PhD

 I'm officially a Doctor now. Well, I'm provisionally awarded a PhD until I made corrections in my thesis -- I have the 6-month version of corrections. 

I'm tired and my brain is mush. But it's kinda exciting.

Image Dump

 

This is my alien whale. I think I drew it in GChat's old drawing system. 

Selene by Albert Aublet

My friend Todd made this ironic meme.

Cat Atreides

Taylor Swift from Lavender Dreams.

 The hours for the Hoboken Library Makerspace.

I wish I could find out who this artist is. I mean who the artist is who made this image. I only see scammy websites with it on a T-shirt. 

Groove to Chance Shirley's trip to Iceland.

Clay Shirky's "There's No Such Thing As A Protest Vote."

Fitting a cello bridge.

Talk to the Zebra

TalkBass luthier forums. 

Pexels. I've been using it for movies and images. 

The Bellero Shield is an Outer Limits episodes.

Shaping a nut. Includes measurements. 

Adobe Express is amusing for making memes. 

Dig Technochic, a Jersey City maker.

What is upwise

 Grimular wigglewump.

Pexels is a decent site for videos and images that are CC.

I have a date for my PhD defense. It's the 19th of February. 

Long Way to a Small Angry Planet fan art. 

Walrus cup. Yes. I'm very proud of this.

ForScore has stuff that will let you put two iPads with a score up. 

Penrose Unilluminable Room

The illumination problem is interesting to me. I suspect that by no great coincidence, it kinda looks like most stringed instruments. The reflections within are much more even with that sort of shape (I think.)

This moose is from the US Department of the Interior.

Preston tuners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_tuners

YouLean is an incredibly useful program. It was written in iPlug. 

972 Magazine is a left-wing Israeli publication. I don't know why it has that title. 

I made a crossword puzzle. It isn't good. 

Capitalism Does Not Exist Episode 5

Here I talk about the Communist Manifesto and how it might relate to the modern political economy. 

Yes.

 Zdzisław Beksiński

The story of YouLean. He works in C++ and iPlug. Sigh. I have a lot to learn before I can deal with iPlug. 

Jeffrey Sachs: another Lysenko we aimed at Russia.

Folkmanis puppets.

O'cello. I'm using this as a model for my cello.

Olga Desmond.

Decent Samples is pretty groovy with an interesting liberry. Actually, that link is to the Venus Theory Organic Orchestra instrument. I don't know what David Hilowitz' relationship is with transphobe Christian Henson is though. 

Capitalism Does Not Exist S01E04

This time with a puppet to explain how Capitalism doesn't exist.

Nobody knows what day today is

Waiting for my PhD defense to be scheduled. 

We have scene 4, now for 1-3, 5-6.

Working on the opera Red Flag of the Future.

We have a couple shorts coming up. One which will be improvised and is the brainchild of Rebecca Kush. The other is similarly-themed and writ by Richard Byrne. 

This sign was on the HVAC unit in the cafeteria, but I thought it was a funny sign for a TV studio.

Tried to see a dress rehearsal of Carmen at the Met. But the "open" part of the rehearsal was cancelled. 

iPlug controls. iPlug confuses me. I realize the tutorials are a bit out-of-date but they're also not really for people who are just learning to code. 

Tuning the tailpieces on basses. Two octaves and a perfect fourth. I don't know what it is "supposed" to be on a cello, but perfect fourths seem pretty reasonable. 

Flipzyde's singer is a very cool dude I work with. Their music is extraordinarily "musical" metal. I really dig the breadth of sound and the dynamics they do. 

Kaiber is one of those danged AI companies. 

Paul Drescher is a composer. 

Musiversal is a remote-musicians recording service. 

Such things

There's a version of Clonehunter that's up on YouTube and has over 380k views. I don't know if it's a legit licensed copy or not. They've edited or blurred out all the nudity. 

Dances in Exile is a web comic. 

This is nice

 I am on the list of DC Theatre Arts 2023 staff picks of creative professionals. 

Strong Wind at Scena Theatre
Roger Doyle and Andrew Bellware, music
Andrew Bellware, sound design

No Truce With the Furies

 A new Tyrannosaurus Mouse album. 

New Tyrannosaurus Mouse alblum. "No Truce for the Furies."

Winter Solstice

 Various things for today. 

Lessee. Today is the Winter Solstice. I'm waiting to find out when my PhD thesis gets defended (by me). I'm told it will be next month. Sigh.

This is why we can't have nice things.

AdamMonroeMusic makes VSTi's. 

Cello measurements. I am making an electric cello. I want to put magnetic pickups on it rather than piezo. It's probably just my prejudice against piezos. I'm also going to make it a hard-tail, or at least with a very short bridge-to-tail length. Actually, I think I want to make it "headless" with electric-bass tuners at the bottom.

A weird thing about cellos is that normally the bridge is asymmetrical. Indeed, the radius of the flipping fingerboard is frequently so asymmetrical that the wood beneath the low note (C) is flat rather than radiused. 

Full-Bucket Music makes VSTi plugins. They're based on the iPlug2 framework. Or, at least the iPlug framework.