I was going through some zip-disks for my MPC 2000XL and found some ok sounding beats so I decided to go and play in the sound studio of our university and mixed a couple of them. They sounded like they need some vocals so I headed to The Beastie Boys website for some acapellas and here’s two quick remixes. Nothing fancy.
I haven’t done any beats for a really long time, maybe I should try to do something. I’ve been planning an instrumental hip hop/turntablism record for who knows how long, but never really got myself to actually doing it. Hiljaa hyvä tulee.
I wrote a tutorial a while ago for building a cocoa app that will enable you to control Quartz Composer with Phidgets sensors. Now there’s a LOT easier way to achieve this. Just use the new QC patches from fdiv.net.
I finally got my View-Master camera working properly. It had destroyed a couple of films earlier because the mechanism would get stuck. Too bad, because there would have been some pretty nice pictures from Japan and other pics from last summer, but I was able to fix it and it’s working like a charm. So now I was ready to start making my own reels.
This is what the camera looks like: I was also able to get the filmcutter needed for making my own view-master reels from eBay for a decent price last winter. Now I have my first six-pack of reels ready and they are officially the coolest pictures I have ever taken. They aren’t exactly masterpieces photographically but View-Master is the greatest way to view pictures. There’s something magical about it. Here’s some scanned pictures of the reels. You need to freeview them to see the 3d-effect. It’s not same feeling as looking through a View-Master viewer but at least you’ll see them in 3d. Click the picture to see the whole set. I’ll add more when I have time.
Here’s the start for a project that has been in my head for a long time. I’d like to make an animation series with many episodes. Here’s the beginning of the first episode. I’ll try to finish it during this month.
The first and last frames are like that because I did this as an assignment for one animation course. All the students decided before actually animating anything what their last frame is going to be like and that frame was given to some other student who used it as his/her first frame. That way all the individual animations would make one big animation.
I didn’t have the time to actually work on the sound so I used one track from DJ Bhakta. Really gifted guy. His tracks need a lot more exposure.
