Saro (Kapiolani)

4 L

“I came to this country
18 and 49
I thought myself lucky
For to be alive…”

(Shot on my stupid iPhone4. It only does everything ever.)

Inch-time: “The Floating World”

Neat album promo to launch Mystery Plays Records’ debut release, Inch-time‘s “The Floating World”.
Out 25.07.2011

Animation by Frater
Sound Design by Pete Crooks

Loom

One word sums up the animation & sound design/music for this clip. Wow.

Gil Scott-Heron (1949 – 2011)

An empire was built on his genius.

Sound of “The Lost Thing”

Interesting clip about designing sound for “The Lost Thing” which won Best Animated Short Film at the 83rd Academy Awards this year. Have the good fortune to be working with re-recording sound mixer Doran Kipen here in Melbourne at the moment. The clip doesn’t start to explain the struggles that when on behind the scenes to complete the sound aspect of this project, but it’s another little glimpse into this job and why it still fascinates me.

Nate Dogg (1969 – 2011)

R.I.P. Nate Dogg. Damn.

Warren G Feat. Nate Dogg  – “Regulate”

Running

Because I always feel like running, not away, because there’s no such place
Because if there was, I would have found it by now
Because it’s easier to run, easier than staying and finding out you’re the only one,
who didn’t run.

~Gil Scott-Heron~

Both Sides Now

“But now old friends are acting strange,
they shake their heads,
they tell me that I’ve changed.
Well Something’s lost,
but something’s gained
in living every day.”

Tableau

Tableau is a new invention that looks like a bedside table. Inside is a tiny printer that prints out photos and messages shared by family and friends on Twitter using cartridge-less printers on business card sized stock, so you can read your emails physically as you would your regular mail. It can also send handwritten messages back to friends and family via Twitter just by placing the note in the drawer. Awesome.

Teena Marie (1956 – 2010)

I just read that Teena Marie (Mary Christine Brocker) past away on boxing day last year.
I have been wracking my brain since, but I can not think of another female artist quite like her, past or present. I remember as a youngster (in a time before the ubiquity of mediums like MTV & YouTube) the astonishment when her picture appeared on her second album. Omigod, what?! She’s white?! Surely can’t be! But she was, unprecedented nose ring and all.
She sang, wrote, arranged, produced and played ‘most everything on her records, and it’s a colossal crime to music that she should pass so unsung. I remember this video from the 80′s, and always thought Prince and his Revolution blatantly lifted her whole shtick for his movie “Purple Rain“. And what a voice. Picking one of her tracks to post was an impossible task. For all her funk I’m almost embarrassed to have chosen one of her obscure ballads, but I couldn’t agonies any longer.
She was the definition of “musician” and a receptacle of “soul”, and her music still moves me to this day.

“Overall my race hasn’t been a problem. I’m a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what’s in your own soul.“

Teena Marie “Portuguese Love“