FOUND: The Bizarre Transformer Trucks of Japan FOUND: The Bizarre Transformer Trucks of Japan November 17, 2011 Vending machines that sell warm noodle concoctions with mysterious ingredients and unknown flavors…to our western eyes, Japan is unlike anything we’d recognize. But beyond Tokyo's glistening lights, oddball fetishes and weird, angular haircuts is a blue-collar subculture of an entirely different sort: Dekotora. Also known as “Art Trucks,” Dekotora is the land of the rising sun’s homegrown trucker subculture that covers big rigs with neon and ultraviolet lights, colorful airbrushed murals and shiny stainless steel or golden exteriors. With housing interiors straight out of Brewsters Millions or a 2-star Las Vegas casino, the trucks are complete with elaborate chandeliers and velvet-lined seats. There are plenty of truck-decorating customs in Asia (like Jeepnys in the Philippines), but these Japanese trucks are a league of their own. These trucks are mind-blowing indeed... Related Links: April 11, 2014 February 26, 2014
Create bigger sounds using layering | EMusicTips Download this tutorial as a PDF Listen to these tracks to see what you will be creating in this tutorial: Layered Bass: Layered Chord Synth: By Daniel Rothmann (T7) Introduction At some point in your career of music-making you might encounter the problem that your synthesizers just aren’t sufficient for creating sounds big or fat enough for your tracks. What layering is all about is pretty obvious, yet many electronic producers fail to apply it to its full potential. Method Layering can be achieved in a number of ways: The first, and (possibly) most obvious, is to put 2-3 keyboard players next to each other, playing the same melody on different synthesizers. Fortunately, the modern day computer has made an unlimited number of totally synchronized keyboard players and an almost unlimited number of synthesizers available for us. I’m going to show you an example of how you can utilize smart layering in Propellerheads Reason using Reasons Combinator component when producing a big bass sound.
12 Unusual and Creative Alarm Clocks Creative and unusual alarm clock designs that will spice up your morning. Clocky Alarm Clock Unusual alarm clock that jumps 3 feet from your night stand and runs away beeping to get you up. Shape Up Alarm Clock This dumbbell-style alarm clock wants to start your day off right! Pillow Alarm Clock The pillow uses an LED fabric substrate below the surface to wake the user using light. Smash Alarm Clock The alarm is switched off by punching on the top of the alarm clock. iSleep Alarm Clock When you close your laptop, iSleep pillow gets filled with warm air, music is being played and after 10 minutes the alarm clock rings. Pull Handle Alarm Clock To set the alarm you simply pull down the handle to the designated time remaining. Directors Edition Alarm Clock Unusual director’s clapper-board shaped alarm clock. Bacon Alarm Clock Creative alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell of bacon. Paper Alarm Clock Conceptual alarm clock based on digital paper. Gun Operated Alarm Clock Silent Alarm Clock
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Deadmau5 controversy: "All we do is press play." - latimes.com Deadmau5 performs at the Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles… (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles…) Deadmau5, who does a decent job of amping up the crowd at his concerts, is now stirring up the blogosphere by saying that all DJs do at live concerts is show up and click a “play” button. "I just roll up with a laptop and a midi controller and 'select' tracks [and] hit a spacebar," the Toronto DJ wrote Saturday in a blog post on his site titled "We All Hit Play." This can be interpreted as blasphemy for several reasons. If all DJs do is press play, how do they justify the million-dollar fees that some top electronic dance music names command? "People assume there's a guy on a laptop up there producing new original tracks on the fly," he wrote. His point wasn't to make fun of the blond hotel heiress. Not everyone agrees with Deadmau5. "There are people who sing or add vocals or instruments, live, over their sets, while still maintaining enough underneath that people can dance," Kirn wrote.
Stay super-dry with Nokia's nanotechnology What happens when a drop of water falls on a lotus leaf? It’s not a philosophical question, but a natural phenomenon scientists have been studying, and trying to make sense of, for hundreds of years. The drop of water falls, bounces, and rolls away without trace – leaving the leaf clean and water repellant. Now scientists at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge believe they may be able to replicate the same effect on your phone, using nanotechnology. Chris Bower, the Principal Scientist at the NRC in Cambridge, sums it up: “Like many scientists we are trying to copy what nature has been doing perfectly for thousands of years.” To achieve the water-resistant, and stain-resistant, qualities of a lotus leaf the team at NRC is in the final stages of designing a Superhydrophobic coating which would be applied to the outside of a mobile phone. Chris Bower produces two hand-held Nokia maze tiles to demonstrate the difference. So what can a Superhydrophobic coating on your phone actually do?
Dancing at a party Top Five Anime Movies from 2010 | Inside AX- Anime Expo by Samantha H., Staff Writer, Inside AX- Anime Expo 2010 was a year filled with many new anime series and some fantastic anime movie releases. With the release of movies such as Karigurashi no Arriety and One Piece film: Strong World, it may be hard to pick what movies to watch. Here at Inside AX, we’ve gathered a small list that we think deserve a look. Without further ado, in no particular order, I present Inside AX’s Top Five Anime Movies from 2010. Trigun: Badlands Rumble I remember when I watched Trigun and fell in love with Vash and the badass known as Wolfwood years ago. King of Thorn (Ibara no Ou) King of Thorn is a psychological thriller that was released May 2010. Karigurashi no Arriety (The Borrower Arriety) Karigurashi no Arriety topped the Japanese box offices this year and for a good reason too. Released July 17,2010, Karigurashi no Arrietty is the first movie that animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi has directed. Halo Legends Summer Wars Okay so I cheated a bit.
Funny GIFs These animated GIFs are like looking into the mirror of your daily life. When you see someone do math without a calculator: When you accidentally email something before you’re finished: When you’re in line and someone cuts in front of you: When you meet someone and find out they like the same band as you: When someone talks during your favorite movie: When someone wants to read something personal you’ve written: When someone says, “Hey, remember when you had a crush on…” When you know your pizza’s too hot, but you can’t wait so you bite it anyway: How fast you run in normal life: How fast you run when there’s food: When it’s your birthday and you go to Facebook to watch the notes roll in: When you walk into a room and a hot person leaves: How you eat in public: How you eat in front of your friends: Getting out of bed on a weekday: When you get a stain on your new shirt: When you greet someone you don’t like: When people leave food unsupervised in your presence: When you find an onion ring in your fries:
Learn Japanese Conversation Learn basic Japanese conversation and phrases which are used in everyday situations. We presented dialogues of conversation and example sentences as well as basic Japanese grammar and sentence structures in three scripts, Romaji, Hiragana Katakana and Kanji. All conversations and example sentences are voice-recorded. First steps towards carrying on a Japanese conversation Topic 4Making an appointment Booking a restaurant, making a hairdressing appointment etc. Making the next appointment at the dentist Topic 5Expressions used for telephone conversation Making a call Answering a call Leaving a message Handy Japanese Phrases For your further study