Nutty's Blog

Incredible lighting effects

nospam@example.com (Richard Nutman) — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:13:56 +0100

This is amazing!

ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo.

Home Improvement

nospam@example.com (Richard Nutman) — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:48:19 +0100

Not posted on here in a while. Been very busy both at work and home. Currently having some work done on the new house, which should be finished by next week. What we've had done, is the ancient 31 year old boiler, changed to a new condensing boiler. The main reasons for this were, 1) The shower power was utterly rubbish from the gravity fed hot water tank. 2) Our gas bills were enormous from such a poor efficiency old boiler. This would also reclaim us about 2 cubic meters of bedroom space to put a new built in waldrobe, and at the same time, have the 70's styled bathroom over-hauled. Including moving 1 wall to make space for moving the sink from the window area to wall area, so a mirror can be fitted.
Heres a few pictures of whats been going on.

Picture of bathroom and ancient floor standing boiler in kitchen before work commenced.

Here is a picture of the empty airing cupboard after the huge hot water tank was removed. And the new pipes under the floorboards. Picture of the old boiler removed, which was 31 years old!!

Here is the new super-duper A-rated condensing combi boiler on the wall. And the new wall between bathroom and bedroom 3.

Here is the start of the tile removal in the bathroom. The entire bathroom was tiled in ancient tiles. Its been a time consuming job removing them all.

The new floor that has been started to put down.

More pictures to follow, of new bathroom suite and finishing touches to bathroom!

Josh Allen GTG Guestmix

nospam@example.com (Richard Nutman) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:22:22 +0000

For anyone that loves hard/psy trance, Josh Allens guest mix on Global Trance Grooves this month was fantastic!

Catch it here;

http://soundcloud.com/joshallenmusic

New Forrest Trees

nospam@example.com (Richard Nutman) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:17:03 +0000

I was doing a bit of experimentation, to see if you could do decent dodging and burning in Lightroom. So I picked this ancient picture.
This is was one of the 1st pictures I ever took on my SLR, and as I didn't know what I was doing, the original is only a JPG.
Still, I ran it through photomatix for a laugh. The original was as bad as you can imagine a complete novice with a brand new SLR would take. Completely black trees and over-burnt sky and leaves. I'm really surprised its managed to pull soo much details out of the JPG.

New Mixer!!!

nospam@example.com (Richard Nutman) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:47:47 +0000

Long time no write.. I've been quite busy lately jigsaw'ing bits of wood out of my front door, buying beds, buying mountain bikes and generally sorting the house out. I still haven't had time to do any pics yet, what with working late at work for a while.

Also in my spending spree, well as a nice gift to myself as I dont often splash on out on tech or things. I rarely buy anything really. I decided it was time I bought a decent mixer which had decent cueing ability and proper outputs for PA's. My goal for 2010, is to start DJ'ing in locals places such as the infamous Fawcett Inn pub, and potentially some other similar places.

Anyway here is my lovely new mixer. Allen & Heath Xone:22. Pretty new piece of kit and its lovely!!
My only problem is the bass it kicks out to the headphones is imense, so much so my headphones distort a bit. Next payday looks like I'll be buying some new headphones

I've pretty much got beatbatching and phrasing all knocked on the head with cdj's. Even with my imprecise CDJ 100's. I shall start releasing regular mixes soon as I get more housework out the way. I'm gonna lay down some co-ax cable through walls this weekend, so I dont have to use this terrible wireless router anymore. Week after that I have a full bathroom suite being delivered, so I need to quickly arrange some decent plumbers and decorators too. Busy times indeed!

Till next time!

I've bought a house!

nospam@example.com (Richard Nutman) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:41:47 +0000

Moving in early tomorrow

Question Time

nospam@example.com (Richard Nutman) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:45:20 +0100

That was the most entertaining episode of Question Time I've ever seen.

I want one!!

nospam@example.com (Richard Nutman) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:33:16 +0100

Awesome

Circus in town..

nospam@example.com (Richard Nutman) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:10:12 +0100

Zippo Circus

Cheap Haircuts..

nospam@example.com (Richard Nutman) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:36:52 +0100

In the ever continuous quest to find cheap decent barbers, I've come across my favourite soo far. Its down on Elm Grove (or Beirut as we call it), and called DLO. They hardly speak English, but the shop is kitted out with lovely leather sofas, and its the quickest 6 pounds I've ever spent in the barbers. No back-chat, no fuss, 6 pounds, done and out! Awesome.

Until I find someone else who does it for 5 pounds or faster, it'll be my new choice for quick man-cuts.

Work is mentally hectic at the moment. I suppose thats better than the alternative in these times. Hardly have a chance to do any mixing lately, or even sample new tunes. I do however love the music site www.trackitdown.net. Their music player and dynamic content let me queue up loads of stuff to sample without breaking the player when the page refreshes. Which is nice.

On the right you'll see my public playlist from that site, that I'll fill up with amazing trance...
...if I ever find the time to find some