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Glowball XIV
Jul 24th
8TH OCTOBER 2010
PLAY STUDIOS, READING
10pm to 6am
Oh yes, we are back and very excited about this! It has been a while and we are itching for a great night out! We will be at the usual haunt with the same amazing vibe (created by you of course) and a wicked lineup. Come Play!!
HEADLINE ACT:
BARRY ASHWORTH (DUB PISTOLS)
Barry has taken the time out from his Ganja Tour with the Dub Pistols to come and play a DJ set for us.
We are very excited about this and can’t wait to have him come back for the second time at a Glowball event
We also have a fantastic line up of DJ’S bringing you dirty beats in 3 rooms all nght long:
Marcus J Pearson (Headkandi)
Marcus played for us on NYE and started the night with a bang. He has been playing the DJ circuit for many years now and is fantastic!
Tim Sharpe (Groove Tech)
Tim does his own night, Groove Tech, and is officialy the Ambassador of Tunes bringing you the best of Tech House
Syrah (Betties Blues)
Syrah will be doing the Chill Out Room as always, Glowball would not be the same without her
Mugsy
My good friend Mugsy will be joining Syrah in the Chill Out Room, it is his first time playing at Glowball and he is very excited
FritzFactor (Glowball)
Fritz, my Glowball partner, will be doing his usual dirty selection of Electro House, oh yes!
Jaxx (Glowball)
Jaxx is another of our Resident DJ’s and she is damn fine!! Proper rude girl!
3-Parts DJ (Thump)
Phil (3-Parts DJ) also does his own night in Reading, Thump, and will be playing for the first time at Glowball. Rude dirty breakbeat to be expected!
Arther Shillin
Gareth (Arther Shillin) is just great!! He will be briging us super fine Electro Swing that will make you wiggle good and proper
SOUND PROVIDED BY FUSION SOUND SYSTEM
LIGHTING PROVIDED BY DOOZA LIGHTING
Door Entry will be £7 and as per usual cloakroom will be FREE
Can’t wait to see you all on the danceflooor
Before and After Touchup
Jul 3rd
These are the before and after shots of my Kirituhi tattoo on my forearm. Kneill from Paradise Tattoo did a fantastic job of sorting it out for me. I needed the touchup due to a couple of reasons. Firstly there was a problem during the inking, I don’t think the kit was on the right setting for some of it. Secondly I left my new tattoo out in the sun for way too long before it healed. This made it fade quickly, which was very noticable. You would think after 8 tattoo’s I would have known how to look after them… I do now!
More Kirituhi Tattoo Design Ideas
May 21st
Its been a year since I first posted about searching for Kirituhi (Maori inspired skin art) Tattoo designs, since then I have had my lower left arm sleeve tattoo’d and more recently touched up to correct a few problems. My blog has received so many new visitors, mainly people looking for Kirituhi tattoo designs on Google. It seems it is a very popular style of tattoo, and for some reason my site, or mainly my first post, rates well in Google and other image search engines.
I always keep my eyes open for designs that inspire me, as I want to continue my Kirituhi design up my arm and onto my shoulder and chest. In my search I found a blog with the image to the left: http://andymatic.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225203d4b8fdb00f48ce85e790003.html
What I really like about it is the way it spirals up into the shoulder, this is what I would like with mine. My only problem is that I currently have an Ohm tattoo on my chest, and a tribal tattoo on my shoulder that I really like. I am going to have a chat with Tony Unwin, the tattooist who did my Kirituhi sleeve, and see if he can come up with a design for me.
In the mean time I will keep looking, and keep getting inspired. If anyone fancies leaving links to other sites that feature some great inspiring Kirituhi tattoo designs, please do!
Glade Festival 2010 has been cancelled
May 11th
Sadly the guys behind Glade has had to cancel this years festival, stating that rising costs to police it and increased legal fees have made the festival not economical to put on.
You can read the official statement here.
As you can imagine I am gutted, having worked with Glade for the last 6 years providing sound and light for various stages, its the high light of my year.
Not much more I can say about how gutted I am, its really not fair, but thats life!
DMX Address Calculator/Dipswitch Tool
Apr 21st
Several years ago DiscoPete created an app for my first Windows Mobile phone that helped me set the DMX address on my lights. He always found it funny how I got it wrong all the time when trying to do it manually.
Since then I have changed phones several times and no longer have the handy app. I have been resorting to using the calculator instead, which isn’t always the speedy way to get the job done. I have wanted an app for my Nokia 5800 for sometime, and decided it was time I sorted it out.
I came across this during my research: http://business.virgin.net/tom.baldwin/dmx_calculator2.html and have based much of the code for mine on it. The main problem with the above is that its not very mobile friendly, entering the number take a while as you need to go into the keyboard, I needed a touch screen friendly input. My solution was to have arrows above and below each digit which increases or decreases its value.
This is my solution: http://www.dooza.tv/dmx/, and still has more work to be done, but for version 0.1 I am happy with the way it works.
Future versions will have the dip switches toggle, allowing you to work out the address of a light. I will also make the dip switch reversible, as many lights are the other way around.
One really handy feature of DiscoPete’s app was that it turned on the LED flash light of the camera. This helped you see the dip switch when up a ladder in a dark club. I know I can do this with my Nokia 5800, as I already have an app that does this, I just need to work it out.
Download it (166 downloads) for your Nokia Symbian S60 based phone. I would love to hear what you think, please post a comment below.