Sometimes, at a hypno show, a teddy pays the ultimate price. Many teddies have suffered in the name of silliness and comedy. It’s a high price to pay, but sacrifices must be made.
Author: Simon
20150430 Deloitte Hypno Show
This was an intimate evening in the Deloitte boardroom.
20150426 Let’s get Geoff to Uganda
The Wairarapa’s most prominent photographer, Geoff Walker, organised a fundraising event at Colombo Winegrowers. This was to aid in getting Geoff off to Uganda to assist in Ludok in being more self-sufficient. I was impressed how Geoff could organise child sponsorships where ALL of the money went to the child and their community. No middle agency involved.
If you want to assist in Geoff’s efforts, he has a give a little page setup. Geoff has been to Uganda before and has spent a decent amount of time understanding what people need. So any money pledged will be targeted towards efforts that will benefit the Ugandan people in the long run.
20150417 Seido Karate Fundraiser Hypno Show
Gerard and I had a fantastic time (again) at the Upper Hutt Cossie Club. The Seido Karate fund-raiser was a success. Their ability to promote the event had the place packed.
20150321 Emily Vandewiel Fundraiser Hypno Show
20150320 Saint Patrick’s Fundraiser Hypno Show
20150313 Vodafone Hypno Show
A Gerard V hypno show for the Vodafone social club at Smales Farm in Auckland.
The image gallery can be found here.
20150307 The Aftermath from the Martinborough Bull Ride
It’s amazing just how much dust gets generated from a bull ride. These are pictures of what things looked like after the Pukemanu Martinborough Bull Ride. It took a while to clean the dust off, fortunately I’ve had to do this before so I know a few shortcuts. Definitely glad that everyone could hear the event this year.
High Definition Audio
With the release of Pono, quite a few journalists have decided to destroy it. I think this bad, Pono is quite a unique product in the market and I would like that it has every chance of success.
Personally, I have no intention of buying a portable high definition audio player. To be honest, I source most of my music from iTunes. Sure it’s only 44.1kHz, 16bit with 256kbps MPEG2 compression added. Sometimes I get music from other channels which use 44.1/16/320kbps MPEG1. I love it that sites like bandcamp give me the option of downloading FLAC or uncompressed at 44.1/16. This is good enough for most cases, plus I get the advantages of portability. I’m speaking as an audio engineer and a pragmatist.
The purpose of this article is to point out that there are some checks, balances and common-sense in this equation. My perspective on this issue is that of an audio engineer, (repressed) hi-fi dude, musician and DJ.
M-Audio Tampa Mic Preamp
I’ve always been impressed with M-Audio gear. They seem to get a good balance of doing something simply, reliably and also in-expensive. Since, I’m going to be selling my Tampa (as I’m getting rid of my studio equipment and focusing on live) I thought I would write a quick review of it.
In short, this is a fantastic mic pre to add some valve-like coloration to a signal in a subtle way.
20141213 New World Metro Hypno Show
A Christmas party for New World Metro staff. What an awesome group of people! Gerard and I had a brilliant time. Definitely a group of real keen dancers!
20141126 Advance Electrical Hypno Show
This was a fun party for Advance Electrical and their customers. Gerard and I had a ball.
20141017 Kuranui College Fundraiser Hypno Show
This show turned out to be a high energy event. Gerard was on fire despite being rather tired from doing so many shows. The hall at Kuranui College was a fantastic venue to work in. As a bonus, we had some fantastic help from some of the students.
20141016 Masterton Medical Centre Hypno Show
We had a lot of fun with the team from Masterton Medical Centre. The staff at Paper Road Winery were fantastic and treated us very well. We managed to transform the venue into an intimate but rockin’ place. I’m sure that Gerard will remember this as one of the better shows as we got all of the little details sorted. A big thanks to the Paper Road staff and Masterton Medical Centre for being such an awesome group of people!
