Hello October 2011

Well, this has been quite the year. Cathy's mom is in the hospital, people at her work are breaking things left and right and she is getting more and more responsibility. I have been doing more sound design than ever. Last night, Two Star performed the Calagari soundtrack at the Orange show which, while it all turned out OK, was a trial to get up and running. Anyway, here it is, the one post of the year, in October. See ya next year little neglected blog.

A whole nother year!

I think I am just going to post once a year from now on but still act surprised that I have not posted in a whole year just for kicks.

A Year

Really? A year. It takes us a year to post a new scrap of nothing. Why did we ever think we would keep this going.

This has been a super sucky month!
I lost my very expensive wallet with 100 dollars in it.
The hurricane came.
Cary died. This was the biggest suck!
My power was out for 14 days.
I got completely ripped off at Car Spa.
My car battery died.
And I lost my wallet again today!
There is more but these are the highlights.

Mad Men got it wrong.

So Messy and I are starting in on season one of Mad Men. Right off the bat the 1960's culture, the clothes, the sets, all look great. They have nailed the period in so many ways. But as I continue to watch the office scenes, it hits me. The desks are all wrong. My recent obsession with desks has allowed me a certain expertise on the issue and I can tell you, the desks are wrong. Sure, they are steel, wood grain formica tops, matching. But they are all from the wrong era. The desks they are using were not produced by any manufacturer until after 1970. Steelcase, All-Steel, ArtMetal, Anderson-Hicky...all produced a "tanker" style desk. The most notable quality is the top with the rounded corner, not square:


So, for a show that spends a large amount if time in and around the office, they sure missed the boat on this one very important detail.

Again?

Alright, I am starting to get a little pissed off at Silverlight.

Woo Hoo...sort of?

I love a great stomp box and the really good ones deliver more than just the sound listed on the box. They deliver freedom of expression. Well, that concept has just been taken up a notch. I have been watch the open source world for some time and even though I don't understand much of it, I understand this:

This is the Open Stomp Coyote 1 open source stomp box from Howler Audio. That's right, open source. What it means is that this stomp box can sound like anything you want it to. You create preset sound and load them onto the stomp box and then just use it like any stomp box. Custom stomp box = win!

The down side is... the controller software is only available for Windows. That leave the Mac and Unix community almost completely out. They are some of the biggest open source users. Sure, I could dual boot but I just don't want to.