Big Brother (UK 2006) - Why Don't You?

Pah.

Hour long bath with Magners and book.

watching tv is creative, yes, i say as much above. a lot of last year left a bad taste in my mouth though and i know i can do better things with the time.

Went on to editing out the clicks from recent ebay vinyl purchase ("Alpha Proxima: Correlation" (more Technical Itch, The Early Years)) and writing it and a cd's worth of similarly editied wavs out to, er, cd. am listening to it now (T.I.C.: Rockers at the mo, Alpha Proxima next, Kode9 after that, Decoder to finish).

World Cup to thread

you've not seen what some of the players look like yet.

You need to flick through a Panini sticker album.

haha xpost

Too bad.

FOOTBALL AND BIG BROTHER BANNED FROM THREAD!

Right.

At some point, we're going to Venice for the weekend.

We were worried about how the kids would take to being left at Nana's for the weekend, but Alice asked me the other day with a smile "Are you excited about going to Venice? Can't wait?" I said "Yeah, but I *can* wait as we're still going to do some fun things till then"

i thought you weren't the boss?

it's funny to single out BB as the worthless TV tho - is it really that much worse than 90% or more of everything else on TV? i probably won't watch it that much (too busy being creative already, darlings - the results of which are often already mentioned on ILX in some way) anyway but it's entertaining in drips and drops.

the other option when crap TV is on is to do something OUTDOORS (not necess. creative) e.g. playing sport instead of just watching it. need to get fit...

but yes, BB haters thread here:
People who watch Big Brother - classic or dud

I wish I could think of something cweative to tie in with the World Cup.

Anyway, tonight's creative exercise will be cocktail experimentation.

and i've remapped the number pad + and - to zoom in and out quickly. (with audacity you need to zoom all the way in be able to edit the waveform so i do a lot of it.)

that's ebay vinyl cd #8 with two or three more cds of albums as well. about 3 cds worth of new stuff on the floor waiting to be done and then i'll start redoing all the badly done old stuff. snore.

tell us about your video game?

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/tailgate/ (untouched for 3 weeks now what with haircuts and picnics and elephants)

Ooh, I need one of these, seeing as how I've not got a stereo and have to run everything through the laptop/mixing desk.

saturday. have spent all day catching up on tv and feeding things into computer for later editing down (mainly BBC Radiophonic Workshop 4x10" thing that came out on Rephlex a year or so ago) so i'm taking it easy. it's actually on as i type but tv is behind me so i'm only really getting the sound. "Wankers!"

only to find out that all the track names are full of ampersands and spaces and dashes and are too long for standard cds (burning software happily truncated names at 64(!) characters but this meant that the m3u files were now wrong). everything was .doc format as well. proprietary formats are a scourge, i tell ye.

spent tuesday night renaming everything (converted everything to xml and wrote xslt to create a file full of renames. was going to use same xml to generate m3u files before realising i could just use ls and redirect output to a file) and doing another cover using pictures from here http://www.radiolondon.co.uk/otherwaves/peelradioone/peelclippings2.html and here http://www.kindred-spirit.co.uk/imagedetail.php?picid=13650
(my eyes, that shirt!)

2nd, better, sleeve is here: http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/photos/PerfumedGardenSleeve.png
(is correct size for a cd wallet at 100dpi)

sometimes it's amazing what you can do in an hour. other times it's amazing what little you can do.

Saturday i decided that all my mp3s needed to be grouped by genre just to make it more manageable. this took a while because half the main mp3 directory is on one disk, the mixed mp3s are eleswhere and the various artists stuff are somewhere else again. then i had to do the same to the backup on the other pc. then i deleted a bunch of stuff from the work pc to make space for new stuff then spent another couple of hours ripping that new stuff (mainly mix cds ripped as single disk-length mp3s - i hate it when tracks from mix cds turn up in a shuffle)

Couple of hours Monnday (and some of Sunday) was spent on this:
http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/photos/robots.png
(robots2.png is bigger) - unicycling 3d robots. can't quite get the colours working at the moment and there needs to be more detail and more robot types to make it interesting, and a bit more animation, but the bones are there and they move quite nicely. the only creative thing i did all weekend, the rest was filing / tidying.