Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised

You all know Daft Punk, right? But have you seen the anatomy of the a Daft Punk mashup? A little side project for Sydney-based web technologist Cameron Adams to give the general public a better understanding of the minute details and nuances that go into constructing a complex mashup from tiny pieces of songs.

Using “Definitive Daft Punk,” a 7-minute mashup that he created himself based on Daft Punk’s complete discography, he exposes the entire structure of the 23-song piece, revealing everything from the cutting and layering to levels and equalisation.

Okay, so now for the science bit. What is a mashup I hear some of you ask? A mashup is a song created by blending two or more other songs. The more complex a mashup gets, the harder it is to distinguish the parts that are being used to create what you’re hearing.

Watch the screen to see the entire mashup, composed using the latest HTML5 and CSS3 technology visualized in real-time = geeky goodness.

(Thanks to HypeBeast for the additional info)

#the50 things every creative should know

I love Twitter. It allows people to be really creative with the information that fills their heads. Not only can you share links but, and a nice big but, people have created specific ‘tweetable’ websites. How good an idea is this?

#the50 is the first fully-Tweetable primer for graduating creatives.

London-based Designer Jamie Wieck decided to write #The50 Things Every Creative Should Know when he realised he was not the first, nor the last student to fear the leap between art college and the creative industry. I recall the moment very well and actually ended up avoiding the ridicule of trying to be a designer in the traditional way.

Each piece of advice has been written within 140 characters and features a consistent hash-tag, making them easy to share across Twitter.

I love ‘there is always someone better’. I held myself back for this very reason so many times. It is a fact that you can always find someone better than you, be it because you lack confidence or because someone has spent far longer in the industry than you have. Get over it and get on with working.

Another fab one is ‘Never stop editing your portfolio. Three strong pieces are better than ten weak ones – nobody looks for quantity, just quality.’ I only realised this when I started to have people pitch to me… it’s the same as CVs, nobody reads them – they just look at your past experience and education. If that is good, I’ll read more but to this day I have never read a CV in full.

And with over 1,000,000 visits and counting, #the50 has struck a chord with both students and established creatives across the world, inspiring many to submit their own advice for #the100 — an expansion of #the50.

Antony Nobilo. Photographer.

Originally from New Zealand, Antony Nobilo moved to London in 2005 via five years in Sydney to pursue a career as a commercial photographer working for publications as esteemed as Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Glamour.

Having collected cameras since the age of 15, he has amassed a collection of over 200 cameras dating back to the beginning of photography until present day cameras from parts of the world such as Russia, Japan and would you believe it, even England.

Influenced by landscapes, nudes and portraits, Antony says that if he could shoot anyone, his first choice would be Brigitte Bardot. Good choice.

Now with an exhibition on show at Antipodeans favourite Flat White Cafe in Soho, ‘Beautiful Memories’ shows his photographs documenting his 200 cameras with framed prints from as little £20 and a forthcoming micro-collection of prints for high-street giant Urban Outfitters, this is a man that is finally getting pay-back for the years of effort he has put in to refine his art form.

Designing Heart Home

For the past seven months I have been working on a project with fellow bloggers Carole King and Arianna Trapani to create Britain’s first digital interiors magazine, Heart Home.

As Art editor, my role has been the look and feel of the magazine from the logo concept through to the page layouts, website business cards. I won’t go on. You get the idea.

Launched on 15 September at The Conran Shop, the magazine received 10,000 views within less than a week and is on course to hit the high targets that we set to make a big splash in the world of interiors publications.

With a full illustrated guide to the London Design Festival along with a rare interview on video with Habitat founder Sir Terence Conran, the magazine is filled with features for all design lovers. Yes, even you might like it.

Working with designer Helen O’Byrne we created a grid to build the layouts around, tested font-sizes that could be read on a standard 12″ screen, pull-quotes, titles, captions, introductions, page numbers and so on. These decisions took some time to ensure that each page flowed from one to another, that the pacing of the magazine worked and that each feature felt fresh and different from the feature before.

With these decisions in place, we needed to move on to the creative side of pulling the content together and making it an enjoyable read in a format that we all understand… a page-flipping magazine. As a quarterly publication promoting British design, we are working hard on issue 2 already but for now, enjoy issue 1…

Anorak iPhone app

I might be a little slow off the mark, but Anorak magazine, the happy mag for kids, has always been on my radar but I have never posted about it before. A beautifully-designed children’s magazine, Anorak are upping the stakes with this iPhone app to distract your little rug rats. Only 69p to keep the kids happy and the big kids feeling satisfied that they are consuming some culture at the same time.

Download the app from the Apple iTunes store

“This app will definitely be the most colorful and artistic on your iPhone” (NuggetIsland)