This learning 2.0 has really helped me engage with a lot of applications that I can use in the future. There a lot of organization skills that are required to successfully use all of the different features and I think that I am beginning to see the way to implement a lot of new technology to keep up on what interests me and how to further my self in the digital age.
I really liked some of the applications a lot especially the ZOHO writer. I've been needing a really awesome program like that and now I can write anywhere and anytime I'm online. The greatest thing I've gained from this training is the ability to think in and out of the box simultaneously. I need to utilize this great technology but there a lot of ways I can use these new concepts to accomplish things away from the computer, like organization, communication skills, searching for media. I am open to access different functions of my logical brain.
The concept is very sound. There are a few things that could be worked on to make it a little smoother but I think the overall program is a really great way to learn about all of the current technologies that are being implemented across the world.
I think it would be really fun to participate in another WEB2.0 training program. I would like the chance to be able to talk to my coworkers about all of the fun and interesting things that I've learned about the website and Libraries in general.
Friday, September 19, 2008
#22 Overdrive
Well I felt like the JPL site was a little too cluttered for me to actually easily enjoy downloading Overdrive. All of the links took me to different pages or different places on the page. I like to get in there and actually use the program instead of worrying about System Requirements. It makes the use of the program itself seem a little daunting before I even begin.
I did find a book that I've been interested in by Brian Herbert, the son of Frank Herbert, entitled Sandworms of Dune. I'm sure it's an interesting read but it should be even more interesting on an audio book!
I do think downloadable books are a great way to get people interested in the library without even having to search for them on the shelves. Ebooks could eventually become as popular as their predecessors as we breeze through the age of Electronic Enlightenment.
The Jpl website could use some serious revamping to make it easier to navigate and more pleasing to the eye.
I did find a book that I've been interested in by Brian Herbert, the son of Frank Herbert, entitled Sandworms of Dune. I'm sure it's an interesting read but it should be even more interesting on an audio book!
I do think downloadable books are a great way to get people interested in the library without even having to search for them on the shelves. Ebooks could eventually become as popular as their predecessors as we breeze through the age of Electronic Enlightenment.
The Jpl website could use some serious revamping to make it easier to navigate and more pleasing to the eye.
#21 Podcasts
Podcasts are really interesting ways to get constant feeds of video. I can subsribe to a podcast of a radio station for example and every time they have a live band in the studio I can stream and watch the performance for free. I downloaded juice which is a podcast aggregator so that I could watch some different podcasts to get a feel for how they can be utilized.
It's a great way to create your own type of exclusive web television that people can watch for free live on the internet or whenever they feel like catching up to what they've missed. I would use it for interviews with film makers and bands as well as streaming video of live music from shows that I have booked. You can go through an entire live tutorial using a podcast. Let me show you how I created this visual effect or wrote the chorus of this song are some Ideas that I like.
I can add feeds to several different podcasts and I could use a video converter to watch them on my big screen tv at home. Essentially you could educate yourself or entertain friends with this kind of technology in your home.
It's a great way to create your own type of exclusive web television that people can watch for free live on the internet or whenever they feel like catching up to what they've missed. I would use it for interviews with film makers and bands as well as streaming video of live music from shows that I have booked. You can go through an entire live tutorial using a podcast. Let me show you how I created this visual effect or wrote the chorus of this song are some Ideas that I like.
I can add feeds to several different podcasts and I could use a video converter to watch them on my big screen tv at home. Essentially you could educate yourself or entertain friends with this kind of technology in your home.
#20 I can youtube
Create a blog post about your experience. What did you like or dislike about the site and why did you choose the video that you did? Can you see any features or components of the site that might be interesting if they were applied to library websites?
OPTIONAL: Try placing a video inside your blog. After you've found a video in YouTube you want to place in your blog, copy the code from the "embed" field on the right of the video into a new blog post.
I like ease in which you can embed and share videos. I can copy and paste a video into a comment on a site or into my blog very easily. If I had a decent video camera I could also upload movies and clips that I have created.
As you collect favorite video clips youtube starts to recommend clips that it thinks you will like. This can be good and bad. If you go through a night where you save a lot of clips of the same thing, for example a car chase. Youtube will continually recommend car chases for you to watch.
The video I chose was very simple. It's about what makes something funny or considered comedy. It's very interesting to think about what can make something that is very tragic in real life extremely funny as comedy.
The video is of a cartoon character falling from a great height to an eventual death and by adding different elements to the characters predicament it makes it funnier and funnier. It lampoons several genres of comedy but also asks the question "What is Comedy?"
Youtube could be used really in conjunction with any website and especially with a library site. People love watching moving pictures so why not add a little flavor to our pages. We could add trailers to movies that we have on the shelves, interviews with authors, instructional videos on how to get the most out of the library or even how to use new WEB 2.0 technologies.
In summary, Youtube has revolutionized what we watch and also what we record with our cameras. There are a lot of people that do a lot of crazy things on film and almost all of them are on youtube.
OPTIONAL: Try placing a video inside your blog. After you've found a video in YouTube you want to place in your blog, copy the code from the "embed" field on the right of the video into a new blog post.
I like ease in which you can embed and share videos. I can copy and paste a video into a comment on a site or into my blog very easily. If I had a decent video camera I could also upload movies and clips that I have created.
As you collect favorite video clips youtube starts to recommend clips that it thinks you will like. This can be good and bad. If you go through a night where you save a lot of clips of the same thing, for example a car chase. Youtube will continually recommend car chases for you to watch.
The video I chose was very simple. It's about what makes something funny or considered comedy. It's very interesting to think about what can make something that is very tragic in real life extremely funny as comedy.
The video is of a cartoon character falling from a great height to an eventual death and by adding different elements to the characters predicament it makes it funnier and funnier. It lampoons several genres of comedy but also asks the question "What is Comedy?"
Youtube could be used really in conjunction with any website and especially with a library site. People love watching moving pictures so why not add a little flavor to our pages. We could add trailers to movies that we have on the shelves, interviews with authors, instructional videos on how to get the most out of the library or even how to use new WEB 2.0 technologies.
In summary, Youtube has revolutionized what we watch and also what we record with our cameras. There are a lot of people that do a lot of crazy things on film and almost all of them are on youtube.
Discovering Web 2.0 Tools
I chose the book publishing site Lulu. I really love writing poetry and short stories and have always wanted to publish my own work without having to work with editors and publishers telling me what I can and cannot do. So the easiest solution to that problem would be to publish a books my self.
Well by taking advantage of the services LULU provides I can now publish and print my own works without the hassle of deadlines and editing. I can choose my own price and sell my hardback or paperback on the site itself or even get it distributed in retail stores with it's own ISBN, or bar code. This means I can track sales of my book right from home without ever having to leave the computer.
The site offers inexpensive printing of almost any type of book you can imagine, from manuals to comics. I can print a lengthy novel in trade paperback or a hefty biography or memoir in a classy richly bound hardback. This is extremely exciting to me. There is nothing more gratifying for an artist than to have a completed piece of work in their hand ready to be given to the waiting world.
So I can work on my manuscript using Zoho Writer and then publish my work using Lulu! There is an endless supply of extremely applicable programs that you can download and begin using right away. This Web 2.0 experience has given me a lot of ideas about what I can do with whats available for free on the internet.
Well by taking advantage of the services LULU provides I can now publish and print my own works without the hassle of deadlines and editing. I can choose my own price and sell my hardback or paperback on the site itself or even get it distributed in retail stores with it's own ISBN, or bar code. This means I can track sales of my book right from home without ever having to leave the computer.
The site offers inexpensive printing of almost any type of book you can imagine, from manuals to comics. I can print a lengthy novel in trade paperback or a hefty biography or memoir in a classy richly bound hardback. This is extremely exciting to me. There is nothing more gratifying for an artist than to have a completed piece of work in their hand ready to be given to the waiting world.
So I can work on my manuscript using Zoho Writer and then publish my work using Lulu! There is an endless supply of extremely applicable programs that you can download and begin using right away. This Web 2.0 experience has given me a lot of ideas about what I can do with whats available for free on the internet.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
#18 Web Based Apps
This online word proccessor is amazing. It's better than the one I have on my old laptop at home. This is the perfect program for anyone who spends alot of time writing or hasd to show others there work so that revisions can be made.
In school you won't have to every bring you teacher a disk, you simply email the link to your work and your teacher can revise he work and comment on what needs to be worked on.
If you are using this app for work your boss can have you draft something then go back later and pull what they need from it for whatever project you're working on. I recently started writing my first scifi/fantasy short story for a local zine. Now I can show the editor my work and see what style she thinks is best fitted for the representation of myself and the publication. We can find a meeting place so that we can reach a harmony that others may not be able to employ.
Very Cool.
In school you won't have to every bring you teacher a disk, you simply email the link to your work and your teacher can revise he work and comment on what needs to be worked on.
If you are using this app for work your boss can have you draft something then go back later and pull what they need from it for whatever project you're working on. I recently started writing my first scifi/fantasy short story for a local zine. Now I can show the editor my work and see what style she thinks is best fitted for the representation of myself and the publication. We can find a meeting place so that we can reach a harmony that others may not be able to employ.
Very Cool.
#17 The PBWiki
The PB Wiki is Wikid. It was really easy to add my blog to the list of other participating Learners and it was hard to not put myself on the very top of the list. It seems that wikis are so popular because they are so easy to edit and use.
I'll be adding lots of superfluous information about one Chase Capo in the next few days.
I'll be adding lots of superfluous information about one Chase Capo in the next few days.
#16
What did you find interesting? What types of applications within libraries might work well with a wiki?
Wiki's and especially wikipedia have become a very important part of sharing information. We are creating our own history outside of the historian and experts' grasp by using and editing wikis. Information is edited and maintained by whoever wants to edit it. Real people, not necessarily experts creating definitions for other people to reject or edit themselves.
Their is as of yet no real management of what is allowed and not allowed to be edited on wikipedia. Some pages are protected but most aren't which means that political and social definitions can be rearranged based on opinion and subjectivity. So don't base you research on wikipedia.
The public library wikis are very useful collaborations of what different libraries are doing across the world to interest and invigorate their patrons. There are many new ways and old ways at our disposal to create an inviting atmosphere for old and young patrons.
Reccomended websites and reading lists would work very well with wikis. Readers can find reviews on books or corrolate different books by different authors according to subject matter, style, and even date of publication.
Wiki's and especially wikipedia have become a very important part of sharing information. We are creating our own history outside of the historian and experts' grasp by using and editing wikis. Information is edited and maintained by whoever wants to edit it. Real people, not necessarily experts creating definitions for other people to reject or edit themselves.
Their is as of yet no real management of what is allowed and not allowed to be edited on wikipedia. Some pages are protected but most aren't which means that political and social definitions can be rearranged based on opinion and subjectivity. So don't base you research on wikipedia.
The public library wikis are very useful collaborations of what different libraries are doing across the world to interest and invigorate their patrons. There are many new ways and old ways at our disposal to create an inviting atmosphere for old and young patrons.
Reccomended websites and reading lists would work very well with wikis. Readers can find reviews on books or corrolate different books by different authors according to subject matter, style, and even date of publication.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
#15 Library 2.0 and Web 2.0
The library is one of the oldest institutions of recording history. The earliest archives were formed in Ancient Egypt at the dawning of the civilization of man. The world changed and the librarians and archivists were there to store and sort the information into a well organized catalogue of sources and references.
Then as technology rapidly progressed it introduced the 20th century to more information then a standard library could hold. The internet made it impossible to organize all of the streaming information into a single system of catalogues so libraries were destined for an upgrade.
As libraries began to transform their information retrieval, the way we define libraries has also transformed. Libraries have taken on a new definition in the modern world: a collection of useful material for common use.
This includes all new and useful technology which is abundant and in demand on the web. It also requires that Librarians change the way they look at the collection and how it evolves on a day to day basis as newer bigger and better utilities and services become available.
As a librarian you get to experience first hand the development of different networked social organizations, web technologies, and the current trends and interests of regular patrons. This means the library has to unroot and become a fluid and changing organism so that it will continually enhance the enjoyment of those who frequent it's wide halls, open atriums, and endless shelves of information.
Then as technology rapidly progressed it introduced the 20th century to more information then a standard library could hold. The internet made it impossible to organize all of the streaming information into a single system of catalogues so libraries were destined for an upgrade.
As libraries began to transform their information retrieval, the way we define libraries has also transformed. Libraries have taken on a new definition in the modern world: a collection of useful material for common use.
This includes all new and useful technology which is abundant and in demand on the web. It also requires that Librarians change the way they look at the collection and how it evolves on a day to day basis as newer bigger and better utilities and services become available.
As a librarian you get to experience first hand the development of different networked social organizations, web technologies, and the current trends and interests of regular patrons. This means the library has to unroot and become a fluid and changing organism so that it will continually enhance the enjoyment of those who frequent it's wide halls, open atriums, and endless shelves of information.
#14 getting not so technical with technorati
When I explored Tehnorati using the general keyword search I found that I got more factual information from syndicated and well established blogs. News about the technology itself and implications. It gave me a better understanding of the national scale that Learning 2.0 encompasses.
In blog posts I found a lot of reactions to other stories and a lot about actual seminars and conferences that are going on in different cities concerning Learning 2.0 and Web 2.0. This wasn't surprising to me, blogs are completely reactionary in their base element. As a blogger you are taking internal and external experiences and developing your insight into what they mean to you. You are exploring with the use of technology your present mind in a post reactionary state. Blogging is retrospective as well as introspective.
Within tags I've found alot of posts about people going to actual seminars and conferences. Whether they are offering rides to the seminar or just talking about the conference itself, tags seem to be more oriented towards humanistic expression through symbology or simple phrases. Tags are symbolic and to me are a very diversified form of modern electronic poetry. Tags are the pulse and by watching only tags you could essentially watch the rise and fall of humanities interests, economic stability, moral disciplines, entertainment trends, and real news that is reported en masse by the people experiencing it.
In blog posts I found a lot of reactions to other stories and a lot about actual seminars and conferences that are going on in different cities concerning Learning 2.0 and Web 2.0. This wasn't surprising to me, blogs are completely reactionary in their base element. As a blogger you are taking internal and external experiences and developing your insight into what they mean to you. You are exploring with the use of technology your present mind in a post reactionary state. Blogging is retrospective as well as introspective.
Within tags I've found alot of posts about people going to actual seminars and conferences. Whether they are offering rides to the seminar or just talking about the conference itself, tags seem to be more oriented towards humanistic expression through symbology or simple phrases. Tags are symbolic and to me are a very diversified form of modern electronic poetry. Tags are the pulse and by watching only tags you could essentially watch the rise and fall of humanities interests, economic stability, moral disciplines, entertainment trends, and real news that is reported en masse by the people experiencing it.
Tagging and Creating Social Bookmarks
Delicious is a really cool site. I can save all of the cool pages I find on the web to one large scoially networked bookmark site. I enjoyed adding bookmarks of all my different hobbies such as music, sega genesis video game cheats, and karate!
It's a great and easy way for me to find out what other people are reading and checking out all over the web. It's actually really funny to see all the different tags. Tagging has become really popular and it's like digital poetry or extremely humorous personal identification.
I added the delicious toolbar to my explorer so that I can quickly access any websites that I need to view for Learning 2.0 exercises. I like seeing what all the different tags have in common, I can almost find a common thread within my interests just by taggin all the sites that I like. One word keeps coming up. Electronic. So I'm really in to technology and logical thinking.
So Delicious rocks I like it alot.
It's a great and easy way for me to find out what other people are reading and checking out all over the web. It's actually really funny to see all the different tags. Tagging has become really popular and it's like digital poetry or extremely humorous personal identification.
I added the delicious toolbar to my explorer so that I can quickly access any websites that I need to view for Learning 2.0 exercises. I like seeing what all the different tags have in common, I can almost find a common thread within my interests just by taggin all the sites that I like. One word keeps coming up. Electronic. So I'm really in to technology and logical thinking.
So Delicious rocks I like it alot.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Jaxcat Google Bar
The Jaxcat Search engine is a great way to get quickly connected with any media the library offers. I can recommend any of my favorite new movies, comics, books, or music to my friends or if they are on my blog site and see something that interests them they can find it in our catalog right then. Pretty great way to share media!
My Library Thing
So library thing is pretty cool. I can find everything I have in my physical library and put it on virtual shelves. If you have a large collection this is a great way to easily search your personal library or you can add books that you've read and don't own. This way I can keep up with what I have read and other people can see what kind of books I'm into.
I think this is a really cool way to meet other people with your tastes and to find out how many bookworms are out there!
Here is the link to My Library!
I think this is a really cool way to meet other people with your tastes and to find out how many bookworms are out there!
Here is the link to My Library!
the Pro Kadima Pro
So here is my fun time that I had creating a crazy image using image generators. This was an action shot that a friend of mine took a long time ago while we were hanging out at the beach playing some prokadima. It took about half an hour just to get a picture of me actually in midair without a blur. I didn't want to give away the fact that I learned how to levitate while living with the buddhist monks.
It was fun making this poster and it tested my knowledge of what a movie poster looks like as well. I worked at a movie theater growing up and it was fun using this technology to revisit those old poster collecting days.
here's the link to the movie poster creator http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/poster.php
Finding Feeds
I used a simple keyword search to find different feeds on each of the sites. I found topix to be pretty interesting because it automatically gives you the rundown on local news, national political news, and some other interesting small national stories.
For example, there is a 22 year old woman in the US auctioning her virginity at a brothel so that she can pay for her college education... hmmm...sounds familiar. Using the worlds oldest and most noble profession to pay for college sounds like the American Dream at it's height.
Finding Feeds was fairly easy because there are so many feeds out there. Finding good feeds is what makes this task complicated. I think subscribing to a large amount of feeds and then weeding out the ones you don't like is probably the easiest way to go.
For example, there is a 22 year old woman in the US auctioning her virginity at a brothel so that she can pay for her college education... hmmm...sounds familiar. Using the worlds oldest and most noble profession to pay for college sounds like the American Dream at it's height.
Finding Feeds was fairly easy because there are so many feeds out there. Finding good feeds is what makes this task complicated. I think subscribing to a large amount of feeds and then weeding out the ones you don't like is probably the easiest way to go.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
RSS Makes All the Headache go away, slightly...
So RSS is a pretty amazing program. Not only can I subscribe to things that I find boring or don't like I can also subscribe to critics who think what I do like is garbage and what don't like is gold.
I have a new reason to get interested in the news that's happening out there in our crazy world. The internet has a million opinions that you have to sift through to find the truth but using RSS feeds makes it possible for me to easily block out anything that is superfluous.
I have a new reason to get interested in the news that's happening out there in our crazy world. The internet has a million opinions that you have to sift through to find the truth but using RSS feeds makes it possible for me to easily block out anything that is superfluous.
New Music Technology Mutes Musicians
In NY, of all places, scientists have found a way to digitally reproduce music from a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file.
"Researchers at the University of Rochester said their new technology can encode a 20-second clarinet solo in less than 1 kilobyte." from UPI.com
On one hand, not only will we be able to steal music from artists even faster but we will also be able to steal there entire collected works within seconds. You could also transfer all of your MP3 files to this new type of file and back up your entire music collection using only FLOPPY DISKS. I'm excited.
Apparently this science uses computers to simulate the instrument's nuances as well as the human player. This means that a performance of 20 seconds on a clarinet could be simulated and transformed into only 1 kilobyte of information.
If you are a professional musician like me, this technology sounds intriguing and scary. I admit that I've fallen into the trap of utilizing electronic music and technology to create music but I still maintain a classically trained ability to perform and improvise using my well trained hands on a well worn instrument.
It's been a long time since the hot jazz of the 20's was in full swing and I am waiting and hoping that the apocalypse will bring back all of those old traditions that were so prevalent in the world of music and life and death.
"Maybe the future of music recording lies in reproducing performers and not recording them,".
Blasphemy
"Researchers at the University of Rochester said their new technology can encode a 20-second clarinet solo in less than 1 kilobyte." from UPI.com
On one hand, not only will we be able to steal music from artists even faster but we will also be able to steal there entire collected works within seconds. You could also transfer all of your MP3 files to this new type of file and back up your entire music collection using only FLOPPY DISKS. I'm excited.
Apparently this science uses computers to simulate the instrument's nuances as well as the human player. This means that a performance of 20 seconds on a clarinet could be simulated and transformed into only 1 kilobyte of information.
If you are a professional musician like me, this technology sounds intriguing and scary. I admit that I've fallen into the trap of utilizing electronic music and technology to create music but I still maintain a classically trained ability to perform and improvise using my well trained hands on a well worn instrument.
It's been a long time since the hot jazz of the 20's was in full swing and I am waiting and hoping that the apocalypse will bring back all of those old traditions that were so prevalent in the world of music and life and death.
"Maybe the future of music recording lies in reproducing performers and not recording them,".
Blasphemy
Flickr Mashups
Wow!!!
There a lot of really nerdy people who spend all of the time at their desk jobs creating applications for flickr. These open API I assume are fun and easy to create or else there wouldn't be hundreds of programs floating about.
I played with a few of these contraptions. So if I want I can spell my name with random letter images, or use a color wheel to find pictures that have the same hue or shade. Are these programs going to help my displays? I think they may infuse some inspiration into my creativity but....
HOW FAR CAN THE DECADENCE OF TECHNOLOGY GO?
There a lot of really nerdy people who spend all of the time at their desk jobs creating applications for flickr. These open API I assume are fun and easy to create or else there wouldn't be hundreds of programs floating about.
I played with a few of these contraptions. So if I want I can spell my name with random letter images, or use a color wheel to find pictures that have the same hue or shade. Are these programs going to help my displays? I think they may infuse some inspiration into my creativity but....
HOW FAR CAN THE DECADENCE OF TECHNOLOGY GO?
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Bardor Tulku Rinpoche
Bardor Tulku Rinpoche is the third incarnation of Barway Dorje. I first met him during a weekend teaching at FCCJ Kent Campus that was graciously hosted by Jacksonville's Karma Thegsum Choling or KTC. He gave a teaching on Mahamudra which is an advanced meditation of the Kagyu Tradition.
I'd only been to a public talk once before and it happened that there were some scholarships available so that I could attend the weekend teaching. It was amazing. I took refuge in the Buddha for the first time, at least in this lifetime, and also experienced an awakening of my mind in direct correlation with my spiritual body. It sounds hokey but it was alot like the first time you find Jesus, or if you found Jesus and a $100 bill in each pocket of every article of clothing for the next week.
It was amazing.
Mahamudra is a very intense and advanced form of meditation which cuts through the roots of our ignorance and if done improperly can also drive you clinically insane. After meeting Bardor Rinpoche I decided to ask him to be my spiritual friend or in eastern terms, my Guru. He declined. Just kidding.
Monday, August 4, 2008
The Elephant Man
I just finished the David Lynch film The Elephant Man starring Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt as Joseph Merrick.
Lynch uses such poignant cinematography to really push the envelope of emotions during intense scenes.
This real human being who was born completely normal and healthy, by the age of 3 was beginning a terrible deformation of his body. Abused and shunted by society this poor being had only one choice, to become a freak show attraction. Can you imagine being beaten and tormented your entire life because of the way you look?
Yet underneath this monsters skin was a sweet and caring person that only wanted to be loved. After the years of abuse did he really still retain the innocence of a young man? Did he ever wonder what it was like to feel the touch of a woman? Did he wonder what it was like to be some girl's lover?
I would suspect that he had to have wished he had a normal life and that he could have found a wife and had children and worked a trade. Would he have dreamed of living out his life as a mundane clerk for the city or would he have attended a university in London?
Society is so quick to judge what is ugly. I am guilty of it. We all are. Yet in the end we who are the ones who make the monsters and the place that they come from is deep within ourselves.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
CPTEO and Lazerstar The ElectronPop duo
I've been performing and recording music with an electronic project I fondly named Lazerstar for the past 2 years. The idea came to me when I was out of town doing a show over the weekend in Athens, Ga. I was still performing under the name of my old Pych/Pop band Purple of Cassius and I'd been trying to think of something that would fit the type of music and concept of an outer space electropop glam rocker. So of course Lazerstar came to me in a fantastic vision of quantum mechanical inspiration.
I'd been sequencing synthesizers for a while by the time I started this project but now I was armed with an MPC2000, the ultimate sequencer/sampler and two analog synthesizers from the mid eighties. I started to dive into a different texture with sounds and was heavily influenced by the David Bowie album Low.
There are so many different methods of creating electronic music that it can become somewhat disconcerting if you don't find a process and then stick with it. I wanted to bounce through so many styles and usually did but eventually it became very apparent what sound my style adhered to.
It's been a long time since the first true Lazerstar performance and now with a short but extremely dense electropop album finished I find myself looking to take on more projects, spread the pop network. I'd performed a lot at the TSI with Brendon Clark running my sound and we found new ways to improve the signal and experiment with the live mix so it was a natural feeling to work with Brendon on a new project of epic proportion called CPTEO.
We started sequencing and producing material for a full length album about nine months ago in late 2007. Working with someone else who is savvy with electronic music and instruments has been a learning experience and a breath of fresh air. I've slowly evolved my current setup to try and compliment our sound and help with the production of live insanity as much as possible.
There are some people who you can just click with and collaborate and there are some people you really have to work at it with. CPTEO has been a love project for two electro geeks who just love to program synths and sequences. We have a brand new single that when it's finished is going to hit Jacksonville hard and I can't wait for the live shows to start.
Our live concerts will be chosen very carefully with full attention the venue and possibility for sound and light coordination. We will be performing basically an entire suite of gapless songs that will morph and groove into each other as we twist knobs, jam ivory, and rock guitars. You can look forward to seeing some of the first CPTEO shows in early September and make sure to check out the myspace for the new CPTEO single Plastic Hands.
Also be sure to check out the brand new single She's So Tough" from the forthcoming Lazerstar album entitled The Quest for the SynthCalibur.
Oh and one more thing...Purple of Cassius Returns...
There are so many different methods of creating electronic music that it can become somewhat disconcerting if you don't find a process and then stick with it. I wanted to bounce through so many styles and usually did but eventually it became very apparent what sound my style adhered to.
It's been a long time since the first true Lazerstar performance and now with a short but extremely dense electropop album finished I find myself looking to take on more projects, spread the pop network. I'd performed a lot at the TSI with Brendon Clark running my sound and we found new ways to improve the signal and experiment with the live mix so it was a natural feeling to work with Brendon on a new project of epic proportion called CPTEO.
We started sequencing and producing material for a full length album about nine months ago in late 2007. Working with someone else who is savvy with electronic music and instruments has been a learning experience and a breath of fresh air. I've slowly evolved my current setup to try and compliment our sound and help with the production of live insanity as much as possible.
There are some people who you can just click with and collaborate and there are some people you really have to work at it with. CPTEO has been a love project for two electro geeks who just love to program synths and sequences. We have a brand new single that when it's finished is going to hit Jacksonville hard and I can't wait for the live shows to start.
Our live concerts will be chosen very carefully with full attention the venue and possibility for sound and light coordination. We will be performing basically an entire suite of gapless songs that will morph and groove into each other as we twist knobs, jam ivory, and rock guitars. You can look forward to seeing some of the first CPTEO shows in early September and make sure to check out the myspace for the new CPTEO single Plastic Hands.
Also be sure to check out the brand new single She's So Tough" from the forthcoming Lazerstar album entitled The Quest for the SynthCalibur.
Oh and one more thing...Purple of Cassius Returns...
Seven and a Half Life Long Learning Habits
Acquiring knowledge or skills and implementing them on the path of your life is true wisdom.
"A wise man is affraid to learn anything new until he applies what knowledge he already has"
The 7 habits of life long learning are part of everyones normal everyday life though the 7 and a 1/2 may be what causes many people lose focus.
My weakest habit is setting goals and then pursuing them. I tend to set a lofty goal and then get side tracked by a thousand other projects that I jump into.
My Strongest habit is viewing problems as challenges. I love turning whatever problem that arises on it's head so that it becomes a challenge, or an opponent that I must defeat.
Life long learning is easy to develop, all you have to do is be aware of who you are and what your strengths are.
"A wise man is affraid to learn anything new until he applies what knowledge he already has"
The 7 habits of life long learning are part of everyones normal everyday life though the 7 and a 1/2 may be what causes many people lose focus.
My weakest habit is setting goals and then pursuing them. I tend to set a lofty goal and then get side tracked by a thousand other projects that I jump into.
My Strongest habit is viewing problems as challenges. I love turning whatever problem that arises on it's head so that it becomes a challenge, or an opponent that I must defeat.
Life long learning is easy to develop, all you have to do is be aware of who you are and what your strengths are.
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