping hole I made in the motherboard with a hammer.

What European City Do You Belong In?

You Belong in Paris

You enjoy all that life has to offer, and you can appreciate the fine tastes and sites of Paris. You're the perfect person to wander the streets of Paris aimlessly, enjoying architecture and a crepe.

What European City Do You Belong In?

I think this deserves a good blast of Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh!

Built a model thing!

An impulse buy saw me taking home this 1:65 scale corner of some building thing. I liked the idea of a model lighthouse but they didnt have any nice ones so I got this instead. I'm not really into model building, I just wanted to mess about with a a minature garden to be honest. So I did some "speed model building". It's a system modeled on real irish building standards, that is, rush the building up as fast as you can and if a part doesnt fit, youre just not forcing it in hard enough. As long as it stands, its beautiful!







































































A bit of wall filler to conture the ground





Just look at the brick work! lol