http://blog.davidterranova.com Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:51:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few weeks ago I attended Contakt, a yearly event hosted by the people from Minus. I came out feeling completely blown away, and the memories of the event flashed obsessively through my head for many days after. But apart from the musical side of things I was most taken ... http://blog.davidterranova.com/minus-grid/ Smokin Jo and her new project, TRNSSTR, are going to be performing live over the next few months, starting towards the end of December. So she asked me if I fancied doing some visuals for the event, and I immediately said yes. I've been doing the odd bits of visuals for ... http://blog.davidterranova.com/werent-visuals-meant-to-be-scary/ I often play records together with my good friend (and now flatmate) Robbie on his decks in his tiny little bedroom. The other day, after playing straight for three or four hours, Robbie had lay down on the bed, exhausted, while I continued playing. Banging techno isn't really the most favourite ... http://blog.davidterranova.com/robbie-sleeps-mix/ REBELRAVE is always wrapped in drama, and this episode has been no exception. This was meant to be released a couple of months ago (or maybe more), but my computer's hard-drive suddenly died just a few days away from the video being released. The files for this episode had disappeared, ... http://blog.davidterranova.com/rebelrave-5/ Yesterday Damian Lazarus asked me to design the logo for the Rebels' new sub-label: Crosstown Digital Rebels. It was done in a bit of a rush, as it was meant to be included in the banners I created for the Resident Advisor newsletter, sent out tomorrow! Click to enlarge. http://blog.davidterranova.com/crosstown-digital-rebels-logo/ Screensavers with style are extremely difficult to find: I wanted to find a nice slick one for my newly fixed computer, but after years of occasionally google-ing "slick screensaver mac" and finding myself in very scary websites, I didn't even go near google. Instead I made my own, based on ... http://blog.davidterranova.com/my-screensaver/ 10 days ago, while I was working at an ad agency in Soho, my laptop suddenly died and refused to come back to life. All my latest projects were on the computer and I hadn't backed anything up (since my external hard drive also died on me just a few ... http://blog.davidterranova.com/my-radiohead-remix/ Playing around with WordPress for my own blog gave me enough confidence to tell Smokin Jo that I could do the same for her, building her not only a blog but a website that she could update and manage using the WordPress admin system. When I first met Jo two years ... http://blog.davidterranova.com/smokin-jos-website/ View the banner version.Making banners gives me the shivers. Back in the day when I use to work fulltime for an ad agency, banners used to come in by the dozen every month, often promoting the release of things like dvd boxsets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or 24! Those of ... http://blog.davidterranova.com/my-banners-for-secretsundaze/ As well as featuring Seth Troxler and the party in Paris, the 5th episode of REBELRAVE will also show an interview with a Japanese illustrator called Saeko, who didn't want to be shown in the video. I had to think of a way of showing her answering Anna's questions, without letting ... http://blog.davidterranova.com/heres-something-you-can-do-with-a-projector-a-web-cam-and-quartz-composer/ Well, now that REBELRAVE is taking its first steps into adolescence with its very own hot presenter (Anna Bosworth) and new format, I've decided it's a good time to start saving clips that I can't use in the final product. It's my second day on the edit of episode 5, which ... http://blog.davidterranova.com/i-need-to-start-saving-out-takes/ It's been a few months that I've been trying to start up this blog, but I was never really happy with my [numerous] attempts of opening it up in a spectacular and fabulous way. I've now given up on that, as I find myself in a not so spectacular nor fabulous ... http://blog.davidterranova.com/7/