So yesterday I filmed my amazing girlfriend performing one of her songs on a rooftop in London. Take a look and let me know what you think!
Richard
So yesterday Flux Pavilion released the Bass Cannon video, and guess what? I love it!
I’m liking the little Spinal Tap reference in there too. What do you guys think of the Bass Cannon?
Richard
So here I am on the 18th April, sitting on a coach to my first day back at university from Bournemouth and the start of level 2. So I’m currently writing a blog using a word document. You might think that I’m doing this because the coach driver had problems powering the WiFi and power outlets on this coach this morning, which is true, but not the case. I have in fact been asked to write a blog reflecting on my education at a leading digital media and design university using a word document. Now I’ve been blogging for a very very long time, some of you who know me well will know my old weekly Weekend in Pictures blog posts and I’ve NEVER written a blog using a word document. For starters last time I checked a blog was something that can be accessed by anyone with an internet connection anywhere, so I’m guessing that the subject leaders are wanting me to host this word document on some kind of server somewhere, which is highly unlikely. Actually, what baffles me is why instead of waiting for Rave’s own in-house blogging system to be coded we didn’t just use an existing blogging system like WordPress? I’ve been using WordPress for years and I even used it to blog the documentation to go alongside my alevel media production last year so why we’re not using it really confuses me.
Also the idea of a blog is that it’s written with a mass audience in mind, which is why in posts like this one my writing style has been more open and welcoming to anyone to read. I’m now wondering why I’m even doing that. With this being a word document and all I should probably write this blog in a more closed ‘me, me, me’ way. Actually no, my biggest problem with this task is that fact that it’s called a ‘blog’. This is a diary. Check it in the dictionary. Let’s just call this a diary and stop making a ‘digital media’ university look stupid. I mean, I haven’t paid £3290 to hear a diary being called a blog. Rant, over.
Bloomsbury Ballroom
I was at the launch party for HTC’s brand new smartphone last night, the HTC Sensation at London’s Bloomsbury Ballroom.
Sensation
The phone’s a powerful little beast packing a 1.2Ghz dual core processor, 768MB of RAM, 1GB of internal storage, front and rear facing cameras and an updated Sense UI. The phone feels great and is really snappy, displaying screen animations without a glitch. I even had a cheeky little download and play of Angry Birds Rio and Tap Tap Revenge on the demo units, both games played perfectly and were exactly like the iOS experience.
Angry Birds on the Sensation
Internet browsing was great too. I had a go at loading my website up using the built in browser and quickly found that the full version of my website worked much better on the device than the mobile version. Flash content loaded seamlessly, and it even managed to load the flickr slideshows on my photography page.
richardlartey.co.uk
All in all I thought the Sensation was a solid performer and I’d definitely recommend it to anyone. I can’t help but feel however that the phone is lacking some sort of ‘wow’ factor that would make me want to got out and buy one tomorrow.
HTC also brought out a prototype of their upcoming tablet device the HTC Flyer which they plan to rival the iPad with. The device was quite clearly still in the early stages of development, but it looked good and ran really well. One feature HTC were keen to show off was the new stylus they’ve developed for capacitive touch screens. The stylus allows you to draw on the tablet and annotate snapshots of any screen, image or video.
HTC Flyer
The tablet comes with a 1.5Ghz processor, 1GB of RAM and 2 cameras although the demo version was running the Gingerbread version of the Android operating system. HTC say that they hope to launch the tablet with Honeycomb, but this depends on when Google release the operating system
The rest of the night was filled with food, wine and music from the amazing DJ Yoda, as well as a load of prize draws to win HTC handsets. I was a bit disappointed by the draws however, obviously me being me I didn’t win anything, but I later in the night found out that the draws couldn’t be heard in the 2nd room which I was in for most of the night, so there’s a chance that my number was called and I missed out on a prize which is a bit disapointing, especially as none of the HTC staff told us that this would be the case.
- DJ Yoda
Overall though I had a good night and I’m looking forward to the next HTC event in London.
Photos from the event can be found here on my flickr.
Richard.
Also if you haven’t yet, check out this Tinie Tempah trailer for something very special happening on the 23rd of the month: http://tinieurl.co.uk/eseg
