This Is What’s Wrong With “Professional” Photography
A segment from the documentary Dreams with Sharp Teeth (great watch, if you haven’t seen it) about Harlan Ellison. This is so much the same as the photography world.
Living Statue Costume and Makeup
So, remember that living statue project I started like…almost a year ago? (Wow, time flies)
Bad Romance Cover W-I-P
I know I’m a little late to the party, but I totally want to do a ROCK ANTHEM version of Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.
Good Jam Session
Had an awesomely fun 5 hour jam session today with Colin and Conrad, here’s some highlights.
Parallel Pens are COOL
I wanted to try my hand at calligraphy so I went looking for a fountain pen or dip pen to experiment with, and ended up finding Pilots’ crazy Parallel Pens – pens without a funny nib composed of two thin metal plates.
Custom Wound Guitar Pick Pickup
While I was building my first guitar, I got interested in winding my own custom pickups. I experimented with a few things, made a bunch of oddball pickups. Including this teeny tiny one mounted on the back of a guitar pickup:
More info and a video after the jump!
How To: Photography Post Production with Photoshop (And Lightroom)
Follow along as I do some simple tweaking on a couple photos taken by a friend of mine in Pakistan. This will be remedial to experienced Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom users, but might be useful for beginners.
A Song a Week
I’m gonna try and write a song a week. Whether it sucks or not. I vow to produce something each week, and move on! Theoretically I will get better at writing songs… Theoretically… At the least it’ll keep me from playing the same riffs over and over for a month. In the unlikely event that [...]
Things I learned about building guitars
Here is a poorly written, hastily compiled list of things I learned while building my first home made guitar. Not exactly a How To, more like a Be Sure To Remember.
Guitar Building Pt. 4: Drippy
Well my home made guitar is done, and named. She’s called Drippy, named after either a bad experience in the 70’s, or my (lack of) lacquer spraying skills. I can’t believe this used to be boards!
Building My Guitar Pt. 3
Continuing saga of my custom guitar build… Les Paul ish, less than spectacular looking, but pretty damn good for my first try. I shaped the neck and glued it in, and I’m trying finishes out on scrap wood (and the first crap neck I built that got scrapped). Aniline water based dye, and then nitro [...]
Finally, A Photography Update
It’s been awhile… Here’s a sneak peak from my latest photoshoot. More to come when I’m done fiddling in Photoshop!
Building a Guitar
Well, I’ve been locked up in a room making sawdust for the last week. I’m building a guitar. From scratch.
Some pictures of how it’s coming so far: (Ignore the dates, I’m using some cheap old camera so I don’t have to worry about the sawdust killing it)
Sketchbooks
My journal fell apart the other day. Which pissed me off, because I like to write in nice leather bound journals. Anyway, I copied everything interesting over to a new one, and reading the old stuff made me open up my old sketchbooks. I used to draw a lot. I don’t think I was very [...]
Stop Motion
How nerdy am I? Here’s all the little stop motion things I’ve done. With my Transformers and Gundams. That’s how nerdy.
Edit: Ok I lied, this video appears to only be the Transformers stuff. Gonna upload the Gundam ones next.
Holy Crap!
Robert Shields added me as a friend on Facebook! How friggin cool is that? He’s one of my heroes!
Custom Painted Bumblebee
Yes, I am a huge, huge nerd. How nerdy? When the first live action Transformers movie came out, I started buying the new line of Transformers toys. I went all over the place looking for the Bumblebee 2008 Camaro. And then bought a bunch, and then hand painted a few. Even sold one on eBay [...]
How To Play Angel’s Son
Here’s how to play Angel’s Son by Sevendust. It’s in a funky “limp floppy string” low tuning: C#-G#-C#-F#-B-C#
The Downside To Shooting Your Lover
Shooting with a camera I mean. It’s pretty self evident the downside to shooting your lover in other ways, however tempting it might be at times. Anyway, this is something I realized after my last relationship ended earlier this year:
$150 Space Camera
There is an article on Wired describing two MIT students who sent a camera up high enough to photograph the curvature of Earth. For a $148 budget. Now that is just ridiculously cool!
Check out the article now!
