My new project for the summer: learning to count to 10 in (at least) 10 languages. I’m up to 5 so far. English Spanish German French American Sign Language I thought it would be cool, if not useful, to be able to speak even a little bit in more than one or two languages. I took six (seis) years of Spanish in school, so that one was a no-brainer. My cousin and his wife have…
So, the album is coming together nicely. All of the vocals are sung, and I’ve been working on comping them and picking out the best parts. I found a great horn player, Bill Scholl, and we got together a while ago and recorded some ideas for the song “Drive Me”. After listening to the parts we laid down, we decided they might work a little better played less staccato than they were, so we’re getting…
I was making good progress, recording at a (relatively) good pace through the end of the summer. Vocals are done for 7 of the 12 songs, and that’s more than half. But then it went and got cooler outside and I went and caught a cold. I don’t think it was the pig flu or anything, but it knocked me for a loop for a few days and I’m still coughing now, almost two weeks…
I took a couple photos of a beautiful summer sky over a field the other day on my iPhone. I couldn’t quite get the exposure right, though. If I focused on the ground, the sky got blown out, and if I focused on the sky, the ground was very dark. I remembered reading about bracketing though, so I took one of each and followed the instructions here: http://ioncreativity.com/wordpress2/?cat=7 And here’s what I wound up with:…
