Recording on the Zoom H4n

Just recorded a quick bit of audio of my brother Jake playing guitar and singing. He has a nasty cold, so he wasn’t massively happy with his performance. I can’t believe how good the quality of the h4n internal microphones are!

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4 Music Related Youtube Videos I Keep Watching

There are a few Youtube videos with really catchy music. The videos that I will sometimes even open in a tab and play purely for the music (if only this wouldn’t cause Safari to crash!). Here are four of my personal favourite music related videos.

FACEBOOK.COM SONG

I remember seeing this video a few years ago. Before I even had facebook.

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4 Blogs For Design Inspiration

I was think the other day, why do I love the Internet so much? After a lot of thought, I  have come up with the answer. It feeds my obsessive personality. Whether I am going through a phase of obsessing about package design, photography or screenwriting, the Internet never lets me down. When I am obsessing about design, here are the four blogs I love to visit. Here they are, described by them.

Established in early 2007, The Dieline is dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. Its purpose is to define and promote the world’s best packaging design, and provide a place where the package design community can review, critique and stay informed of the latest industry trends and design projects being created in the field.

The Dieline has quickly grown into the most visited website on package design in the world, and has become the voice of the industry. The Dieline’s first book on Package Design, “Box, Bottle, Bag” was released by HOW Books in early 2010, and has quickly become the top selling package design book on Amazon. The Dieline has also recently launched The Dieline Awards, a worldwide package design competition devoted exclusively to the art of brand packaging, further promoting the field. Winners were announced at the FUSE Conference at Trump Tower in Chicago on April 14th. http://www.thedieline.com/

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The Films I Am Seeing At MIFF 2010

Feel free to leave a comment with film suggestions/your thoughts!

TEENAGE PAPARAZZO

Greater Union Cinema 6 – Fri 23 Jul 7:00 PM

PICTURE ME: A MODEL’S DIARY

Greater Union Cinema 3 – Fri 23 Jul 9:15 PM

THE ACTRESSES

Forum Theatre – Sun 25 Jul 2:30 PM
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Why You Should Read ‘Delivering Happiness’

I have recently read a number of books around the subject of business, corporate culture, customer service and entrepreneurship. Books like Rework by Jason Fried and The Four

Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss. These books, in particular, challenge the way

Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh

in which we work and the amount of time we spend doing it. Although I have found them useful, they do make some outrageous claims. Jason thinks learning from mistakes is rubbish, because apparently we shouldn’t be making mistakes and Timothy thinks its viable for us to all outsource our life and check our email once a week.

Unfortunately, we are not all so experienced that we don’t make mistakes and we don’t all have the finances to pay other people to do the work we could be doing.

Listening to the audiobook ‘Delivering Happiness — A Path To Profits, Passion, and Purpose’ by Tony Hsieh was definitely a breath of positive fresh air. Tony, co founder of dot com company LinkExchange and Amazon acquired Zappos.com, talks about his experience in not only business, but in life.
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5 Things The iPad Has Taught Me

Here are some of my thoughts on the iPad after using it for a week.

Josh with his iPad

RSS READERS MAKE READING AND SHARING EASIER

I have tried a few RSS readers on my computers in the past, but haven’t found them useful. Now with the iPad I spend a good majority of the time using one. NewsRack is my iPad RSS reader of choice at the moment. I love that I can easily share interesting blog posts and articles with friends on Twitter, as well as star/favourite articles for later use.

I DON’T NEED FLASH

I have never really liked flash, probably because it has always crashed for me.  I hear a lot of people saying a con of the iOS is that it does not support Flash. I have not yet had an experience on the iPad where I have wished it had Flash support.
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