A bit of Jibba Jabba

Remember kids when you jump on a bandwagon don't forget to wear your seat belt as falling off usually hurts.

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Ok now with that advertising out of the way I'd just like to let everyone know that I have created my own blog at blogger.com. I will be making most of my blogging posts over there from now on. Expect to see new music from up and coming artists, new photography and interesting stories. Also plenty of personal musings and thoughts. I encourage you all to check it out at empireunderthesun.blogspot



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So I decided to finally create myself an account over at deviantART to try and share some of my photography with the community of artists over there. My profile is aeon-B89.


I'm currently working with a FujiFilm J10. It's a very basic point-and-shoot digital camera I picked up in airport duty free. It did the job for me while I was overseas to get a few interesting and memorable snaps. The plan is though to upgrade to something a bit more formidable once I can afford the hefty price tag that decent cameras come with.


You can find unedited versions of all the shots I've submitted so far in my Neo Gallery. If you are interested in checking them out though I would recommend heading over to deviantART as the quality of the shots is miles better.


I appreciate any constructive criticism if you wish to share, whether over there or here is irrelevant. If you're also at deviantART leave a link to y
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The age old saying "A picture's worth a thousand words" can never be more true than when said picture is a key method of identifying with someones personality. What am I getting at? Avatars and banners online is what. Whether you choose to admit it or not these little pixel pallets are representing you online in the way that your clothing and the way you carry yourself does in the real world.

Most of you will have experienced when someone you know from the net makes some form of change to their avatar, or other representation of themselves. It can be kind of strange when the image that you associated, consciously or unconsciously, with that person is all of a sudden something completely different.

Going further down the lines of representation the avatar is a serious tool for people to portray certain aspects of their personalities. Most people will pick avatars of bands they like, a sport
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So this morning I found these awesome examples of what you can do with a camera and some artistic license. These photo manipulations, called Wee Planets, are the work of Frenchman Alexandre Duret-Lutz. He is a software engineer and uses his professional skills in conjunction with his hobby, photography, to produce these interesting pieces of digital art.

By combining many photos of a particular area and then using software he wrote himself he creates what he dubs as Wee Planets. After simply creating them for his own personal interest he has now attracted the attention of marketing and advertising firms who are keen to utilise his creations due to their uniqueness and aesthetic appeal.











To see more of these Wee Planets click here.




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Future Music Festival '09

First up we (myself and a few mates and girls) arrived at the Doomben Racecourse at about 2pm. Yes this was 2 hours after the start of the festival but the rush at the start is always shit and the good artists aren't on for a few hours anyway.

So we got in and headed straight off to the Met tent to kick off with Joachim Garraud. He didn't disappoint. He provided some solid tracks with great electro synthed basslines to kick off the day. The Met tent also had the best light set up of any of the stages due to being enclosed. The shade meant serious laser, strobe and colour action all the time.

Next up was a trip to the main Future Music stage to see the Swedish Mafia, Steve Angello and Sebastien Ingrosso. The Swedish duo didn't disappoint and me and two mates left the others chilling in the shade to go and make some shapes. These guys were definitely the highl

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Ever had that feeling of nostalgia while listening to a particular song where you feel as if you've been transported back to some earlier time in your life? I know I have. Whether it's because you went through a phase listening to a song a lot and associate that song with that time in your life, or even if you just relate to the lyrics because of something that has happened to you, I have no doubt that for everyone there is at least one song that brings back memories of some sort.

Why am I posting this? Well I was reading this article and it just got me to thinking on some songs the bring back memories for me. A major one that stands out is Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls. Whenever I hear it I remember a particular ex-girlfriend (still friends) of mine as we both loved and listened to that song.

Another one for me would be All the Small Things by Blink 182. One of my mates and I, who used to liv
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Ok so I was on the computer at uni today trying to fill in a couple of hours between lectures when I stumbled upon and awesome site for electronic music. The site is analogik.com and it covers everything from industry news to, new hardware to upcoming album releases and must watch up and coming artists. It is truly amazing and I'll definitely be visiting the site plenty more times in the future.

I bring this to your attention for one key reason. A particular article I read on the site had information pertaining to new technology regarding the file size of music. Currently the average 7 minute dance track will take from 4mb to 10mb. Apparently some science types have been working in the problem of running out of space on your mp3 by working on ways to decrease the size of audio files while keeping the same levels of quality. The really amazing thing is that they got a clarinet solo down to
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Scandinavian electronic artists Royksopp have recently released the video for their latest track, "Happy Up Here". The song is typical Royksopp with uplifting, high notes littered through with sexy feminine voiced lyrics.

The video itself is the masterful creation of Reuben Sutherland. The video is an artistic production that interestingly includes motifs from Space Invaders. Gamers should appreciate this tribute to the title as it brings the classic into the modern in an ingenious way. In fact I'm sure it would be hard to find anyone who can't at least appreciate this video for it's quality.


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In my previous blog post I mentioned that I was going to be going out to the Family last Saturday to experience the awesomeness that is deadmau5. I feel the need now to tell you all that it is now tied for the single best night out in my life. The other was of course Daft Punk's Alive tour at Nevereverland in 2008. Tiesto at family is also up there with one of the better nights I've ever had, but not even the trance legend can top the pure ecstasy that was deadmau5 live.

I was a little disappointed when he came out not wearing his headgear but I excused him that little fact as he had just arrived from doing a 2 hour set on the Gold Coast in the glaring heat at Good Vibrations. Thankfully he was still up for doing a 4 hour set for all of us devoted clubbers who packed into the Family to hear him spin some tracks.

While I didn't catch his mix of Tiny Dancer, which is one of the best mixes I'
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