Joe Hallock

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Archive for November, 2009

Synth Britannia

Synth Britannia is a BBC documentary about the Synthisizer and it’s introduction to pop music in the 70′s and 80′s. It includes interviews from several of my favorite musicians (including Vince Clarke – personal hero).

Here’s part 1

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Between 1907 and 1915 a guy named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokundin-Gorski (the royal photographer for Tsar Nicholas II) took the following photographs – in color. He came up with a concept of taking three photos – he took three consecutive photographs of his subjects with three separate filters: red, green, and blue. He then combined them into full-color projections.

Read more on wikipedia.

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