Oakbog studios has posted ProTools Troubleshooting Techniques, w/ reference topics: Know the Major Components of your System, Isolate the Problem: Questions to Ask, Common Problems and Solutions, and When All Else Fails.
And do check their mashup medley mp3 Tokens (Tokens, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba, Manu Dibango) of Wimoweh– The Lion Sleeps Tonight:
There’s been a congestion of conferences lately striving to save our sorry pubradio asses. Their themes range from the grand From Participatory Culture to Participatory Democracy to the mundane Making the Transition. They’re put on by groups with amorphous promises in their names: Beyond Broadcast Digital Distribution Consortium Integrated Media Association — mix & match to create your own exciting organizational combos.
Once conferences were safe excuses to get away from spouses and commune with co-workers. Now they’re powerpoint infested face2face fests, where people stare at their computer screens. Once there was a time-honored tradition of spending conference nights genuinely interacting with real folk, i.e., chasing hookers and hootch. Nowadays, everyone runs back to their hotel rooms to blog, stream, cast, and flickr.
You must post your opinion, preferably at length, prodigiously linked to all other opinions, and prefaced with urgent proclamations of bullet-pointed self-perpetuation:
And don’t forget to mention Web 2.0, even tho you’ve no notion wtf that means. I, however, know exactly what Web 2.0 is, and I’m willing to share this insight; as soon as I’m invited to give the keynote at the next conference.
Using our NPR story “Listening to Northern Lights” (NPR Lost and Found Sound), Joel Halvorson of NASA Earth-Sun Museum Alliance made a video for the Minnesota Planetarium (for use in dome, thus the circular frame of the images):
This week’s HV cast is “Pedestrian Fanatic” (mp3) by Abner Serd: The paving of America as seen from the shoulders and sidewalks of our country’s roads. Musings-in-motion recorded during a 5000 trek from Arizona to Georgia to Maine. “It is becoming illegal to travel this country by foot.” Music by Jeff Arntsen of Racket Ship. (9:55):
From the latest issue of the Washingtonian: Has Success Spoiled NPR?
"It would be an immense source of pride for me if NPR could find in its heart new beats and new sounds -- not radically different ones, just different enough that they would belong to the people who are now 17 but who are going to be listening 40 and 50 years from now." --Robert Krulwich
"[NPR is] the retirement community of the air. What was once an insurgent radio movement now sounds like Chet Huntley reading the evening news.†--Alex Beam, Boston Globe
"NPR is run by newspaper people. Sometimes I think they don’t even like radio." --Bob Edwards
Images and sound from Jack Chance‘s trip to Easter Island (radio broadcast: Nov 14 2004 on NPR Day to Day):
What be Web 2.0? In 5 minutes or less- The Machine is Us/ing Us:
Produced by produced by Mike Wesch, Digital Ethnography, Kansas State University.
Journalism.org just released a massive report on The State of the News Media 2007. We @ HV are most taken with revelations in the Radio chapter, such as:
When you finish with the factoids, do waste some more time with their “Design Your Own Chart” feature.
Skye Rohde’s sound and images from her day at the annual cultural show in Goroka, in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. This is the social event of the year, a swirl of colors and costumes, traditional songs and dances. (Broadcast: Mar 12 2007 on NPR Day to Day):
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog just posted A Batch of Theremin Videos. There’s Debussey, Saint-Saens, Jon Spencer, and the old man himself, Leon Theremin at age 95.
Airing today on NPR Day to Day: An audio postcard from the Goroka Cultural Show in Papua New Guinea, by producer Skye Rohde.
Just in case some of y’all don’t know about Ask A Ninja, thot I’d post an epsiode. This one explains in precise detail the technology of podcasting:
Two very different videos, both with the same song, both beautiful in their own opposite ways. First, a TV ad for the video game Gears of War:
Next, the music video for the song:
The song’s a cover (improvement) of Tears for Fears “Mad World.” It was done for the Donnie Darko soundtrack (the music video is on the Director’s Cut) — a great flick w/ score by composer & pianist Michael Andrews. The singer is Gary Jules.
That’s Jules and Andrews are on the rooftop of the music vid, which was directed by filmmaker Michel Gondry (Endless Sunshine, Human Nature, Science of Sleep).
In perhaps the first case or reverse censorship, the squeaky clean John Denver turns out to be sex-crazed in Annie’s Song (mp3):
Edited by WFMU DJ Scott Williams; found at WFMUs Beware of the Blog.
The Nature Conservancy: Nature Stories podcast has been having an HV orgy lately. Recent casts include HV pieces by Scott Carrier, Jeff Rice, Jack Chance, and me.
Oakbog – Maintaining your Macintosh, a new reference from Oakbog studios covering: Memory and Disk Problems, RAM and Disk Space, and Routine Disk Maintenance.
Once again I try to get music stuck in my head out, and into yours. This week it’s Samuel L Jackson’s smokin’ cover of the trad Stack-O-Lee (mp3):
It’s from the soundtrack to the movie Black Snake Moan, w/ R L Burnside’s band backing. For you fellow on-air radio types, here’s an edited (de-fuq-ified) FCC-friendly clean mp3, cuz the original sure ain’t.
Found the file at Salon‘s Daily Download, which also linked to the masterful Mississippi John Hurt 1928 vers (mp3 at archive.org):
If Al Queda recruited door-to-door like Mormons:
This 1980’s recording caught KABC-TV Los Angeles news-face Paul Moyer not playin’ nice with his co-anchor Ann Martin just before they go live:
(MP3 found — okay, stolen from Jim Russell’s Program Doctor site.)
As promised in prev post, here’s our latest HV Podcast:
The Kiss and the Dying by Ceil Muller (7:36)
“His mouth might have been the most antiseptic place in that hospital. Certainly it was the most welcoming. Greedily reaching out for every possible life giving experience he could get. Death was not without pride, it just was greedy.” An etiquette list for those who may be dying soon, and for the soon-to-be survivors. (Photo by Man Ray.)