Compositional Tips for Computer Arts

In the 129th issue of Computer Arts you'll find my contribution to the main article; '101 ways to create better images', in the form of ten compositional tips. Thanks to Daniel Hyun Lim, Jen Gheduzzi, Gez Fry and Audrey Kawasaki for allowing their artwork to be used.

Audiosurgeon 006: The New Music Issue

Well the 6th Audiosurgeon podcast is several weeks late, and for that we can only apologise, but conflicting schedules, workloads and technical 'issues' have just kept holding us back. As a result there's no central discussion this time, but at least you can enjoy all the extra new music we've found you instead, from Bonobo and Braintax, to Dan Arborise and The Format, via Squarepusher, DJ Kentaro and more.

I also got chance to interview Andy Turner, the man behind Aim, the celebrated UK Hip-Hop act, and Jason chatted with Gedeon Maheux from the Iconfactory. Furthermore, regular listeners will be pleased to know that Ask Rina is back in the schedule.

Audiosurgeon Redesign

Actually this is something I did a while back, but I've been so busy with one thing or another that I forgot to mention it here. I gave the Audiosurgeon blog a branding and usability update, evolving what Jason (Arber) had initiated originally, but which we'd never got round to finishing. And for fans of the podcast, you'll both (!) be pleased to hear that Podcast 006 is almost ready, and we can only apologise for the delay.

New Business Cards

A nice big box of these arrived today: