Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011 – Google Calendar

Because I’m a gigantic nerd, instead of actually getting ready to go to the Bluesfest this morning, I spent my time making a google calendar so I can subscribe to it on my phone and see who’s playing where and when!

It’s a pretty complex document. Five stages across five remaining days, so the best way to consume it is to subscribe to the calendar on your phone.

Update 12:45pm, Sunday: twitter user @NickFromSydney sent an easier method for subscribing on iPhone:

“I went to Settings->Mail/Contacts/Calendars->Add Account->Other->Add Subscribed Calendar and put the ics url in there. Worked for me.”

There you go, iPhone users. The ICS URL is:

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/jaymis.com_ug81qtuus3sgsm278ehlol7e38%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Most phones (Android, others I’m sure) will understand and open this iCal link, and there’s also an XML version if that’s the way you roll.

If you’re on an iPhone, you need to subscribe to the calendar on iTunes first (here’s some instructions: http://iboughtamac.com/2008/04/23/syncing-a-google-calendar-to-your-iphone/). If you don’t have a laptop with you, use the HTML version below.

You can also view it as a plain old HTML page, which should work on just about anything with a web browser.

Previous Update, 4:10pm, Friday: Turns out subscribing to calendars while mobile is way harder than it needs to be! I’ve tried on iPhone & Nokia E71, and neither will just open the iCal link natively. Turns out the easiest way to go is for me to invite people to the google calendar. So if you have gCal already setup on your phone, email me at “phone [at] jaymis [dot] com” with your gmail account, and I’ll invite you to the calendar.

The Jezabels + Danny MacAskill – Way Back Home

I’m so monstrously addicted to The Jezabels‘ music, having heard them on the second half of the beautiful Red-Bull-sponsored mountain biking video Way Back Home (below). The track is A Little Piece off the Dark Storm EP.

Lovely female vocals, piano, and frenetic drums. That’s pushing a bunch of buttons right there.

You can listen to lots of tracks on their music player, and there are some free downloads on their TripleJ Unearthed page.

Paranoid Android, played on Ukulele, while sitting on the toilet

Just in case anyone missed Ben Stewart’s gig at Ric’s on the weekend. He uploaded a video of himself playing Paranoid Android, on Ukulele, on The Toilet.

The Awesomeness is strong with this one. Lovely fast intimate production. The shower scene is particularly excellent.

Girls with video cameras

While gently nuzzling the grindstone this morning, I’ve had a browser tab open playing lovely DIY videos of ladies who make music. Things are more bearable this way.

Outkast – Hey Ya, by an awesome uke-wielding Irish girl called Orla:

Aaaaand, Lady Gaga – Telephone, by two people pretending to be Many People.

Lovely.

Painfully Alone, Tone, Graceland Moan

I really dug the track on this web promo video. Turns out it’s Casiotone for the Painfully Alone covering Paul Simon – Graceland. MP3 downloadable from Pitchfork.

New Video Release: Edward Guglielmino – Fail With Me

I’ve just released Fail With Me, the latest of many works I’ll be producing for Edward Guglielmino‘s album Late At Night.

This joins several other videos I’ve produced recently for Ed:
Lion In Your Bed (Live)
Fail With Me (Live)
No Body Is Perfect (Live)
Caught In A Landslide (Live, Bridge Sessions)
Late At Night (Live, Bridge Sessions)

I’ve also posted on Create Digital Motion about the philosophy and techniques behind the production of this video.

Now I’m off to have lunch with Ed and plan for our next escapade.

Track of the Day: Architecture in Helsinki – Debbie

Currently loving the hell out of this slightly unhinged track from Architecture in Helsinki’s last album:

Architecture in Helsinki – Debbie from helsinkids on Vimeo.

Lots of fun.

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