Music To Keep You Busy

Yeah, this is just a test to see if this works

Theoretically, if you click HERE (dead link) you'll be taken to a website that allows you to download the song "Pillar Of Salt" by The Thermals.

It's a song that always gets me spirits up. Can't help feeling better after it's played. Just thought any of you odd people may also enjoy it's pop-punk vibe and alt-radio friendly lyrics.

Hopefully, there'll be more "choice" mp3s to follow!

site meter

Well we've broken the 200 visitors mark!!! HUZZAH! thats a big deal for someone whose never had their own blog before. Admittedly most of those hits we're probably from me and my mother...but still, i'm excited ok! So after breaking this new record of mine, i thought i'd find out a bit more about where all these hits were coming from, so i added a site meter. Then i realised ,y site meter wasnt actually recording anything...sigh. So i tryed again, and HOORAH! This time it worked. However, never having used a site meter before, it was a tad confusing to begin with. After much head scratching i eventually worked out what all these statistics where about and what they meant for my site. Turns out that most of the visitors to my page come back again! Thats a good sign, right? I also found that the majority of people leave my site by clicking on the links i've provided, so there's some interest in the topics i post, another good sign. However, the traffic through my blog is a little slow, so i began to question how i can increase the traffic flow...other than by telling all my friends to go to my site. So i took a look at a feature of Bravenet (my site meter host) and attempted to increase my traffic flow. Well the results are yet to be tallied as i only tried this recently, but we'll see what happens, and watch the hit counter intently.
So wish me luck! And tell your friends to check out this site.

Children R Skary

Just pointing this website out

http://skary.net/

Animation, black humour, Grim fairytales (what a pun).... this is always good.

"Perfect Drug" clip...How did dom know i'd like it?!

I do love that NIN clip for "Perfect Drug"! How did you know? Quote: "Some of his work includes the Nine Inch Nails music video for "Perfect Drug", which i love" (see Mark Romaneck post)... It's directed by Mark Romaneck and you can check out his site for information on the "Perfect Drug" clip and more of his fantastic film clips by clicking on the link in the Mark Romaneck post further down this blog. By the way...just for the record...i don't HATE NIN...i...well...i dunno. Some of their stuff is great! But "Perfect Drug"? I find it drags on and is kinda repetative. Please don't hate me for that.

Picking Gems from the World Wide Receptical

Today's Gems: Music Videos
Today's Receptical: YouTube

Gary Numan - "Cars" and "Healing"

Cars is a very "electo-pop" song, straight out of the 80s. It was a hit.


Now consider the fact that he's still making music and playing that song live. Because of his 80's electro-pop music, he's now considered to be the Godfather of Industrial Music. Trent Reznor (of NIN) apparently listened to one of his albums every single day when recording their hit album "Pretty Hate Machine".

If you don't think that the man that made the above song is hardcore with industrial music, check out "Healing"!


Nine Inch Nails - "Starf***ers Inc." and "Perfect Drug"



Keep an eye on the blonde woman in the Limo with Trent. Especially towards the end of the clip.

I know my darling headless penguin would love "Perfect Drug", because the clip is all arty, and she likes that kinda stuff (Don't get me wrong, i like arty too, but she's not a big fan of NIN... yes, it's odd, i know. Next thing she'll tell me is that she doesn't eat seafood, or that i shouldn't be in a car with a guy who drives at least 20 kph over the speed limit.)

I LOVE YOU KIAH!! :P


Billy Corgan - "Walking Shade"



Yes, a lot of people did not like Billy Corgan's solo work. I liked it a lot, and anyone who doesn't can just shut the hell up. And don't give me that "He broke up smashing pumpkins" stuff... He *was* Smashing Pumpkins, and Iha & D'Arcy just didn't like Billy's attitude. AND THAT'S OKAY, No-one has to force them to like each other.

Marilyn Manson - "mOBSCENE"



He may be weird and a tortured artist, but you gotta love his dress sense.

Bitey Castle Animations

I appologise for the lack of interesting posts in the past couple of weeks. The posts below are assessment requirements for my Multimedia course. So i thought it's about time that i included something of more interest...so BACK TO THE ANIMATION!!!

This week, i wanted to share the work of Adam Philips and his website Bitey Castle. These Flash animations are quite good, and his water effects are excellent. Check out the 30 short animations in the top right hand corner of his website, funny stuff. Adam Phillips' characters are cute and quirky and definitly worth a look.

What is aesthetics?

aesthitics refers to how elements of an image work together to produce a subject that is overall pleasing to the eye. Aesthetics examines what makes something beautiful, disgusting, entertaining, pretentious, harmonious, boring, humorous, or tragic. Although broad rules apply to making an image aesthetically plaesing, the final judgement is subjective and will vary from individual to individual. This is beacause the aesthetics of an image produce different reactions in different people, depending upon their personal experiences. As mentioned above, an image may conjure feelings of disgust, beauty, humour or tradgedy. Which emotion is conjured for the individual is heavily reliant upon their personal experiences.

Web aesthetics refers to what makes a web page functional and easy to read and navigate. This refers to everything from the colours used to the type of font. For example:

This web page uses a dark, busy background, making the small font difficult to read and the overall page confusing and difficult to navigate. This isnt helped by the choice of red for the font colour which is difficult to read for the best sighted person. Confusion and distraction is added by the choice of boarder, alos red, which clashes with the busy background.
Simplicity is the best choice when it comes to web aesthetics as it creartes no confusion, is easy to read and can be navigated through easily. The best example of this is probably the search enigine, google:

This web page uses simple text, with very few page elements. This avoids confusion and makes the page easy to read. This site is used by millions of people around the world every day, and couldn't be simpler to use.