Sat, Nov 12, 2011 – 20:06
Last night I went to see the opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart at Krannert. It was by the U of I school of opera (most of the performers seemed to be masters’ students), with a pit of what I assume were also U of I music students. I thought they all did [...]
A while ago I set up a WordPress theme for Peggy’s mom, Catherine Schmidt-Jones, who is working on a music Ph.D. As part of her degree she’s been continuing her music education outreach that she’s been doing on Connexions by running a blog, Opening Measures, as a forum to discuss issues in music and open [...]
Wed, Oct 26, 2011 – 19:03
So this is a little out of date as I’ve been busy with some stuff lately. Last month I went to the They Might Be Giants concert in Chicago that Jonathan Coulton opened for. I love both groups, as they produce wacky lyrics with upbeat, catchy music, so I’d say that probably ranks as one [...]
Thu, Apr 28, 2011 – 10:19
So now that Patrick’s birthday present arrived, I can show it off here! ^_^ Sorry the photos are bad, I had to hurry and get it in the mail right away so it wouldn’t be any later than it already was. I put a lot of time into learning Illustrator CS5′s awesome new Stroke Width [...]
Fri, Mar 11, 2011 – 13:40
I had a quiet morning at work recently and spent a certain amount of it doing abstract desktop wallpapers in Illustrator based on assorted lyrics I like. These are completely vector-based in Adobe Illustrator – I’m finally figuring out vector gradients! 1024×768 1280×800 1920×1200 1024×768 1280×800 1920×1200
Thu, Dec 23, 2010 – 08:45
The RPG this week was cancelled, so no news on that front. Things have been kind of quiet at work getting ready for Christmas and working on my designs for TEAMGOLD. So instead of fight scenes, this week you get to hear my thoughts on English comic opera. Abe sent me a copy of the [...]
Wed, Jul 28, 2010 – 16:26
Lately I’ve been looking at a lot of retro work for one of my freelance projects, and I’ve been admiring Simon Page’s work. I would love to develop such a simple, “scientific” looking approach to design, and the dynamic simplicity of his pieces take away some of the aspects I like best about styles like [...]
Wed, Jun 16, 2010 – 18:08
I keep getting hits for lyrics for die Prinzen’s song “Thema Nr. 1″ even though nowhere on the site do I actually have any such information. But I felt like making a couple of wallpapers and needed some text for them, so whoever it is that keeps coming to my site via that search phrase, [...]
So here at RIT, Jonathan Coulton is like the theme song for RIT. Well, I guess “Code Monkey” is, more specifically, but his songs in general are adored by all here. And this video done by Stephen Torrence in ASL and costume just proves it. Unfortunately this guy is evidently a student in Texas. :( [...]
My birthday is March 4, the only day of the year that’s a command. In English, at least, as I learned trying to explain the joke to Germans last year. My little brother wrote me an alternative version of the first verse to “It’s Not My Birthday” by my favorite band, They Might Be Giants. [...]
