October 22, 2007Where is the Pixie?
Hey-hey, anyone still dropping by Ollapodrida lately? I finally have time to update!
Well... I'm sure if you have you've noticed no new posts since before BCO left for our Europe tour in September. Believe it or not, there are GOOD reasons for the blank pages here, mainly that I've been very busy re-integrating back into the regular routines after traveling and performing, but also have been rather engrossed in a brand-new artistic adventure. I've joined Second Life. Yep, bit the virtual bullet, dropped the red pill and have been zooming down the rabbit hole, full throttle for the past month, and now I'm hooked on creating and building musical instruments and creating all kinds of whacky clothing and stuff for a 3D virtual world.
I have created a Flickr page now, just started for keeping snaps of some of my work. Right now there is only one object shown there that was the first project I built, along with my avatar (who looks a lot different now that I've been working on creating my own custom skin/makeup, etc.) As you probably can imagine, designing things for a 3D universe is fairly complex and consumes a great deal of time, but I've finally found a pace I can handle, and am extremely enjoying myself.
In the meantime, BCO is hard at work, back in the home-studio crankin' out yet more weird, wild and wonderful audio nibblets, not to mention we'll be having another at-home recording session with fellow pixie-friend and all around groovy musickian Daevid Allen next month (which I'm very excited about, say the least!)
In other news-- there is a totally AWESOME free internet radio station in Amsterdam that is well-worth listening to and supporting. BCO played live at their studio back in 2001 when they were pirate station Radio100, and now they've switched their format to internet radio and are known as
DFM RTV INT
Please drop in and have a listen and anyone who is interested in joining their chat, they are available on IRC (details on their main page) and are a very friendly community of artists, dj's, musicians and all-around lovely people. DFM has netcasters from all around the world who have some truly awesome shows, so check them out.
Also, BCO will be preparing to have a regular show on DFM! We are gearing up our home studio at the moment, juggling some of the workhorse mac's and making way for new components, so in another month we should be up and running.
You can also tune in the first Thursday of each month to 9th Floor Radio (video and audio webcast available). Podcast archives can be grabbed at this location.
That's all for now -- oh and to all who have asked lately-- YES, there will be a link soon to all of the photos from the tour. I have some major updates to do to the BCO webpage but will be sending out an announcement when it's all there :)
Well... I'm sure if you have you've noticed no new posts since before BCO left for our Europe tour in September. Believe it or not, there are GOOD reasons for the blank pages here, mainly that I've been very busy re-integrating back into the regular routines after traveling and performing, but also have been rather engrossed in a brand-new artistic adventure. I've joined Second Life. Yep, bit the virtual bullet, dropped the red pill and have been zooming down the rabbit hole, full throttle for the past month, and now I'm hooked on creating and building musical instruments and creating all kinds of whacky clothing and stuff for a 3D virtual world.
I have created a Flickr page now, just started for keeping snaps of some of my work. Right now there is only one object shown there that was the first project I built, along with my avatar (who looks a lot different now that I've been working on creating my own custom skin/makeup, etc.) As you probably can imagine, designing things for a 3D universe is fairly complex and consumes a great deal of time, but I've finally found a pace I can handle, and am extremely enjoying myself.
In the meantime, BCO is hard at work, back in the home-studio crankin' out yet more weird, wild and wonderful audio nibblets, not to mention we'll be having another at-home recording session with fellow pixie-friend and all around groovy musickian Daevid Allen next month (which I'm very excited about, say the least!)
In other news-- there is a totally AWESOME free internet radio station in Amsterdam that is well-worth listening to and supporting. BCO played live at their studio back in 2001 when they were pirate station Radio100, and now they've switched their format to internet radio and are known as
DFM RTV INT
Please drop in and have a listen and anyone who is interested in joining their chat, they are available on IRC (details on their main page) and are a very friendly community of artists, dj's, musicians and all-around lovely people. DFM has netcasters from all around the world who have some truly awesome shows, so check them out.
Also, BCO will be preparing to have a regular show on DFM! We are gearing up our home studio at the moment, juggling some of the workhorse mac's and making way for new components, so in another month we should be up and running.
You can also tune in the first Thursday of each month to 9th Floor Radio (video and audio webcast available). Podcast archives can be grabbed at this location.
That's all for now -- oh and to all who have asked lately-- YES, there will be a link soon to all of the photos from the tour. I have some major updates to do to the BCO webpage but will be sending out an announcement when it's all there :)
