Music. Photography. Thoughts.
From Michael Johnston’s “The Online Photographer” I learnt the bad news that Eolake Stobblehouse (real name Frants Nielsen) has passed away.
I “knew” him only through his art nude photo site domai.com, but I also knew that he was supporting others like T.O.P. – so rest in peace, brother…
As always, thanks for reading.
I recently saw ‘The in Between‘, which is a nice movie by the way. And Joey King, the main actress is using an Olympus OM-1N camera and develops her own black & white images in a darkroom which was nice to see as well (tho with a few quirks, the image “seen” though the camera’s viewfinder for instance was *not* the one from an OM-1). Anyway, since at the moment I don’t have film in my OM-2N camera I went and replaced the Micro Zuiko 17mm/1.8 lens:
with an old and manual Olympus Zuiko 50mm/1.8 one which I still have. Here’s how the camera looks with that, as “seen” from my phone (Google Pixel 4a):
And here’s an image taken with that combination, from about a two meter distance, and with the lens wide open at f=1/1.8:
Very cool to have this 100mm equivalent look in a 3:2 format, and in black & white. And although this is still ‘instant’ imaging with using the digital sensor in my camera instead of film, the camera was set to ‘M’ (manual) mode, so you still have to work a bit for each image, and of course also set the focus yourself. Slow photography, so to say, and it can be as tasty as slow food 😉 I should probably try that combination for portraits instead of taking the very fast 45mm/1.8 or the very sharp 50mm/2 macro lenses. Working on and thinking about an image *before* you even take it can’t be bad… 😉
As always, thanks for reading, and for viewing.
These are cool cats from Japan, playing the music from “Cowboy Bebop”:
And here’s kind of an about from the late 2021 Netflix series:
A must see in my opinion. Pure beauty through and through. And nothing beats some cool, or rather hot hard bop. Enjoy.
More? Here you go… and here are some more… love the girl and the dog 😉 And these two were particularly amazing:
What a band. And what a composer. Chapeau!
For the original motion picture soundtrack, look and listen here.
Few people ever realised how great a singer Chet Baker was. And listen how perfectly bass player Jon Burr is on that record, as are Ben Riley on drums, and Harold Danko on piano. Plus of course, Chet on his trumpet.
One of those albums which is a must have in my opinion… enjoy, or listen to it on Youtube where you’ll also have a track list.
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As always, thanks for viewing.
P.S., from Sunday March 20th, 2022: here are some good thoughts on the matter…
Look what Martina did:
What a fun project, and awesome result. And a million views on Youtube in just ten days, I hope they’ll have lots more…
After trying out the new and upcoming artwork for Debian 11 “Bullseye” on my desktop (see my last post), I downloaded the poster art for the last Wikiloops member’s meeting in 2018, and tried that – and so this is how my desktop looks right now:
Fits, because first I’ve been there (which was great), and second I’m a bass player… 🙂 So thanks to Dick for providing this – and thanks to you for viewing/reading, as always.
I’m about two weeks early, I know – but I wanted to see Juliette Taka’s artwork “Homeworld” which she made for Debian’s next stable version 11, codenamed “Bullseye” on *my* desktop – so I downloaded her wallpaper and tested it:
Looks very nice with my conky system monitor, I like it 🙂
As always, thanks for viewing.
Yesterday I decided to upgrade my version 6 of Harrison Mixbus to their new version 7 – and just like my purchase of v6 I’ve got it at a discount, so until now I’ve spent 19€ for the first version and also 19€ for the upgrade – still cheap when considering the normal price of 90€ (plus 29€ for the upgrade) if you don’t get the discount. See their homepage, and also the Mixbus manual for more info.
I was quite happy with v6 already, but v7 seems to be even snappier. Like the latest versions of Ardour (6.7 at the time of writing) on which it is built, it has some quite nice features which you won’t find elsewhere, at least not built-in – take the targeted mastering approach for instance:
You can also save the master loudness analysis and the mixer settings automatically with each mixdown in ‘preferences’, so you’ll get something like this with your exported file(s):
Most of that stuff can be done with Ardour which is a fantastic program of and by itself. It’s open source, but for a readily compiled version for Windows or MacOS you’ll have to spend an amount of your own choice (starting at $1).
The reason for me to also get/purchase Mixbus was first my curiosity about it, but in the end I’ve kept it because of its sound – *and* because the workflow is about the same as in Ardour which I knew and loved since years already, and which I’ll keep using anyway.
My latest mix and export with Mixbus v6 was ‘Colours’:
And people seem to love the sound of my upright in that one…
As always, thanks for reading.
The latest and greatest version 6.7 of Ardour, the open source DAW for Linux, Windows, and Mac is released. See the release notes, and download a readily compiled version for an amount of your own choice (starting at 1$). As a supporter I have it already. There are also a manual and a tutorial. That latter one is some years old already, but still useful if you’re new to recording multitrack audio with a computer.
Thanks to Paul Davis and to his team.