“What’s nine times four? Thirty-Six. There are thirty-six fatal points on the body, and that times ten degrees of separation between each point equals 360 degrees. Therefore the Wu-Tang Clan is a perfect circle, a cipher”. I bet The RZA to be totally down with Dot, the 360º video capture system for the iPhone 4. Kickstarter, if you’re not familiar with the site, it’s a great platform for funding creative projects. They work with an all-or-nothing funding model, meaning you pledge a contribution but that contribution only gets accepted once the project has reached their funding target.
A retrospective look at the Norwegian electronic music duo’s visual output (BFI Southbank, Fri 11th Feb 2011)
This was the first ‘BUG’ event I’ve been to and, if this one’s anything to go by, consider me a convert of David Bellamy proportions. For the uninitiated, the sub-heading – ‘The Evolution of Music Video’ – gives you the gist.
The audio-visual behemoth is back with a little help from Solid Steel
More audiovisual shennanigans from the Soundcrash boys in conjunciton with Solid Steel veterans Hexstatic, DJ Food & DK and DJ Cheeba to celebrate (although belatedly) Ninja Tune’s 20th anniversary last year. This event was actually supposed to take place last year, but got cancelled because of snow and the world ending (in England, anyway). So now it’s going down this coming Saturday! Something to look forward to on a dreary, wet, cold, grey day (in England, anyway).
