I shot all day at the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club for the “Combat” video. The video is half live action and half stop motion. Today was “live action” day. We used my Canon HV-20 HD camera, and some non-brand wide angle lens. My make-shift steadycam held up and didn’t fall to pieces and break Jonah’s (cameraman) feet.
We shot without a script and went almost entirely off of one page on my clipboard and some vague notions of storyboard in my head. All live action … It was fun.
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Steve Watkins, the president of the C.G.M.R.C., was there all day and was very helpful. Also in attendance were: Gideon Klindt, Jeremy Bird and Liz …
A good day of shooting. Next, I need to go back and shoot the stop motion sequences!
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Jonah Sutherland and I tested out my new make-shift steady cam today. I took the model plane off of my “flying” camera rig, and attatched two cans of beans on the bottom as counter weights.
In a not-so-steadycam fashion, we decided to test some explosion rumble effects that I will be using in the “Combat” music video this weekend.
[Rumble test]
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A special thanks goes out to my fashion consultants at Andy and Bax for hooking me up with some great looking military clothing. I am now Gomer Pile.
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I shot some stop motion today in preparation for the “Combat” video shoot. The HO scale tanks I have are really small! It was hard to rotate the turret in small steps without moving the whole tank. It’s on there pretty tight.
I’m pretty happy with the way things are working and I’m excited to get into the Columbia Model Railroad Club and start shooting stuff in the space.
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“Slippery Focus Wobble” is a new camera script for Canon cameras with CHDK firmware.
This new script eases some of the jarring motion of my previous focus wobble script. It slides from one randomly selected focal point to the next in user defined increments.
I’m getting ready to shoot the “Combat” music video soon … and this script will hopefully get some good use.
Below is a comparison of the Focus Wobble script vs. the new Slippery Focus Wobble script.
Original Recipe Focus Wobble
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New Slippery Focus Wobble
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My batteries died while shooting these so one is a few frames shy of the other …
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Posted on May 27, 2008 by arman. Categories: music.
In the fall of 2000, I recorded and mixed a band from Moscow, Idaho called “Two Play Color”. I got to know them all while living and working in Moscow.
My previous band, Eureka Farm, played one of our last shows with them at “Butch’s Den” in Pullman, Washington before I knew who they were. I liked them … they asked for my help … so I decided to record them. It was (and is still) the only time I have ever recorded another band.
We did all of the tracking in about four days at one of my favorite recording locations - the Palouse Grange Hall #177. I recorded parts of Eureka Farm - Analog and The View there and loved the open sound of the wood floors.
We recorded onto a Fostex B-16 1/2 inch reel to reel and managed to get some nice sounds. I helped out with some production - my Realistic MG-1 Moog made an appearance on the record for some sound effect fun. I also helped arrange the trumpet section in the song “lips smash sky”. It was a great learning experience for me. I had a blast recording someone else’s music.
The record label Lucky Madison has decided to re-release the record online.
I’m sure the re-issue of the record will find an audience due to both Kevin O’Connor of TALKDEMONIC and Justin Ringle of Horse Feathers being featured on the record.
You should be able to find it on iTunes, eMusic ect. ect. ect.
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I went back home a while ago and picked up a few of my old toy ray guns. These must be from around 1980-1985.
I had three that I can remember and I brought back two of them with me. I don’t know why I didn’t grab that third one!
These ran on batteries and were not of the friction and sparks variety, although I am sure I had a bunch of those too.
These old ray guns are cool because they are all analog in their design. No cheesy lo-fi sampled zap sounds here. These guns generated pure sine waves and all sorts of chaotic mayhem with discrete components. Ahhhh ………. the good ol’ days!
I plan on sampling all of their sounds and wrapping them into a virtual instrument somehow … tonal … ambient … I don’t know…
Coming this summer - Ray Gun VST
{Insert evil mad scientist laugh here}
Listen to the ray gun
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Here is the initial version of SK-crooner. It is a vocal synth based on the 8-bit “human voice” patch from the Casio SK-1. I loved this sound when I was growing up … very spooky and unnatural.
Features include:
Two separate modes:
Original (modeled after the Casio SK-1) and Tone held (for long notes)
ADSR Amplitude Envelope
Vibrato with Rate and Depth
Filter control with Frequency and Resonance
Sample Rate and Bit Depth Crush
Variable Portamento
Master Volume Level
Reverb with Size, Depth and Width Control
