January 25th, 2010 by One Inch Man

Apologies for not updating sooner. It’s been quiet on the music front here in Studio 813 the last couple of months, due to broken equipment and what not.
I have been updating the photoblog fairly frequently though.
Not to mention posting photos to Twitpic and, just this last week, starting a Blipfoto Journal. (Which I just realised, I have not updated today! D’oh!)

Anywho, while I have nothing new to report music-wise just yet (I am working on stuff though), I thought I’d update anyway to
a) let the world know I’ve not forgotten this site and
b) share with you this awesome animation.

I already shared it via Twitter, but I’m sharing it again because it’s great.
The official site appears to be logorama-themovie.com but it wasn’t loading when I wrote this.
Maybe it works now though eh?

Link:

via www.langweiledich.net

I’ll try not to wait so long before the next update.
I’ll also try and finish the site revamp too.

Don’t set fire to yourself

October 30th, 2009 by One Inch Man

It occurs to me I have so far failed to use my own blog to pimp my other blog.
Self promotion may not be my primary area of expertise.

Anywho, fact of the matter is, not content with tormenting your ears with music, it is now my intention to bother your eyes with my photographs too.

http://photography.oneinchman.com

You know you want it!

Don’t set fire to yourself.

June 28th, 2009 by One Inch Man

Ever so sorry for the delay. I finally arrived in France a few weeks ago and finally got hooked up to teh intertubez about a week ago.
Since then I’ve been trying to re-familiarize myself with this whole interwebs malarkey and generally get back into the swing of things.
I figured it was about time I updated the blog.
That said, I don’t have much in the way of actual updates just now, although you may be happy/interested/disgusted/terrified to hear that I’ve started work on the next record. More on that later, in the meantime, here is an awesome 80s movie mashup video for the song Lisztomania by Phoenix. Enjoy!

via Sleevelessness

Don’t set fire to yourself.

May 18th, 2009 by One Inch Man

So, the first part of the journey is over and I’m knackered.
I posted a few comments and pictures during the trip to Twitter via my mobiley phone, but I’ve discovered that the comments accompanying the images didn’t show up, they each just say “You have received a new message”, which sucks!
I figured I’d cobble together all the pictures/message I sent, in order, with the original captions. That way, should you care, you will have a better idea of what I was going on about!
(text messages in bold, messages that were meant to accompany photos in italics)

Mobiley phone acquired. Let Twitpicery commence! On the ferry to France. Yay!

Now in France. By way of proof, beaucoup de fromage!

Raining but warm, lightning seems likely. Electrical storms follow me everywhere I fear!

Just drove through Cuisery, a french Hay-On-Wye. Books FTW!

The mountains are visible now, yay!

Foggy morning in the mountains (this picture didn’t show up at all)

But clearing up now

Beautiful scenery, just hope this piece of shit van survives the journey!

It’s crazy hot in this (looong) tunnel. When we come out - Italy!

Porno DVD vending machine? (pity you can’t see it properly in the picture!)

Arrived at port in Genoa. Are we in the right place? Who knows, absolute chaos!

Right place, wrong time ie seems. Everyone around us is headed to North Africa
(turned out to be the other way around)

Sitting in the heat, eating bonbonbonbons, wondering what the hell’s going on!

Finally onboard ship. “Ferry”=cargo ship, Grimaldi Lines=liars, Genoa port=epic, EPIC fail! Bollocks!

Off coast of Sicily, mobiley service back. Not much food on board, but sweet jebus it’s good!

There you have it. Now for a couple of days of intensive packing then I get to do most of it again in reverse!

Don’t set fire to yourself

May 13th, 2009 by One Inch Man

Hello there, just a quicky.
I wanted to post this earlier but epic fail on the part of my (ex) webhost meant, until earlier today, I wasn’t sure if I’d still have a website to post to. Apparently I do though, so here it is.

Basically, as some of you know, I’m moving soon and phase one of that move involves a mini adventure which starts tomorrow.

It involves a lot of traveling in about six days. Basically, Malta->UK->France->Italy->Malta

During that time I won’t have access to the interwebs but hopefully I will, at some point, be able to post pictures to Twitter via some newfangled mobiley phone device.

While I do intend to post updates, it does rely on

a) Me seeing something worth updating
b) Me figuring out how to to it
c) Me remembering to do it

It’s a tall order, but you never know, it’s so crazy it might just work.

Anywho, wish me luck

Don’t set fire to yourself

March 24th, 2009 by One Inch Man

So, a few weeks ago, I uploaded a song and entered it into the ongoing contest on www.garageband.com .
The idea being, to get some reviews.
Given that my finger is clearly a stranger when it comes to the pulse, I neatly side stepped all of what I’ve since learned are the most popular songs on the album and uploaded Summers Cast In Gold because I thought the bassline was the best thing I’ve done to date.

Anywho, I have thus far received 2 reviews, both of which were not entirely uncomplimentary.

good chilled
relaxing, chilled. sounds like a harmonnica wih some tremeloish effect. drum effect/mix is a little weird. reminds me of the flaming lips a little bit more serious tho. really cool.

interesting percussion effects
its the first thing that grabs my attention. sounds like a reverse envelope filter on the snare, which is quite unusual. the warbly effect on the intermittent melody instrument (keyboards?) is decent, but i think this may be a hair to hot in the mix. i like the way this track builds up and how the instrumentation is layed out. this would be good sound track music, as it is evocative and paints a picture. not sure if i could compare you guys to anything, it sounds quite original and fresh to my ears.

Even a grumpy so and so like yours truly can’t complain about that!

Don’t set fire to yourself.

March 7th, 2009 by One Inch Man

As of today, you can now purchase the CD at CD Baby if you prefer.
I get a little less out of the deal, but I understand some people may be more comfortable shopping there, and they are a great company and a fantastic resource for independent music peddlers such as myself.
If you want the CD from them it’ll set you back $9.99 + shipping.

However

If you are an exciting, modern individual who likes to purchase your music digitally via the intertubes then CD Baby are also offering a mp3 download of the record.
Buying the download version from them actually means more money for me and, get this, it will cost you a mere $4.99. That’s right $4.99

At that price you can’t afford NOT to buy it!!

Wow, I’m kinda getting into this cheesy ad copy thing.

Anywho, if you’re interested head on over to CD Baby by clicking the link

and get your purchase on.

Don’t set fire to yourself

February 25th, 2009 by One Inch Man

That’s right folks, One Inch Man’s debut album - Space, Time & Plexiglass - is finally available for your purchasing pleasure!

For the time being, you can only get it direct from the folks at Kunaki but it should become available through other outlets eventually. Buying direct however will always be the cheapest way.

Click here to purchase

I’m currently charging $4.99 which, when kunaki have added the $4.00 shipping charge, means you are getting it delivered to your door, anywhere in the world, for $8.99.

I sincerely wish I could sell it for less but, on this small scale, it’s just not practical.

If that is still a little too rich for your blood, fear not! Pretty soon it should also be available to download from all kinds of places like iTunes and, more importantly CD Baby.
I have not quite figured out all the details yet but the CD Baby mp3 download will be the cheapest option and ironically the one that generates the most profit for the artist, ie, me!

I’m also in the middle of conjuring up some One Inch Man merchandise, T-shirts, posters and the like. More news on that soon I hope.
Anywho, it’s been an exciting, tiring day so I’ll sign off now before i fall asleep on my keyboard.

Don’t set fire to yourself

February 9th, 2009 by One Inch Man

After going to all the trouble of making this blog, I’ve found myself spending most of my time and doing most of my communicating via Twitter lately! Excluding the inordinate amount of friendly chatter that goes on (almost) daily at the forum of course.

Anywho, I thought I’d take a moment to update the blog.

1) I’ve finished the album and I am currently waiting for my review copy to arrive to make sure everything is OK. That should hopefully show up in a week or so and, if everything is OK, it’ll go on sale immediately thereafter! I can’t be more specific than that timewise, but no matter, release dates are so 20th century anyway!

2) In the meantime, almost all the songs are up on last.fm for your free streaming pleasure. Almost all because last.fm is playing silly buggers at the moment and two of them don’t work. Yet.
I’ve also moved the other random songs that I put up to a new (fictional) record called Pomskizillious & Gromphiberous and all of those are available for free download.

3) I appear to have added gravatar compatibility to the site. It doesn’t seem to have broken anything yet and I now have my sexy Sarah-in-a-One-Inch-Man-shirt avatar attached to every post! I can’t seem to remove it from the pages yet though.

Summing up then - If you’re on last.fm be my friend, if you’re on Twitter, follow me and, while you’re at it, join us in the forum.

That’s about it for now.

Don’t set fire to yourself

February 3rd, 2009 by One Inch Man

Yep, I’ve finally finished the record. As soon as I’ve finished putting together all the CD artwork, it will be ready for release. Hopefully, in a few days.

I say hopefully as I am currently busy trying to find out why my internet connection is running at only 10% of the speed we’re actually paying for. I am most displeased!