Posts Tagged ‘cool’

Logorama Wins Best Animated Short Oscar – and Rightly So

// March 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Design, Movies

Watch the full 16 minute version below. Be aware there is some NSFW language.

Visit the creator’s site H5 or the Logorama site itself.

Brief Comment on a New Band on My Radar – Get Back Guinozzo

// October 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // General, Music

Carpet Madness Get Back Guinozzo album cover
I actually can’t recall where the recommendation to check this lot out originated from, but so far I’m kind of glad I did give it a listen regardless of where it came from.

It’s far from the best album I’ve ever heard, and probably will not even make it through to the hallowed position of a band or album I listen to regularly. But, seeing as though I’ve not heard anything noteworthy from their fellow countrymen and also purveyors of relaxed and leftfield electro that is “Air” for a while, “Get Back Guinozzo” are a worthy substitute for the “Air” intermission until I hear “Love 2″ properly.

I think I’ll be giving it plenty of plays over the coming weeks and months as it’s great music to work by, relax to and generally listen to without feeling it’s taking over your existence at that time.

The standout track is the album named “Carpet Madness” which is a floaty, uplifting and surprisingly well produced and full-sounding little ditty.

I predict much praise from the blogs for that particular track and perhaps some good reviews from the big guns (The Guardian, Pitchfork, Metacritic et al) for the album in the future.

Give it a go at least.

You can listen to Get Back Guinozzo – Carpet Madness below.

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An Oft Overlooked Hip Hop Gem – Atmosphere

// July 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // General

Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons Album CoverNow like many others I like a bit of the old hippety hop every now and again, especially anything with an “old-skool” taste to it, none of this autotune R&B nonsense.

Whilst randomly browsing the A’s in my iTunes I rediscovered the Atmosphere album “When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold”. This album was originally sent to me last year to contemplate and in all honesty I’d have probably passed it by hadn’t it had such a wonderful title. Anyway back in last year I gave it a chance and quite liked it, finding myself enamoured particularly by the handclap synthy sound of “Shoulda Known” and the silky feel of “Puppets”.

Listening to it again tonight gave me a new appreciation for the overall slickness of this album and I would recommend it to any other hip hop listeners out there. Any purveyors of hip hop who can convince Tom Waits to beat box for them are worthy of mention just for that in fact.

As a side note, iTunes genius threw up another hip hop fave of mine from recent years, K-Os -Elektrik Heat, The Seekwill. This little Canadian born ditty of recent years makes me yearn for the old days of proper rap music. Have a listen.

Essential Addition to Your Summer Playlist – Discovery

// June 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Music

Discover LP Album ArtorkIf summer ever comes that is; I thought it was meant to be always sunny and warm down here – or so my cockernee friends always told me.

Anyway, Jon Hicks yesterday posted a brief intro to the new band Discovery (he discovered it perhaps?). Discovery are a side project taking 50% of its members from Vampire Weekend and 50% from Ra Ra Riot a blend that works for me as I quite like both bands.

This type of synthy electro pop is the perfect way to brighten up your day a little. Have a listen over at the Hype Machine.

Addict+ iPhone Application Development Video Demo

// March 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Design, General, Technology and Gadgets

Not got an iPhone, but want to know more about how the Addict+ iPhone app looks in real life?  Simply watch the video on this page!

If you’ve been wanting to “dip your toe” into the iPhone application water, but don’t know where to start or if you are just looking for a competitive quote then get in touch and I’ll hopefully be able to help you.

Addict+ was developed in collaboration with fellow genius and code monkey Richard Morton. We are available as a team for any iPhone Application development projects.