Posts by Mark Thomas
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Access: The long road to real space, in reply to Russell Brown,
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Perhaps a trip to Weta Workshop?
I remember watching the "making of" Lord of the Ring DVD featurettes and marvelling at the skills of their sculptors and artists. Of course that was 20 years ago now - I'm not sure what they do these days but it looks like they still do minatures and model making.
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Mr Twofirstnames is a complete dick
Hey
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Hard News: Friday Music: Going Large, in reply to TracyMac,
I’ve been using whatever’s bundled into Media Monkey, which I suspect is FFmpeg
If you're using Mediamonkey Gold, it'll be using the latest LAME codec, which is a good thing.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Going Large, in reply to Russell Brown,
The “More barn!” story.
Hah
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Hard News: Friday Music: Going Large, in reply to Mark Thomas,
Anyway, apparently the advent of iTunes will kill this whole phenomenon.
(Or the increasing popularity of minimalist music like The XX, Lorde and James Blake)
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[At the risk of sounding even older and whiter than Neil Young...]
My biggest beef with music from the past ten years hasn't been mp3 compression, but dynamic range compression or "loudness" of music mastering. It's what makes a lot of modern pop music sound thrashy and tiring to listen to, and why much of the music from the 70s and 80s sounds so much more spacious.
Anyway, apparently the advent of iTunes will kill this whole phenomenon.
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Hard News: Splore 2014: Everyone's…, in reply to lotech,
That is seriously impressive. You guys should be proud
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Hard News: Splore 2014: Everyone's…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Hmmm yeah I suspected so. I was sort of hoping it might be further down the hippie scale, a la Splore.
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Hard News: Splore 2014: Everyone's…, in reply to Rich Lock,
Thinking about trying out this festival next year http://www.luminatefestival.co.nz/ do you know what it's like?