The Greenwashing Index

More green themed stuff from me. (Guess what sort of thing I'm working on!)

Go to this site and have your adverts scored against the greenwashing index.

Picture courtesy of flickr and actually from a great cartoonist who I've now discovered, Tom Fishburne. His site is here.

Hopefully Helping Greenpeace

Greenpeace UK have asked today for music for their videos and films. (check it out here).

So I've donated a track: Somnambulism. (it's on my website on the jukebox on this page, it's track 7 and is spelt incorrectly!)

Not sure if they'll use it or not, but it's great that brands are opening up for UGC that isn't just videos! (and one in which I might actually provide something more than mediocre!)

Literally Greenwashing

Once again proving that no space is sacred from communications, Naga DDB Malaysia have painted this onto the pool tiles:




'Don’t let this be our future. Save our rainforest, stop global warming.'

Not sure what the call to action is, but at least there's no danger of this green message being washed away.... (!)

(Courtesy of Osocio for that one. Great social advertising blog and site, by the way)

Analogue Heaven

I bought a new set of toys just before Christmas.

Arturia's pack of soft-synths of some classics: Moog Modular, Minimoog, Prophet, CS-80, ARP 2600, and Jupiter 8.

Obviously, I'd love to have the originals of these wonderful instruments, but I don't have the money. Or more importantly, I don't have the space.

Anyway, I've been fairly productive, having written two new tracks, which you can download here. (Left click on it to hear it in your browser. Right click, save target as to download the mp3)

The first one, Switching You On is a more dancey number, and to be honest could do with a new mix and some better production. But you can hear lots of analogue burbles going on. Nice.

I've spent a bit more time on the production of the second one: Transmission Out. There's a bit of moog and some ARP in there. But I'm particularly happy to have found an amazing Fender Rhodes sound.

2008 promises to be full of music I hope!

New year, new habits

As John Grant (Green Marketing Manifesto) would say, things really work when normal stuff is green. (Greennormal)

I needed to get rid of some rubbish. Too big for my car to take to the dump, so I went looking on Google for someone to come and collect it.

And found this wonderful company 'Eco Junk' based in Camden.

Wonderful people. They come and pick it up and then go and recycle it all. They even use LPG trucks and they're carbon negative.

And for less money than the price of skip hire.

Genuis.

And normal.