Archive for March, 2008

Quantel Paintbox 80s flashback

March 7th, 2008 by admin

Superb video passed on by Nick in the NY office. Thanks Nick. Thought it was going to be a Golden Cage type affair from the first frame but how wrong could I be.

SOME HAS REQUESTED THAT EMBEDDING BE DISABLED SO YOU’LL HAVE TO VISIT THE PAGE ON YOUTUBE:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE 

Top of the Pops editors from 1985 were weeping whilst watching that.

Here’s the Golden Cage video as well. Just because I think it’s good:

Amory Lovins – How To Win The Oil Endgame

March 6th, 2008 by stephan

Awesome talk on TED.com by Amory Lovins, outlining how the US can get completely off Oil by 2040, and also save billions of dollarsa year in the process. As bonuses, you get millions of new jobs, severely reduced emmisions, and political stability…

Link

Netvibes upgrades from coriander to ginger

March 4th, 2008 by mcadwallader

netvibes ginger

Looks like we finally get to have our own ‘universe’ page on netvibes. For about 6 months they were only available for bands, news channels etc. It’s like a normal netvibes page (where you can aggregate all your favourite blogs and news feeds in one place) but public, so you can aggregate your flickr, bebo, myspace, twitter etc. in one place, and then share that page… in another social network… my head is spinning. Will this simplify your social networking, or complicate it further? Perhaps there’ll be netvibes universe application in facebook and social networking will eat itself?

ginger.netvibes.com

Worth a small fortune

March 4th, 2008 by admin

Angus now owns a keyboard that was owned by Steve Gray, keyboardist with the intrumental powerhouse that was Sky. It’s signed and everything.

Sky logo

I’m actually quite fondly remember the logo and this album. Although I’m not that fond of this animation. But I’m going to keep using it because it’s giving me a headache.

Sky 2 album art

Steve didn’t join until Sky 4. Quite late. Wonder if he missed out on all the rock and roll. Feel their power.

– STOP PRESS - UPDATE - STOP PRESS - UPDATE –

The keyboard is in fact the legendary Yamaha CS-01 made famous by such luminaries as Chick Corea, OMD, Tim Simenon, Patrick Swayze an, of course, Steve Gray.

Here’s a picture of this sweet piece of kit:

Yamaha CS-01

And the message from Steve:

Steve Gray message on synth