Ok, so I have been doing something in my absence. Yes, not posting here is one of those things, but I’ve also been composing a soundtrack for a film with a fairly tight deadline. That was FUN. Check out the mp3’s (Part 2 is my favourite):
I’ve checked the movie website but it looks like there is no trailer up. I’ll bug the director to upload something. For those who are bored or curious, read on the details on the film and how this was all done.
Continue reading ‘(Composing the) Surreality Soundtrack’
I’m going to pretend like nothing happened and that I indeed have bothered to post prior to this. Truth is I have a few good posts in mind that I’d like to materialize at some point or another, plus do a bit of an overhaul of the theme of the blog. It looks too much like.. any other blog. And it’s so not.
While that’s on the way, I thought I’ll pimp a useful little Mac utility that people should know about - PNG Thing. Save for Web out of Photoshop produces smaller PNG’s indeed but this thing will optimize them even more. With the number of IE6 users declining (Mac users had full png support since IE5, eesh) it’s time to use PNG more. JPEG looks ugly for anything but photographs, and GIF is older than my vintage disco records. Not groovy!