Hey human...got any fries?





A (n out) house for a garden gnome just around the corner from where we live




Carrot topped poppy maiden on my morning coffee walk



Me loves Portland!

Been all day plugged into Logic. Recorded drums all the way through for the new version of Schitzified...oh and acoustic and electric guitar too. And before that re-doing some guitar on another song, mixing and like omigod...my head is melted all over the computer. In any case my guitar skills and keyboard drumming are getting really sharp. Tomorrow it's back to video classes in the morning. I guess that's good or I might disappear into Logic all week. Yeah, crazy I know but it's my goal to compose and record a whole rock album on my own. Someday it'll be done. Anyway, I'm glad I lost the original version of Schitzified cause the new one is way better. Last time I had to play cymbals and drums separately and I played all the tom fills on the 2 snare keys and moved the notes to toms later. This time only minor surgery on the drum parts: I can play the keyboard kits like a real drummer now. Yeah! Drum parts are so much more believable when you can play them in real time rather than step programming.


Ok enough computer. 'nite.

Al Gore sez:

The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels.

In my search for genuinely effective answers to the climate crisis, I have held a series of "solutions summits" with engineers, scientists, and CEOs. In those discussions, one thing has become abundantly clear: when you connect the dots, it turns out that the real solutions to the climate crisis are the very same measures needed to renew our economy and escape the trap of ever-rising energy prices. Moreover, they are also the very same solutions we need to guarantee our national security without having to go to war in the Persian Gulf.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/gore.energy/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

 

Barack Obama sez:

 

"For decades, Al Gore has challenged the skeptics in Washington on climate change and awakened the conscience of a nation to the urgency of this threat. I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels, and those are the investments I will make as President.

It’s a strategy that will create millions of new jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced, and one that will leave our children a world that is cleaner and safer."

 

 

Yeti sez:

Happy full moon.

 

Digital art in audio, video and photo has swallowed me whole. I haven't done anything with paper, canvas or wood since spring classes ended. I kind of don't miss it. Digital art is so much cleaner and less cumbersome. And less toxic. And a lot less paper gets used. Anyway, I figured out a way to paint with camera: as long as light isn't too bright, move camera with long shutter speed. I'm sure someone has already done this, but they didn't have my exact arrangement of LED's or my exact body movements. Anyway, pretty.

Note: no photoshop. This is all straight out of Gojira San with no editing.


 

I found her in a tree next to a bus stop a long time ago. She begged me to take her home. Tonight she called to me from the closet while I was thinking of how to fix a bad edit. It's my favorite part of the film. Thanks Rat Monkey.

Here's my final project for last week's class. My classmates and I with prof Holly at the helm shot most of the footage. I shot the part in the pool with the school's movie camera. The debut performance of Flying Rat Monkey standing in as Ron's (the guy who played Scottie) stunt double, the swirly thing in the beginning and the water footage in the end credits were captured by Gojira San.

This should clearly demonstrate how sound can profoundly effect the mood of a visual experience. The audio is of course provided by Wandering Yeti Art's own Ascension Conspiracy.

I can't promise this won't make you laugh. Rat Monkey kind of appears out of nowhere so I would suggest caution with food and drink while watching. It's probably work safe.

enjoy.

According to wikipedia accordions were invented in the 19th century. Whoot! Gunfight piano, accordion, marimba, Mellotron choir,  plus organ should approximate the grandeur of the wurlitzer.

sounds like I can pretty much use any old noises I want as long as it doesn't sound too digital...

What a beast!

From the wiki on the theater organ:




This thing could be considered the great-grand daddy of the sampling keyboard. However unlike the EXS sampler in Logic, the instruments wouldn't fit in the cozy confines of a hard drive. These fuckers had actual pianos, horns, sirens, percussion instruments, and organ pipes, and crazy sound effects built in. I think I need to go find me some silent films on youtube to get an idea of what these monsters sounded like.  Chances are I've heard them not knowing what they were. Me, I prefer my software sampler cause I don't need a truck a fleet of trucks to haul it to a gig. (after further research with video, you don't haul these things: the interface would fit in a truck, but the actual instrument would fill most houses and have pipes sticking out the roof. These Wurlitzer beasts are a cross between musical instrument and architecture) But this should give me some cool ideas of what to do with my soundtrack.

Fin


well...almost. Class is done but I have yet to make a soundtrack for my silent movie and upload it to the class server by monday evening. It's obviously not period cause the only things in the shots that were around in the silent movie era are the Hawthorne Bridge, the Willamette River, the mountains behind the city, and a few of the older trees in view who were probably just saplings back then. Nevertheless it's a cool silent movie effect cause I turned it sepia, adjusted colors so that pool scenes matched river scenes light-wise, then imported it into imovie to put on the "aged film" filter that FCP mysteriously lacks. I then made it BW and sped it up just a touch for that old silent film effect. It's grainy with moving lines and looks old and gritty. I dig that. Now I've got to cook up a soundtrack with Logic's Gunfight Piano preset and maybe a violin and accordion. Are accordions period? I think so...they're basically a piano finger interface with a squeeze box to force air through a giant harmonica. Well, and buttons. Buttons buttons. More buttons than most instrument and effects plug-ins for digital audio even. Well, that's what wiki is for. I go do research now.

So here's a question: need I worry about copyright issues if I post my video to my site or youtube? It's not Hitchcock's footage but only based on it, it was made in an educational setting, and I have no intention to make money from it.

Ok now I go research silent film era musical instruments...