Yellow Drum Machine!

Last night, we did Share.tv episode 4 with Calliope Quartet, which was awesome. Ricardo, the percussionist, actually played his face: he kept rubbing a mic across his stubble to make these crackly noises. It was so cool!

Also, I finished my feature on the Yellow Drum Machine by Frits Lyneborg from letsmakerobots.com. It turned out pretty well, I think.



I'm currently uploading the full episode onto Blip.tv. Usually, uploading an hour-long vid to the internet is a pain in the ass because it takes so long. But now that I've got my Asus Eee PC (I named it Mylo), I can at least do that same task at the bar across the street from the station!

Cheers!

The Glim-Dipper Glim-Dropper

AKA and I improvised this little ditty last weekend. I feel my instrumentation (bass especially) is a little too Boards of Canada. But that's never a bad thing, right? We should shape it up: give it some structure, shorten it a bit. But it's a good start, and I loooove the backwards-forwards on the bell sample.

Here it goes.

Share.tv finally went up!

One down, six to go! Share.tv premiered on CCTV tonight on channel 10 and on the internets in front of an audience of at least 15 people.



I'm mentally exhausted-- the show definitely did not go up "without a hitch." There were some gaffs and slip-ups, but we chugged ahead, without there being a moment of dead air. Turn-out was... well, it could have been much better. Noah and I played the entire time, which was something neither of us really wanted to do. As for me, it's really hard to perform on the floor, and serve as a floor director as well.

The point is, I survived. Plus, I'm really excited to make the next episode 100% better than this one. I think my crew is pretty enthusiastic about being part of the project, and their support is what counts.

Pics, video, etc coming up tomorrow afternoon... are up! Check out: hotsocieties.com/share/?page_id=3, otherwise known as the "Gallery" page.

Cool Beans!

The Phoenix stole Noah's picture!

I picked up a copy of the latest Boston Phoenix on my way to work this morning, and found this article about Dorkbot Boston, the multimedia art collective Noah and I belong to (whose tagline is "people doing strange things with electricity"). Looks like they were writing-up the Halloween show to promote the Presidents Day show DB has planned for the 19th. While it was good to see DB finally getting some press, it was *bad* to see that they had used a pilfered picture of Noah's Flora Mortis to advertise it.

Bad for two reasons.

First off, the article itself mentioned nothing of Noah's project, not even in the list-three-examples-of-dorkbot-projects-in-order-to-give-the-reader-a-feel-of-
what-it's -all-about line. Which is kind of a slap in the face, I think. I find it hard to believe that the author couldn't come up with a succinct caption that would explain the piece pictured, and as far as the printed version of the article goes, there was plenty of room to have done so.

Secondly: what? No credit to Noah? As an artist first-and-foremost, but, I mean, failing that, they could have at least been decent enough to credit the photographer (in this case, also the artist). I think she was just being lazy. I mean, the photo that was lifted from his flickr account wasn't even taken at the Dorkbot show-- it's actually a photo of his submission mounted in his bedroom as he was working on it. The journalist didn't even have to be at the event: the contextual discrepancy (a picture taken in someone's own bedroom as opposed to at the actual event) is only one manifestation of a growing trend.

So essentially, it's okay for journalists to outsource, or rather crowdsource, key aspects of their jobs to the population at large. And for the most part, I'm all for it. But just because his photos are part of the Make pool doesn't make them fair game. This was definitely an example of the typically good-natured 2.0/copyfighting/Creative Commons community being taken advantage of by the media we loyally support. Better luck next time.

Silkscreening is rad.

Silkscreening is rad.
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Over the weekend, Noah and I silkscreened some t-shirts. The gold bombers on royal blue are, of course, all his doing.

Mr. No-show

Mr. No-show
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