Lucky Dog Audio Post: Category Web Goodness

Nice Lights

charles — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:11:00 -0500

Sea Orchestra

charles — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:50:00 -0500

Supposedly this terrific ad has been running during the Olympic Games but I haven't seen it on TV yet. Our local NBC affiliate has been too busy running spots about the messianic power of their chief meteorologist to promote anything else. So, thank you internet for the following charming advertisement that I haven't seen on TV:

Sea Orchestra from Shy the Sun on Vimeo.

Writer's Electric Guitars: Martin Amis

charles — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:34:00 -0500

Writers' rooms: Martin Amis | Books | guardian.co.uk via kwout

The Writer's rooms series published by the Guardian is cool and all. Especially when you get to peek into the lair of a guy like Martin Amis who says funny stuff like:

My writing room is a detached building at the end of a small concrete garden. . . It's ideal - you can't hear the children and you can smoke.

Nice. Cool also that the article has Amis pointing out stuff in his room to the reader/voyeur - on his desk there are little bottles of water that his daughter gave to him, on the wall is a photograph of the "gorge in Ronda in Spain" where his mother used to live, etc. . . Wait a sec. What's that leaning against the wall to the right of his desk?

Writers' rooms: Martin Amis | Books | guardian.co.uk via kwout

Looks like a hardshell case for an electric guitar to me. Martin Amis, novelist, drinker-from-little-bottles-of-water, and guitarist. I wonder what's in that case and why he doesn't say what in the article. Is it because he's got a Mexican Strat? Doubtful. Maybe it's because he owns some incredibly rare guitar that he doesn't want anyone to know about. Just imagine: (Martin Amis speaking to the Guardian photographer) That ebony case cocked against the wall houses Brian Jones's Vox "Teardrop." You tell anyone about that guitar and I'll show you what the word 'panjandrum' really means."

The Audio Cassette: To Be Or Not To Be

charles — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:34:00 -0500

The audio cassette is dead. . .

Say So Long to an Old Companion - Cassette Tapes - NYTimes.com via kwout

Long live the audio cassette!

cassette tape culture via kwout

Buchla + LensBaby

charles — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:17:00 -0500

I don't know what I like more about this video, the sounds of the Buchla Music Easel or the look of 16:9 720p High Definition format shot using a Letus35 Extreme and a 35mm LensBaby 3GPL! Awesomeness all around.

CHARLES COHEN AT THE BUCHLA MUSIC EASEL from ALEX on Vimeo.

Seen Your Video

charles — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:16:00 -0500

It's only rock and roll. . . and a WHOLE LOTTA green screen.

NAIVE NEW BEATERS "LIVE GOOD"
Uploaded by djtoncar

Phonographantasmascope

charles — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:28:00 -0500

Album Cover Game

charles — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:23:00 -0500

Link

Here's my best score.

I missed In Case We Die by Architecture in Helsinki.

The Mysterious Apartment

charles — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:48:00 -0500

Here's an awesome NYT article about an uptown NY apartment designed with clues to a scavenger hunt hidden in the architecture. The architect, Eric Clough, enlisted the help of writer Jonathan Safran Foer to create a mystery/puzzle that would then be embedded into the very walls of the apartment itself. There are secret compartments, hidden scrolls, word games - checkout the slideshow to see how some of it works.

Pretty cool. I wish I had mysteries like this written into the walls of my home. Instead we are stuck with the case of "why does that keep dripping?"

Drag & Drop

charles — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:58:00 -0500

Samsung viral.