I'm setting up my free trial of Everpix right now, as I type this. I was reading Daring Fireball, and while I don't always do what Gruber tells me to do, in this case I clicked through to their website because my curiosity was piqued. I really like what I see so far, and I'll try to do a more detailed review-type post when I've had a chance to use the service for a while. Check 'em out for yourself.
Full disclosure: As I type this I'm listening to Walt Mink's 1992 album "Miss Happiness".
Every now and then, I'll do a cursory Google search for Walt Mink, just in case my favorite band from my late-high school and college years pops up with a reunion show, or the long-rumored documentary on the star-crossed band gets released...
Today, though, I did find a little nugget that made me really happy - a video on Vimeo that is, supposedly, an excerpt from the previously mentioned documentary. According to a little more research, it's from a July 2011 reunion show in Brooklyn, and it's brilliant. I'll just let the video do the rest:
Updated: Found the date for the video, and added some further reading links in the text.
I'm a guitar player, and more specifically, a Fender (Squire) Stratocaster player. I've read books on setting up electric guitars before, but this is great, specific info for us Strat players, courtest of Pro Guitar Shop:
Set Up Your Strat, Part One
Set Up You Strat, Part Two
Now, if only I had the time to actually go through the set up on my guitar...
Boy, talk about dedication to your business and customer service... Amidst all the chaos and destruction around Hurricane Sandy's landfall in the NY/NJ area, these guys have kept their service (mostly) up-and-running through sheer force of will. You should read about it. It's really impressive. Like, really impressive.
Squarespace Sandy Updates: http://status.squarespace.com/
Thanks to Squarespace for being awesome hosts. Peace, guys.
11/05/12: Edited to fix link URL
So, I'm sure you saw somewhere on the internet that the Space Shuttle Endeavour made its way from Edwards AFB to LAX today, by way of Sacramento, San Francisco, and various neighborhoods of Los Angeles, including Santa Monica, downtown LA, Burbank (where I work), Pasadena, Anaheim, and Long Beach. I shot a little video with my iPhone as it passed over my office:
Endeavor flies over Burbank/Studio City.
A friend of mine shared with me a quote that he heard to describe Endeavour's trip, likening it to "an open casket funeral service for the Space Age" (Damon Lindelof via Smokey Cloud). It's really true, sadly, to see this kind of death knell for what was once the face of the American space program.
What's weirder to me is to know what the current state of NASA is, at least in the public eye, knowing their lack of serious funding, and yet to see such a huge part of the public get so excited to see something like a flyby of the Space Shuttle riding on the back of a 747! The Mars Curiosity rover's landing was live-streamed on the internet, and lots of people watched it. People are getting genuinely excited for these things, and yet... NASA is seemingly being starved to death. Granted, the entire country seems to be on some kind of emergency budgetary diet - public schools, the arts, social services... It was just a bit bittersweet, is all; seeing something that I've grown up with as a child of the 80's flying for the last time, not even under its own power.
I am a sound guy. I'm sure you've seen (or, more likely, heard) us around. We make noise. We plug things into things that make noise, in order to make more or "better" noise. We capture that noise, so that we might share it with other people who might like that noise. Also, I'm a sound guy starting a blog, so it got me wondering what I might have to say on the matter. Then I thought about what it is that I do, like, really. Which got me thinking about arks. Huh?
Read MoreSo, hey! How ya doin'? So, you've landed here on my little page. I started this site as an online business card for my freelance work - which is sound engineering, editing, and mixing - but I'll also post some personal notes, songs, pictures, and reflections on life from time to time. So, check back in, and I'll see you around.
