spent the last two weeks finishing my new album.  i don’t think i’ve mentioned what’s it’s going to be called yet…  i don’t think i will now either.  but i will moon soon.  a few tracks are mastered and i’m being a one man CD duplication factory this very second, pumping out a small pile of cd singles.  feels like we should have been done with these lumbering circular plastic things 5 years ago.  catch up radio! next step, artwork.  it’s quite exciting.  you’ll like the album, i promise.  it makes mention of robots a few times and there’s this three note refrain that’s sprinkled through out the 15 or so tracks which all weave together.  it’s almost a concept album… just with a poorly defined concept…  more of a unproven hypothesis album.

also on the work bench, for all you unfortunate souls, i’m getting AXIS up and running on windows… i say that but really xp’s alright.  the windows versions going to be minus a few small features just because of the way the windows drivers interpret the guitar (or unless someone else can fix it).  this is one big step closer to release meaning it will be out before the years up.

i’ve been making stickers too.  as i promised: robots and swear words.  if you want one you have two options.  the hard way: print out the above robot on sticker paper and cut it out.  or the super easy way: enter my EP + sticker give away! there’s four days left and it’s super easy.

back to the assembly line for me.

The Agnes Kain clip is finished!  I’m very happy with the end result. There are no effects in post, everything was shot in camera… which is probably obvious right up until the end. You can check out my previous posts to see how it was made from conception to birth.  Big thanks to Chanelle and Stef and ultra-mega-big thanks to Ryan for wearing ridiculous things,  standing in uncomfortable poses for extended periods of time and just being generally rad.

phebe rendulic, one half of radio spectacular!!! and writer of lightning-heart, has challenged the internet to a duel. “remix my polaroid!” she declares as she slaps it in it’s cyberface. my effort’s below with a behind-the-scenes-making-of below that.

i have invented the macbook pick holder.

speaking of vj guitars and hiking shoes!

michel gondry + flight of the conchords = yes! :0

they go together like pop rocks and pepsi.  i’ve been seeing a lot awesome music video work recently.  the new qua clip is freaking amazing.

it’s best clip i’ve seen in while.  really great idea and execution. aaaand -  sbs station I.D.s! oh yeah!  showing abc how it’s done.

come to the show and see what the future of the live zeal show’s looking like.

bob (:b

for the last few weeks i’ve been working on a clip for melbourne band cuba is japan.  they make sorta soundtracky, interesting music.  it’s really great stuff to work with visually… it’s great stuff in general.  i’ll put a video sample up once my internet is dethrottled.  it’s a fun project to have been working on too.  broken into three sections, the clip starts with bugs coming out of cocoons, continues with bugs flying and ends with bugs dying.  my job was the begining and end with the flying bit in the middle being animated by another robert elsewhere in australia.  it’s all being pieced together by various animators, illustrators, director/producer/editors and new zealanders via the wonders of the internet… and snail mail.  when i post a video about this i’ll put up a run down of everyone involved and their particular claims to awesomeness.

in other news: ZEAL RETURNS TO THE STAGE!

and this is going to be something special. why?  because: ZEAL IS PLAYING WITH ALEKS AND THE RAMPS AT THE JADE MONKEY JULY 9TH!

it’s difficult to explain how exciting this is.  i’ve wanted to play with aleks and the ramps for years.  so come!  it’s my first gig in 6 months!  hear the new album!  watch my new guitar hero max patch in action!  see my audio/visual spectacular of which the visual component isn’t quite complete!

click here for the facebook event. invite your friends

ok.  that’s enough for now.

bob.

so no gigs in.. what month are we in again?.. march. but soon enough. album is progressing. it’s been whittled down to 15 tracks and they’re all going to mesh together and reprise and be thematic and stuff. several guest superstars, probably including phil collins, are contributing. stars are mentioned several times. as are dragons.

for the last fortnight or so my efforts have been focused once again on the visual realm with a vj set i played for the baron’s ep launch (check em out!). it’s an exciting new world for me, being able to play video in a similar fashion to playing music. i wish to do more. and i hope to use this experience to incorporate video into the new zeal set. should be fun. and a massive amount of work. yay! anyhoo.  here’s a slice of the baron set just for you.

the baron – striking

back to work.

bob.