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Lyrical Debut

Been working on a musical album for about a month now – Indipop + Sufi (possibly). Its been a lot of hush hush as yet and is still going to be. Playing a marketing role, looking at how Social Media can be best utilised in the scenario, will soon talk about what and how we are doing stuff.

I am also looking at how best to go out with an indie album – yep, not planning to release the album through some big publishing house. The artist’s first album came out from the T Series stables but the experience was not that too rosy. Heck! Even the copyrights for the songs are with T Series, the artist can’t work with them on Last.FM or anywhere else.

Also, a first for me – I am writing the lyrics for some (at least) of the songs. Not that I can boast of my lyrical prowess, but if the artist finds it good enuogh to sing, I guess it is good enough to listen to. I’ll soon be sharing a couple of songs I have already written for the album – your feedback will be much appreciated.

Just recorded one scratch track for the album one fine day. This song will not see the light at the end of the tunnel though. Titled “Itna Bura” the song is very bad :D Just the end result of a weird rickshaw ride with Yadu Rajiv. And yes, the voice is mine. Please don’t flame me ;)

While, we are still talking music I will also like to draw your attention to some instrumentals made by me. Not so great, but an attempt by me – some are really nice and I like them. Find them on my Last.FM Artist Page. They all are available for free download as well. Feedbacks on them (comments and shouts on last.fm) are also welcome. I am also working on my second instrumental album “Into the Night“, the title track is already on Last.fm. Some other tracks have been delayed due to my system’s bad PSU issues. The first album was “In my dreams“. It is a compilation of extremely short instrumentals really. Nothing very inspiring.

More Later!

August 13th, 2009 No Comments

Building me a Business Card

My existing company business cards suck bigtime (and thankfully I am out of stock). So I need new cards, and I tok the opportunity of getting a new design altogether. So I asked my dearest friend kitty aka yadu to design em some. Unfortunately for me he is out of ideas and time, but is trying his best to help me out. He infact designed quite an unconventional business card but that needed some tweaking. Inspired by it, I picked up GiMP 2.4.5 (these days I am running Fedora 9 Live) and set about the task of designing me a card.

Ideally, a designer should work on what is a very crucial conversation starter – one’s Business Card. But the heck! I have no designer. So i have to trust my logic and my understanding of stuff that is around to do so.Below is the card I finally made. Lets call it Draft 1.

Business Card - Draft 1 (Click for Full View)

Now, I’ll attempt to discuss its features and describe why I think it is good. Feel free to contradict me at any point (don’t forget to log it as a comment).

For some reason, I have always believed that a business card should always be minimalistic. Carry only what is essential, do away with all the crap.
It should be different. Business Cards are very strong conversation starters. Something different, something unconventional, something uncommon are great tools to break the ice.
It should be YOU! Its your card isn’t it? And it talks about you – who are you, how to reach you; right?
Don’t waste the backspace. A lot of cards don’t use the backspace. True! Most Cardholders don’t show the back space, but when you hand out the card, the person will look at the back too. Dont miss a chance to create an impression.

Go on now! Sort out that itch you have; post a comment…

February 12th, 2009 3

MozillaCamp Delhi: February 10, 2009 at Indian Social Institute, Delhi

MozillaCamp Delhi is being organised on February 10th, 2009 at the Indian Social Institute, Lodi Road New Delhi.

MozillaCamp Delhi
http://barcamp.org/MozillaCamp
February 10th, 2009 10am to 5pm
Indian Social Institute, near Sai Baba Mandir, Lodi Road

MozillaCamp Delhi will see web developers, designers, media and students coming together to celebrate emerging web technologies, localisation, internationalisation, and standardisation of web the Mozilla way.

Highligts of the event are:

Discussion led by Seth Bindernagel, Director of Localisation (Mozilla)
Discussion led by Arun Ranganathan, Standards Evangelist (Mozilla)
A Talk by Mozilla Labs on Open-Web Development (through conferencing)
An open Hack session led by Mozilla Labs through Conferencing.
The event will also be live streamed on Mozilla AIR.

Registerations are beign made at the Barcamp wiki (link mentioned above) and if you use any Mozilla Toolie or are a Mozilla Loyalist, you wouldn’t want to miss the event. Over 80 regsiterations have been made. We know teh event is on tuesday but since Seth and Arun will be in Delhi only on Tuesday, so we cant be flexible about it.

Mohak has been doing a lot of hard work for organising the event. I have done my best to aide him. My company (OSSCube) has gladly sponsored us and is meetign all the expenses of the camp.

Organising and Sponsorship details include:
Unorganisers (its an unconference afterall!): Mohak Prince and Kinshuk Sunil
Organising Sponsor: OSSCube (My Company, Yay!)
Organising Partners: Routeguru, Pringoo, Innobuzz, Pictualize, Innovation R&D
Online Media Partners: BlogAdda.com
Youth Media Partners: YouthV.com
SMS Channel Partners: Indyarocks
TV Media Partners: Sahara Samay, NDTV, CNBC, IBN Live
Print Media Partners: Linux For You, Indian Express

For any more details, you can contact:
Mohak Prince, +91-9868669175,+91-9811230042
mohak.prince@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/mozcampdel
Kinshuk Sunil, +91 9910024895
kinshuk@osscamp.in
http://twitter.com/kinshuksunil

Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/mozillacampdelhi

Graphics for the event were made by the talented Kitty aka ‘Yadu’. Check some samples. In my attempt to show them in a cool way, I ended up showing them in a weird sideline way. Have a look at them, click on the image for a full view. connect with Yadu at his blog.You can also follow him at his Twitter.