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Blow Cover

// October 15th, 2011 // 3 Comments » // Video

Has it taken me nearly 5 months to record and edit? Yep.

Is this song culturally relevant anymore? Probably not.

Day 260

// September 20th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Photo, Project 365

Dry Ice

So today I got my box of Omaha steaks in the mail. It came in a styrofoam chest, and by far the best part was the dry ice it came packed with. I of course dropped what i was doing (editing that wedding video) and immediately started playing around with the dry ice. Don’t worry, I wore gloves. It was definitely challenging to capture a picture of it, but I managed. I should have scrounged around for my remote, but it’s lost somewhere in the mess that is my basement.

Anyway, it was easier to do a quick video, so I did that in addition to my pic. It’s fun to watch the fog!

Acoustic Vids

// July 29th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Music, Video

So now that I have a decent amount of youtube subscribers, i’d love to get more videos uploaded but they all take forever. So I’m thinking about doing the acoustic song thing… no frills, just webcam, acoustic, and singing. That way I can get videos uploaded way more often.

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Want You Gone Cover

// April 27th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Music, Video

This was actually a pretty quick video to put together! I finished Portal2 a couple nights ago, and thought the ending song was really well written… I love how Coulton changes keys from verse to chorus. I thought I’d take advantage of the catchy tune and lack-of-youtube-covers to try to cover it. I decided to do it on piano, and since I had my camera, Tay’s camera, and Troy’s camera, I was able to film three angles all at once.

Here is the original version, but I do have to warn you, the lyrics are slight spoilers, so if you are hyper-sensitive, i guess you shouldn’t listen.

But you should.

Cee Lo iPad Cover

// April 1st, 2011 // 2 Comments » // Music, Video

Well, I started this within 4 or 5 days of my Katy Perry iPad video, and it took my until now to finish it. Honestly, i was like 85% finished about 3 1/2 weeks ago, but I just couldn’t find the spare time to get that last little bit in… until this morning.

This song is way more intricately arranged than the Katy Perry song. Significantly more time went into figuring out how to replicate all the instruments I heard, especially in regards to figuring out what sounds to use for each one. Turned out that the best sound for that one shaker part was the salt-shaker app.

I ended up splitting up the piano part into two different apps, as it was too difficult to try to squeeze all my fingers onto one and play it the way that was needed to play. And the guitar strum, well… there is no good way to strum a guitar on the iPad, so I put some delay on the fake guitar sound and played it as you see in the video. The delay kind of makes for a good “strum” sound. Kinda.

I was really stumped regarding what sounds to use for the vocals. I ended up settling on the NES video game sound, and decided to play it on the game-pad instead of the keyboard (which the App offers). But since I couldn’t switch octaves fast enough, I split the melody into three parts which I played separately. You see, the Cat piano doesn’t have the option to change octaves, so luckily all of Katy Perry’s song stayed in the same octave. Cee lo… not quite the same.

Unfortunately it’s been so long that I’ve even forgotten one or two of the apps I used to make it. Except for, obviously, the panda piano…

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