Category: The Outdated Archive

All my super old but still amazing blog posts \(^-^)/

T.O.T.B.C Aftermath: Club Ice In Coventry

Ending the long line of shows that happened last week was the night called ‘Pimpin'” @Club Ice in coventry. It was an over 16’s rave meaning that whopping 1200 hormone raging teens swarming the venue going absoloutley mental. there were a few technicals with the decks, but when you work with pros like Tomb Crew you’re never gonna go wrong!

shout outs to ben clark and the rest of the lads in vip that we’re listening to my stories of the amazing pistol shrimp! see, there’s never a wrong time to geek out!

The Most Amazing iPhone App EVER!

You hear that sound? That’s the sound of my mind being blown.

When the folks over in Cupertino strapped a little speaker to the bottom of the iPhone and released an SDK, do you think that any of them thought “Oh, people are totally going to use this to make apps that can push little Styrofoam balls around a fake soccer field.” Yeah, probably not. But sure enough, people have.

The 99 cent app, Football – Real Kick, is a clever twist on the “blower” concept we’ve seen before. In a nut shell: sound pushes air around. Certain sounds that the iPhone speaker can emit push enough air around that you can just baaaarely feel it, making it just strong enough to blow out a candle — or in this case, blow around a little Styrofoam ball.

Unlike past blower apps, this one doesn’t emit a constant stream. It only putts out air when you tap that “kick” button; combine this with a hand drawn soccer field, a couple of iPhones, and a whole lot of beer, and you’ve got the world’s most expensive game of foosball that doesn’t actually involve a foosball table.

Cardboard Record Player

I don’t know anyone anymore that actually owns a record player. I still find them interesting, but I can’t say that I’ve found much of a need to rush out and get one. Well for those of you that would like to have something small and easily hidden around, this record player is one way to do it. What was formerly nothing more than a sleeve for a record gets reshaped and reused as a record player.

Sure, it’s nothing top of the line and it will probably need a little help from you, but it would still work. In order to get it up and running, just assemble all of the corrugated cardboard into the proper formation. Then just put a pencil in the center of the record on the player. The vibrations will then go through the needle and become amplified by the cardboard. It was just something that was sent out to creative directors across North America in order to demonstrate GGRP’s sound engineering capabilities.