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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Author: Karel Kerezman

  • Random Blogathon Tidbits, Early Afternoon

    Here are some bits that aren’t big enough for a full entry on their own:

    • Of all the conveniences at my home, right now I love the ice maker in our fridge the most.
    • You know you’re a bit self-absorbed when you stare at your own webcam image wondering what facial expression you should try to maintain.
    • My room is, yes, a bit untidy. It is, however, in better shape than usual. Actually, its current shape is becoming usual. This is a good thing.
    • I do have more than a few anime CD-ROMs to file, however. Oops.
    • I’m working on another creative writing exercise. Be afraid. Or amused. Or something.

    See you in half an hour! (You, of course, can see me all day long.)

  • Mandatory, eh?

    The mandatory webring code that’s supposed to let us Blogathonners easily visit our fellow lunatics and is, we were told, mandatory for participation… seems to be missing from a few sites. That makes it a bit difficult to follow the ring all the way ‘round, doesn’t it?

    Gah. C’mon, people.

    In other news, I have tea brewing right this very minute. I still don’t know what my next “big” entry will entail, but I’ll have something tasty to drink while I think about it. (Thank you, Dawn, for the copious amounts of yummy tea!)

    Correction: Turns out that the “missing links” are LiveJournal bloggers, who (apparently) have to put their webring code on their profile/about page. Oops. Sorry ‘bout that. I’m still finding LJ’ers who aren’t compliant, but… yeah.

  • Time To Stock Up

    While I debate my next Serious Project For The Day, I think I’ll brew up some iced tea and gather the snack foods. It’s definitely time to have iced beverages in ready supply.

    All things considered, I think I’m keeping a fairly high content-to-filler ratio. Wouldn’t you agree?

    As an aside for the anime fans out there: Can you imagine a better song choice for a Fushigi Yuugi music video than Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World”? I certainly can’t. (This geeky aside brought to you by my recent viewing of ErMaC’s last video, “Extraordinary World.” It’s a shame the video has enough cartoon nudity to prevent me from showing it to the kids, one of whom would otherwise get a big kick out of it. Le sigh. The video itself is… okay, overall. Highly experimental.)

  • Movement In Still Life

    I bought this album because of a music video. A creator of AMVs whose work I admired greatly, Justin Emerson (aka the now-retired ErMaC), used a track from BT’s “Movement In Still Life” album for a video that I didn’t enjoy as much as some of his other work but I kept watching it anyway… so I could listen to the song.

    The album is very much in the party-mix category, with a variety of dance beats, barnburners (“Never Gonna Come Back Down”) and hip-hop influences (“Smartbomb” and “Mic-Chekka”), but there are also beautiful bits like “Satellite” (used in the music video) and the dancier “Dreaming” (which, oddly enough, I want to use in my next AMV).

    For the promo, I pulled “Satellite,” “Dreaming,” “Smartbomb” and “Running Down The Way Up.” I don’t think this one works quite as smoothly as the Dada promo, but it’s not really all that shabby either.

    Oh, and in order to get “Sam” to speak his part correctly, I had to tell him the artist’s name is “Bee Tea.” Heh.

    BT – Movement promo

  • As much art as technique.

    Putting together these promos is, among other things, hugely bolstering my already significant respect for people like Bob Brooks (you’ll recognize him as the voice behind most of the Bowflex commercials) who can do audio editing professionally. This stuff’s hard, man!

    Okay. So I’m not having that tough of a time, but I also know that my piddly little efforts can’t hold a candle to what serious professionals are capable of.

    The promo is about 3/4 done now, so hopefully I’ll have a review up at the top of the hour.

  • The end of the cool.

    And now for the beginning of the first really fun part of this year’s efforts: Surviving in a really warm room with a computer I can’t turn off, until things cool down again some time around midnight. (The second really fun part? The stretch between 1am and 6am…)

    Ah well. I knew it was going to be this way and I agreed to do the ‘thon anyway. This just goes to show that yes, I’m a big ol’ masochist at heart. Making the best of it, I am.

    I’m rather proud of that bit below, even if it is lighter in wordcount than my usual artsy vignettes. Then again, how many words can a guy crank out in twenty minutes or so and still get a semi-coherent scene out of it? Besides, I’m still getting a kick out of coming up with “Puck’s perverted pickle.” (Does it help for the reader to know that David’s last name is Oberon? Probably.) Yes, I’m a weirdo.

    I’ve picked my next album review, so now begins the task of assembling audio bits in Cool Edit. I’m sticking with more of that lesser-known-artist stuff… you’ll find out who, in another hour or so.

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