Flip Mino HD Examples
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- April 25th, 2009
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I got a new Flip Mino HD video camera. I didn’t think amazon.com would ship to Canada but they did and it only took 36 hours, crazy! Click here to check it out in HD, it’s way better.
Flip Mino HD Test from Totally Stupid on Vimeo.
I recently bought a Flip Mino HD and I wanted to test it out in different lighting situations. Here it is.
Old School Dance Party
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- April 18th, 2009
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Back before I ever had a Mac or GarageBand I had the best beat sequencer ever, Fruity Loops (now called FL Studio). If Fruity Loops worked on a Mac I’d buy it right away. When Alison and I first started dating over 700 years ago we needed some music for a dance party we were having in my bedroom at my parent’s house so we made some. I think it’s awesome, what do you think?
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More Free GarageBand Drum Loops – Rock and HipHop
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- April 9th, 2009
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Over 325 people have downloaded my first set of free GarageBand drum loops so I decided to make more. This time I made the loops longer to give you the option to cut out whatever you want to use or keep the whole thing as is. There are 2 Rock drum loops and one HipHop drum loop. These free GarageBand drum loops are made using electronic drums in my apartment. I play to a metronome and the loops are not quantized in order to keep the feel. They are free so go ahead and use them. If you get rich using them I might call you begging for a cut but if you ask me to drum for you when you tour we might call it even.
I hope you like them and I want to make them better so please leave feedback and I’ll keep at it.
Download the loops here: MM-Loops-9apr2009 (477)
Listen to them below:
100bpm – 2 Verse 2 Chorus – HipHop
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174bpm – 2 Verse 2 Chorus – Rock
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118bpm – 2 Verses 2 Chorus – Rock
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How To Use The Loops
- Download and unzip the file above.
- Import the MP3 files into Garageband.
- Make loops (track > add to loop library) if that’s your thing.
- Make music.
Rahaf Harfoush’s Website
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- April 7th, 2009
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A custom Wordpress theme designed by Alan Smith of The Movement and turned into a Wordpress theme using standards compliant CSS, XHTML and some PHP black magic (really just if statements.. shhhh). Some highlights include a different home page template, different colour highlights for each category and a totally different work category layout. Visit Rahaf’s site or click “Read the rest of this entry” to see some screen shots.
Monday Night Dance Party
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- April 6th, 2009
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I’m on vacation this week but Alison still has to go to work so I felt bad and figured nothing would cheer her up more than a dance party. Of course you can’t have a dance party without dance music so I made some. It’s short and annoying, just the way dance music should be, enjoy.
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Condo Countdown
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- February 13th, 2009
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We have an official occupancy date for our new condo, below is a countdown to that date….
Free GarageBand Drum Loops
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- January 24th, 2009
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There’s nothing I love more than laying down a solid groove on the drums. With the recent popularity of mash ups it seems that everyone is looking for nice clean drum beats to sample so I made some. These free GarageBand drum loops are made using electronic drums in my apartment and they are free so go ahead and use them. If you get rich using them I might call you begging for a cut but if you ask me to drum for you when you tour we might call it even.
I hope you like them and I want to make them better so please leave feedback and I’ll keep at it.
Download the loops here: MM-Loops-24jan2009 (633)
Listen to them below:
88bpm – 1 Verse – Rock
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140bpm – 1 Verse – Urban
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108bpm – 2 Verses 2 Choruses – Urban
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How To Use The Loops
- Download and unzip the file above.
- Copy the files to User(your user folder with the house icon)/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/User Loops/SingleFiles
- Open GarageBand and look for the loops in the loop viewer.
- Make music.
Best Blog I’ve Seen All Day: Random As Rhyme
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- January 17th, 2009
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A good friend of mine recently launched a new blog and it’s excellent. Here’s how he describes it:
Random as Rhyme. Strange name for a blog. But this is a strange blog. I write about my interests and interesting things I find on the grand old internet. Things normally talked about: Cars, BMX, Cartoons, Movies, 80s Nostalgia, Hot topics, Wordless Wednesdays, Things I always wanted….
Why I like it:
- Posts about cartoons you forgot existed.
- Complaints I agree with.
- Awesome design.
- He’s a Front End Developer…
Check it out if you’re bored and subscribe to his RSS feed if you like it (it’s at the bottom). There’s lots of good, original content posted on an almost daily basis.
Sick Ship – Songwriting – December 22 2008
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- December 23rd, 2008
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We posted two new demos on the Sick Ship website; check them out.
Anticipation – The Way I Hear Music
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- December 17th, 2008
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You’ve had that song stuck in your head all day; you can’t wait to get home and listen to it as loud as you can; you need to hear it, you can’t breathe until you hear it. You finally get home; you kick off your shoes and lock the door. You press play and time stands still in the split second before the music kicks in.
You hear the opening notes of the song that you’ve been dying to hear all day but the intro is just the beginning, you’re dying to hear the first verse. The first verse hits and all you can think about is the giant release that is the chorus. The chorus hits and you sing along at the top of your lungs, nothing feels better. Now you can’t wait to hear the second verse because it’s the one with the lyrics that are the exact lyrics you’d write if you wrote songs, they’re perfect and they sum up every emotion you’ve experienced that day, that week, that month, that year. You need to hear the bridge with that perfectly timed guitar riff or that breathtaking bass line; the part where everything drops out except the drums and group vocals, the part all of your friends would sing along to in the car on the way to the show on Friday night.
Now you focus on the drums; the split seconds between the bass drum and snare drum; the bass on 1 and 3 and the snare on 2 and 4. Everything is perfectly in time but the snare drum is one tiny nano second behind the beat; not enough to hear but enough to feel and it feels good. It’s as though you can feel the anticipation the drummer felt and the power behind the beat; you can feel every emotion released when that drum was hit. The song is dripping with groove and it feels more right than anything you’ve ever felt before.
Music is tension and the anticipation of the release. There’s tension and release within the song structure, within each note played and within each drum beat that makes you move. There’s also tension and release in the anticipation of hearing your favourite song, discovering new music and seeing a band perform live. Music touches everyone in different ways and I find it very hard to write about the way it makes me feel; this is my attempt. How do you hear music?
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