Micah Dahl Anderson

The Generations Project Traveling Theme

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:53:00 +0000

Jealous? I Thought So.

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:18:00 +0000

MY ACTUAL AWARD METAL

I just won the award for Skinniest Jeans at The Generations Project season one wrap party/award ceremony. Mom always said I would amount to something. To which I would reply "No mom. I'm too skinny"
For the record, I don't actually own a pair of skinny jeans. Those are what you call a "cigarette cut".

Real SLC

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:35:00 +0000

This is spot I composed for the new Real Soccer stadium. The ad is by Issimo Productions.

TGP Hawaii

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:05:00 +0000

This piece was actually rejected for the show, but I'm posting it because I think it is one of the best, if not the best thing I wrote for the show. I'm not bitter at all. I knew as I was writing it that it was too big. But I couldn't resist.

Typophile Five

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:01:00 +0000

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.

September 25th

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Hello all my favorite Utah readers. White On Rice is opening in Utah this Friday the 25th! That's Bruce Campbell Narrating by the way.

The Generations Project Ghosts

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:52:00 +0000

This little gem is for when people deal with the "ghosts of their past", in the show.

White On Rice

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:54:00 +0000

This is a post to all my favorite LA readers and friends. TOMORROW this genius film starts playing in your area! Please go see it! I'm going to start posting scenes that I composed music for later, but in the mean time if you can guess the scenes I did the additional music on, I'll give the first person who gets all of them right $50. You must have a scan of your Laemmle's Sunset 5 or Edwards Irvine Spectrum 21 theater ticket stub to qualify so hold on to it! The contest closes on the 18th, so don't delay. I will give you a hint. There are four scenes. Good luck.

The Generations Project

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:11:00 +0000

This one is for a story of a Jewish family from Russia.

The Generations Project

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:48:00 +0000

I'm going to start posting things I've been working on as of late. I always wanted to be a consistent blogger, and now I think I have enough material that I can finally post a steady stream of work.
This first few will be from the TV show The Generations Project, which will air on BYUTV in January, 2010. It's a documentary style show about people who solve mysteries in their family history using genealogy, and travel to their ancestral land to explore their heritage. Or something like that. This first piece is from a show about Ireland.

Portable Mic Stand

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:10:00 +0000

Trying to work while traveling, you are always (I'm sure it's not just me) inventing a better mouse trap of functional production tools. In this case I was trying to make a light weight, collapsible mic stand that would easily fit into my brief case which also holds the Digidesign Mbox2 AD/DA converter/preamp, a large diaphragm condenser microphone, an sm 57 Sure mic, the cables for both, pop guard, and USB cable for the Mbox2.

I'm using 3/4" PVC pipe, cutting 2 16"(the length of the inside of the briefcase), 4 8", and 2 4" pieces, with locking pruning sheers .

Building the base.

You can see here, I used three T pieces, one connector piece, and four caps on the base legs for stability.

The mic base stands in a connector piece at the top of the pipe.

My Parent's walk in closet. The quietest place in the house.

I also made a stereo mic set up that attaches to the top. I don't have a picture but I may put one up later.
At the end of the night I recorded two pieces for the TV show I'm doing. Which I will start posting music from soon.

Instead of Working, Part Two

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:01:00 +0000

Instead of Working

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:21:00 +0000

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 spent the rest of the day making a pirate flag for it.

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.

Mom.The whole thing.

Bamboo

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:04:00 +0000

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.

Inside Sales

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:53:00 +0000

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.

Blow Your Mind

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:58:00 +0000

Check this out. And thank you Jacob Ingram for finding this and sharing.

Motion Graphics Festivals

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:36:00 +0000

The Tenth Annual 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.

The Little Sprout™ from Eleanor Cleverly on Vimeo.

Shaker

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:00:00 +0000

It is amazing, but the Britta water filter makes the best shaker sound I've ever heard.

Austin MGFest

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:38:00 +0000

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!

http://mgfest.com/09/Austin/musicvideoscreening.php

Song of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:29:00 +0000

"My heart is open like an open book, and yours is closed. I never thought it would be like this. So hard to read you anymore!"

The Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:37:00 +0000

Here's a thing I did almost a year ago for Kineto Pictures, I'd almost forgot about it.

Song of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:56:00 +0000

'What ever happened to your song of the day posts? They used to come so annoyingly often Micah?'

I'll tell you.

Ever since Camille and I introduced our son Nigel to Helio Sequence this is the only song he will listen to in the car, which is where I do the greatest majority of my music listening. Every time the song ends (and sometimes after it has only just begun) Nigel will yell out in his cutest pleading voice, "Gen, gen... pweez!" we easily oblige. It's been his favorite for over two weeks now, and I'm still not sick of it. I think I said in an earlyer post that this album is the best of 2008, and I stand by it. Good taste Nigel.

Happy Hobo Trading Post

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:55:00 +0000

Click this picture to go to one the worlds best artists' (take that Picasso) blog, and maybe even get some free stuff. In this way I may get free stuff, and that is cool.

The Qew

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:00:00 +0000

This is where the music in the Laie House post went to. This video was done by Enlisted Design. They are badical, and one of my favorite companies to work with. Also the Qew looks pretty cool too.

F Is For Fail

noreply@blogger.com (Micah) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:00:00 +0000

This is a motion graphics piece written, and produced, and animated, and everythinged by the incredible Brent Barson, creator of the Typophile Four project. Music by me. Typophile won a whole lot of prestigious awards, including The Silver Cube, Silver Pencile, Adobe Desing Achievment Award, and a lot more. We'll see how this one does.