It’s the third day of Spring and it’s not snowing. Does that mean anything? It’s 23 degrees out and the high forecast for today is 27. So it’s not snowing, but it is fricken freezing Mr Bigglesworth.
I want warm and summer and beach and happy.
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Day Fifteen – Landscape & Cropping
Well… I guess this counts, but it’s not what I wanted to do.
You see, Yesterday was the first day of Spring. So obviously it snowed. Today is the second day of Spring. So obviously it’s still snowing. I wanted to go visit the Spicket or the Merrimack or something, but the weather blows so you get another picture through my bedroom window. What can ya do?
The snow is blurry… that’s kinda artsy, right? Right?
And here’s an alternate because blah.
More Landscape
I have a script set up in Flickr that creates a set an album with 50 random pictures.
Here are just a few of the landscapes in the random album right now. I think I can do landscapes. What do you think?
Photo 101 Place Holder
The day 15 prompt for photo101 is landscape. That I can do. Unfortunately I really can’t do it while sitting at my desk all day. This weekend I’ll try to sneak out and grab some scenery. Maybe a little Spicket River? Who knows. We’ll see.
I promised myself I would not use old pictures for this course. I stand by that promise. For today though, here’s a place holder just to let you know I’m thinkin’ of ya, although it absolutely does not count for the class.
Uncle Johnny
Thinking of my Godfather today. Seven years ago today we lost my Uncle Johnny.
We miss you, Unc.
Happy Spring
According to my calendar today is the first day of Spring! Happy Spring, everyone! You survived another Winter! Nice job!
The temperature in Methuen, Massachusetts right now is 16 degrees Farenheight and the forecast for tonight calls for snow.
Happy Spring, everyone!
Finally!
patches just climbed to the top of the cat tree! She never goes up there!
Day Fourteen – Scale & Observation
Day Thirteen – Moment & Motion
Note to Self
Here’s a little reminder to myself.
I own two good pairs of (sort of) noise cancelling headphones. From this point on I must remember to use one of them when recording guitars through my amplifier. This morning I recorded all of the guitar parts for one song, playing my Les Paul through my old Fender amp (just like when I was in the band Prime Meridian, oh the memories). I literally had the volume set to 1, but I was using ear pods to listen to the playback while overdubbing and, well, the amp on 1 is much loader than the ear buds can comfortably drown out.
My ears are still ringing, but I got a couple of decent takes.
There are five songs in progress right now. I’m thinking I want to record 20. I will (probably) finish these five before starting any more. Well, finish not counting re-recording the drum parts with actual drums. I’m still on the fence about wanting to do that. Everything else though, guitars, bass, vocals, will get re-done. Three of the songs have keyboards. Those will probably stay midi, unless I want to bring in someone else to play them for real and they are way too simplistic to insult an actual keyboard player by asking for that.
I will bring the Squire P Bass I loaned to Mike the Bass Player home with me after the next band practice, assuming Mike doesn’t need it for a while, and after all the bass parts and Fender amp parts are done I will bring the Marshall home and re-do all of the guitars again using that amp. In the end I’ll have all of the rhythm parts quadruple tracked using two amps. The Smashing Pumpkins fan in me is drooling at that potential of such a layering of fuzz.
