Lucky me.
I spent the entirety of my weekend with my head in music.
First my band Debbie Does Malice played a great show with Do As The Romans Do, Reflections, and Vessels for Our Ghosts to celebrate a huge amount of birthdays. And second, I spent all of yesterday in the studio with Reflections to track drums and bass. Tonight, I’ll be recording guitars and vocals. I even get to try a fractal audio axe fx. More info tonight.
Category: Technology
The quality of streaming video!
I’m so happy that the quality of video being streamed is of much higher quality than it once used to be when I first started watching videos online. Back whenever that started to be a cool new idea, I remember that even stuff that was DVD quality before it was thrown on the web somehow manage to turn into three or four color squares that covered 90% of the play window.
Now on youtube, you can see stuff in HD!? I know this happened a while ago, but I’m just starting to recognize its worth to me.
Now, whenever I’m flipping through the millions upon millions of useless videos, I can easily spot the crap and avoid it. That has always been my problem…
Sometimes you wont know it is crap until it stops and starts suggesting more videos of the same kind to watch – NO!! I don’t want to watch any more like this because they apparently decided it was a good idea to not make “shitty video” one of the tags. So I waste hours of (arguably) valuable time to get maybe 10 minutes of entertainment.
I’m also glad that when I get on youtube and want to listen to a song, it is usually really easy to find and there are some good options for the official and live videos of the artists’ performances.
I still run into the usual garbage like some guy putting a chopped video of his cat playing with a ball of yarn put to the soothing sounds of cannibal corpse. But it is becoming rarer to see that sort of thing. I don’t think I ever see those crappy cell phone videos of some band that an idiot apparently felt was worth sharing with millions of people that don’t care.
To celebrate, I shall link to a video of Paramore performing a song called “Careful” from their album brand new eyes through the youtube channel of their label, Fueled By Ramen.
Just want to make a comment on the video itself, it reminds me of that old random saying that fads repeat themselves, simply by the presence of skin tight animal print pants. But I have a feeling musicians have been and always will be huge fans of animal print tights.
One final word: Custom picks are in!
Domain Name? That sounds fun
So I’m investigating Domain names, which is a pretty crucial part of having your web presence be of value in some form or another. I’m trying to imagine what I would use my unique domain name for in the coming months. I’m sure it would be a higher priority to actually get one if I had money coming into my bank account in some way. But I think I still know what I could use my own website for.
I’m an aspiring Audio Engineer and the benefits of having my own dot com are a plenty! I can have detailed information about myself and my work all localized in one easy to reach place, along with rates and fancy pictures. I could also use it to spout out my opinions about music in my area and maybe even what I think about the music I hear on a regular basis from around the world. I could also use the site to link to bands and artists that I am working with and ones that I am soon to work with.
For example my band, Grandeur4clARC.
Or a band that I am the recording, mixing, and mastering engineer for, Akhenaten
Or that band that I’m working on the pre production steps with at present, Ateeth.
I don’t know for now, It is a bit much to think about when I hardly have any plans on how to market myself. More soon…`
Becoming Jesus 101: Accelerated Enlightenment
There is apparently a large amount of people that desire nothing more than to become the Great Son of God. One creative business, situated in the Vatican, promises to turn you from heathen to savior in a few short weeks. The company is a subsidiary of Apple Corporation and is personally run by Steve Jobs. He jokingly calls the graduates of the program iJesuses and the graduates quickly forgive him and hold no grudge as they are now Jesuses.
There are some skeptics, Bill Gates being the most prominent, that think that creating so many Jesuses is diluting the holy power possessed by the graduates, thereby turning them back into normal people that just so happen to have solid morals and a few cool party tricks like boosting the alcohol supply with the old water to wine trick of the first Jesus. And these same skeptics wonder if Steve Jobs is also bringing the world closer to the big apocalyptic end foretold in the book of Revelations. “The second coming of Jesus is supposed to mark the beginning of the end of the world,” cried a random street preacher that stands on Washington and 2nd ave north in front of sexworld, “even if his first engineered Jesus didn’t set it in motion, what makes him think that the third, fourth, or 666th Jesus wont!?”
So far, no demon spottings have been reported so it may be safe to say that we are not at risk of the Apocalypse at present.
People wonder why Steve Jobs never took his own class and it is believed that he is actually God himself, he is the great creator of the Jesus University and the now available iPad. No word on the powers of Jobs, maybe because no one has witnessed any lightning bolts or miracles, but it is difficult if not impossible to witness omnipotence. We plan to continue reporting on this because of the massive uproar on both sides. One of our reporters plans to attend the school and see what really goes into making an iJesus, technical specs will be provided with our next press release.
RJ Ellsworth 