Below is my collection of Flickr photos for August. I used a technique described here how to embed the actual slideshow in a blog entry. The other trick was to tag all the August entries with 2006 as a tag. My Flickr account is here.

Hey, I forgot I had a free google pages account, so I updated and fixed that one tonight. It’s always good to cross-link web pages.

The address is sandvik.googlepages.com. I have 100Mb of disk storage, and unlimited bandwidth, so I’m thinking about uploading loops and other things other musicians would like to download.

As a matter of fact, tonight I also reinstalled Logic 7.2.2 and other SW synths on a new G5 system, so I did a quick test, and saved the results as a loop. It’s up there: Electopia. Feel free to do anything you want with it, and if you produce something, it would be fun to hear the results.

Anyway, if you have a chance, I would recommend getting a google pages account. Only issue — for me — is that the actual page editor only works with Firefox (and IE), not Safari.

This is an interesting entry in Thomas Dolby’s blog. It’s about how he has much more control over how to produce music and videos, including a new DVD on the recent live tour, when he’s no longer hostage by the recording company (meetings, schedules, crazy demands).

Well, it also helps that Thomas Dolby is an established arist with a fan base, and the recording company originally put out the money for the establishment. I think that’s the biggest problem for new artists, they like the same kind of freedom that Thomas Dolby writes about, but due to the plethora of content out there, it all drowns in the masses unless you have a massive marketing drive sponsored by a big recording company.

Anyway, I’m a long-time Dolby fan, used to spin his records as a DJ in the merry 80:ies. The closest seven degrees of separation I had with Thomas Dolby was that he was the CEO of Beatnik, and I worked at Staccato Systems with a very similar sound platform for computers and embedded systems, so we were competitors.

This is a set of photos I took a couple of weeks ago in Encinitas, California. Seems I’m the only one that has used a Flickr tag by the name of rockbandfeet.

The band, Custard Pie, played at the beach, and I started taking the normal ‘rock band photos’, but got bored after a few minutes, and instead focused on their feet. Maybe there’s a way to tell how the rock band is by just observing their feet… The more they jump, the more fun it’s watching the band — unless you are a band like Kraftwerk or New Order — most likely the feet movement factor is extremely minimal, then.

I was testing my new studio setup, so this was a ten-minute job, but if somone wants to use it for film or whatever…

See the film section.

I didn’t know that there were many good presets for final mixdown setups in Logic, I took one and just used it all across the mix.

This is my new studio setup. We started cleaning up the house, the garage, the rooms, and finally also cleaned up the studio environment.

I have a hard time naming studios, so this new studio is thus named Studio 2.0.

There’s a PowerMac 2x 2.0Ghz G5 actually underneath the desk.

It’s not fun moving software from one computer to the other — anyway, my son has my old 2×867MHz G4 PowerMac.

The whole household is Mac-only. Not that there’s one Windows box for ‘just in case’ situations. And a couple of Dell desktops that I purchased for $25 each and don’t know what to do with them just now.