By jmheather: A kinetic typography music video for Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac. This was created using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and Toon Boom Animate. I worked on this sporadically, so it’s difficult to estimate how much time went into it. Somewhere between 500-1000 hours, but it was a labor of love. Go buy …
I have no business reviewing music. I gave up on keeping up with what’s hip in music when studio tricks took over for musical talent. Yeah, I’m an old fart. That said, a top 5 list written by Nathan Chase caught my attention because Chase’s #1 recording was a collection that you can’t get at …
Over a year ago I wrote about my friend Neva: I wasn’t living in Long Beach when Melissa Etheridge made her breakthrough playing locally at a club called Que Sera on 7th Street (funny that her wikipedia article doesn’t mention Que Sera), but every time I come out and watch Neva I think I’m seeing …
I know something is up when I get a link to the same artist from several completely different sources in one day. Earlier today fellow web-voyager, Linda, sent me a link with the subject line: “Interesting music videos.” Ah, understatement. I loaded the video off of the artists’ site and thought something was wrong ’cause …
Friends for the past few weeks have been asking me how I’m doing. And my usual response has been that I’m keeping everything on as even a keel as possible because with as much as I need to do with as little time as I have to do it, I can’t afford to fall apart …
It’s now become something of a yearly tradition to celebrate this first day of May with a nod and video featuring the bawdy tune, First of May by Jonathan Coulton. Enjoy. BTW, this one isn’t for the kiddies. jbb Music: First of May from the album “Smoking Monkey” by Jonathan Coulton Technorati Tags: f-bomb, lust, …
Several months ago a Scientology promotional “interview” of Tom Cruise, meant for “the faithful,” was posted on YouTube. And thus began the latest round of “Tom Cruise is crazy” media buzz. So, remembering my journalism training, I had to watch the video to figure out what all the noise was about… Well, he’s definitely passionate …