Archive for April, 2008

The “Share” Button

By Collin, 11 April, 2008, 1 Comment

I love to read blogs and keep up to date on certain topics (tech, music, film, etc).  I also love sharing information that I find with my friends, hence a signification portion of the motivation behind this blog.  The school year always manages to throttle the life out of my blogging and steals some opportunities to share really great stories with all of you.

So in the interest of continuing to feed you the things I find and love I am going to start using the “share” button, located on so many blogs, to bring you the info through facebook.  As of yet I haven’t found a button that will let me post links directly to this blog … but one day.

This is not the death of the blog but rather a kind of “blog vacation” for the school year.  If you don’t have a facebook account: get off your high horse and sign-up.  We’re not impressed with your digital abstinence.

Radiohead Remix via iTunes

By Collin, 2 April, 2008, 1 Comment

There are many, many things that I wish I had time to write about.  Unfortunately, these days it seems that I only have time to drop a nugget and run off.  So here you go.

Radiohead has released the stems (mixes of specific instruments or groups of instruments in a song) to the song “Nude” from their recent album, “In Rainbows”, exclusively on iTunes.  With this kind of release, not surprisingly, is a remix competition.  The submissions can be viewed at radioheadremix.com.  I know it’s Radiohead but, having some experience remixing, I’m surprised that there have already been 212 submissions considering the stems were released yesterday.  Do people really have that much free time on their hands?  I’ve only listened to the most popular and, while it is interesting, I’m not that impressed.  Hopefully the Radiohead cult can crank out something more creative and gripping.

Also, there’s going to be a GarageBand file released on the 11th.  The site isn’t too clear on what exactly is going to be in the file but if you download all the stems you’ll get an access code on 4/11.  Curious …