Awesome (FREE) Music Resource

FreeplayMusic.com

This website comes courtesy of Kevin Durham in my third period. He found one of the best music sound effects websites I’ve ever seen. No joke. Typically services like the one on this site require you to sign up and then they ask for your email address. Which they then use to spam your email account for the rest of your life. This one doesn’t. And that is truly a beautiful thing. Free music. From the few tracks I downloaded this isn’t the typical free music you usually get either. This is full band with real instrumentation.

Aside from the fact that they don’t harvest email addresses, one of the features of this site that places it way above most other sites is that you can search by STYLE and FEEL. So… say you have a really dramatic scene and you think it would go well with an “Acid Jazz” type song….they have a category for that….and not only that, but there are a whopping 11 free songs in that category (it may not seem like much, but when you typically only use snippets of songs, you don’t really need much).

Some FEEL categories I liked:

Chill/Laid Back
Dark/Mysterious
Driving
Ethereal
Epic

So check out this site if you are looking for that perfect background music or need a song that is free of copyright.

KFC from space…a new marketing strategy?

This has been circulating the net for a while, but I thought I would post it here because it has to do with marketing and advertising.

Kentucky Fried Chicken (owned by the same people who own Taco Bell and Pizza Hut) has just changed their logo. The new logo still features Colonel Sanders, but looks just a bit more updated than the 1997 version. The colors have been tweaked from “straight red” to a more maroon or brick red (possibly to catch new customers) and the lines of the logo are a lot simpler than the any of the previous logos. I think its interesting that people sitting in an office somewhere make these decisions and they are so slight… a tilted image here, color reconfiguration there….but you can hardly deny that the new logo doesn’t look more modernized.

Here are also some pics of logos from past years (the company has only changed its logo five times in the past 50 years!)

And how do they plan on unveiling this new logo? Well, apparently they have constructed a giant logo made up of “6,000 red, 14,000 white, 12,000 eggshell, 5,000 beige and 28,000 black” tiles. Pretty impressive. They seem to be trying capitalize on the popularity of programs like Google Earth….which is really the only way (other than flying directly above it) that you would be able to see it. At any rate….here is a pic of the monstrous logo:

Picture Update!

The ninja moves fast

Camera catches only eyes

Blinks and then is gone

Strong you are young Jedi, hmmmm?

Editing hard or hardly editing?

Stairwell scene.

Lost in thought?

Kids these days….