I’m in the middle a big project with a lot of people, so I whipped up a new desktop wallpaper for myself, to keep in mind the important things. And now you can, too. Click here to download a zip with versions for different screen sizes (plus dual screen).
I try not to flood my personal site/blog with too much “random pics from the net”, so I created a tumblr blog to take care of that for me.
This way I get to have a place to pin the stuff I find that needs some kind of creative reaction, and you, my faithful readers, get to choose whether or not to be flooded by rubbish you care naught about.
You can see the blog here, if you wish.
PS. I still maintain an “inspiration” category here on this site, but strictly for material I find myself. One of my biggest principles about this blog is not re-posting material from other blogs. Now you know. Oh, and it’s named “Adrian” since my full name is Jacob Adrian Lysgaard. Yeah.
I just discovered the criterion collection on the web, a collection of the world’s best classic films. One film that especially caught my eye was The thief of Baghdad, shot in 1940, in brilliant technicolor. I just nicked some screens from it, I will most certainly use these for some heavy inspiration later on… Just look at’em!
You can watch the whole film for $5 too, practically given away. I’m gonna check if they have season passes…
As a DJ, people often ask me where I get my music, and answering is never easy. Back in the day I used to run around town, scouring record shops and thrift stores for old vinyl. These days however, more and more of that running around has turned to surfing around, and not in the way that involves Bermuda shorts and bleached dreadlocks.
I still make the occasional trip to ye olde record shoppe, but since the DJ performance itself needs digital files for the most part, it’s way easier to go crate digging online. I still agree that the sound produced by vinyl is slightly preferred to its digital counterpart, but most music these days have been through digital processing prior to being pressed to vinyl anyway. I’ll leave it to the purists like Jack White to keep that battle alive.
Anyways. Most of my music shopping goes through Juno or Beatport these days, even though there are plenty of indie solutions (like art on earth), i seldom end up using them.
But still, the paid solutions stand for the bulk of my music intake, blogs are more of a tertiary musical income, third to paid mp3’s amd real vinyl. But they are easier to share!
Music blogs get a lot of flak these days, but like eating out, you have your McDonald’s and your Stragiotti’s, you gotta spend some time and look around if you want to find the best spots. Following are a short list of my preferred places to hang out and get free music:
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Saturday was the day for a new experiment at Nabovarsel. . What i did was, i filmed the djs playing with a webcam, greenscreening them on top of a video edit i made (that’s the space stuff in the video). Then i split up the video feed, and sent it to some old CRT monitors placed around the club. And voila! DJs in space! In the future i hope to repeat the endevour, but with a lot more screens, I’ll try to get my hands on some old TVs and stuff to really draw some power. I made a little video of the event to illustrate:
EDIT:I repeated the experiment, but bigger and badder, at Landmark this saturday. Landmark just got themselves this friggin huge LED projector, and it’s a dream using it. Here is the video of that too:
cosmos: bigger and badder from Jacob Lysgaard on Vimeo.
Emilio from Nabovarsel (which is pretty much the club in town) approached me about making something to look at while dancing this saturday. I like to think he came to me just because I’m awesome, not because we go way back. Anyways, i drank from the sweet nectar of Adobe After effects for about three hours, and this is what i pooped out in the end.
The idea for the folding box came to me in my sleep last night, so Emilio’s timing was impeccable. I’m also going to hang up my DIY keytar-thing in the club, although it is not finished and not playable, is still looks like a bucket of nice.
Nabovarsel Visual from Jacob Lysgaard on Vimeo.
