I realized something partway through last week’s project with the Bliptronic 5000. One of the things that makes the Bliptronic such a fun musical toy is the fact that you can take it everywhere, thanks to its built-in speaker. Within a few days of having it, I’d used it in my studio, in the living [...]
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43/52: new video – “a bliptronic day”
42/52: Bliptronic 5000!
Last week, my good friend Kent Kingery blew me away by sending me a Bliptronic 5000, which is an incredibly fun little synthesizer+sequencer. This week’s project is an exploration of this great little box. For starters, here’s a quick proof-of-concept track I made with the Bliptronic. 42/52: bliptronic 5000 test run by billvanloo To make [...]
41/52: The Press Delete
For this week’s project, I drove up to Holland, MI to shoot promotional and live concert photographs of The Press Delete, a great band that my cousin Jamie Pierce plays in. The Press Delete were playing a show at the Park Theater in Holland, and we intended to shoot some promotional photos they could use [...]
40/52: chromedecay wallpapers
This week’s project is a set of downloadable wallpaper, sized for desktop computers, iPad, and iPhone. All feature photography by Bill Van Loo, with post-processing and formatting by fellow chromedecay artist Joshua Schnable. Download the entire set of wallpapers here: http://www.chromedecay.org/downloads/40-52-chromedecay_wallpapers.zip (27MB ZIP file) A few months ago, Joshua Schnable hipped me to fiftyfootshadows, a [...]
39/52: a foggy day’s field recording
This past Thursday was a beautiful foggy morning, and it yielded this short video. It’s sort of a poem, in a way. I recorded the video using my Canon T1i DSLR, shooting in 720p HD. The lens was a Yashica 55mm Macro ML, mounted using a C/Y to EF adapter. This allowed me to manually [...]
38/52: camp photos
This past week, I spent 4 days at a beautiful camp in Michigan, as part of my day job teaching at Honey Creek Community School. While I was there, I had the opportunity to take some photos. I hope you enjoy them.
37/52: Bill Van Loo live performance
The documentation for this project is a little late, but better late than never. On Sunday, September 12, I played a short live set at Bethesda Bible Church’s “Praise in the Parking Lot” event. It was a short 15-minute set, but it was a lot of fun. This was an outdoor event – here are [...]
36/52: Chicago visit
This week’s project is a simple set of photographs from a trip to Chicago last weekend. Enjoy.
35/52: Depot Town Cars with a friend
On Thursday, I had an opportunity to go out shooting photographs with a friend of mine, Irvin. We met up in the Depot Town area of Ypsilanti, and, as it happened, the Thursday night car show was in full swing. Every Thursday during the summer, the section of Cross Street that makes up Depot Town [...]
34/52: DIY bottleneck slides
This week’s project was a fun one. I’ve been playing lap-slide guitar for a long time. After college, I put it down for a while, and then picked it back up again 10 years ago or so when I was strictly making electronic music, as a way to make some music that was much more [...]