A note:

Never, ever, ever hand your black and white film over to a Meijer supermarket if you expect to recieve usable negatives in return.

I recently dropped off some black and white Kodak 400TX at my local Meijer here in Datyton OH. Not only did it take 12 days to get my prints back, but they managed to do the most miserable job developing these negatives I have ever seen. A 10th grader on her first day in a photo class wouldn’t do what these butchers did to my pictures.

Too bad.

Steer clear of Meijer for your photo needs. If I knew the name of the place where Meijer sent my film in Columbus, I would tell you to steer clear of them as well.

Support your local camera store.

Hey. Today’s my birthday. Wild!

Tonight I shot some test photos of my friend Caleab for a treatment I want to do for some press shots or album art for the band He Laughs. He Learns. He Loves.

The colored images are that treatment. The natural colored ones are just for fun.

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This Friday I performed with He Laughs. He Learns. He Loves. when opening up for Mose Giganticus and The Emotron.

I must say it was the best time I’ve had here in Dayton, OH and shared some great conversation with the other performers and host of the event.

After the show, we traded Kyle, The Emotron, one of the T-Shirts I designed and produced with Caleab Wyant.

Tonight the touring groups released this gem to YouTube:

And the following was shot by Laura Webb for a photo documentary she is producing about DIY music venues.

I’m in the middle of recording the first LP for the band He Laughs. He Learns. He Loves. and have made a frustrating discovery.

We’ve been recording the majority of the guitar direct and using the amp modeling software GuitarRig 2, rather than micing the guitar cabinets themselves. I had gotten in the habit of creating preset sounds and saving them to a custom “HUMBLESOUND” bank within the plugin.

The other week I made the decision to reformat the recording PC so that my computer would be in tip-top shape for the heavy duty part of the record: mixing and perfecting all those guitar tones.

I made the mistake of not saving a backup copy of that HUMBLESOUND bank. I didn’t think this would be a problem, as most VST effects save the plugin information with your project file. GuitarRig 2 doesn’t seem to be one of those.

It seems like if your GuitarRig 2 rack was based off of a preset and you then go to load that project up again without the preset’s bank available, your entire rack will default to just input and output. Your effect will be entirely lost.

I’m slowly but surely trying to recreate the tones I spent hours building in GuitarRig, but they will likely never be the same. Just unfortunate.

Lesson: BACK UP YOUR PRESETS. ALWAYS!

 

 STARS of the STAC [0:18m]: Play Now | Download

Here is a short bit of motion graphics I created to be shown at a presentation by my bosses at the Wright State Student Technology Assistance Center.

They needed some visual way to show some of the employees all at once, and wanted it to have some sort of theme to tie into their presentation.

They needed it quick, so I sat down and hammered it out last night.

 

 Blast from the Past [0:49m]: Play Now | Download

Here is a series of motion graphic segues I created for a lengthy montage video to be played at Wright State University’s 70s themed “Blast from the Past” event. They were created in After Effects, the most important element being a particle generator I set up to produce something like ascending globs of wax inside a lava lamp.

A t-shirt design based on an original MSPaint illustration by Caleab Wyant. The art was converted and tweaked to vector art inside Adobe Illustrator, positioned into this pattern, and sent off to a local screenprinting business.

I’ll be picking up 45 of these bad boys later this week- sans the bizarre elbow length Fat Guy [tm] sleeves.

I recently set up a shop through the garment fulfillment site spreadshirt.com

Now that a few of the final designs are set, have a look at them!
http://humblesound.spreadshirt.com/

The shop is part of my “humblesound” family- the name that I apply to music projects I work on. For now, you are able to find a few shirts for my music, the happy planets, and a few for the band He Laughs. He Learns. He Loves.