DV Double Dipping: DVGuru's Inaugral Video Contest

While you’re shooting that new footage (or reorganizing the old stuff) to submit to iStockVideo, you may like to keep something in mind: Green. Green is the theme for DVGuru’s first video contest. In putting this together they’re hoping to fill the void left by the demise of WeeklyDV. Word: Green Due Date: Monday, August […]

DV Double Dipping: DVGuru’s Inaugral Video Contest

While you’re shooting that new footage (or reorganizing the old stuff) to submit to iStockVideo, you may like to keep something in mind: Green. Green is the theme for DVGuru’s first video contest. In putting this together they’re hoping to fill the void left by the demise of WeeklyDV. Word: Green Due Date: Monday, August […]

Korg KAOSS Pad 3: Enter the Matrix, with Grid-Based Music Playing All Around

While I haven’t gotten official word from Korg, it appears the KAOSS Pad KP-3 is now official, as reported widely. (First full scoop this time appears to be SonicState (who have the most details) after a leak and later confirmation on Music thing.) Here’s what’s new, along with some other competing musical “grids”:

Solar-Powered Music Studios: Could Solar Stop Climate Crisis?

With New York City close to breaking its all-time record heat record of 101 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s over 38 degrees Celsius), non-renewable energy costs soaring, and Con Edison unable to deliver reliable electricity, it seems like an odd time to be advocating electronically-powered music. It must be time for solar power. Via Rozling on the […]

Reason Drum Kits Refill Reviewed; New Acoustic Piano Refill Previewed

I got a chance to work with the inexpensive (US$99) but high-quality library of acoustic drum kits for Reason, Reason Drum Kits, in a brief review for Keyboard Magazine. You can read the full review online. What most impressed me was how cleverly the samples were integrated with Reason: Via what Propellerhead calls â€Å“hyper-sampling,â€Â? you […]

Say Anything … On Our Forums

Perfectionism is the enemy of productivity, in music making, in blog posts, and in forum messages: Less activity in the forums … because there’s no “off-topic” forum We know you’re out surfing in this beautiful summer weather, or, erm, trying to prevent death by heat exhaustion here in the newly globally-warmed United States (101 in […]

Vid of the Week: Muse's Mixed-Up Mashed-Up Knights of Cydonia Candidate to Save Music Videos?

Director Joseph Kahn lives in one crazy world. It’s a world in which sci-fi, comics, pop culture, and movies implode on one another into an insanely mashed-up mixup of media, delivered with a strong dose of digital effects. (Holy metaculture, Batman!) If anyone could save music videos, Kahn is your man. The Korean creative’s latest […]

Vid of the Week: Muse’s Mixed-Up Mashed-Up Knights of Cydonia Candidate to Save Music Videos?

Director Joseph Kahn lives in one crazy world. It’s a world in which sci-fi, comics, pop culture, and movies implode on one another into an insanely mashed-up mixup of media, delivered with a strong dose of digital effects. (Holy metaculture, Batman!) If anyone could save music videos, Kahn is your man. The Korean creative’s latest […]

Monetize Your Clips: iStockPhoto launches iStockVideo

Welcome starving visualists! I know there’s plenty of you reading this. Well, perhaps not starving, but you’d definitely like more pocket money so you can buy some of the cool stuff you’re seeing on CDMo or CDMu. You’ve got plenty of original material right? Now all you need is a way for that material to […]

Miscellaneous Motion-y Magical Melange

Ed.: While we slave away on some bigger feature stories to come — just you wait, once we’re, erm, done programming — Jaymis brings us a roundup of all things goodness. Bon Appetit! -PK Hack your Point and Shoot Further to my Enough Megapixels/DIY time-slice rig idea: How to wire a Canon A80 for cable […]