The Asus gets a facelift!

The Asus gets a facelift!
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Thanks to some stickers and duct tape, yellow and pink day-glo colors: just the way i like things!

Memorial Day!

Did plenty of things!

• Found an extension cord, and now I'm permanently stationed out on the patio. Never going inside!


• Finished reading a paper that has, despite being written in 1999/2000, lent validation to my criticism of/misgivings about net art!


• Fell back into step with Adorno!


• After Adorno, it became 4:00 p.m. (RUM AND COKE TIME!)


• Had my first webcam chat ever with Noah!


• Trained The Echotron not to suggest stupid shit to me! (Bad doggie!)

May all summer days be this awesome!

Nonplussed

It was at The Cake Shop in Manhattan, two years and two days ago when you asked if you could kiss me. It was early spring, and warm enough to get excited about being outside, but still chilly: you slipped my hand into your jacket pocket with yours to warm me up. I remember passing a Bionicle DVD via interoffice mail, pilfered transparencies printed with Uncle Scrooge and Daisy, and the flush I felt pressing ctrl+u to follow your breadcrumbs.

Over the time we've known each other, I've come to learn some things about you. You love to look and you love to be caught looking. You play your cards so close they form a brilliant plumage. You get what you want, and I love you all the more for it.

You and I enjoy games; we share a healthy jealousy, and I've never been happier in my life. This is what I live for. You are the good one.

Summer Summer Summer Summer!

The weather's finally becoming more reliably agreeable and I'm in high spirits! Quit my job at The Price Center in order to take a Program Associate position at the Community Music Center of Boston. From what I gather, it'll be just like what I do at CCTV, except I'll be paid to be there. And I'll still have time to intern at CCTV on Fridays, and teach my Web Design class, which is such a joy! I'm excited.


(The whiteboard in my "classroom"... That's Professor Harlo to you!)

This new schedule is super accommodating, and will allow me to continue working on my "extra curriculars" without requiring me to wake up at 6 o'clock in the morning to travel to Newton. So, I'll have tons of time to work on upcoming projects...

What should those projects be, though? Share.tv has now wrapped for good (I'm logging and capturing the final episode as I type this...) and I want to move on to something more curated and controlled. Also, something with a shorter format that includes both audio and video. Finally, the one qualm I had with Share.tv was that I didn't get much of an opportunity to perform and showcase any of my own work. (Which is to be expected, being the producer/media manager/PR hypeman/booking agent/etc.) With that in mind, I've been working on a couple of things all in their nascent stages that I'll be pursuing over the coming warmer months...

1. A new TV show, obviously! I totally loved working on Share.tv, and I can't wait to do something again! This time, a lot less improvised noise and a lot more video, but hopefully, the new show will grant me the opportunity to work with some of the amazing people that came out in support of Share.tv. I'm open to suggestions. What do you all think?



2. Collage! I love collage. I do it all day everyday (mostly). I also have found a great library in processing that can address video and images through MIDI, and in testing it out, I have been able to actually paint images across the screen with my keyboard, using velocity or pitch to tweak certain parameters (alpha, size, x & y, mostly). So, the natural next step for me is to make performative musical collage— I've been wanting to make some video for some of the new tracks I've been working on for some time now, anyway.



3. Susan Eisenberg, a poet I've done work for in the past, is gearing up for an installation commissioned by Brandeis University. The installation commemorates the 30th anniversary of Eisenberg's seminal work of non-fiction, We'll Call You If We Need You, a testimony to women in the "trades" (electrical, construction, etc.) and the huge amount of BS they had to put up with in the 70's and 80's as lone women in the field. Anyhoos, she asked me to help with the sound design for that project, which is a huge honor. Let you know how that goes...



4. GRE's. Shit.

Extra Extra! Drum Loop from Rhianna's Umbrella totally lifted from a cheap sample kit

Tell me this isn't that hook from Rhianna's Umbrella produced by Jay-Z:



It's a sample called Funk Master #11 from an acoustic drum sample pack that I got for free off of the internets awhile ago...

Oh, and also, my birthday is coming up.

And then, there's the matter of MY BIRTHDAY (MAY 24). What are you going to do about it? One thing you should do, is help me get this bag:


It costs $180 from Timbuk2 (my design!) and it will seriously make my life better. I enjoy a pretty peripatetic lifestyle, meaning that I always have pounds of stuff in my bag at all times. Right now, I'm rocking a grey & pink tote bag that I got from H&M which is totally adorable. But, it's kind of gets in the way when I'm biking, and doesn't close. What I need is a sassy little messenger bag like the one pictured above.

I take Paypal! Maybe you could all, you know, pool resources?
Click here to contribute to the H. Holmes Fund for Impecunious Malingerers.

I've become an MVP!

...by which I mean, I have been Producing Music Videos over the past few weeks. It's been a lot of fun, and definitely the best way to get a crash-course in how to shoot more cinematically (rather than journalistically), how to storyboard, and how to coordinate productions. This has been keeping me super busy, and is the main reason why my blog has gone neglected over the past few weeks.

CCTV is starting a group that produces music videos for local artists, which is a great idea. Our group chose a pretty hot track by Rebel and the Truth, a live hip-hop group that sprung out of Berklee, for our pilot. The song is called "Reminisce," and reminds me of old Will Smith/CL Smooth tracks from long ago. It will not leave my head. We just finished shooting the performance sequence at The Middle East Upstairs, and are going to shoot some vignettes illustrating the lyrics throughout the rest of the week...



(photos courtesy of Matt Landry. Mine were crap.)

Also editing a video by The Lost Crusaders for a track called "Whose Name Will I Call?" The track is a bit maudlin, but pretty good. And the shoot I assisted last Sunday was a lot of fun. I also served as Media Manager, which meant sitting in a U-Haul with a bunch of computers all day, uploading data from P2 cards, and generally bopping my head to Hot 97. I could get used to a permanent gig like that :) The vid was shot on those P2 cards rather than to tape, so I'm probably going to need help treating the footage correctly (MXF files, anyone?) Luckily, I've got people.


(Cam-whore auto-portrait. Who could resist?)

Finally, I started teaching HTML at CCTV. The group I teach is kind of advanced, and interested in learning CSS along with a primer in basic page structure, which thrills me, because CSS is fun to teach. What's cool is that the ladies in my class are all non-profit professionals, whose organizations have actually sent them to CCTV to learn how to enhance their web presence. Having that responsibility feels kind of awesome!

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