Can’t get enough vuvuzela?

Now you can get a 375MB vuvuzela sample pack for Kontakt. Why anyone would actually buy this I don’t know.

As if people didn’t have enough issues with the body image already Ralph Lauren’s latest ad campaign employed some blatant Photoshopping to make the model appear skinnier.

Okay this is too great not to share.

Quite amazing, check it out.

Is selling out even a relevant term nowadays?
Iggy Pop is selling insurance and Johnny Rotten is selling butter.

I’m not really one to judge how someone makes a living. There are those out there that believe art and music are sacred and never should mix with business interests. Unfortunately, music and business have always been intertwined and always shall be. So why do we hold musicians up to this standard still? Do today’s youth even really understand what selling out is or is it really just an antiquated term from an age that has passed? If everyone is doing it, what’s the fuss? I think if the artist is okay with appearing in a commercial then we should be okay with it too. Hopefully they know when and where it’s gone overboard.

Finally we’ll be able to rock out like the Wyld Stallions.

The new Twingo from Renault has a bevy of electronic goodies. Three iPod docks, a dashboard mixer, USB ports, Bluetooth and earphones built into the seats.

Between this and the new VW it looks like there’s a growing trend of music making in cars.

YouTube has changed their Terms and Conditions to say “we own your content”.

Excerpt:

“…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successor’s) business… in any media formats and through any media channels.”

Essentially they could use your content and sell it to advertisers for use without ever paying you a dime. Got a hot song that you made a video for? They could strip out the audio and sell it on a CD.
Watch out for yourselves before you upload that content.

Lets say you have a bunch of MIDI equipment, a sequencer and some free time. Lots of free time. Then you might come up with something like this for the holidays.

You know you must really love your profession when you work in search engine marketing and name your son “Google”.
From the Google blog:

This just in: Walid Elias Kai, a Ph.D. in search engine marketing, is, it must be said, an avid fan of our company. Dr. Kai, who is Lebanese, and his Swedish wife Carol live in Kalmar, Sweden, where their son was born on September 12. His name? Oliver Google Kai.
About this choice, Dr. Kai writes, “When we first knew that my wife Carol is pregnant, I said, ‘we will name our child Google.’ Everyone laughed and did not take me seriously. My brother said, ‘Yeah, name the next one yahoo fuji nikon.” And then, says Dr. Kai, the day came to make the baby official in the Swedish Registry. “I was with my friend Magnus Foss and my wife Carol, and I said yes, GOOGLE KAI. Carol knew how serious I am – she knows how much I adore Google services.”

Google Kai’s site.