Throwing Ultimate Shapes

So this week I let a Scottish guy called Stephen sleep in my house. You might know him already- he makes music. He made the music for asdfmovie2, and loads of other things. He’s a bit like this:

He came to stay and he brought Rachael, who sings sometimes. We spent most of the time making awesome music. He taught me some very cool things about Ableton Live and we ended up making a pretty cool piece of electronic music.

The first night he was here, Edd was also here. We had the photo studio booked to take some pictures and film Tom’s video for asdfcomp. It looked a bit like this:

A couple of days later we went to the studio again, this time without Tom or Edd, to make a video for our new track. It’s called Back To Back, and you can get it from Stephen’s Bandcamp page right here. The video looks a bit like this:

Be sure to watch in HD! At lower quality YouTube tends to drop frames, and one frame can make all the difference…

In other news, TomSka is in San Diego at Comic Con 2010. I’m still in England, feeling like I really should be in San Diego. If he doesn’t buy me a present he will die a violent and untimely death.

That is all.

Egon Destroys Music

So this is my new video, Egon Destroys Music. It was a LOT of fun to make, and I would like to thank The Japanese Popstars for making it happen.

Credits

Directed by: Bing
Starring: Bing and Mike Trueman
Additional voice acting: TomSka
Camera operated by: TomSka
Edited by: Bing
Music: ‘Destroy’ by The Japanese Popstars

Photos provided by these lovely people under Creative Commons licensing:
jurvetson, psd, comedy_nose, dmuth, TheAlienessGiselaGiardino²³, euthman, Valerie Everett, jimf0390, arenamontanus, and Sougent Harrop.

Special thanks to the amazing guy who sold me the guitar! It was loved.

But that’s not all…

The Japanese Popstars have given me five signed copies of their new EP to give away to whoever I think deserves them. You can enter the contest by doing one of these things:

1. Make a video response of you waging war on old music. Break stuff, make stuff, re-cut and re-edit. Be destructive and creative. (Make sure you post it as a video response so we can see it!)

Your video response can be anything. There aren’t really any guidelines. I just want you to go nuts. You could make some music, break some music, destroy and instrument or two, re-edit Egon or make your own Egon video. Just do some cool shit and if I like it you will get a prize.

2. Come up with your own futuristic instrument and give it a name! Tweet it using the hashtag ‘#destroymusic’, or post it to the CakeBomb Facebook page. (For extra points, you could tell us what it’s made of, or how it sounds. You could even draw a picture of it…)

The cleverer the instrument the better. If you make me laugh, I’ll like it. But please don’t repeat ones that are already in the video or change them slightly. That’s boring. Also, if you can’t think of any yourself, why not retweet one you really like and help that person win?

That’s still not all…

There are 10 subliminal images in this video. Try and find them. Use the comments here or on YouTube to point them out.

That is all.