I get to up and leave town whenever I like with this job, as long as I can work where I'm from. My parents house is bigger these days so I can usually find a room quiet enough, and far away enough from the rest of the goings on that I can record a guitar or some other live instrument if I need to. Sometimes I can get away with just using a midi program like Reason or EWQLSO to create a piece, or at least a descent mock up, and then have the live version done later. On this morning I started out building a work space solution for my midi controller, and lap top. it ended up looking like this. Very nice... ...and very sturdy.
But just as I was ready to resign myself to a wonderful day of sitting inside digitaly encoding music for a TV show, and sighing at the sunlight shining through the windows. My Parents found a project for my brother (Cedric who was in town for the family reunion, as was I) and myself to help out with. So in the next few hours my parents, my brother, my wife and I built one of those swing/slide/climb play houses for the grand kids. It looked good after we finished, but it needed one last thing. So I speant the rest of the day making one of those.
My Mom sewing on the skull and crossbones I cut from some old fabric.
My dad helping with the flag pole. He 's great to collaborate with. He also helped with the computer stand.
I was recently at a film editors studio looking at footage for a possible scoring job, and noticed that the guy was using a tablet and stylus instead of a mouse. My life changed in one second after seeing that. Until then I was obsessing over a solution for my aching wrist and lack tedious accuracy in my Pro Tools Edits. So I got this Bamboo Wacom tablet for like fifty bucks off Craig's List. It took some getting used to, but I love it.
Early one morning as I was jumping into the Micah Mobile (my scooter) to head off to the studio, I got a call from Cole Nielsen asking if I could join him and Joseph LeBaron at the Inside Sales building on the Novell campus in south Provo. You see, Glenn Beck was coming to town to speak at a fancy dinner type thingy, you probably saw the billboard if you frequent the i15, and Mitt Romney was going to introduce him via satellite. What does that have to do with anything you axe? Apparently Inside Sales, where Cole is Master and Commander of all things design, had the opportunity to place in front of Mitt, what we recently found out was called a bumper, but at the time could only think to call it a Snarf Blatt, for lack of a real definition, and a loss of how to find the real definition. I mean, what is Google supposed to come up with when you type... "you know that thingy that production companies and studios put at the beginning of movies, and stuff... like the FOX, and MGM lion... thingy!" into the search field? I finally found it a few days later, and promptly texted it to everyone involved at about two in the morning.
Digressions aside, I arrived at the Novell Campus, and was briefed on the assignment. Glenn Beck was coming the next day, and we had this one working Friday to come up with something super badical (not my words). To make a long, hilarious and other wise interesting story short, we did it. And Cole put it on You Tube. Check it out.
Design= Cole Nielsen Concept= Joe LeBaron After Effects Animation= Ashley Mackay Music= me
Here is me, getting ready to record the typing you hear, with six different kinds of keyboards.
The TenthAnnual Parsons Animation and Digital Film Festival in NY will be hosting Eleanor Cleverly's short The Little Sprout. Very Nice. Oh yeah music by me. Here's a look.
F is for FAIL got into the Austin Motion Graphics Festival in the music video category!
We are positioned along the likes of "N.A.S.A. featuring Shepard Fairey, David Byrne, and Chuck D of Public Enemy", Addictive TV's "Slumdog Millionaire Remix", Nine Inch Nails, and KRS-one. Radical!
My regular site is down for recontenting, and beautification. Please enjoy my blog as the temporary landing page. You can find links to stock music and video in the right column.
Very nice...
...and very sturdy.
My Mom sewing on the skull and crossbones I cut from some old fabric.
My dad helping with the flag pole. He 's great to collaborate with. He also helped with the computer stand.
The flag.
The whole thing.
