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Monday, September 26, 2016

An introduction to Adobe After Effects CC

Video: Stuck in the Middle

O.K., either you'll get the joke as soon as you hear the soundtrack or you won't.

Whatever.

Thanks to Gerald Pisk and Michael Sandknop for a great lighting demonstration last week!

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Tape Op is a free audio magazine. I read every issue from cover to cover. I never fail to learn something or come alway inspired in some small (or large, sometimes) way.

Really struck by this bit from an interview with Shawn Everett, though the quote has more to do with Mark Ronson, who recently had the huge hit "Uptown Funk."

Yeah. I'll have a cool sound in one mic, but if I have all the other mics, then I'm going to turn them on. If I don't have them.... Years ago, some friends of mine did this record with Mark Ronson [Tape Op #105]. They called me in to finish engineering and mixing. He was there, and they had done the thing at the Daptone's studio. I opened up the session and there were four tracks: drums, bass, guitar, and vocals. Mark was there, and I was like, "Is this how you did the Amy Winehouse record [Back to Black]?" Mark said, "Yeah."

It was a big moment for me. I remember hearing that Amy Winehouse record, and I couldn't believe how good those drums sounded. I thought it was an old record. How did they do this? After that, I was like, "Fuck it. I don't need 16 microphones." Mark was showing me. He'd say, "We just EQ'd it like this." He'd crank one of the API EQs. "You want more kick drum?" Just wildly aggressively EQ-ing. "Oh yeah, there's the kick drum."

I love guys who are that successful, but so reckless. They're not thinking about it in this mathematical cut-and-dry way of approaching something. He didn't seem like he was working that way, at all. He seemed like he was a reckless, wild man who's a cool dude. He has a pop sensibility that the world recognizes, but he's not approaching it in any standard way at all.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

GERALD PISK THE 10 REMAKES OF THE PHOTOSHOP "MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU"

Should be called those were the days...

I cheated on this project, in fact on all ten of them. Don't tell anyone... I have been up for two days straight and this overwhelming feeling that the word "pathetic" might come up in a conversation worries me. Just the other day I saw these two girls walking down the street.

I reminded me of the whoop'n, I used take when I was kid. Now I just run when I see them. I heard one of them was in a wheel chair, and the other uses a cane. Never the less, there are two additional tools they could use to beat me, more to death than when I was a kid.

Back to the assignment, I guess these are adaptations of a great novel I once read, "life and times of the three stooges." Boy am I in trouble...

TOUCHING WORK OF ART BY

"Jimmy Fallon"