I have taken a break to enjoy all my Christmas presents. Over the past few days, I have logged dozens of hours on Microsoft Flight Simulator X, which is pretty cool, as far as distractions go, but let me rewind a little bit first.
My curiosity was piqued on my recent trip to California, on […]
I’ve been on a bit of a kick where I try to reproduce things I hear. Sort of a musical life drawing class. It’s been interesting. I need practice playing the guitar–particularly in eliminating the finger slop. I need help engineering guitar sounds. I need some basic mastering lessons too. […]
It’s been a while since I have been able to post. Was I distracted? Well, sort of. I disappeared to San Jose for a week. Rode on a couple of jets. Went a few places, among them: the corporate headquarters of nVidia and Adobe. I learned how to multiply 512 […]
What was I doing one year ago? Well, I was playing with Adobe After Effects. My challenge was to do a flying car. This week I’ll discuss what I learned and what I’d do differently.
Masking the car wasn’t too hard. It takes a bit of time, but it’s not so bad, […]
At the request of a friend, I examined a few things about my voice.
First, my vocal range. I just about destroyed my voice today trying for hours to dig deeper than my lowest note, or push my voice to break the high pitch barrier. What I found out is that I have almost […]
