October 25, 2011
Hans Zimmer Scoring The Dark Knight
This awesome mini documentary shows how Hans Zimmer composed for arguably one of the greatest movies ever made.
iTar
We love Kickstarter. For every cockamamie idea (or ten) that gets posted, you see something genuinely interesting. Like the iTar ($200
and up). Submitted by longtime makers of button-based guitar
fretboards, the iTar combines one of these legendary ‘boards with an
iPad case/dock, offering nearly endless possibilities for music creation
and manipulation, all while holding something that looks like a guitar,
but has an iPad for a body.
Preview: Inside The Private Life Of Steve Jobs
by 60 Minutes.
This seems to be very interesting. Looking forward to seeing/ hearing the rest of this documentary.
This seems to be very interesting. Looking forward to seeing/ hearing the rest of this documentary.
Dark Avenger
by Feezable the Germ
Feezable the Germ's upcoming EP "Super Villain Theme Music" will be available soon.
Ken Lewis Interview
Ken Lewis: Grammy Award Winning Mix Engineer, Songwriter, Producer, Arranger; has worked with Kanye West, Beastie Boys, Usher, Lenny Kravitz, Janet Jackson, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, etc. HipHopDx recently interviewed Ken Lewis. The interview came out really out nice and very detailed. Here are some of what we thought were the most interesting parts.
DX: Your site said you had over 20 years of experience. How did you get into music before you got to where you are now?
Ken Lewis:
At eight years old, I started begging my parents for a guitar. Two
years later, when I was still begging, I think they realized I was
serious. I’ve been playing guitar since I was 10, I went to Berklee
College of Music in Boston, graduated there and came to New York City
and started assisting in a studio. I worked my way up to engineer, and a
couple years later I went freelance. I’ve been freelance ever since.
Just putting one foot in front of the other. Building my career day by
day and credit by credit, and here I am.DX: Who have you looked up to, as far as producers and mixers?
Ken Lewis: Producers, I’ve learned a ton from Just Blaze and Kanye West. Those are the first two that come to mind, as guys I’ve done a ton with over the last couple of years. I wouldn’t call them mentors, but when you work with someone that many times for that long, who’s that good at what they do, a lot of that rubs off on you. Mixers, I think Manny Marroquin is definitely one of the top of my list. Tony Mazarati and Dave Pensato, they’re three of the best serving.
DX: What are some pros and cons of working with Kanye West? What’s the most fun to do with him, and what’s the worst to deal with?
October 21, 2011
flaek 2011
German shoemaker flaek present this preview of their upcoming Fall/Winter “Schietwetter” Collection. The collection includes a familiar style – the kaalen hi – which leaves conventional shoe manufacturing behind by offering handmade sneakers that are customized to the length and width of one’s foot. Regular delivery of the kaalen hi begins in February 2012.
October 19, 2011
One Like = One Meal
50 Cent continues his quest to provide 1 billion meals to people in need - by purchasing the Street King energy drink. This week every “Like” on the Street King Facebook page will also equal a meal for a hungry child. Go like the page or order the energy drink for a great cause! Check below for the SK Promo Video.
Bill Murray Technology Rant 1982
There is something absolutely authentic and cool about this Video. Especially the Sunnies.
October 18, 2011
Audi E-tron Spyder
- Plug-in diesel-electric powertrain
- 69-cell lithium-ion battery pack good for 9.1-kilowatt hours
- 13.2 gallons/ 600 miles per fill-up
- $2.7 million USD
- 2014
Time is Now
Bamford Watch Department Rolex Explorer 2
The Rolex Explorer 2 model is able to be customized by color in the following areas: luminescent indices, date, date wheel, dial, second hand, logo, 24 hour hand, and the dial text. Customers also have the option of adding custom text to the dial and back engraving.
The Rolex Explorer 2 model is able to be customized by color in the following areas: luminescent indices, date, date wheel, dial, second hand, logo, 24 hour hand, and the dial text. Customers also have the option of adding custom text to the dial and back engraving.
October 17, 2011
October 14, 2011
Clever Club Promotion
The very popular club "Travolta", in Frankfurt | Germany, started a new viral campaign to promote their venue & parties. Interesting, (Un)predictable, Clever, Effective. Can You recognize the songs?
2012 Lexus LFA
- only 500 available worldwide
- 4.8-liter v10
- identical in length to a Porsche 911 and Chevrolet Corvette, but lower and wider than both
- 552 hp
- 0 - 60 mph in 3.6 seconds
- top speed of 202 mph
- $375,000 USD
Forbes Female Entertainers Top Earners
According to Forbes.com – here are the top earnings of female entertainers made last year from May 2010 – May 2011.
1. Oprah Winfrey – $290 Million
2. Lady GaGa – $90 Million
3. Bethenny Frankel – $55 Million
4. Gisele Bundchen – $45 Million
5. Ellen Degeneres – $45 Million
6. Judge Judy – $45 Million
7. Taylor Swift – $45 Million
8. Katy Perry – $44 Million
9. Beyonce Knowles-Carter – $35 Million
10. Danielle Steele – $35 Million
October 11, 2011
"The Avengers" Trailer
starring Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man + Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America + Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk + Chris Hemsworth as Thor + Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff + Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton + Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
October 08, 2011
First Crescent Villa
by Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects
Designed by Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects, the First
Crescent is a breathtaking minimalist home commanding a 270 degree view
of Lions Head, Campus Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Some of the main
features of this villa are seven bedrooms, two terraces, the linear
layout and limited palette of materials. Many of the walls are replaced
by glass that provides natural lighting and during the night, a modern
lighting system underline the home’s contemporary design making it
even more interesting.
Located in Campus
Bay, South Africa, First Crescent is rented out and available for $
1,500 – $ 5,000 per day, depending on the season.
RCA Music Group downsizing
RCA Music Group is downsizing in an effort to restore luster to its brand name.
The company announced that it will be shutting down three subsidiaries: Jive, Arista and J Records.
Artists under those labels such as Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, R. Kelly, Miguel, Chris Brown, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Pink, T-Pain, Dido, Jennifer Hudson, Whitney Houston, Pitbull and others, will be moved over to RCA.
"In an effort to refresh RCA Records, all label imprints (J Records, Arista Records and Jive) will now be under the the iconic RCA Records label," read a statement from RCA.
October 06, 2011
Congratulations, J.Cole
With nearly 220.000 records sold, J Cole takes the time to say 'Thank You'.
“J Cole’s success is testament to amazing artist development and Cole’s hard work. I want to congratulate him on a #1 album and more importantly a great body of work.” - Jay-Z
“J Cole’s success is testament to amazing artist development and Cole’s hard work. I want to congratulate him on a #1 album and more importantly a great body of work.” - Jay-Z
October 05, 2011
Technology Legend - Rest in Peace, Steve Jobs.
The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet -- all of which changed how we consume content in the digital age.
His friends and Apple fans on Wednesday night mourned the passing of a tech titan.
"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives," Apple said in a statement. "The world is immeasurably better because of Steve."
More than one pundit, praising Jobs' ability to transform entire industries with his inventions, called him a modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci.
"Steve Jobs is one of the great innovators in the history of modern capitalism," New York Times columnist Joe Nocera said in August. "His intuition has been phenomenal over the years."
Jobs' death, while dreaded by Apple's legions of fans, was not unexpected. He had battled cancer for years, took a medical leave from Apple in January and stepped down as chief executive in August because he could "no longer meet (his) duties and expectations."
Born February 24, 1955, and then adopted, Jobs grew up in Cupertino, California -- which would become home to Apple's headquarters -- and showed an early interest in electronics. As a teenager, he phoned William Hewlett, president of Hewlett-Packard, to request parts for a school project. He got them, along with an offer of a summer job at HP.
Jobs dropped out of Oregon's Reed College after one semester, although he returned to audit a class in calligraphy, which he says influenced Apple's graceful, minimalist aesthetic. He quit one of his first jobs, designing video games for Atari, to backpack across India and take psychedelic drugs. Those experiences, Jobs said later, shaped his creative vision.
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future," he told Stanford University graduates during a commencement speech in 2005. "You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
While at HP, Jobs befriended Steve Wozniak, who impressed him with his skill at assembling electronic components. The two later joined a Silicon Valley computer hobbyists club, and when he was 21, Jobs teamed with Wozniak and two other men to launch Apple Computer Inc.
It's long been Silicon Valley legend: Jobs and Wozniak built their first commercial product, the Apple 1, in Jobs' parents' garage in 1976. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van to help finance the venture. The primitive computer, priced at $666.66, had no keyboard or display, and customers had to assemble it themselves.
The following year, Apple unveiled the Apple II computer at the inaugural West Coast Computer Faire. The machine was a hit, and the personal computing revolution was under way.
Jobs was among the first computer engineers to recognize the appeal of the mouse and the graphical interface, which let users operate computers by clicking on images instead of writing text.
Apple's pioneering Macintosh computer launched in early 1984 with a now-iconic, Orwellian-themed Super Bowl ad. The boxy beige Macintosh sold well, but the demanding Jobs clashed frequently with colleagues, and in 1986, he was ousted from Apple after a power struggle.
Then came a 10-year hiatus during which he founded NeXT Computer, whose pricey, cube-shaped computer workstations never caught on with consumers.
Jobs had more success when he bought Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas before the company made it big with "Toy Story." Jobs brought the same marketing skill to Pixar that he became known for at Apple. His brief but emotional pitch for "Finding Nemo," for example, was a masterful bit of succinct storytelling.
In 1996, Apple bought NeXT, returning Jobs to the then-struggling company he had co-founded. Within a year, he was running Apple again -- older and perhaps wiser but no less of a perfectionist. And in 2001, he took the stage to introduce the original iPod, the little white device that transformed portable music and kick-started Apple's furious comeback.
Thus began one of the most remarkable second acts in the history of business. Over the next decade, Jobs wowed launch-event audiences, and consumers, with one game-changing hit after another: iTunes (2003), the iPhone (2007), the App Store (2008), and the iPad (2010).
Observers marveled at Jobs' skills as a pitchman, his ability to inspire godlike devotion among Apple "fanboys" (and scorn from PC fans) and his "one more thing" surprise announcements. Time after time, he sold people on a product they didn't know they needed until he invented it. And all this on an official annual salary of $1.
He also built a reputation as a hard-driving, mercurial and sometimes difficult boss who oversaw almost every detail of Apple's products and rejected prototypes that didn't meet his exacting standards.
By the late 2000s, his once-renegade tech company, the David to Microsoft's Goliath, was entrenched at the uppermost tier of American business. Apple now operates more than 300 retail stores in 11 countries. The company has sold more than 275 million iPods, 100 million iPhones and 25 million iPads worldwide.
Jobs' climb to the top was complete in summer 2011, when Apple listed more cash reserves than the U.S. Treasury and even briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil as the world's most valuable company.
But Jobs' health problems sometimes cast a shadow over his company's success. In 2004, he announced to his employees that he was being treated for pancreatic cancer. He lost weight and appeared unusually gaunt at keynote speeches to Apple developers, spurring concerns about his health and fluctuations in the company's stock price. One wire service accidentally published Jobs' obituary.
Jobs had a secret liver transplant in 2009 in Tennessee during a six-month medical leave of absence from Apple. He took another medical leave in January this year. Perhaps mindful of his legacy, he cooperated on his first authorized biography, scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster in November.
Jobs is survived by his wife of 20 years, Laurene, and four children, including one from a prior relationship.
He always spoke with immense pride about what he and his engineers accomplished at Apple.
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do," he told the Stanford grads in 2005.
"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on."
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