Tuesday 24 July 2007

What's Been Happening

It's been 9 months since I last posted, but almost every day I've been adding album art. Mostly it's been TV show episodes because I've been reripping all my TV show DVDs for Apple TV. Since I'm in a PAL country, most of these are 768 x 576 (4:3) or 1024 x 576 (16:9). It's a substantial improvement. Advances in my technique have made these look a lot better than previous efforts.

For each TV episode in iTunes, I clip a frame that I feel best summates the episode to use as album art. In iTunes, each episode gets it's own artwork. On Apple TV (and I presume iPhone), you can see the individual images in association with other metadata. I feel it's a good way to remind yourself of what the episode is about. You'll find a good selection of these in the TV shows folder. And by the way, yes, I did recreate the IT Crowd cover by hand. Never again, but the result is amazing!

To show that I'm still keeping my toe in movies, I've scattered a few here. A friend of mine lent me a slew of oldies, quite a few of them Bogarts.

Music has taken a temporary back seat to allow me to devote my efforts to video, but there have been a few to cross my desk.

There's the White Stripes' latest, an EP preluding an upcoming Architecture in Helsinki album and the new one from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Interestingly, this last appears to be an Australian-only cover, and personally, I like it much more than the version I've seen around the web, which is a simple black guitar on a white background.

So even if the featured artwork doesn't change, I'm always adding artwork, so keep looking for what you need here.