Futura 2000 & The Clash Feb 9, 12, 2:05 a.m.

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http://www.coldcrush.com.au/elec…

Futura 2000, Dondi, Fab 5 Freddy & The Clash

Wow Haus Jan 23, 12, 4:07 a.m.

What a great site with unique / special / different homes for sale.

http://www.wowhaus.co.uk/

Some old and in need of TLC, some new, some brutalist, some beautiful.

Camera Size Comparisons Jan 22, 12, 4:04 p.m.

This is a genius little website.
Compare camera sizes visually ....

http://camerasize.com/compare/#1…

Street Photography Camera Jan 7, 12, 12:35 p.m.

All QBN photographers & esp Hombre_Lobo the "qbn camera answers man"

I'm looking for a replacement camera to my Ricoh GX100 and would appreciate any feedback about my shortlist, esp if you have these cameras or have testied/tried them.

I got the GX100 a few years ago after selling all my Lomo LC-A+(Plus Wide Angle Lens), Holga and other retro cameras. These cameras made me fall in love with photography all over again as it was fun and experimental again rather than being clinical and digital.
I chose the GX100 over the GRD because it had the zoom lens. Something that's handy for getting closer to things up high. I love VERY wide angle street photography so I use the GX a lot with the lens hood adaptor, 43-46mm step up ring and a Nikon WC-E68 lens. This means that im carting about a tiny camera but with a big hefty lens on the front most of the time.

WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IN A CAMERA:
- Small size (Both camera and lens - the smaller the bulk, the more likely i'm likely to take my camera out with me)
- Fun (Not too much faffing around too)
- Image quality (Both high and low iso's)
- Possibility of v.wide or fisheye lenses (would be on most of the time)
- quite discreet for shooting on the sly
- zoom/telephoto lens(es)

THE SHORTLIST

Fujifilm X10

Pentax Q

This guy does a great review and think he feels the same about this camera as I do. We "get it"

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 + 14-42mm X Lens

Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GF3 + 14-42mm X Lens

Pentax Q Jan 4, 12, 1:30 a.m.

Really loving this little camera after discovering the reviews and videos online.

It's getting some flack from folk who don't "get it" but others who do "get it" love it.

Finally a digital camera that can truly replace all those lomo cameras I had without the need for post production to get the desired effect.

Great video ... think the guy is as excited as me about this camera ...

Hombre_Lobo, have you had a play with one of these yet?

Xmas present from BMW Dec 20, 11, 5:31 a.m.

Last friday the power steering in my Mini Cooper S failed whilst driving to work in the morning. Luckily I was on a straight road in the city centre and not booting it on an open country road otherwise i'd have ended up in a ditch.

This is a known problem with the early Mini's and has been on the news and all over mini forums online. If your car is out of warranty then sometimes you'll have to pay around £400 to get it fixed or sometimes BMW will pay for most of it and ask for a contribution of around £100 from the owner.

Well, I got a call from my local franchise yesterday after dropping the car off there last friday. They'd put in a 'goodwill' request to BMW to see if they would pay any towards the fixing of my car, and .....

.... they are paying the full whack for me! :)

My car is years beyond when it's warranty ran out yet they are paying the whole £400ish.

It seems there IS such a thing as Christmas Cheer!

Thank you BMW and Merry Christmas.

The Passing of Greed Dec 14, 11, 3:55 a.m.

A speech by Charlie Chaplin in the 1940 film 'The Great Dictator' dubbed over relevant current imagery.

Scary how relevant this speech still is.

Rapist / Lads Mag Dec 13, 11, 1:47 a.m.

This is kinda shocking ...
http://jezebel.com/5866602/

"According to a new study, people can't tell the difference between quotes from British "lad mags" and interviews with convicted rapists. And given the choice, men are actually more likely to agree with the rapists."

There's quotes at the foot of the article from both lads mags and rapists. See if you can tell who the quotes came from.
(There's answers underneath)

QBN Points Dec 12, 11, 8:23 a.m.

There's some real shite posted on the Public Choice, isn't there?

To cut down on the amount of spam that's on the site, can there not be some kind of points system where people can "like/dislike" what you post and based on the results earns you points which in-turn gives you the ability to post to the PC.

And for the Public Voice, when you post something it goes live immediately but if more than 3 valued QBN users (users with certain stats/membership length) click the "dislike" then it gets deleted.

If a valued user then abuses their position and just marks something "dislike" out of spite then they can have their valued status taken away.

Doing something like this would stop all the shite in the Public Choice and also Public Voice wouldnt be full of SPAM!!!!

Hurricane Bawbag Dec 8, 11, 6:20 a.m.

http://entertainment.stv.tv/opin…

In Scotland today we are facing public service warnings from all media and police warning of a hurricaine that's hitting this afternoon.

The name "Hurricane Bawbag" has already become a trend on twitter.

They are warning of winds of 80mph and above!
That's nothing bad though, we get winds like this every year.

Maybe if you're down in England 80mph winds are pretty scary but in Scotland, 80mph winds is just "windy".

LEMUR on iPad Dec 8, 11, 1:38 a.m.

The rumours that have been circling around for the past month in the digital music world have been true .....

Jazz Mutant "Lemur" has been released by Liine for the iPad!

A bit of kit that was selling for around £2000 is not an app for £36.

I bought it last night and can't wait to get stuck into it over the weekend!

http://liine.net/en/products/lem…

Plasma Speakers!!! Nov 25, 11, 6:38 a.m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?fea…

Want to make one? Here's the instructions ....

http://www.instructables.com/id/…

FUUUUUUUU... Nov 24, 11, 7:40 a.m.

Work Headphones Nov 24, 11, 4:14 a.m.

There was a thread previously for DJ/Production headphones.

I thought i'd start one for suggestions for WORK headphones as we're about to buy a load of pairs for everyone.

Budget is £50 a pair.

Looking for best comfort (7.5 hours listening a day!) and best sound.

Any suggestions.

Not in-ear heaphones.

Only over ear, closed/open backs.

A Plea for VOTES Nov 21, 11, 4:20 a.m.

Good afternoon QBN.

I've taken part in a DJ Shadow Remix Competition - the prize being your remix being released by DJ Shadow on Island Records so a pretty damn big prize.

I posted up the other week asking for votes but rather than bumping that I thought i'd make a new post.

I was in the Top 3 for a good while but now the ones in there have record companies pushing for votes via their mailing lists (bastards!).

My weapon of choice to combat this last minute assault is an appeal to users of QBN.

PLEASE stop by and VOTE for my remix.

http://remix.djshadow.com/tracks…

Even if you don't have a Soundcloud account you can signup using "Facebook Connect" - it will literally take 5 seconds!

The link to VOTE/Like is at top right of page.
Please feel free to "Favourite" too (link is on left under track) and feedback as comments is also appreciated.

Also feel free to repost this link/plea as Facebook Status / Tweets / Blogs to help a fellow QBN'er.

And a HUGE thanks to everyone who's voted already!!!!!!

The Sound of Arrows Nov 17, 11, 2:01 a.m.

This popped up in my Spotify "Whats new" page.

What a horrible album cover!

Firstly, there's one too many fonts used!
Secondly the fonts look like shit dafont ones.

Is it intentionally meant to be shite?

Me Vs DJ Shadow Nov 1, 11, 3:42 p.m.

I wouldn't normally post up a "vote for me" post as they can be annoying as they can be taken as spam. I reckon i've earned the night seeing as i'm a longtime qbn-er.

This is a plea to everyone I know to vote for my remix of DJ Shadow's "Scale It Back" from his new album. The competition winner will feature on a release by DJ Shadow.
GO HERE TO VOTE
http://remix.djshadow.com/tracks…

The VOTE button is at the top right of the page.
Also click the 'Favourite' button on the left under the track too.
Listen on a decent sound system or headphones as the Bass Drum and Bass Guitar are VERY deep and laptop speakers won't do it any justice.

Anyone that knows me will know that I am a HUGE fan of Shadow and I would die happy if I won this. So please PLEASE vote for me.

If you have a Twitter account / Blog / Tumblr account, please promote the link above if you like the song to spread the word and try to get other people to vote for me. I'll be eternally grateful!

I think you'll probably need a Soundcloud account to actually vote. It's well worth signing up for though. It's basically a YouTube but for music. You can listen and download allsorts of stuff including mixes by DJs etc - it's also a great way of finding new music.

There's info about the song on the page too.
Rather than doing a remix from the existing stems I decided to strip it right back and re-write the whole song. All instruments are played live apart from the TB303 which is sequenced.

iPad Turntablism Oct 28, 11, 6:01 a.m.

I need to be able to record some cutting and scratching from a vocal track .wav
I don't have cdj's/serato/traktor
But I do have an iPad and have BabySkratch and also Algoriddim's DJay.

Both do scratching pretty well and it sounds OK.
I was wondering if anyone's ever done tests to find out which gives the more accurate representation of scratch sound.

It's the quality of the record moving sound that i'm really on about and not the xfader/cut. I have an old dj mixer in a cupboard that I can hook up for that.

Anyone know of any Scratch apps that are better than DJay/BabyScratch?

QBN Spam Filter Oct 24, 11, 3:07 a.m.

The amount of spam on QBN has went through the roof!

QBN need to get on top of this pronto!

Firstly to please their users and secondly to make sure that they don't lose their users to another site.

'Back in the day' when there were allsorts of design blogs DiK, Threeoh. We needed a place to chat so along came Dreamless then at somepoint along came newstoday - which eventually became QBN.
Call us a fickle lot, but when a better thing comes along, we all shift to it.

There's enough talent on here to create something as good as if not better than QBN.
And once they lose all the people who use this site seriously and for design related stuff then they've got a worthless site of spammers.

Mobile Studio Sep 23, 11, 3:24 a.m.

Link to site:
http://www.niknowak.de/images/pa…

This "Launch" video is really funny.
All his friends f*ck off when he starts playing his tunes.
Ever felt like your friends couldn't really give a shit about your hobbies?