Create Digital Music writes: Record Industry wants DRM (Digital Rights Management) on all internet radio to prevent and/or stop stream ripping of songs. Way to go.
I bet Teosto didn’t think about this when Yle Areena opened. Hey, Teosto, hot tip! It isn’t enough that Yle Areena doesn’t work abroad – there might be thousands of people in Finland ripping the on-demand material from your streams. Areena needs DRM. Today!
As I mentioned earlier, I said byebye to my Fuji E550 and bought Fuji F31fd.
Now, after some weeks of use, I can tell it’s a really good camera, no matter if you’re a novice or an expert. Anyway, there are some things which I’d like to change:
– Adjusting BOTH Shutter Speed and Aperture at the same time. F31fd gives a possibility to adjust only one at a time.
– Maximum exposure time is 15sec. However, you can choose only 3sec exposure on S(hutter speed)-mode. To go to full 15sec, you have to choose “Night Shot”-mode. Why?
– Face Detection does not detect faces behind sun glasses or normal glasses. I don’t mind, I wouldn’t use the feature anyway.
However,
– ISO3200 has surprisingly small amount of noise. The amount of noise can be compared to E550’s ISO800. Automatic ISO also works pretty well.
– Fast deleting of images, cropping, rotating etc are nice features. Not necessary, but useful anyway.
– The response is very fast.
– Returning back from picture viewer to shooting mode happens by pressing the shutter button down. Quick and efficient.
All in all – getting used to the way the camera works took a bit longer than with E550, but after shooting some photos in different circumstances, adjusting seems to be much faster than in E550.
There are plenty of features which I find useless, but for people who search for a camera with lots of automatic functions, they make sense. The image quality, colours and LCD display are very good and a price of 190e is therefore the best price-quality ratio on compact cameras I could find.
Some example shots after the jump:
Back in Finland, fully relaxed – couldn’t be better!
Below are three links to Orion’s 3,5 hour set in Mango, Kempten, Germany, recorded on 07.07.07 (thanks Alfredo!). Expect large variety of house, less progressive than usual, lots of Finnish tracks, easy and sommerlich. The set will be online for limited time only, be fast.
DOWNLOAD
… not available anymore, sorry.
… and sure, you can get these via the podcast, too.
Got an English copy of Frank Schätzing’s The Swarm. The best book in ages, highly entertaining and recommended.
I’ve been very satisfied with my current Fuji E550 camera. Despite the small size, the image quality has been remarkable (see: The Most Popular Photos, on Flickr). Also the sound quality on videos shot at clubs or in very loud circumstances has been fantastic. No matter how close to the sound source the camera is, there is no distorted sound on the video. Check some YouTube videos shot with E550.
Anyway, after some years of heavy use, my E550 is soon breaking to pieces. Pixmania provided a nice offer of Fuji model FUJI F31fd, which has gotten pretty good reviews. So, bought a new camera and looking forward to give it a test drive…
Time in Germany is running out and I’m heading to Nizza (or Nice, whatever) tomorrow morning. After five days there, I’m still taking a trip through Germany to Essen. Keith Jarrett is performing there on Monday, the 16th of July.
Last but not least, some music tips. Spushnik shares links to some free-to-download chill-out albums on his Last.fm journal. A one hour chill-out mix “Orion – From Rural To Urban” is also available for download.
While downloading and listening, take a moment and read about “Why We Don’t Care About Live Earth” and Seth’s short but excellent writing “Times a Million”.
Last night’s gig in Mango, Kempten, Germany was very, very nice. The people were extremely friendly and the atmosphere was very cosy. I truly enjoy playing in these 200+ clubs instead of big 1000+ halls. There’s so much more intimacy and interaction in the small ones.
What comes to music, the night proved (once again) the international potential of Danceteria label and Finnish (electro) house production scene. Tracks like My Rosegarden and a bit older Heikki L’s remix of Honey and Jussi Polet’s Positive etc were the tracks of the night, no question.
Big thanks to Alfredo & co. for all the promotion and work and the super nice staff of Mango for uncompromised hosting. Big up!
Here’s a small package for making the holiday smoother, the sunshine hotter and the glass of wine tastier. It’s a 74min chill-out mix, music from artists like Planet Funk, Zero 7, Boards of Canada, Slowhill, Ulrich Schnauss, Banco De Gaia, Dousk, Groove Armada…
Tracklist
Planet Funk – Piano Piano
Zero7 – Look Up
Goya-Project – Klezmatic
Boards of Canada – Hey Saturday Sun
Ulrich Schnauss – Between Us And Them
Slowhill – Come Back As A Butterfly
Mosaik – Cumulus
Slowhill – Thursday
Mosaik – Noa Lake
Banco De Gaia – Sheesha
Trentemoller – Miss You
Ulrich Schnauss – Blumenwiese Neben Autobahn
Dousk – Anagram
Doris Days – To Ulrike M. (Zero7 remix)
+ Bonus track
Säveltäjäin Tekijänoikeustoimisto Teosto ry ja Suomen Radioiden Liitto ovat sopineet musiikin käytöstä radioasemien nettisivuilla. Radioihin jo pitkään sovellettu liikevaihtopohjainen sopimusmalli kattaa nyt myös radiokanavien rinnakkaislähetykset Internetissä. Korvausta laskettaessa otetaan huomioon myös radion soittamisesta verkkosivulla saatava tulo.
The new website is now online. Yes, it’s the one you’re watching right now.
After several hours of tweaking, I can’t help deeply hating CSS and IE6 combo. When everything was supposed to be ready, nothing was. Now the site works perfectly on latest Firefox, Safari3 and Opera, well on Safari2 and IE7 and on IE6 the layout sucks, but at least it works.
What’s new?
1. This feature I like the most: By adding a tag djorionweb_prods or djorionweb_gigs on your Flickr photos or YouTube videos, you can make them visible on this site – either on Gigs & Booking site or on Productions, depending on the tag.
2. On the main page there’s now the NEWS section. That’s basically the most important news from the blog. Dynamically, wheee :)
3. No more Podcast site, instead a larger site called Media. It includes the latest YouTube videos, Jaikus, feeds, links to the outside world and the Podcast, of course.
4. Productions site has been re-written, no more one million different flyers. If you want to see more flyer art, click on the photos on the right side of the page.
5. And yes, layout is new. Did I mention it already? ;)
I hope you enjoy the update.
Underworld
Oblivion with Bells
Out October 2007
When Underworld released their last album “A Hundred Days off ” no one thought it would be nearly 2000 days until the next one arrived. It hasn’t been a case of lazing around in the Essex countryside though as the last 5 years have thrown up the 1992-2002 anthology album, two major film scores (Anthony Mingellas’ “Breaking and Entering” and Danny Boyles’ 2007 “Sunshine”), a self-published typographic journal “In The Belly of Saint Paul”, a series of pioneering digital-only releases, internet-radio broadcasts, a groundbreaking live web-tv broadcast and gig in partnership with Apple and Frankfurts’ techno giants Cocoon and countless gigs around the world.
Tune in to Bassoradio – this Wednesday. DJ Orion live on Misc Management show, 20:00-22:00 (CET+02).
Stream address: http://www.basso.fi/bassostreami.m3u or on FM (Helsinki city area) 102,8mhz (Welho cable network 105,9mhz).
Orion – Silver Lining (Summer 2007 mix)
Silver Lining is the last of the three part progressive house mix series. After “Pace” and “Fusion”, Silver Lining is more dancefloor orientated and driving and compiled especially for sunny weather.
Download >> http://klubitus.org/kuuntele.php?id=3789
Download the other parts of the series >
Pace – http://klubitus.org/kuuntele.php?id=3475
Fusion – http://orion.reaktio.net/orion/orionfusion.mp3
Enjoy the summer!
I used the past weekend browsing through Orkidea’s flyer collection. I managed to scan a bit less than half of them, nearly 500 images, of which 300 are now online. Pretty NoLife(tm) project, but lots of fun.
More flyers coming up soon, but while waiting dive deep into Finnish oldskool underground rave hype =>
Finnish Flyers on Flickr
