Today feels like a day that someone engineered specifically to piss me off. All thanks to one group of people (let’s call them “doctors”) that have the unique ability to waste my time, insult my intelligence, then I have to pay them AND pretend to be grateful. Week ruined and it’s barely Tuesday.

HDR on the iPlayer World Cup feed really rescuing the USA v Belgium TV coverage. Pitch in shadow but the stands in blazing sunshine. The stands are totally blown out in SDR.

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...

Wonderwall playing in the stadium. Look, on this occasion, I’m ok with it 🙂. Well played England.

I didn’t realise, my mate Stephan is flying the drone TV coverage for England v Mexico tonight! Have a great game Stephan 👍😀 (fingers crossed the weather lets up for you)

This is both incredibly pathetic and somehow funny. Courtesy of @thegoodliars.bsky.social

With all the noise about games, I missed this news - Sony are removing 551 movie titles from the PlayStation store on Sep 1. If you purchased it on your PS it’ll be gone after that date. There are many advantages to physical media. Not having your movie collection simply evaporate is a big one.

Perfect juxtaposition of these two posts. 🙂

Here’s this week’s Throwback Thursday (except it’s Friday, sorry). Lianne La Havas, 2012, from the launch show for her debut album. Mixed live to YouTube on in-ears from the side of the stage, using Audient preamps and a Yamaha DM1000, and nothing else. youtu.be/hdC278mVqbw?...

Respect to Tidal for taking a stand against AI-generated music. Their new policy essentially says: i) yes you can post AI-generated music to their streaming service ii) no you will not get paid for any plays it gets. It’s time other music streamers got this proactive. tidal.com/ai-policy

It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.

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This has taken me a long time to get around to.

Four years and four months of this. Boris Johnson was PM and Joe Biden was President when this started. Remember them?

People have been asking for a way to help while I'm recovering from my elbow break. But I don't like the idea of taking money for nothing in return So I'm running a raffle! 1st prize... a unique prototype Ibanez JGM10 guitar in a custom Passionflower Hiscox case Raffle tix at jongomm dot com

There’s a long tradition in the audio world of wannabe engineers / “producers” / musicians claiming to have worked with artists that they actually haven’t. Now thanks to AI you can’t even be sure that the engineer/producer/musician claiming to have done those sessions actually exists.

Wait, what? Did this species evolve before or after 1962? Because those colours are 100% comic book accurate 🤪 @jamiejirak.bsky.social @sumitlakehornet.bsky.social

Millions of people now using Google Maps to find out exactly where Paraguay is. Congratulations. Wild game.

This is all I post now.

Cygnets at The Bishop’s Palace learning a 170-year-old tradition - ring the bell, get a treat: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

@kkr433.bsky.social I really enjoyed this bottled history of US film theater architecture youtu.be/ZVlHQcvQR1I?...

Fire up your starship’s reactors and get yourself to Altair IV with the newly restored 4K Blu-ray of Forbidden Planet, arriving in the UK this September from Arrow Video @arrowvideo.bsky.social @everyscififilm.bsky.social

@thrillcat.bsky.social Quite a cool video which I think explains why the amplifiers stay on the ground and you only fly the speaker cabinets. 🤪 www.threads.com/@priyansamar...

Can anyone explain what it means when you get blocked by an account with no posts, no replies, and no avatar or handle to speak of? Yet they have about 20 followers? What’s going on there?

Those AI data centres you never asked for and don’t actually want or need are why the MacBook Pro you were about to buy has gone up by $300-$500 today. appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

This is Shuffle by Bombay Bicycle Club, from a session we filmed in the upstairs room at the Old Queen’s Head, Islington in… 2013? I think carrying all my sound gear up those stairs was worth it for the end result. #ThrowbackThursday youtu.be/q8xAAfAAQyI?...

Roger Deakins, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and A Scanner Darkly are among the highlights in the new Film Stories magazine. filmstories.co.uk/news/film-st...

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

Hottest June day of all time in the UK (well, nearly, check again tomorrow). So of course I’m working in the loft. Out of necessity, in my underwear. Don’t worry, there’s no-one else here.

“A group of older boys showed up and did it. I didn’t know them, they must go to a different school…” “Don’t worry sir, if they come back, we’ll catch them for you.”

Was planning to get a bass preamp pedal at some point, but after last week’s recording (which went great) I can see one these in my future, possibly instead-of. MarkBass LittleMark Vintage. Love this: youtu.be/i3zfrUF7N6M?...

Isabella Rossellini #BOTD #filmsky #moviesky

Whee-ow, Kaleidescape showing their new Strato-K player, downloading a new 4K “Cinematic” movie format with 4:4:4 color encoding and almost double the bitrate of UHD Blu-ray. AND it can do 8K, should that ever become a thing. A notable leap for home cinema. www.kaleidescape.com/strato-k-mov...

This is a short film I stumbled across on Threads. It’s by a deaf girl (not explicitly stated in the film) and it’s exactly how I feel. Maybe everyone gets this. I wish I could be me now and go back to 2001. I wasn’t a bad person, but I’m glad I’m not who I was 25 years ago. youtu.be/MJwUczdfXJg?...

Used COS-11s again on a shoot yesterday, for the first time in almost 20 years, and wishing I hadn’t. I remember now why i have used DPAs since 2007.

Yep, seems a poorly thought-thru decision. I get Facebook and X, but YouTube is a game-changing resource for musicians - I would have eaten it up as a 14 yr old drummer, no two ways about it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One does wonder what would happen if *thousands* showed up to legally, peacefully protest at every ICE detention centre, and stayed there. Social media, independent media, podcasts, all great for spreading awareness. But ineffective at actually bringing about change.

This is how you put them back in their box. Just show up. They want you to be scared of them, so they can march about and be all racist, unchallenged. Its much more difficult for them when they’re outnumbered 20-to-1 😀.

Did you see the sign today about hobbies?

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

I will say tho, I’m getting unexpectedly ok at soldering enamelled headphone cable.

Working on a super-secret TV shoot this week. So of course, I’m building cables. You’d imagine after 🤬 years I’d already have every audio-related cable ever thought of in a box somewhere, but no, I always need some weird new thing.

This. I’ve never quite bought the “Carol is the worst person” narrative. The whole of civilisation has been stolen, and instead of taking the easy way out, she’s trying to fight back, any way she can. Go Carol I say.

Been laughing at this for 45 minutes straight

So cool to finally have these three films, remastered, and on 4K Blu-ray. This is an amazing time to be collecting movies on physical media, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

From LinkedIn. Nailed it. “What’s rare isn’t a small budget, it’s good filmmaking.”

I love a sale. Or several sales. To me, this is more inspiring to look at than a streaming menu. Smaller selection, more curation. #bluray

I'm hearing TONS of reports about movie theaters over the last few weeks in which people are pointing out that teens are putting away and ignoring their phones en masse. Has Gen Z discovered the novelty of disconnecting and are finding theaters to be a 3rd space of escape from the digital world?