Adventures in moving pictures
You may remember a few posts back (you know, when I was updating regularly…) I talked about working quite a bit with a local band called Scarred I.DÂ (whose guitarist, Ben, is seen above). A little more recently the band asked for volunteers to help them shoot their first music video. I’ve always fancied doing video [...]
Brief request
I’ve got a post that I need to write, but it feels like a post that would write itself if I were halfway through my second large whisky at the time, so I need to either employ the whisky or work out how to get into a similarly verbose frame of mind before I write [...]
Comedy Gold
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 343 Aaron Bentley of the Launchpad Bazaar Integration team signs Spinal Tap’s Big Bottom at Ubuntu Unplugged. Quite possibly one of the funniest things a Launchpad developer has ever done.
Theft
Once again, he hotlinks XKCD, but it’s a message worth spreading (click to embiggen): (And as Reynolds pointed out, The Open Rights Group fights against this sort of nonsense, so please, if you feel at all strongly about this, join them)
Blowing my own horn
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 168 Because being a musician and not playing withers your soul.
Music maker
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 156 Taken on the spur of the moment when the light was falling just right. She’s wearing my hat and playing my guitar, by the way; handy props.
The band (first iteration)
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 143 UDS Intrepid, Day 5: Ubuntu All Stars From left to right, Bill Filler, Jorge Castro, Tony Espy, Luke Yelavich, Jono Bacon.
Virtuoso
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 140 UDS Intrepid, Day 2 Howard Chu plays for the assembled UDSers.
An Audience of One
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three-hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day seven This is my first attempt at doing something Rebekka Gudleifsdottir-esque (yes, I know, terrible English, sue me). It was bloody hard to do, let me tell you. For one thing, even moving from one position to the other meant that the lighting [...]
Time in a bucket
I shouldn't be writing a blog post, I should be doing something far more productive, like, to pick an example of something I need to do before I go to bed, the washing up. Trouble is that – washing up aside – I'm far too tired to actually be willing to do anything other than [...]
London town
Tonight, I have seen a Brazillian couple playing guitar and drum outside the South Bank Centre, watched jugglers and living statues on Queen's Walk, and rounded the evening off with twenty minutes of pure musical bliss listening to a three-piece reggae band under Charing Cross Bridge. What a great town this is. (I very nearly [...]
When bassists ruled the world
Spinal Tap played "Big Bottom" at the Wembley Live Earth gig, with a herd of bassists. Youtube video (via BoingBoing)
