No, you’re not just seeing things. We’re rotating banners around here at CDM; this contribution comes from Funnel of onetonmusic, a lovely music tech blog. (More of his design work at right.) It could be a glimpse of a future redesign of the CDM site.

All things just keep getting better.

Thanks, Funnel! (For previous gifts we didn’t expect, download the official CDM ringtone!)

Stephen Schleicher has a great tutorial at Digital Media Net for
recreating those slick moving arrows in Apple's iPod Shuffle Ad.
Basically, you need Adobe After Effects and a working knowledge of
paths. See Stephen's site for more AE tutorial goodness.

Tutorial Part I

Tutorial Part II

Which brings up an interesting question — how many of you are doing
your own motion graphics / VJ work for your performances? I've been
getting into it gradually; expect some reports this summer.

New Yorker "imagineer and visualnaut" Melissa Ulto, aka VJ Miixxy, is interviewed by Vidvox,
developers of GRID and VDMX VJ software. Melissa chats about her latest
gigs (Museum of Modern Art, Madame Tassauds Wax Museum, Broadway, The
Ramones, and a Pilates vid for MTV enough variety for you?), and her
dreamy rig: Edirol V4s, Canon video cams, and of course Vixvox's GRID. (If you can't afford all that, GRID2 is just US$75 for Windows and Mac!)

Mixxy is working on a documentary on VJing; stay tuned here and we'll bring you news once that's out.

If you're in NYC tonight, Mixxy is playing Eyewash downtown
along with other fine folks. You might even see me, if we're both brave
enough to risk going out in this freakish late-March snow-and-sleet
storm!

Neuromixer Pro 0.5 is here for Windows XP and Mac OS X:

Load up video, and scratch it like vinyl. Neuromixer Pro
features playback speed, range/cue points, forward/reverse, dual video
"decks", and real-time MIDI-based manipulations. The new version
features:

• Support for Ms. Pinky (so you can scratch with real vinyl!)
• Feedback video effect
• BPM counter receives MIDI clock (so you can sync your video system to your audio system — bring two laptops, I say)
• Improved previews, MIDI, preferences, etc.

Still free for now, though summer 2005 will bring the US$49.95 1.0 release — likely to be well worth it!

And if you're Japanese and are tired of listening to me speaking English, VJ Fader translated his page into Japanese.