My first botch radio station (a commentary)

What makes these music to fall into the area of fair use is because they are small snippets that are to used for commentary, educational and non-profit purposes. They are musical remixes that are short and unique. You can never learn too much from these master composers. Click read more for a playlist. The playlist allows you to see the amount of music visually mixed into the mp3.

How to make your own radio station on WordPress.

Watch tutorial, click play.

Sample remixes of Enya and Vangelis:

Sign up at Switchpod.com there may be ads in the future. If hotlinking doesn’t work, let me know. But for now, it works.

The reason for making this tutorial is to encourage people who’ve said they wanted a radio broadcasting station but couldn’t afford to risk doing it full time can now try it out. Switchpod and WordPress is a good place to start.

FAQ:

What happens if I upload copyrighted music?

Your account at wordpress will be deleted, so as your switchpod account.

Isn’t the music you have there copyrighted?

Yes, but it’s shown here under the fair use law. The law is held by a thin line, however.

How are the ads placed in my podcast?

I don’t know, I don’t see or hear the ads yet. They put image or audio ads in along with your podcast. They are completely separate from you podcast. Your users just get the option to download them. To get rid of the ad you can upgrade to $3/month.

What the max size per song?

Probably 50MB.

What audio editor did you use?

Audacity, free

I can’t save it to mp3. Why does it says it needs a lame encoder?

See tutorial here. http://www.youtube.com/watc=nM58_p9XRxA

How to embed mp3 players into your blog

How do I get music on my blog? In order for this to work you must have a wordpress blog with an mp3 player plugin - download. If you’ve sign up with WordPress, you should already have it after sign up.
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Watch tutorial, click play. The video will break up, try your best at them.

Step 1) In the editor box, click html.

Step 2) Type in like shown below.

Step 3) Click save. Step 4) Go preview your new saved page.

Here is the color chart. Here is a sample code:
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[audio http://mysong...MP3|leftbg=0xEE82EE|rightbg=0xFF00FF|

lefticon=0xFFFFFF|righticon=0xFFFFFF|loop=yes]

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• Animanics 1

• Animanics 2

• Animanics 3

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http://mysong...MP3|leftbg=0x9ACB9A|rightbg=0x336633]

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Code for this button: [audio http://link removed/Cheers.mp3|

leftbg=0x357DCE|rightbg=0xF06A51|rightbghover=0xAF2910|righticon=0xF2F2F2|

lefticon=0xF2F2F2|righticon=0xFFFFFF|text=0x357DCE|slider=0x357DCE|

track=0xFFFFFF|border=0xFFFFFF|loader=0xAF2910|loop=yes]

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More features. *Chart snipped from 1pixelout.net, the original creator of the wordpress flash audio player.

Hayao Miyazaki Kiki’s Delivery Service is a decent film - check it out

One of my favorite animation director is Hayao Miyazaki. After reading Darly’s post, she reminded me of Hayao Miyazaki’s Kiki’s Delivery Service. It’s a story about a girl from the country that has move away from home to spend a year in the city where she works in a cute bread and cake shop.

Here’s a quote from Darly’s comment, “Funny how you and I are somewhat on the same wavelength. I love light houses and at one point in time wanted to build one in Laos by a river. It would be a light house but a book shop/reading place and with a nice garden and of course would serve coffee and tea and cookies and cakes since I love to bake more than cooking.“

Anime - TV.com says that “Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most famous and well-respected creators of anime. He has three brothers, he being the second oldest. His older brother, Arata Miyazaki, was born in July 1939. His first younger brother is Shirou Miyazaki. His youngest is brother is named Yutaka Miyazaki and was born in January 1944.”

click to watch

One of my favorite of all from Hayao Miyazaki is Kiki’s Delivery Service. Here is a music video which brings out a lot great feelings in me. Kiki’s Delivery Service -Youtube

Here’s a quote from Nausicaa.Net
“Kiki is a 13-year old witch. When a witch turns 13, it is traditional for her to move away from home to spend a year in another city or town where there is no witch already living, so that she can learn to be independant and practice her trade.

This is Kiki’s story of the beginning of her year away from home. She and her black cat Jiji run into a little trouble at first, but they soon make friends in their new city by the sea.”

This is one of the few DVD that is great to have around the house if you are bored. The media you see aired on TV are are mostly non-critical thinking commercialism. Some people are actually uploading the whole movie into youtube, although the videos are stretched, due to a crappy video encoder, and not an accurate representation of his work, it’s worth to take a peek. Makes you wonder how can Youtube allow so much copyrighted stuff to go loose. Take a peek at some of the videos see if you like them.

The videos were taken due to copyright claim by Studio Ghibli Inc.

part 1

part 2
Click read more to see all videos.

For all the talented writers to publish books

For all the talented writers at LaoVoices that want to see their books published can visit Lulu.com They have various selections you can publish, from cookbooks to travel guides. All you need is some nice photos and something to write about.

“Lulu gives you all sorts of ways to sell your fabulous new creation to the whole wide world - you set your own price, we print and ship each item as it’s ordered, and you collect 80% of the creator revenue on every sale.” “Just upload your manuscript, photos or digital files, use our formatting tools to get everything set up just the way you want, from size to binding to cover art, and… well, that’s it. You’re the proud parent of a brand new digital creation, ready to publish and cherish. The publishing process couldn’t be easier.”

This one (kimini) looks like a good read:

The b*e*s*t FlASH VIDEO to Audio Video Interleave Conversion tool by Vixy.net can run on PC

Today, converting Youtube or Google videos into Avi so you can watch on your Ipod, TV or whatever you want to do with it is useless because of the low quality video it yields. Vixy’s conversion utility is known for its Efficiency and high quality of the conversion (lossless conversion.) Vixy_.net has given us that option on its online conversion but their website is so crowded it doesn’t work everytime or, if not at all. They have not offerred an offline conversion until recently. Vixy now (probably from Japan) offers to release this engine as an 0pen s0urce, and now capable of running on your PC with lightening speed.

SAMPLE OF GOOD CONVERSION (above)

These images above shows the result of the effective conversion.

SAMPLE OF BAD CONVERSION (below)

These images below show you how the typical before and after conversion. After the conversion the images are blurred.

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<—- After (without vixy,) notice the blurred corners. This is the typical problem of a bad encoder.

What the World Eats.

This is an interesting collection of photographs of families around the world that empties there fridge and storage to show off their food collection. An interesting Time Magazine cook book/human diet book. A pretty fun book to spend hours observing what they eat.

 

 

Mongolia: Lots of meat and fruits and little or no vegetables. I like this one.

Japan: Notice the amount of seafood. If you are dumping mercury into the ocean, please stop it.

Great Britain: Notice the amount of processed food. Sometimes we have to buy what the factory wants us to buy. And bits and parts of processed foods come from all over the world with lots of unknown preservatives.

Bhutan: Nearly all vegetables. They seem to be content vegetarians.

Book sells at Amazon.

Laos: The Backyard for the Chinese.

This is a response to Darly’s post China’s Backyard.

I wonder what would happen if the Chinese flooded the Lao market with many of their low cost Chinese products. Would this be a one way money flow directly to China? Maybe, maybe not.

Chinese products tend to be practical and useful and low cost. Many of these products can be used to start or operate a business. Before, most would have to buy Japanese or other imported tools which would cost more. Portable direct injection diesel engines, for example are a very useful tool for the third world. They are much more cost effective compared to running a gasoline generator.

One of my complaints is that most Chinese products don’t tend to have souls. Products with a soul tend to last longer. Their designs are in balance with nature and employs the use of higher quality materials. They are built with a uniform shape. It is believe that other forces of nature or the universe will interact with products that are designed well.

I would want the new emerging Chinese to pay more respect to artist. They are the ones that bring life to products. Traditionally, artists in China aren’t very much an icon compared to the doctor and lawyers. But it’s the artist and master engineers that give a product its soul.

Some would argue that adding styles to a product will only add cost. I disagree. I say that art will brighten the assembly lines. Happy workers will yield quality products.

Manila’s City of Amazing Recyclers

This has to be one of the most memorable documentary I’ve ever seen. I’m glad to have seen it because the Payatas Recyclers had been censored from the mainstream media. The VBS camera crews aren’t allowed to film inside the site but they risk their lives to show us the real deal. This isn’t your ordinary fuzzy internet video. Instead this video comes with a better resolution and with stereo sound. There is also a use of strong language in the video, something new to me. The strong languages actually adds to the documentary’s vitality.

Click the links below to watch.

Part 1 of 5
Part 2 of 5
Part 3 of 5
Part 4 of 5
Part 5 of 5

Here’s a quote from the description. “The Payatas (in the Philippines) is a labyrinthine endless garbage sifting. And it’s not just people wandering in the back alleys looking for beer bottles, but rather well-organized armies of scavengers attacking truckload after truckload in shifts.”

What is up with the T.h.a.i b.a.s.h.i.n.g?