One year ago today, I posted the first in my year-long series of projects called 52 things. Today, I want to spent a little time reflecting on that experience. During the year, I accomplished quite a bit. For starters, I made some new chromedecay and solo releases available (8/52, 9/52,10/52). This was a big accomplishment, [...]
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52 things wrap-up: a year of projects in retrospect
52/52: chromedecay photo prints
For this final week’s project, I decided to mount some photographs to give away to chromedecay friends and contributors. Here’s one of the final pieces, which is an 8×10 print mounted on black foamcore. This one’s going to Joshua Schnable as a gift. The basic pieces were pretty easy to make. I cut up black [...]
51/52: City of Lights behind-the-scenes photos
This week was the annual Christmas musical production at the church I attend, Bethesda Bible Church in Ypsilanti, MI. I played guitar and ran loops for our band (using the church music rig I posted about in week 24), and had a great time of it. There’s always downtime for the band during rehearsal, of [...]
50/52: a day of snow photos
This week’s project was a little light in terms of what I accomplished. As such, this writeup is very much about process, not as much about results. This was an extremely busy week for me at work and in my personal life, so I knew I would not have any time during the week to [...]
49/52: Help-Portrait
This past week’s project is overdue as concerns posting about it. On December 4, 2010, I participated in the Ann Arbor area’s Help-Portrait event. It’s hard to post much about an event like this, as it’s quite personal and part of the ideals include not sharing images produced. Even posting about it has been delayed [...]
48/52: Studio Setup & Rework
This week I finally moved the chromedecay music studio back to its original basement location after a 4-month hiatus (as chronicled in week 32). 48/52: Studio Rework timelapse from chromedecay on Vimeo. I shot the quick timelapse video above, and also documented with a few photos.
47/52: trying out Lightroom 3
This week’s project was pretty straightforward. I’ve been interested in trying out Adobe Lightroom 3 for a while, and this week I downloaded and installed the free 30-day trial in order to put it through its paces and try it out. I have been using iPhoto for many, many years as my photo library software, [...]
46/52: harmonic study revisited (with iPad & TouchOSC)
I’ve used many tools and made lots of music over the years. This week’s project was a chance to merge the old and the new. One of my first “big” pieces of music was a piece entitled “harmonic study 1.3″, which was the B side of my City Centre Offices 7″ release “Tones (for Sarah)”. [...]
45/52: autumn colors in film and digital
For this week’s project, I wanted to pull out a creative tool I haven’t used in a few years: my Lomo Fisheye film camera. I decided to make this week’s project about the juxtaposition of shooting film and digital to capture the autumn colors and mood. My goal was to shoot all week, with both [...]
44/52: autumn piano music
This week’s project is the rough sketch of a new piano piece I’m working on. I came up with it on Tuesday evening and ran a quick video to capture the idea. 44/52: autumn piano music (rough sketch) from chromedecay on Vimeo. I recorded a cleaner version with a condensor mic this morning, but it’s [...]