If you're in need of new ponymusic, one artist I've only just stumbled upon is OhPonyBoy, who seems to be in quite a groove. Four tracks I found particularly fun: The Stellae Key, part 1 is (perhaps) the opening to an animated storyline; Squirrelnies is a sort of abstract animated uptempo oddity; It's About Time is a nicely animated recounting of the emergence of Nightmare Moon; and whilst not really a music video as such, more a cool visualiser doing its stuff, the track's worth sharing regardless - Find My Place.
Hearth's Warming Con is a nascent MLP:FiM con in the Netherlands, currently raising funds to put it together in February 2015. Sort of tempting - it's been a while since I was in .nl, and that'd be a pretty good excuse. ^_^
And if you've been pondering backing Studio Killers, go for it! It's looking possible they'll succeed in their target, but it's going to be painfully tight. They've updated the rewards again, leaving me with no option but to bump up to the £65 level, giving the "Name in Lights" as well as the pre-stuffed USB drive.
Cthulhu's an interesting looking AU/VST plugin, mapping a keyboard into chords; it comes supplied with the chords from a large number of Bach's chorales, making for surprisingly highly effective use in electronica. The demonstration video shows it off far more effectively than I can merely describe it.
I must've missed it when the article first appeared (but, I am a bunny of very little brain), but here's a refreshingly non-sensationalist story about a theory for a modified Alcubierre Drive. In its original form, it's technically not impossible to make a drive that would permit interstellar travel in a matter of weeks, by essentially deforming space, rendering the space in front.. less so, whilst "expanding" the space behind it. It could work, hypothetically, but would require vast resources, on the order of planets. The trick here might be able to bring that down to more a matter of hundreds of kilos. It's a long way from being reality, needless to say - first, they'll be trying to demonstrate the basic effect in the lab, on a minute scale.
Here's a few minutes of utterly wonderful interplay between Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, in one of their stage productions of Bottom, wherein they slip in and out of character repeatedly. (And yes, the effort to propel "Noble England" to Number One appears to be working.. not quite there yet, but very close. And it's actually a genuinely good track! You can see the video over here, and buy it in all the usual places, either just the radio edit, or the full EP; eg iTunes. Be warned, it is something of an earworm)
As a result of their recent Kickstarter, I'll be making an appearance in one of the Scandinavia and the World animated shorts. ^_^;
