I just had a major revelation.  The CMYK value for pure black ink, 0.0.0.100, 100% black, K, is NOT, I repeat, NOT the same as the hexadecimal pure black value of #000000 !  I can’t believe I didn’t know this before.  But thinking about it – it makes sense.  Pure K, Key, Black, is real-life ink, and because of this it cannot truely absorb all real light to create true black.  When printed on to any surface, the surface will have some texture which will reflect some proportion of light, making the colour of the surface off-black.  So, the digital representation of 100% K is… drumroll please… #231F20 in hexadecimal values, and 35.31.32 in RGB.  In reverse, #000000 (RGB 0.0.0) has a CMYK value of 75.68.67.90 (because using all the inks together in these values creates a ‘blacker black’ as the ink is more dense (I reckon).

I realise this is probably irrelevant and boring to a lot of people, but it is honestly fascinating to me!

In other news, the boyfriend’s band (This City) is playing at the Astoria in London tonight supporting Taking Back Sunday and I am going!  Amazing!  Did I mention that I feature in a slightly raunchy scene in their zombie music video for their new single We Move?  And I’m also the one in the wolf mask, with a half-second feature of my zombie t-shirt design.  And you can check me out in my pants and a wolf mask when their new artwork is released (on their single) next month.  Rawk.

Songza.com is the best site I’ve seen in the last couple of months. A music search engine / jukebox which also provides a player for your site, but WordPress seems to strip the HTML code so I can’t figure out how to put it in here

Shame it’s not integrated with last.fm too. Wasted listening… it pains me.

Good points are though:

• users can rate songs as being good or bad so better recordings appear higher in search results.
• you can send your friends a link to a favourite song with an email form
• you can make your own playlist (but I don’t think you can save it to listen to later…)
• you can view the discography of the artist you’re listening to
• you can buy the song you’re listening to

Never mind MySpace DJ-ing at parties – I reckon this would be an awesome way to provide music at a party and let your guests choose the songs.