Another Bad Camera Pic

I'm fascinated by the artistic bent of this algorithmic take on visual reality.

As Promised

I wrote this song when I was nineteen.  It was played first by Erosion Theme Park and then Senior Supermonster.  

I've never spent this much time on a mix before. It's been three weeks or more of mixing followed by listening on computer and then mp3 player both via headphones and in the car followed by mixing again and around and around.  There are still some whomps when the vocals, bass, and kick all clash together in the low end but I could not figure out how to get rid of them so there they stay.  I've got to let this one go:

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Another Hike

I tend to just choose a destination and go for it.  I have no idea beforehand how tough it might get, nor do I know what my breaking point is, though I consider it a lot on these treks.  I have yet to hit it.  This one took me to 2,178 ft.  It was a fine day with some long distance views:

And of course there were some bad pictures taken as well:

If you look closely you will see that these pics were taken in the same two spots, a kind of good camera versus bad experiment.

Old Pics

With little else to do or post I decided to tackle some old pics that I will eventually be posting on fb:

Here's me and my older brother at Disneyland in the early '70's.

And here's my dad.

Train?

Redo

I finally hunkered down with the Senior Supermonster site this weekend and did what I had to.  The hover-buttons that I had been so enamored of and had used throughout the site were always somewhat of an issue, with the viewer usually having to convince their browser that it was OK to allow them to function.  Now it seems Microsoft has discontinued support for them altogether due to security concerns, and if you are at all familiar with that company, hearing about their concern for security might elicit a chuckle.

It had been a really long time since I had bothered to do much with the site, seeing as how the band dissolved and the whole thing is now back to being a concept of mine.  When I did create the sight I went about it in a very odd fashion.  First, I bought a book about html, read a little of it, and then put it where it still sits tucked away in some corner.  I then downloaded some free software and went about taking the idea in my head and forcing it into a webpage form.  It was all based on the early CD-ROM games that had come out with direction buttons and sounds and such.  It was fun while it lasted but they've shut the doors now, not unlike what happened to those CD-ROMs, and I've been forced to change.

So I downloaded another bit of software and this time had to work outwards from what I had done previously, actually getting into that source code and deleting what had to go and sticking in what could work.  It's even less elegant than it was before but what the hell.  I archived all of the old pages that I wanted to keep and ditched the stuff that no longer applied.  I put a new front page on there to make it seem like there is construction in progress but that's kind of over at this point, until the next motivation comes along.

Then as I pondered this post I realized that I had spaced the real reason that I had even bothered.  I wanted to get widgets for both my Soundcloud and ReverbNation accounts on there in preparation for finally letting go of this track that I've been working on for longer than I can actually recall. That should be emerging soon with a direct link right on this blog, so stay tuned whomever might be currently tuned.

Wups Work

I was suddenly motivated to follow up on my meme idea yesterday and managed to stretch it progressively across a few different media types:

And here, for the first time ever is my very own animated GIF: