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Peter & Rachel 1990s

2012-01-26T05:17:00.001Z

peteracherok1 Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Beach strobes 20120122_103

2012-01-22T19:57:00.001Z

Beach strobes 20120122_103 Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

At home in the City Arms

2012-01-20T10:20:00.001Z

At home in the City Arms Originally uploaded by Mooganic.No Guinness just pseudo Guinness from Brains

Thoughtful doc on art today

2012-01-16T19:46:00.000Z

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era. presspauseplay.com

Christmas swim

2012-01-06T18:47:00.001Z

Photographs here :http://www.flickr.com/photos/moogan/sets/72157628563400197/

doubleplusgood ingsoc

2011-12-31T15:22:00.001Z

doubleplusgood ingsoc Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Porthcawl Christmas Swim 2011

2011-12-26T11:26:00.001Z

Porthcawl Christmas Swim 2011, a set on Flickr.

Winter Solstice Gathering

2011-12-22T14:46:00.001Z

Winter Solstice Gathering Originally uploaded by Mooganic.Coney beach - Grice family on the beach, mulled wine.

Sparklers on the beach

2011-11-06T22:16:00.001Z

Sparklers on the beach Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Shooting the sunset

2011-10-29T11:01:00.001+01:00

Shooting the sunset Originally uploaded by Mooganic.Took my old Minolta X300 out. Loaded with a 24 roll of Kodak Colorplus 200 ASA film I had free with my last developing.

SoundCloud suffers DDOS attack

2011-10-06T13:27:00.001+01:00

Message from SoundcloudWe would like to apologize for yesterday's service outage.Audio message from Alex:http://soundcloud.com/alex/thanks-and-were-sorry-at/s-4SBIDOn Tuesday October 4 at approximately 8:40pm CET, our Operations team werealerted to an unusually high amount of unidentified traffic leading to a complete network outage. Within minutes, our CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Operations and

Late Summer

2011-10-03T14:43:00.001+01:00

Late Summer Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Nikon Facebook PR blunder "A photographer is only as good as the equipment he uses..."

2011-09-29T08:28:00.003+01:00

Crass error, most likely an intern with the social media PR firm used to update the Nikon facebook page. Over two thousand mostly angry comments. "Do any of our facebook fans use any of the NIKKOR lenses?" asks the insightful poster. Note the "any". Completely clueless. and the follow up comment from Nikon...

Elvis Festival 2011 - Walking to Hi Tide

2011-09-28T08:40:00.001+01:00

Elvis Festival 2011 - Walking to Hi Tide Originally uploaded by Mooganic.|Olympus XZ-1, processed in Aperture and Topaz Labs Lens Effects.

Breaking wave

2011-09-06T19:00:00.001+01:00

Breaking wave Originally uploaded by Mooganic.Shot with Olympus xz-1 sequential mode, RAW, Stitched in PSE9, processed with Topaz Labs Adjust.

Morgan plus 4 wheel

2011-08-31T05:32:00.001+01:00

Morgan plus 4 wheel Originally uploaded by Mooganic.Trying out the new Topaz Labs B&W Effects plugin. Certainly gives Silver Efex Pro 2 a run for the money - it's far more affordable and has a very good selection of effects. Liking it so far!

Richard Thomas

2011-08-15T19:26:00.001+01:00

Richard Thomas Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Which is Sh*ttier: The Video or The Song?

2011-08-13T16:56:00.001+01:00

Tie a ribbon

2011-08-03T08:16:00.001+01:00

Tie a ribbon Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Eamon & Lucy - Wedding blessings

2011-07-29T17:04:00.000+01:00

Siobhan, Porthcawl Carnival 2011

2011-07-25T00:01:00.001+01:00

Siobhan, Porthcawl Carnival 2011 Originally uploaded by Mooganic.The woad girl does her thing!

Eamon & Lucy

2011-07-11T21:45:00.001+01:00

Eamon & Lucy Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

End of the day

2011-07-11T19:36:00.001+01:00

End of the day Originally uploaded by Mooganic.Siobhan watching the sunset - after Eamon & Lucy's wedding blessing ceremony

Artist's Statement

2011-06-28T04:07:00.000+01:00

Stalwart Wave Interrupter

2011-06-19T14:24:00.001+01:00

Stalwart Wave Interrupter Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

500px

2011-06-04T21:39:00.001+01:00

Trying out:

Peter_Morgan on 500px

It's a shame the selling of prints via fotomoto is so US centric.

Seafront

2011-05-05T16:07:00.001+01:00

Seafront Originally uploaded by Mooganic.iPhone 4 shot

May Day 2011 centre of the spiral

2011-05-03T19:02:00.001+01:00

May Day 2011 centre Originally uploaded by Mooganic.Topaz Adjust used to post process

May Day 2011

2011-05-03T03:36:00.000+01:00

May Day 2011 - A Celebration from Peter Morgan on Vimeo.

Zoe Skoulding & Alan Holmes

2011-04-22T20:35:00.002+01:00

Zoe Skoulding & Alan Holmes performance at Arts for the Earth from Peter Morgan on Vimeo.Excerpt of a performance at the Green Room, Porthcawl. Presented by Arts for the Earth. 4th February 2011. Nick Clements began the evening with a talk about creativity and his work.Zoë Skoulding is a poet and editor, now in charge of the internationalquarterly, ‘Poetry Wales’. Zoe’s latest book, ‘Remains of a

Taking notes on the Pink Beach - Topaz Labs Plugin processing technique

2011-04-22T19:10:00.002+01:00

Taking notes on the Pink BeachOriginally uploaded by Mooganic. Created using Topaz Labs, first clean then processed again using adjust to alter exposure and colour saturation. All worked on via Aperture 3 (not layers in Photoshop). Processing things through multiple passes with the Topaz Labs plugins can produce some very rich textures and effects.If you use a layers based application like

- A celebration between two rivers - Arts events in May 2011

2011-04-22T16:33:00.000+01:00

- A celebration between two rivers - Arts events in May 2011‘Mouth to Mouth: a Celebration between two rivers’ highlights art and artists in Bridgend.‘Mouth to Mouth’, a statement of art and community by people who live between the mouths of the rivers Cynffig and Ogmore, is organized by members of ‘ Arts For The Earth ’ and is funded by the Arts Council of Wales.

Pink Beach

2011-04-21T11:49:00.001+01:00

Pink Beach Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Pink beach wallpaper

2011-04-20T22:10:00.001+01:00

Pink beach wallpaper Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Plastic Arcadians

2011-04-20T10:39:00.000+01:00

Introducing the Moog Polyphonic Theremin

2011-04-03T07:42:00.000+01:00

Hulk Car Park

2011-03-30T20:16:00.001+01:00

Hulk Car Park Originally uploaded by Mooganic.Coney Beach car park

snap

2011-03-22T14:10:00.001Z

snap Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Lighting the lantern

2011-03-18T11:13:00.001Z

Lighting the lantern Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Apres Gig - the day after

2011-02-25T18:48:00.001Z

Apres Gig - the day after Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Evening seafront cyclist

2011-02-14T22:50:00.001Z

Evening seafront cyclist Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

A Rainy and Romantic Night in Ibiza

2011-02-11T01:38:00.002Z

A Rainy and Romantic Night in IbizaOriginally uploaded by Stuck in Customs. Normally Trey Ratcliff is excellent, this is however a good example pf what not to do with HDR. Not yet clown vomit, but close. Seriously, it'd be better in black and white. With shadows. It's night.

End of the Dance

2011-01-08T21:07:00.001Z

End of the Dance Originally uploaded by Mooganic.Siobhan at the end of her performance

INCIDENTAL COMICS: The Treehouse of Adulthood

2010-12-13T22:51:00.000Z

INCIDENTAL COMICS: The Treehouse of Adulthood: "This comic originally ran about a year ago and can be found on this blog in its original form. I decided to update it with color, mainly bec..."

DAW mixing

2010-12-13T06:06:00.001Z

DAW mixing Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Cantering on Coney

2010-11-23T03:42:00.001Z

Cantering on Coney Originally uploaded by Mooganic.Early morning in front of Rhych point, Porthcawl

Imogen Heap concert

2010-11-21T03:25:00.001Z

Imogen Heap concert Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

The Giant in the Crack in the stairs

2010-08-17T10:05:00.001+01:00

Redleaf iphone wallpaper

2010-06-18T22:40:00.001+01:00

Redleaf iphone wallpaper Originally uploaded by Mooganic.free iphone wallpaper

Wizardly machines

2010-05-27T20:27:00.000+01:00

Wizards of Mass Distraction: machines No. 1 Funkylator from Peter Morgan on Vimeo.The Novation Launchpad standby sequence reminds me of a seventies disco floor...

Retro glory

2010-05-25T22:37:00.001+01:00

Trailer for "The Toaster With TWO BRAINS" from Bradley W. Schenck on Vimeo.Here's the retro-futuristic trailer for my new project, "Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual". The Thrilling Tales web site hosts lightly interactive, densely illustrated stories from Retropolis - the world of the Future That Never Was. The stories can be viewed in their entirety on the web site (with a few nifty

Those That Teach You What You Know. Ed Rees and the Thunderheads.

2010-04-30T20:22:00.000+01:00

Katapult for Novation Launchpad - flexible MIDI mapping

2010-04-21T02:13:00.001+01:00

Katapult Demonstration from Mark Qvist on Vimeo.A rundown of some of Katapults features. See http://www.midikatapult.com for more info and downloads.

Keep it simple.

2010-04-13T17:38:00.000+01:00

Mr B Gentleman Rhymer. Splendid.

2010-03-30T13:04:00.002+01:00

Great free software for a new Laptop or Desktop PC

2010-02-18T13:02:00.005Z

There are some great free programs available that are must haves for setting up a new laptop or desktop PC:1. Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/ - an obvious candidate for secure browsing, particularly recommended are the plugins Adblock Plus http://adblockplus.org/en/ which allows selective display of advertising on sites helping to speed up display of pages. For the truly security

Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy.

2010-02-04T05:51:00.000Z

Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.http://www.spyfilms.com - Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy.Directed by: Arev Manoukian

Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain

2010-01-30T04:29:00.000Z

Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain from 99% on Vimeo."What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do is ship," says bestselling author Seth Godin, arguing that we must quiet our fearful "lizard brains" to avoid sabotaging projects just before we finally finish them.

How to achieve the highest sound quality from Ableton Live

2010-01-07T08:46:00.002Z

Many of the default settings in Ableton Live are intended to optimise playback smoothness and keep CPU usage low. This is great for performance and working on a track but doesn’t provide the highest sound quality available from Live.Perhaps you are at the final stage of a project and you wish to ensure you have the absolute highest quality playback and effects to bounce down a high quality

Genius - The Thick of It

2009-11-07T13:53:00.002Z

RePercussions 350.org community drumathon

2009-10-09T17:58:00.002+01:00

… a planet-friendly groove-fest!A call for all to join in!drummers, dancers, tubthumpers & whistleblowers groove for a groovy future!!!Sandy Bowl, Porthcawl, Saturday October 24th 2009www.350.org global climate change action day The 350 minute drumathon in Porthcawl is a 'free access' public participation event supported by local community groups and drummers and dancers. People from across Wales

Use a gym ball for seating.

2009-09-21T23:54:00.002+01:00

FM Quick Tip: Imogen Heap from will seelig on Vimeo.

Tighter Guitar recording

2009-09-08T07:45:00.000+01:00

WMD on Facebook

2009-08-14T00:15:00.001+01:00

Check out the new Facebook page for the Wizards of Mass Distraction.

Paths of possibility - a new blog about sustainability

2009-07-10T12:00:00.001+01:00

Richard Thomas has a new blog about the future and sustainable living. Check it out...http://ecocheck1.wordpress.com/

Drool

2009-06-29T03:17:00.002+01:00

Sound check (movie) - RT noodling.

2009-05-26T04:49:00.001+01:00

Sound check (movie) - RT noodling.Originally uploaded by MooganicAt Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. The drone is emanating from the delicious Gforce Minimonsta, playing via Ableton Live 8. MBP and Macbooks, TC Konnekt Live, etc. Way more info than is required really.

SoundClick Banners

2009-05-22T16:12:00.000+01:00

Cheapest way to connect two Macs for Logic Node use

2009-03-14T13:20:00.007Z

Logic Node allows you to utilise the power of two or more Macs when working in Logic Pro. The Logic Node software provided with Logic distributes the computing power required to run plugins and greatly reduces the load on the CPU of the main Mac used for the DAW, this is great for matching up say a Mac Pro with a Macbook or harnessing the power of a second hand Mac Mini to boost your existing set

Public beta of Live 8

2009-03-05T16:48:00.002Z

A public beta of Ableton Live 8 is now available for download...A public beta of Live 8 is now available. If you own a full version of Live (versions 1 - 7) and would like to test Live 8, you can download the current beta version at http://www.ableton.com/nl211-beta

Great way of syncing files across Macs & PCs, Linux

2009-03-05T16:40:00.003Z

Dropbox I've been using this service for about six months it's an excellent sync and back up solution - stores your files encrypted on Amazon's S3 servers. Dropbox works across Macs, Windows and Linux. Dropbox has had rave reviews, I've not had a single glitch with it syncing about 1.3gb of files across two macs.Dropbox creates a folder on your PC and can be used to sync files across several

Move the tab bar on Safari 4 and other hidden preferences

2009-03-05T16:12:00.006Z

Safari Buddy v1.0 makes it simple to change often requested hidden preferences.A Mac OS X Utility that enables the ability to change several hidden preferences in the Safari 4 Public Beta web browser, such as: moving the Tab Bar, reverting the Progress Style indicator, disabling Google Suggest and Top Sites and more.I think the tabs on top approach is intended to show the tabs open across

Fruits Manuva: Commune Gig Porthcawl...

2009-02-27T15:15:00.005Z

Fair Trade Bananas - At the Commune 2009The Commune gig on Sat 7th March at the Pavilion Porthcawl will also be involved in the Fairtrade bananas promotion which will be taking place that weekend... expect banana related mayhem.Tickets for the gig are available at the main Pavilion box office and at Sussed on John St Porthcawl, opposite the Fulgoni’s cafe.

Known Safari 4 bugs on Mac

2009-02-27T12:01:00.004Z

Breaks Wordpress add link function on blogsHotmail doesn't work fullyGMail logged in on http:// rather than https:// doesn't workResorts the currency convertor widget on Dashboard so that the lists are out of sync and therefore creates incorrect conversions.Breaks Mail when Growlmail is installed.Update: the full release of v4 in June fixed many of these issues.

Safari 4 Mac breaks currency converter widget

2009-02-27T11:50:00.002Z

Resorts the panels so they mismatch currencies. Clever.http://tinyurl.com/d5b9z4

How to manually remove GrowlMail plugin if safari 4 causes Mail to Crash

2009-02-26T15:04:00.004Z

Quit MailDelete the GrowlMail plugin stored in your Library, here ~/Library/Mail/BundlesLogout and log back in again.

Sync Safari and Firefox bookmarks

2009-02-12T21:07:00.004Z

http://www.foxmarks.com/Foxmarks (free) is a plugin for both Firefox and Safari which will keep your bookmarks in sync between these browsers across multiple computers. Also supports something called Internet Explorer. You can also access your bookmarks on their website when away from your computer. Started by the chap who created Lotus 1-2-3, Mitch Kapor, who was heavily involved in the early

Code_Swarm Visualisation of Commits to a software project

2009-02-01T14:44:00.003Z

code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.

Commune 2009

2009-01-20T12:01:00.003Z

Commune 2009Originally uploaded by Mooganic. Upcoming gig...

ableton Live 8 videos

2009-01-16T15:41:00.003Z

Ableton have posted some video demonstrations of the new version 8 of Live. The voiceover sounds amazingly like John Hodgman. (wikipedia)

Meow Mix

2009-01-02T16:57:00.001Z

more animals

Audio Hijack Pro updated to 2.9

2008-12-29T16:59:00.008Z

Rogue Amoeba's great audio recording software Audio Hijack Pro has been updated to 2.9 and features a more polished user interface with better ID3 tagging and artwork for MP3 recordings. Hijack Pro is a very capable and easy to use audio recorder for capturing audio from any source on a Macintosh, or from external line or microphone inputs. I've been using it for a while now and it's always been

WMD Excerpt

2008-12-23T04:30:00.003Z

Thinking of buying a fucking camera?

2008-12-11T00:10:00.003Z

http://www.merlinmann.com/amazon/blog/Well stop thinking about it and buy it.Also you should listen to You look nice today. No, really, just listen to it while holding your new fucking camera.

The Moose is back.

2008-11-29T12:01:00.005Z

The Moose is back.Since 1986 on Macintosh users have been able to irritate themselves with a talking interrupting moose. Now available for Mac OS X...Uli's Moose with additional Terry Pratchett phrases available. Free but give a donation if you really over use it and drive yourself mad.http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/moose.htm

Poladroid test

2008-10-26T23:23:00.003Z

Poladroid test: VW CamperOriginally uploaded by Mooganic. A test of the new Mac application which processes your images and emulates a Polaroid print, very cute interface. www.poladroid.net/The currently free beta places a small blue Polaroid camera on your desktop, you drag and drop pictures ont the camera which whirs and pops out Poladroid prints which slowly develop on your desktop. All works

350ppm

2008-10-26T07:36:00.000Z

Syncing Journler across two Macs with Dropbox

2008-10-18T16:01:00.005+01:00

Although Journler is a great information management and diary application, one feature that has been lacking is the ability to easily sync across multiple Macs. After syncing using the dependable Chronosync application and a target disc mode connection (Firewire, try doing that on the new Macbooks) I have found a better syncing method using the cloud. Dropbox is a new service which syncs a

Origin of the emoticon in 1982

2008-09-20T08:42:00.001+01:00

September 19th 1982 and Scott Fahlman invents the :-) emoticon.http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_09191982: At precisely 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posts the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University:19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)From: Scott E FahlmanI propose that the following character sequence

Everything that hapens will happen today.

2008-09-12T03:51:00.001+01:00

David Byrne & Brian Eno, back together again for the first time since My Life in the bush of ghosts. Being published first as a download (no DRM and flac versions - good for them).

Robot Parade, Vocoder goodness with a charming video

2008-09-09T00:37:00.003+01:00

Robot Parade from Jared Foster on Vimeo.

Jake von Slatt, talks with Wired

2008-09-07T21:23:00.002+01:00

Brief explanation how to make a Steampunk PC keyboard.

Remind yourself of the fragility of existence with a isight and a Mac.

2008-09-05T21:09:00.003+01:00

DT4 Identity-SA is an "artware" of Project 72, a type of screen-based installation with visual feedback and sound synthesis. It displays a new type of animation of aesthetic graphics and deformed reflection of user's image.Created byTatsuo Unemi Department of Information Systems Science, Soka University.Daniel Bisig Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,University of Zurich.Download herehttp://

UA Moog Multimode filter

2008-09-01T20:59:00.000+01:00

Essential application for all Mac users

2008-08-30T17:08:00.002+01:00

An absolutely essential application; file under cat noises.http://www.oneriver.jp/USBCat/index.htmlYour Mac Meows when a USB peripheral is attached or unattached.

Pointed

2008-08-30T16:37:00.002+01:00

PointedOriginally uploaded by Mooganic. nr John Lewis, The Hayes the march of pointy building proceeds into the recession. I remember when St David's 2 was announced my comment was "just in time for the recession". Rather like those early eighties shopping malls which sprang up everywhere in the UK at a time of 15% inflation; well done.

SSL in GMail now a permanent option

2008-08-27T08:41:00.003+01:00

In GMail you can now set your connection to always use the encrypted secure https:// rather than manually change the URL when you are connected.It's an option at the base of the Settings page

Welsh named FX unit for Guitars - Stompio!

2008-08-23T13:34:00.005+01:00

Ble mae Stompio?Mae Stompio yn yr llawr, ywrth gwrs.(apologies for crap Cymraeg)http://www.dv247.com/invt/48424

TapeDeck

2008-08-16T19:23:00.002+01:00

TapeDeckOriginally uploaded by Mooganic. Trying out the latest version of Tape deck. The rather cute retro audio recorder. The latest version adds the ability to post directly to Youtube, with a video of the tape machine playing. Tape Deck is fun and easy to use, automatically organsising your recordings into "tapes" which are held in the slide out drawer (yes with sound effects of a drawer

Audacity audio editor updated to 1.3.5

2008-08-07T13:24:00.004+01:00

Audacity, the multi track, multi platform audio editor has been updated to 1.3.5d. Available for Windows, Mac OS X/Classic, Unix, and Linux, open source - free software. Audacity remains the best free alternative to paid for editors.http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/What's New: Version 1.3.5d release notes not currently available. Version 1.3.5: Recording/Playback