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Music Links Du Jour

Posted in music by Chris Moisan on August 4, 2010

Folk Ibiza various mixes (download them all, because they’re awesome) here
Phil Mison, Test Pressin (1hr) here

Friends of Folk Ibiza :

DJ Sergio, recorded in Ibiza July 2010 (1hr) here
Moonboots, recorded for Last Night A DJ Saved My Life here
[please note: this is NOT Cafe Del Mar coffee table rubbish]

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A Short Film to Celebrate Wendy Woo’s Birthday – 27th July 2010

Posted in Friends, Ldn by Chris Moisan on July 29, 2010

No explanation required. Best enjoyed with the volume turned up.
Thanks to all those that took part and to Mix Master Domino for twiddling the knobs in the edit suite. Nice.
Watch on YouTube here or watch below

And for those that didn’t make it to Brooklyn, here’s what you missed.
Bad Young Brothers & Sisters...

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True Stories (1986) – Film by David Byrne of Talking Heads

Posted in clever, cool, urban by Chris Moisan on July 22, 2010

Watched the film True Stories last night as part of Architecture on film season at the Barbican in London. I’m neither a huge Talking Heads fan or very fond of musicals but loved this film. Beautifully shot, some incredible characters and IMHO quite visionary given it was released in 1986 -  the film wasn’t a huge commercial success but I’d thoroughly recommend it – big screen or small. Review by Roger Ebert here
YouTube clip below (you can find many more on YouTube)

Mobile Device Shipments, OS and App Store Statistics

Posted in Biz, Search by Chris Moisan on July 7, 2010

During my time at Taptu, the mobile search and discovery service,  I was regularly reading reports and posts about the meteoric rise of new mobile devices, platforms and app stores. However, I would often find myself trawling Google for a specific stat that I read in a report but couldn’t find the reference when I really needed it – so I started collecting reliable mobile ecosystem statistics.  The sorts of things I snag are installed base estimates by platform, apps store data, advertising impressions by OS,  handset shipments etc…with references/links to the full report or article. Taptu also produced in-depth reports on the mobile “Touch Web” (the mobile web optimised for touch screen mobile phones). These reports include detailed category analysis of the type of sites and services flourishing on the mobile web vs the closed app environments. You can view the Taptu report here.
As and when I find new stats I’ll update the deck – hope it’s useful.

UPDATE : I’ve just added today’s Percent Mobile Stats – the most current deck can now be found on Google Docs here

E1 5NW – Whitechapel Pop-Up Gallery

Posted in art by Chris Moisan on June 29, 2010

E1-5NW is an art installation in a 1930s Whitechapel mansion block on the corner of Greatorex Road and Old Montague Street in the centre of London’s old textile district. The intro video is shown below. When I get chance I’ll put all the films up but this sets the scene nicely. In the meantime, more info, stills and other videos on Frogbook
We’ve hatching plans for future things anchored by a post code- so watch this space!

Broken Biscuits/ Big Babies – British Comedy

Posted in art, clever, cool by Chris Moisan on June 25, 2010

Got introduced to Broken Biscuits the other day- turns out the writers used to be part a mutual friend’s cover band, but now seem to be having some success writing comedy and kids shows – Big Babies is on CBBC and available via the iPlayer (UK peeps only I’m afraid). A classic children/ adult cross-over. Also snagged a couple of older sketches from them – ‘What the F*** is Parkour’  has only had a few thousand views on Youtube but made me laugh out loud,  ‘Alpha Male’ is more polished but funny nevertheless. Well worth a few minutes of your time in my humble opinion.

Super Shot of Oliver Wright (my Godson)

Posted in art by Chris Moisan on May 25, 2010

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iPhone AppStore Data Points

Posted in Biz, Mobile by Chris Moisan on May 17, 2010

Piece in Tech Crunch highlighting the maths associated with Apps. Some useful data points here:


“New and Noteworthy” produced slightly less gains than “Staff Favorites” or “What’s Hot.”
“2-20X sales spike following being featured”.
Apps Metrix has attempted to rank App Downloads.

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Data Inflation; From Bit to Yottabyte

Posted in Uncategorized by Chris Moisan on April 3, 2010

Snagged this from The Economist. I like the description for Yottabyte “Too big to imagine”.
Read the full report here . Also intrigued by the idea of The data scientist= software programmer + statiscian + storyteller/artist. You can see my collections of infoporn/visualization sites and resources on my delicious account here

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Panoramic from St Pauls

Posted in art by Chris Moisan on March 13, 2010


The other morning,  myself and two friends got up early to visit a new Anthony Gormley installation before heading off to the office – it just so happened the installation was in St Pauls so having paid the entrance fee we thought  might as well check out the Whispering Gallery and the views of the city on a beautiful spring like day.  More photos from our visit – now named culture breakfast and something we’re keen to repeat as it’s a Gggggrrrrreat way to start the day.
Click the image to view full size.  [shot on a Leica, Simon Mundy]