personal blog since 2004
The audio blog of Soulcruzer aka Clay Lowe.
As we usher in another June, we find ourselves once again amidst #audiomo – a month-long celebration and challenge of harnessing audio as a medium for creative self-expression. I eagerly anticipate immersing myself in the wealth of #audiomo entries this year, ready to be inspired by the cool, diverse audio content that’s in store.
The Meta/Quest 2 is a standalone VR headset, which means you don't need a computer to use it. If you're just getting into VR, I'd recommend the Quest 2. The price is decent and the performance is superb. It's my VR headset of choice.
Use my link to get £23 store credit for games.
America’s digital goddess has been around since the beginning of the personal computer revolution. Her she is in 1990s explaining what a computer is. I know, hard to imagine a time without a computer! By the way America’s digital goddess aka Kim Kamando is still at. She host a radio...
So this week we discussed how you can use your body to explore your emotions and your thoughts. It’s pretty crazy, the connection between the mind and the body and how each influences the other. You can listen to the full episode here.
How good are you with math? Here’s some easy life math for you.
In anticipation of the video-making I’ll be doing in the near future with my learning design work, I thought I’d best brush off my video editing skills. I don’t make as many videos these days, just the occasional one or two. But now I’m anticipating a lot of video work coming...
Far-out guys and groovy gals drop doses of good strong coffee in this psychedelic 1968 ad for the hot black stuff.
One of favourite Michael Jackson tracks beautifully rendered finger guitar style. This guy, Misko has also done an awesome job with some other popular tracks too like Linkin Park’s In the End and Zombie by the Cranberries
As the great General Sun Tzu wrote: For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. And here’s Bruce Lee’s take on it in the movie “Enter the Dragon”
Finally science has come through, well kind of. Watch as AsapScience explains.
When people ask me how many languages I speak, I tell them two – English and American. I know, bad joke. Anyway, watch this video as Arika Okrent explains why Brits and Yanks spell words differently.
Skwerl is an amazing short by London filmmaking duo Brian and Karl. Filmed in 2011, Skwerl was Brian and Karl’s first film. It features a couple having what sounds at first like a normal conversation in English… But it isn’t. It’s a brief experience of what English sounds like to non-English speakers...
Music moves souls closer together. I know I share playlists with you. I would love to get to know you better through your playlists. Send me link to one of your Spotify playlists or Youtube playlist or just type the titles in the comment section.
When it comes to politics, I’m usually not very vocal about it online. I like politics. I was an instrument of politics as an army officer. I just tend not to talk too much about it on the Internet. But in this Bloomberg video, Milton Glaser makes two very good...
At least that’s how I was raised. My mom didn’t care if I tried and failed, but she we go mad if I gave up and quit. There were lots of things I did when I was younger that I absolutely hated and probably would have been better off to...
I was out walking along a path I know well. I closed my eyes for no apparent reason, but I’m glad I did because I remembered this lesson: we walk by faith, not by sight.
