Saturday, April 23, 2011

Praia da Sãozinha (Skechers Shape-ups)


SKECHERS Shape-ups - Action Packed fitness shoes:

1. Tone your muscles

2. Promote healthy weight loss

3. Make it easy to get in shape!

Lace up walking toning sneaker.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Rua Heróis de França s/n, Matosinhos (Lota de Matosinhos, Docapesca)


Merluccius merluccius (Linneaus, 1758)
3Alpha Code: HKE Taxonomic Serial No.: 164795
2.2 kg @ 4.5 € / kg = 10 €

Microchirus azevia (de Brito Capello, 1867)
3Alpha Code: MIA Taxonomic Serial No.: 173024
1.25 kg @ 4 € / kg = 5 €

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Trivia (IV)


This is my Zoom H1 field recorder. I was looking for an inexpensive field recording set up and saw it on ebay for 85 Euro. Wife let me buy one, so I ordered it from musicgear4uk back in January. I've been using it since then, making field recordings here in Porto and this thing is really great.

I do have one advice though. The H1 is notoriously sensitive to being handled and moved, so much more so than the H2 and H4 models. It is essential to get a windjammer and decent shock mount so that you can isolate the mic from handling and wind noise.

I bought my windjammer / windshield from Rick (Rickvanman) at http://miccovers.co.uk/. Rick has come up with the best solution to the problem that I've seen so far.

Here's some examples of my... huh... work (LOL) for the past 3 months.



You can also find these recordings at the accidental recordist.


Saturday, April 2, 2011

Rua 15 de Novembro, 47




The Bird Watcher @ COLÖNIA Micro - Gallery

«A bird, a cage, a microphone, a camera, a computer and an internet connection.
The bird watcher is remote, artificial and operates on a computer with no inteligence.
The camera and microphone are pointed to and focus on the bird.
It records 24/7 and reacts to the bird’s tweets for editing it’s videos.
Edited videos of bird tweets are automatically uploaded to youtube

Newly available videos’ links are posted in twitter.
The Black-Throated - Finch: http://twitter.com/TheFinch_TBW

Man Behind the Curtain: André Gonçalves at http://colonia.pt/ from 05.02.2011 until 05.05.2011

Final note: no Black-Throated Finches were harmed in the making of this post.