BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-01-14
- RT @caseaust using software to help Volunteers For Isolated Students Education assisting the #qldfloods relief. http://bit.ly/etrzSk #fb #
- Half half http://instagr.am/p/7q5Z/ #
BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2011-01-07
- it's still quiet…maybe all the rain has scared the Summernats away. Please, oh please! #fb #
- Could be anything but here http://instagr.am/p/zAoq/ #
- Could be anywhere http://instagr.am/p/zAFs/ #
BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2010-12-31
- is taking the icecream maker for another spin. Tonight's flavour combo is Ferrero Rocher and Oreo on vanilla. We know no limits! #fb #
- wah wah wah, what's wrong with it? RT @furious_tfm Ew, twitter just forced me to change and the new version is gross! Ew! #NewTwitter #
- The night before http://instagr.am/p/rhyu/ #
Ladybird plays with sprinkles
This is quite curious! Ladybugs are awesome. Also I recently learned that sprinkles or ’100′s & 1000′s” were originally made as little coloured balls of spices. Cool.
BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2010-12-17
- @katinacurtis all i know is that the Ashes have knocked repeats of Antiques Roadshow off the 5pm timeslot and I'm not happy! #unaustralian #
- @elroyonline you did, but I didn't! I've blown so many things up already. So don't fret too much, I'll do enough damage for both of us! #
- declares it a perfect afternoon for harvesting bulbs. #fb #
- spent the morning hunting for a 3.5mm S/PDIF cable. Guy at Dick Smith didn't know the standard. Techsperts? More like don't know dick! zing! #
- in a random act of kindness @elroyonline, dressed as Santa, leaves a copy of Amnesia under the tree for me! Xmas come early, thanks! ^_^ #fb #
- @piawaugh Schneier is a champ! @case_pres gives a talk on 'false authority' when we present security talks. It affects us badly and often! #
Audio Gourmet Top 10 of 2010. #7: Damian Valles – In The Shadow Of The Occluding Body
Guitar is often a principal instrument in ambient. I think it’s a good mechanism to bring people into the track; it’s a familiar sound that can lead you into the darker, diffuse drones. And at #7 on the Audio Gourmet Netlabel’s Top 10 of 2010 chart, Damian Valles with ‘In The Shadow Of The Occluding Body’ does exactly that! The two tracks totaling 15 minutes, ‘Umbra’ and ‘Penumbra (Nearly There)’ have melancholic clean lines from guitar along with gloomy but not downright-sad pads that wander and think. Dark but calm. There’s potentially even some oboe in there; I like these two tracks a lot!
You can get the whole disk for free at Audio Gourmet.
Damian Valles – In The Shadow Of The Occluding Body
If you like this kind of thing you’d do well to check out Long Desert Cowboy and Beyond Absence. All good material!
Nominated
So today I received a very nice “better luck next year” letter in the mail, accompanied by a pretty certificate. According to it I was nominated for Australian of The Year 2011 by some mysterious supporter. Thanks, Batman!! This would have been for my work at CASE I assume. Well, maybe next year!
Audio Gourmet Top 10 of 2010. #9 – Small Things on Sundays – Recalling
Following on from the Carl Sagan’s Ghost entry, Small Things on Sundays’ “Recall” comes in at number #8 on the Audio Gourmet Top 10 of 2010 chart. Three floating tracks that are thoughtful and on their way to dark. ‘Floating in Space’ keeps you grounded with a minimal beat. ‘I Know You Now the Dinosaurs Calling’ makes you think of an ice-age and cold caverns. The Crow Warns You Should Not Be Here is almost exactly how you’d expect a song by that title to sound.
The group (a duet from Denmark) have been around for some time now and rarely disappoint. Again, this release is only 15 minutes long so it’s accessible. Definitely give it a shot if you were after something darker, but not sinister, to listen to! You can get the full thing for free from the Audio Gourmet site by following this link. Check out Small Things on Sunday’s official site here.
Small Things on Sundays – Recalling
BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2010-12-10
- RT @LiamJM Unless your plane has WiFi, in which case only outer space is ur limit. @BeatrixTj: In social media, only the sky is your limit. #
- RT @piawaugh: Rudd just said on Sky News interview that Assange has the right to be presumed innocent and get consular support #cablegate #
- so the major game release of the week? Like you didn't already know! Time for some Bejeweled 3, people! #fb #
- Geraniums light up for Xmas! http://instagr.am/p/edso/ #
Audio Gourmet 2010 Top 10. #10 – Before I Go.
Over the past few years I think A State of Trance and Trance Around The World really got me into the ‘year mix thing’. Triple J’s hottest 100 still means something to me today. But only the disks before 1999. So what about ambient, experimental and ‘other’, the genre I listen to most? Well, the Audio Gourmet label has just started a run of their top 10 most popular EPs offered by the label, this year. I have to add an important note to add here, to do with accessibility. Generally this kind of music runs at a dozen or more minutes a track, sometimes they run into hours. For a lot of them listening to the whole track is important to understanding the idea behind the piece. But the brilliant ones have moments that stand alone, which is a large part of the attraction of the genre for me. Anyhoo, Audio Gourmet only releases tracks that are the duration of ‘a coffee break’ in a somewhat novel attempt to make the genre more accessible. 15 minutes, no more! Consider it a form of distillation. The result is some quality material that doesn’t take long to get into.
Tonight at number 10 we have Before I Go by Carl Sagan’s Ghost. A restful two part release with long soft, airy passages. Breezes through pipes that wander to build something more solid in the deeper registers. Light and scattered static that doesn’t irritate, cosmic drones with suggestions of choir that ask questions but then satisfy. Water and soft chimes, you’ll be able to relax to this. Recorded August 2010 in Spokane, Washington. you can pick up the entire release, for free, from Audio Gourmet right here. You can visit the artist’s official site here www.carlsagansghost.com.
Carl Sagan’s Ghost – Before I Go
Geraniums for Xmas
Can’t tell where the fluro flowers end and the Christmas lights begin!
Geranium Lights
You can like it on Instagram if you want!
flood factor 5. BuzzMoo displaced.
Well I guess it had to happen again at some point! In the face of torrential downpour there seems to be a structural weak-point in our house that lets a fair bit of water in. Luckily for the rest of the house the water comes solely into my my room! This happened many, many years ago and I do recall some house related expert coming to investigate after the event. I think the conclusion was that, this being Australia, it’d never rain like that again.
Well, it’s been raining like that again.
Actually, harder. The trouble started on Monday morning where I woke to soggy socks. I assumed while sitting at my desk they’d slowly dry (sure, It would have made more sense to take them off) but they kept getting wetter and wetter. Right then I knew what had happened and I really did try to just pretend it didn’t happen for ten minutes. After that a brief survey revealed a good amount of water in my room, about a quarter of the carpet wet and my computers in a puddle! The problem is the leak comes from what is what is essentially an inside wall of my room which I previously saw as the safer, dryer space. Given the amount of electronics in my room I’m lucky nothing short circuited.
StainBusters attended the next day with Big Drying Fans. Twenty four hours later and it looked like things were drying up nicely. I went to bed just as the rain started to pick up again and for the fist time in my life raindrops on the tin carport roof weren’t a comforting sound. And I was right to be nervous. Because the water had already made a path this second lot managed to make it about halfway into the room. Nothing to be done about it except call StainBusters which isn’t so bad when the lovely Alanna is taking the calls - she has wonderful phone manner and sense of humor, it could be a disappointment that all we get to talk about was wet carpet.
Last night was Nature’s big push. The radar had a big red dot over North Canberra and for about two hours there was an unreasonable amount of water in the air. Then the water started coming and didn’t stop. Couldn’t be stopped in fact. Dad, Mum and I spent the rest of the evening with buckets, towels and I used a dustpan as a scoop. There was no hope, really. A few hours later and almost the entire room was gone. Moved as much out as I could and everything up off the floor.
It’ll be a good few days until things start to come dry again. So in the meantime I’ve set up a temporary HQ in the dining room upstairs. Not the most comfortable arrangement in the world but I’ll certainly live.
Of course I’m not the only one dealing the the deluge, a lot of the ACT has taken a whack. Dams are at 100%, though! Dazza went out to check out Coppins Crossing but couldn’t get too far. The video below is evidence why.
Stay dry!
BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2010-12-03
- Somewhere around the bend. http://instagr.am/p/a_vp/ #
- Most nights http://instagr.am/p/a_vj/ #
- Keeping time! http://instagr.am/p/aSp8/ #
- A painting by Ben http://instagr.am/p/aSmc/ #
- tentative first submission to political #fashion Abbot's tie today made me think 'easter eggs!'. But then I've never seen a tie I've liked! #
BuzzMoo’ Weekly Tweets for 2010-11-26
- doesn't much care for cars but is currently zooming around in Need For Speed Hot Pursuit. If anyone is up for a race, add BuzzMoo! #fb #
- poor ol New Zealand!
# - Maton accoustic http://instagr.am/p/UC6R/ #
If there’s a bright center to the universe…
Elroy linked me to a rather amusing blog post that features some photoshopped Mac weather widgets for StarWars planets I’ve spent some time on. Included is Hoth, Cloud City, Tatooine and Dagobah. You can see them here. I mentioned that it’d be way more cool if those widgets were actually real. So he went ahead and made them as real as he could. The moon is out tonight. Brilliant! Looking forward to a binary sunrise..
Now, I have to go to bed! There are some rare mushrooms growing on the moisture vaparators in the southeast quarter I want to check out tomorrow.
