Want: J Dilla Donuts Tshirt
DILLA DONUTS T-SHIRT Discharge / Black
DILLA DONUTS T-SHIRT Black / White
Want: 2013 F1 Race in Weehawken NJ
Want: VXXY DCM8 - Chiptune Drum Machine
I love drum machines. I love lo-fi sounds.
- 64 Patterns in 8 banks of 8.
- Selectable 8, 16 or 32 steps per pattern with half, normal and double speed timing scales.
- Adjustable instrument volume, decay and pitch on per step basis.
- Dual channel architecture with wide range of retro and unique preset sounds generated by a scripted synthesis engine.
- 255 digitally synthesized chip sounds, consisting of 223 presets and 32 user generated patches.
- 8 Levels of live undo on each pattern.
- 8 Songs with 128 pattern selections.
- Clear, Copy and Paste 8, 16 or 32 steps between patterns.
- EEPROM based storage of all patterns and user data, with SYSEX backup.
- MIDI input and output.
Click here to visit VXXY.
Want: RED Scarlet-X
Wow. Just announced tonight. WAY beyond expectations. It’s basically a crippled RED Epic. Click here for more product details.
Use: Kiehl’s Ultimate Man Body Scrub Soap
Is my second post really about a bar of soap? Damn right. A $13 bar of soap, which is the best bath product that I’ve ever used. The pumice exfoliates and the oatmeal moisturizes. You feel amazing after scrubbing yourself with this bar. It makes me look forward to showering.
The scent is a very mild citrus with a hint of oatmeal. Yes, it says “Man” on it, but women, use this once or twice a week to exfoliate. I think I got my girlfriend hooked on it.
If anyone needs to buy me a Christmas gift, this is a safe purchase. Order at kiehls.com
Want: Pixelmator 2
Look, I love Photoshop. I use it EVERY DAY. But it is far from perfect. The user interface is 20 years old and it has dozens of useless legacy features (yay, you can open Photoshop 3.0 images!) which have made it a bloated mess. Yes it is the most powerful image editor you can buy. But, yes, there are great alternatives that fill a void if you are looking for a sleek image editor for Mac OSX.
Pixelmator 2, which is set to be released today on Apple App store, has a great interface, all of the features I need for image editing, and a great pricetag: $29 (limited time? regularly $59).
The two major updates are full OSX Lion compatibility and, sound the trumpets, CONTENT AWARE FILL. This feature was introduced in Photoshop 5 and it’s amazing that you can get such an advanced editing tool in a $30 program. Basically, you can remove an object without affecting the background because the program detects the pixels outside of the area you selected and tries to fill the area of the selection with new pixels that match. In other words, select the power lines, hit the button, it fills the space where the power lines previously were with brand new sky pixels.
Now only if they’d add a way to make animated GIFS!
Check out the preview here before it is released. EDIT: it’s out! Check out their website or the Mac App Store.
