I am especially amused by Mail-A-Letter. Because, you know, you can mail a letter. On the Internet.
Brooklyn Shoe Space offers classes in making shoes and sneakers. I'm kinda academically interesting in the notion of DIY footwear.
Oneday had a Kickstarter for their sneaker kits. University of Fashion is a paid site with lessons on drawing for fashion. I think the 9-head height is silly though.
The show last night was all old hippies and the most beautiful 50-year-old women you've ever seen. It took place at a really nice venue with lots of leg room which was an active temple. The menorah on the side of the stage was a nice aesthetic touch. So it was a big surprise when the band just stopped and said the neighbors complained about the noise and the cops were there. Concert over. I'd never even been to a *party* shut down by the cops before. The weird comic bit I think is just how mellow an audience this was. I mean, it's a San Fransisco band. And basically anyone under 35 was carded and told they needed better ID* The costumes were great. I was expecting more costume changes but maybe those were going to happen later in the show? I enjoyed how the musicians sometimes had to adjust their beaks between songs.
The singing was more Cookie-Monster than I'd expected. And the guitar was more '80's finger-tapping than I would have figured. The backdrop matched the costumes. We met the tour's LD and I told him he did a great job. He told me he only had 8 instruments. Almost exactly 37 years ago Pete Cenedella made me listen to the Residents in his dorm room at Solebury School. Which is kinda awesome.
So we have a movie where the lead is a black girl. This is a big freakin' deal. Sure, we've got a hard-ass British Army sergeant. But the army isn't made up of soldiers who are just insanely evil, like 28 Days Later. They're maybe not quite as realistic as Dog Soldiers but their incompetence is only minor.
Other than that we comfortably have a lot of women in speaking parts. And we have the lead played by a black girl.
The Girl With All The Gifts is a simply terrible name for a movie. Would
you think it is 1. a delightful Christmas story 2. a post-apocalyptic
zombie movie 3. a creepy Scandinavian murder mystery?
Exactly. And something more like this should have been the key art.
We haveta haveta haveta start casting black women and Asian men as leads. And Native American and African and South Asian and... steer away from the brown-haired white boys the way we do. Hey, sure, maybe not all at once. Let's cut 'em down to 50%. Try that for a while. Eventually we'll be at a nice 20% brown-haired white boys. That seems reasonable.
I did this tutorial. Note that Shapeways adds a step specific to rings that isn't needed as one can change the size of the material in Fusion 360's sheet metal environment.
I'm getting this ring (ID 14.5mm) made at Shapeways. For such a simple design you might be surprised to learn it took me days to do.
I test an Aurycle kit microphone (a u47 clone, all stock), the Austin ribbon kit (with Cinemag transformer), a Rode NT1-A, and an AKG C12-A.
Left to right: AKG C12-A (with the "Utopia" logo), Rode NT-1A, Austin Ribbon kit (Cinemag transformer), Aurycle U-47 multipattern clone kit.
They all go through the preamps on a Focusrite 18i20. I lined them up with a bit of distance from the guitar just so they shouldn't sound terribly different from one another just due to the positioning. It's virtually impossible to do a real blind A/B comparison, so I generally don't even try. But there are some clear differences betwixt each of these mics.
I've had the very pretentious idea of "art song on the top, rock song on the bottom" for, well, since I was a teenager. I've never quite been able to pull it off.
A baritone guitar would probably help.
The idea being to have a groove underneath, but to continue to vary the melody and harmony on top like classical Western music.
I dunno. Maybe I can pull it off eventually. I'll start with a concerto for electric guitar. That sounds appropriately pretentious. No?
In passing I'd wondered what the "freestyle" option under rendering in Blender was all about. Well it turns out that I needed to render some blueprints of the police cruiser for The Cassandra Protocol. And to do that, you use "freestyle."
I'm kinda terrified at the direction the whole movie business is going in.
Amazon Prime, you know, because they can, slashed rates to pay out to small filmmakers. Six cents an hour.
The Crealty 3D CR10-S printer is six hundred bucks. Might want one to make interior spaceship panels -- as one does. Themendous is a prop-house nearby in Union City.
