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man, i was hoping this was gonna be a platform for me to rant about how covers of shitty pop songs are making sure no one ever takes chip seriously.
This is common knowledge
if it doesnt sound like sabrepulse its not good duh
"In NEW JERSEY there IS DEFINITELY a SUPERIOR quality bar"
seems legit.
I know Freque already mentioned this, but you can't blame me for starting a dedicated thread, right?
Decktonic - All My Robot Friends [NC013]
I recorded this with KORG DS10+ on my Nintendo 3DS, without post-processing. I don't have much else to say about it, except DANCE MUSIC EVERYWHERE FOREVER.
Tracklist:
1. 2012
2. Watch Your Dubstep
3. Tilted
4. All My Robot Friends
5. Calvin Harris - Bounce (Decktonic Cover)
Enjoy!
You should download these. Just sayin'
At the dawning of time, a goose was born. Its golden plumes shone with the brilliance of one thousand suns — so vivid, so golden that all the creatures in all the land cowered in fear. Each gasp of wonder and sigh of veneration fueled the goose to ultimate power. Try as they might to prepare, not a beast or brave soul in his whole world could have been ready for the judgement days of the GOLDEN GOOSE.
STORY TIME.
Last summer I met a musician through my job (I design games) and we worked together on a project that involved some hip-hop instrumental tracks. I ended up finding out that he was making chip-hop tracks under the alias PLASMA FACE in his spare time and he asked me if I knew of some chip labels that he could send his music to. I gave him a list, and Pause was one of the labels I mentioned. I remember saying, "if you can get your music on Pause, that would be awesome." Well, I didn't hear from him again for months, and then last week he sent me an email saying, "hey, my new EP is out on Pause!" and here it is. It's cool right? I'm very happy for him 
You should go download it.
and yeah i'm looking forward to new things
I just finished my new EP, I'll be sending something your way soon
any press is good press.
if you'd like something newer, i'm in the process of putting together a new album for release in the next month or so..
this excites me.
This was a great show. If y'all didn't know, my man Ricardo puts on amazing shows. Y'all missed out if you were not there.
Here's a business idea: use the picture of Sheldon wearing the shirt on the 8BP store page.
Good idea right yeah guys? Feel free to email me about further business consultations
You're a genius.
Decktonic wrote:Just keep in mind that in this example, 8bp is the company and Big Bang Theory is the music video.
No, Big Bang Theory is a TV show. I was using the music video example (where record companies seem to be apparently obligated to blur logos out) as a contrast / counterexample to a TV show, where (seemingly) there's no similar obligation. The rules seem to possibly differ between the two usage contexts. I was highlighting the apparent different simply to illustrate: whatever the rules are, they confuse me.
ANYWAY, option C, which I think is the likeliest scenario here, is that they thought the 8BP computer logo was just a cool nerdy design, didn't realize it was a logo, and saw no issue in using it in the show.
edit: clarifying confusing phrasing, originally typed semi-drunkely
How is the TV network that publishes Big Bang Theory any different from the record label that publishes a music video? I really do think that Big Bang Theory is the music video in this example. TV shows do hide brand names all the time. Remember Ashton Kutcher trying to promote all the startups he invests in on 2 and a half men? He got away with it for the first episode, but then the producers told him not to do it again. It's identical. I promise.
Actually this short article explains it perfectly: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technol … t-ups.html
"CBS balked at giving exposure to firms that hadn't paid for the privilege."
Companies don't charge for endorsements, they pay for them. If a company endorses a musician (for example), with the interest of associating the musician with their brand, the company pays the musician (or gives him/her free product). Not the other way around.
So in the music video example, if a company (Coca-Cola, Ford, Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems) wants to associate their brand with the music video's artist -- or even just wants to sneak in some product placement -- the company would ordinarily pay a lot of money to make that happen.
So one would think that when logos appear incidentally / accidentally in music videos, in backgrounds, publicly visible signage, the companies in question would get big old boners because they're getting product placement essentially for free.
But obviously there's more to the story that I don't know, because I think that's generally not how it works (in the music video context, anyway).
Just keep in mind that in this example, 8bp is the company and Big Bang Theory is the music video.
I don't really understand what laws / interests govern logo use on television. You have cases like this, and then you have cases where record labels are obligated to blur out logos that might appear in their music videos and things like that. I guess a music video is considered a "product" in a sense, and a logo's appearance there could arguably suggest endorsement. Although I guess a TV show can be considered a "product" as well, and yet in those cases you have companies aggressively seeking to insinuate themselves there, via product or logo placement. Don't really get it.
Fucking logos. How do they work.
I thought they blurred out the logos *because* they charge a lot of money for endorsements and they don't want to give them away for free. Not a copyright issue, but a "why give this away for free" issue.
Cool.
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