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11-27-09

Giraffe Incognito – The Pursuit Continues

It’s finally here!

So, what do you do now? How do you get your hands on one of these?

Well I only printed 50 Digipak Copies, so if you want to grab one – please send me an email.

However, you can also download the album. I’m offering it under the pay-what-you-want- scheme.

You can download it for free, or pay $1000. I won’t lie to you – a $1000 dollars would be nice, but that’s not my aim. I put alot of effort into making this cd so I want YOU to listen to it. I don’t care if you don’t want to pay for it – in fact I actually encourage you not to.

Credits:

released 31 October 2009
Produced, recorded and mixed by
William Rainbird

Mastered by Paul Fox
at Indie Masters

Album art created by William Rainbird based on
the “Nighthawks” painting by Edward Hopper

This project would never have
been complete without the
help and support from these
awesome people:

Taryn Barbary
Sam Rainbird
Phillip Rainbird
Paul Fox
Mathew Dobson
Fred Rainbird
Michael Stocks
Nathan Beavis
Damien Clarke
Ben Morling
Joshua Spry
Adam Bottega
Tait Brown
Jason Yim
Tj Ramadoss
Silas Haysom
Bill Myers
Chris Tan
Stuart Grant
Eloise Grant
Brenton Cleeland
Josh Hesketh
Paul Rigby
Spencer Skey (performs the vibra slap on villains)
and Mum
and everyone else, you know who you are!

10-24-09

The Finish Line

Hey crew.

Picking up the Master C.D. on monday.

Sending off to the printers next week – all album art is ready to go.

I’ll be printing off 50 copies – and also posting it up for free download online – hopefully by the end of the month but most likely November first.

Thanks for keeping up with my blog and showing interest, really looking forward to you guys having a listen.

Big things to happen in the upcoming weeks!

09-11-09

Introducing a little “Tumblr” Sidebar

As we all know, I like to surf the internet, and when you do so you’re bound to find interesting things.

Now, if I was to blog about everything I saw, this blog would turn into a sushi train of just crap that everyone has already seen.

So I’ve created a tumblr, and am basically going to post funny, interesting and random things. The latest three entries will show up on the right-hand side of the page.

I’m going to keep main blog posts on this site about my music and other more substaintal happenings in my world.

So, what do you guys all think?

08-28-09

Progress – It’s keeps getting deeper!

First things first, how awesome is this picture! It was by a guy named Jan Oliehoek, and he’s done some really cool photo manipulation work – you can check out some more of his works here

Haven’t posted for a while. But hey – been busy getting this nasty little cd completed so you can hopefully get your dirty mits on it by the end of … september (realistically).

I’ve been awaiting feedback from several reliable sources and am now going to give my music to the mastering dudes for some more feedback, so that’s all starting to looking promising.

I’ve also started work on my album art, this is one of the main reasons I wanted to make a cd in the first place! So it’s been really fun playing around with ideas.

I don’t want to give anything away but here are some teasers – it will most likely be black and white, be a font lovers paradise and there will be hidden giraffes for you to find!

As for the title of the album – I haven’t chosen it yet – and no it will not be ‘the prototype’ (that’s what I wrote on the draft cd I gave to people!).

Have a good weekend.

08-24-09

Inglourious Basterds

Inglourius Basterds

This is the first time I’ve actually been waiting in anticipation for a Tarantino flick. I was too young when films such as Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown were released. As for Kill Bill, I don’t think I saw them until a few years after all the hype.

A large coke and a classic Tarantino title credit scene to start the film, things were looking good. This wasn’t classic Tarantino in the way that he cuts up the plot and throws it about randomly throughout the movie so you have no idea what timeframe you’re in. Sure there’s a little bit of it, but the film take you through chapters, which I thought was a really cool idea and was a good way to seperate some fairly intense scenes.

It starts off with quite a few accents slapping you in the face, but once you get over Brad Pitt’s ridiculous accent you get used to the fact that it’s no monotone film and that dialogue between languages gel together smoothly.

Whilst I watched the film, sure I laughed, but I was mainly caught up in the suspense, especially towards the latter half of the film. But now looking back on it, you could almost class the film as a comedy. I guess you could say it will have the same replay value as Pulp Fiction, it just grows on you humorously the more you view it.

To wrap it up, acting was great, I thought the film wasn’t too long and that it’s definitely worth seeing, even if you aren’t a typical tarantino fan. Another big win for me was the soundtrack, but that’s something you expect with a Tarantino film, he chooses great music.

One last thing, why is Diane Kruger getting so much media attention for being ‘that woman’ in the film? Yes she’s attractive, but Mélanie Laurent takes the cake in this film (pictured above). Much more interesting character too…

08-12-09

Turn Your Last.fm Into A Wordle

So what is Wordle?

Well it’s a cool site developed by Jonathan Feinberg that makes nice images based on text that you input. The way it makes the images is based on how frequent the word is.

So I thought, it’d be cool if it can generate a ‘Wordle’ based on your last.fm, for example artists with more plays would be bigger in the resulting ‘Wordle’ image. But that would involve copying your favourite artists’ name several times and can be a waste of time, so I’ve made it easier for you. Simply enter your last.fm username, choose what charts you want and then click go.

Note: Results will open in a new window, you then must copy the text and paste it into the ‘Wordle create’ textbox.

Warning: Last.fm users with high playcounts on their artists (for example 2000+ on some artists!) may take alot longer to load the results. Be patient!

New: You can now select top track charts!