KVR Contest: Developers Get Prize Money, You Get Free Music Plug-Ins with Unusual Interfaces

Music-making in the age of ElectroPlankton: colliding organisms and physics may be just as likely on your plug-in interface as the usual fake-aluminum knobs. NuSofting’s Collide and Play. Johan Larsby points us to a developer contest at the mind-bogglingly comprehensive audio plug-in site, KVR Audio: KVR Audio Developer Challenge Developers are competing for a prize […]

Iggy Pop’s Tongue-in-Cheek Tour Rider

The good folks at The Smoking Gun are infamous for breaking confidentiality rules and leaking the surreal world of major artist tour rider documents to the world. Hilarity ensues, such as when Christina Aguilera demands “Soy cheese and Oreos. Flintstones chewables and votive candles. Nesquick and dried cranberries.” and rival Britney Spears chows on Doritos […]

Float: Episode 1 of Backspace Video Podcast

Backspace is the Honors project of Melbourne Communication Design student Stephen Watkins. … a Stimulating video podcast showcasing experimental short films to provoke your imagination. I’ll be interviewing Stephen soon about his project, but for now: Watch that wonderful video again, and subscribe to the podcast. via Wooster Collective.

Pimp Yourself: Free Shipping for Moo Minicards Until the 15th

I actually used my long-dormant Yahoo! messenger username to activate a Flickr account just so I could order some Moo Minicards. They’re US$20 for 100, including free international shipping. Business cards are a great promotional tool, and especially useful as a distracting device when punters approach you mid-set. I have a couple of designs for […]

Pimp Your DV Camera: RedRock MicroFollowFocus & M2, DV MultiRig and DIY DV Mods

I’m sure some CDMotion readers must be wondering if I actually own a DV camera considering the stop-motion and still camera focus these last couple of weeks. Rest assured I both own and even on occasion wield a DV cam, however my DSLR has held me in thrall with its beautiful images, shallow depth of […]

Pimp Your DV Camera: RedRock MicroFollowFocus & M2, DV MultiRig and DIY DV Mods

I’m sure some CDMotion readers must be wondering if I actually own a DV camera considering the stop-motion and still camera focus these last couple of weeks. Rest assured I both own and even on occasion wield a DV cam, however my DSLR has held me in thrall with its beautiful images, shallow depth of […]

After Effects + Flash = Crazy Delicious: Interactive Motion Graphics Tutorials

Flash goes better with After Effects; via Lynda.com tutorial. Come on, you’ve got that Production Suite on your hard drive; why not make it earn its keep? The next version of Adobe’s software suite is sure to feature new integration with Flash after Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia. But that doesn’t mean you have to wait […]

What's New in Processing 0116/0117/0118/?

Want a reason to delve into coding with the free tool Processing? Witness brilliant, brainy eye candy like these motion graphics effects produced for the Nike One campaign. When it rains … Processing on October 1 got not one but three updates in one day, 0116, 0117, and 0118. Yes, whether it be commercial or […]

What’s New in Processing 0116/0117/0118/?

Want a reason to delve into coding with the free tool Processing? Witness brilliant, brainy eye candy like these motion graphics effects produced for the Nike One campaign. When it rains … Processing on October 1 got not one but three updates in one day, 0116, 0117, and 0118. Yes, whether it be commercial or […]

Roland’s Terrifyingly Ugly Mega-Keyboard: Roland E-80

I love Roland dearly. But the $4,000 Roland E-80 keyboard looks like it might actually be capable of destroying the planet Alderaan. There’s a breed of mega-arranger-keyboard-organ-appliances that seems spawned on some alien planet, on which giant cyborgs with eight arms play Sunday church music with fourteen-way splits and layers of thin preset sounds. These […]