Trent Reznor's Garageband Experiment

Those of you who are rockers from the early 90's will appreciate this. Nine Inch Nails' front man Trent Reznor has done something really cool. Forget the U2 iPod, Trent has uploaded an entire Garageband project of his latest single.

If you have the program Garageband from Apple you can download the 70mb file and mix and play with the entire song! This gets me thinking about the whole idea of exchanging music mixes and mash-ups. It's so cool what Trent has done this, and I'm looking forward to what other artists will do. I can't wait until filmmakers start posting their Final Cut Pro projects to be re-edited. Video is the next step.

Click here to go download the Garageband project.

Gabe & Gabe voted best video website of the week!

This is so cool! Gabe & Gabe has been premiered as the internet video magazines top video website of the week. The article also highlights the work Gabe Mac did with his students at the HKU at hkutv.blogspot.com. It is so cool to actually be picked the top of something. Video Blogging Oscars, here we come!

HKU TV IS ONLINE!

After 8 weeks of hard work, my students have produced the first version of HKU TV. I am so proud!

I have been teaching my students at the Utrecht College of Arts (HKU), how to vlog. There are some very impressive videos that have been posted. Please drop by and leave a comment for them so that they are inspired to add more. Stay tuned for more information on HKU TV as next year I hope I'll be  expanding this to other faculties in the HKU.

Karaoke webcam. It's just wrong

Well, with today's technology Playback in your own home is a piece of cake. Sure it always was with a record player you say. But sharing these embarrassing moments with the entire world? No I'm sorry that's thanks to the internet.

What am I talking about? Check here

Scary... Just scary...

GMAIL and gCount not compatible

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I love my gmail account. I mean it's great! 1 gig of free mail space! Come one! That's a no brainer. The thing I love about it is the fact that I don't have to save the 1 gig of mail on my laptop. I just forward all my relevant mail right to it for a good backup.

And Gmail combined with gcount is awesome. What is gCount? Well the website says :

gCount is a menu bar and/or Dock item that displays the unread status of the inbox of a recently popular email service. It is provided free of charge, and the source might be released eventually. It requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

Now up until a few days ago, I would get this great little beep and a little red mail symbol in my menubar when I had new Gmail. But now, apparently Gmail has changed their configurations, and gCount no longer works. However Nathan Spindel says that a new version is on the way. Keep up the good work Nathan, and let's get that gCount running! Drop by Nathan's site in a few weeks, and get th latest update to this great little app for Anyone using OS X.

Microsoft voodoo?

Today I'm at STETZ working on a dvd project. First video needs to be edited in Final Cut Pro, then authored to DVD. And it's taking forever! For some reason FCP just keeps needing to think about stuff before it will play the video. I'm sure it has something todo with the video being digitized uncompressed and then being set to photo-jpeg in the sequence settings. Or it could be the black magic card that is having trouble. No none of those technical things. I think it's the material. Yup that's it!

It must be because this I'm working on a sales training DVD for Microsoft. I know, I know. "You've sold your soul Gabe!" is what you are saying. Well unless someone will hand me 5 million to retire, and just make the films I want to make, I have to sell my skills as a mediamaker to the highest bidder. So here I am. Waiting for FCP to respond to me.

I had no idea Apple had these software hacks installed to prevent people from producing projects for their competitors. Rather an interesting marketing move if you ask me.

Oh and by the way, if you believe that Apple can do this, then I'd like to sell you a ritual that will make your iPod pshycic to your feelings, to play the song you need whilst on shuffle. Only €1 million per iPod. ;)

It has begun!

Here it is folks. What you've all been waiting for. After about a year of no updates, we've got it up. GABE.NL is back ONLINE! This time Gabe Bauer (aka lebauerski) has joined me (Gabe McIntyre) in this wild ride. We're gonna be posting freaks here. Thoughts, ideas, films, photos, tips & tricks, and even a couple of party flix!

We've gone more towards a blog format with the site this time around. Seemed the right way to go. Soon I'll be making a Vlog on how to setup your own Blog/Vlog. Stay tuned!

We hope you enjoy it.

-Gabe & Gabe