No Talking Tuesday # 123


The List:



so here i have
the cover page
in order of
audacity

that mocked up
example isn't
ideal


i would
probably vote
for the minimal
audacity

but if we can
find a
tasteful mayan
decoration that
could work, and
the animals in
the circle
thing could be
mayan figures
creatures etc.

so lighter
value at edges


so these two
pages represent
mock ups for
normal content
pages in pdf,
like you did
but clearly in
a more
pretentious
antiquated way,
and the third
thing is a
mockup of the
cover page for
a sample
document, done
in a few
different ways,
basically in
escalating
degrees of
audacity

so the idea was
(this is a very
rough example)
to have a old
style
dictionary
style
illustration of
an animal for
each document.
but after
looking at this
i think instead
of going with
this default
victorian feel
which is
completely not
relevant we
should use a
mayan skew of
the same idea,
with ornate
trimming that's
mayan and the
illustration of
mayan figures

i'ts adobes
page layout
program, like
what
illustrator is
to vector
shapes,
indesign is to
page layout, i
have a easy to
install evil
version for us
all

i didn't really
do much with
that, i did a
quick mock up
but since you
we're dealing
with it i
figured i would
focus on layout
and cover page
stuff, but i'll
show you what i
did real quick.
i just assumed
each document
would have a
cover page, so
i just thought
it would be
nice to have a
design for it

personally i'm
sort of partial
to your design.
i think it's
more sensible and
straightforward

i'm going
through
publications
looking for
stuff to scan,
but i'm not
sure how
relevant that
would be for
you, you
finished
sussing out the
server thing?


the body font
is beembo, (the
only serrif
font that
Kubrick approved
of)

i'm having all
sorts of
brainstorms
since i started
scanning in
these images,
so i can
definitely do
another version
with juns info
once that's
ready or before

Songs In Sleep


I just moved into a large house in north Berkeley.
Many of the rooms were vacant and I had the choice between several.
I ended up choosing the one with an apple tree growing in through the window
with a view of impossibly tall trees and completly soaked in silence.
(perfect quite is something I've always wanted but haven't had in a place I've lived until now)

I passed on a larger room for this one,
hoping it would pay off with whimsical inspiration in my art and writing.
And of course as soon as I moved in,
my new place inspired these few lines of verse .

Here is the final piece
and all the drafts in order:



Songs In Sleep


You found me under an apple tree
set my wing with a twig
and some kitchen twine
eyes clenched, quick shallow breaths
i struggled in your shoe box
until you laid me in your bed
your sugar face, my belly aches
the scattered hands across my dusty face
until you burnt my hazel bones
with the details of your voice
you whispered in sleep:
"All the king's horses, and all the king's men."
then held me with a strength i could hardly believe

when i remember you it's always the same
legs dangling in the water
eyes hidden from the sun
of course we never went swimming
we never did a lot of things
but there you are
wiggling your toes into glassy ripples
looking at me from under noon shadowed eyes
with salty lips and sandy hair
is how i'll forget you
as soon as i can afford to

your name wasn't Abigail
but i pretend it was
you kept a small bird
trained him to sing
you would start, an d he would follow
always in key
then you would look over
satisfied and smiling
as if to say:
"See, I told you. You shouldn't have doubted me."
of course i never doubted you

you were the muffled sizzle of rainy streets
the sudden creek of furniture in the dark
the embarrassed snicker
when it's time to be serious
and all the faces i'll never see again

i was explaining myself to a group of friends
when feeling around in my pocket, i found a key
i pulled it out confused, stopping mid sentence
starring at it, i thought of you
and something twisted inside me
i felt sick and excused myself
there is a door somewhere closed to me forever
it doesn't matter that i have the key
it never mattered that i have the key.

No Talking Tuesday # 122



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these look like the same clip i think there
was a misspelling

so i have a batch of clips from monday
that i've been hacking away render wise
since, it's using as the source the clips
that are on my x drive. so since i can't
render in two after effects at once,
ideally i would like to finish out this
batch and then use tonight to render
the clips i worked on today.

i did three batches yesterday, first the
clips i'm rending now from x, second a
bunch of stills that rendered right away,
and third a bunch of hd clips i rendered
over night. oh well i guess i could have,
they were in another after ef, i can also
interrupt it if need be


well the situation there was there were
two clips


well i hope it's resolved


maybe there is no situation, it's just my
spider sense tingled at what appeared to
be a mistake somewhere down the line
either on our end or theirs

one clip being duplicated and named
almost the exact same like a typo


Jun was naughty

saved last nights render as animation
codec compression best, which i'm
assuming doesn't really matter but does
offend my samurai spirit, and should be
known

well i think you should just give them the
footage as we have it now, and let them
be wowed by it, and if after that settles
in you can be like and if that corduroy


effect bugs you we can take it back again
and do it


what kevin and i were talking about was
a vertical banding effect that is pretty
much on all the footage but shows up
most noticeably on footage that is
exposed in a certain way, basically most
of the time the dark background blacks it
out but it is pretty prominent on some
clips, and i found a laborious way to get
rid of it, but only as a test in photoshop, i
made a template

it's only on the hd f
well before when i was writing on
external drives mark gave me i noticed
after effects always created a log file
that had a text log in it i'm assuming, but
i haven't noticed that happening since
i've been writing to the internal hard
drive but maybe it is and i haven't
noticed it


i only noticed after effects creating that
log folder when i wrote to external hard
drive, maybe it's


well i'm rendering the last batch mark
gave me on this machine, and rending
on the other machine across,


well my rendering is done in an hour or
so,


well it's only eight clips, but they seem
pretty long



Bucheron
Goat

Orgasmic Duck Soup R.I.P.

No Talking Tuesday # 121

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Chicken salad sandwich (wheat)
with Yucatan soup

It definitely has a Cronenberg vibe

No Talking Tuesday # 120

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I just remembered I don't have a
car

Want to drive me probably down
the street to get boxes?


10 small boxes
2 medium boxex

Nipper



My two friends and I have created a band.
That band is Nipper.
Behold:

Myspace

Last.fm Page

Free MP3 Download


Songs:

Nipper - Where Did You Go? (Where Are My Shoes?)

Vocals: Jason
Lyrics: Bira
Keys: Ali
Beat: Bira


Nipper - Baby Making Practice

Vocals: Ali
Lyrics: Jason
Keys: Bira
Beat: Jason


Nipper - I Climbed A Tree

Vocals: Jason
Lyrics: Bira
Keys: Ali
Beat: Bira


Nipper - Dead Billy's Ankle

Vocals: Ali
Lyrics: Bira
Keys: Bira
Beat: Jason



Nipper - Unimaginal Girl

Vocals: Bira
Lyrics: Ali
Keys: Ali
Beat: Bira



Nipper - Where Did You Go? (Where Are My Shoes?) Outtake



Nipper - I Eat Your

Vocals: Jason
Lyrics: Bira
Keys: Ali
Beat: Bira














Genesis:

A little while ago, Bira, Jason and I were sitting around Bira's apartment in our damp swim trunks, smelling faintly of chlorine, from an afternoon swim. I kept eying Bira's new full length keyboard and eventually slipped away from the conversation to play with it. What little I can play of the piano is purely based on an intuitive tactile relationship to the real thing, and as such, am completely impotent when playing on keyboards. That notwithstanding, I became completely absorbed in the luxurious freedom to assign any instrument to the keys, and began going through all the instruments in his database. It was a thrill to hear semi realistic French horns, oboe, cello etc. all commanded and modified with the same movement of my fingers I've ever only known to create piano sounds.

After about a half hour of methodically going through every instrument in turn and riffing on it for a few minutes, Bira leaned over his computer and improvised a beat that matched well with what I was playing. I continued to play against the beat for another couple minutes while Bira went into the kitchen to scribble on a piece of paper. He returned explaining that he had written lyrics that Jason was to sing over my keyboard playing and beat, and that Jason wasn't allowed to study the lyrics before hand, and any rehearsal or planning was not to be allowed. Jason nervously positioned himself in front of a mic set to record the computer speakers and his voice at the same time, and we set about recording our first song which went on to become "I Eat Your"

The results were hilarious and not all together as terrible as we would have imagined. So we set about recording another. We switched roles at writing lyrics, playing keys, creating the beat etc. An hour later we had written and recorded six songs and one outtake. We then proceeded to change out of our swim shorts and into white pants and sunglasses for a photo shoot in Bira's kitchen.

It then became time to come up with a name. I felt and sting of inspiration and throwing my arms into the air declared "We must call ourselves Hiroshima 3!" An argument ensued as Jason and Bira attempted to explain to me that an ironic American band calling itself Hiroshima 3, is in bad taste. I replied indignantly "What? Hiroshima is a city like any other. People there live, laugh and love like anywhere else. Why should they be forced to exist under the stigma of the bomb, and for that to be their only source of identity?"The argument ended in a stale mate as the only other worthwhile name we managed to come up with was Jason's idea to call us "Ten Piece Nugget".

Bira digitized the recordings from tape, I color corrected the photos and scanned the lyrics and put us online. And in the conversations involved in doing these things, naming and transferring files etc. We kept referring to the band as Hiroshima 3 in absence of a new name, and eventually through repeated use, the name became fixed in our minds, and so the matter was settled. That is until I spoke to my Japanese co-worker, and played him the songs and asked him what he thought of the name. He confirmed my fears that the name was in bad taste and asked if I had any others? I replied with my default name for anything which is "Nipper" (actually I usually go with Ltl Nipper) he liked it and thought it matched the music and vibe much better. So it became. And so it is, forever and always....Nipper.