September 24, 2007

midines + logic = win

Filed under:music,technology — ryan @ 4:10 am

Hi, here’s an early example of how things are going to be from now on, now that I’ve got my midines kickin’ with logic 8 (which rocks, by the way).

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And here’s how I look playing along with the midines, which is also providing glitchy-ass visuals on the tv behind me.

p.s. I am using a new flash player deal for the mp3s, so if you read this site through a rss reader it may not work.

September 4, 2007

doublet headphone amp and octopart.com

Filed under:music,technology — ryan @ 9:27 am

One of the blogs I read regarding DIY and/or audio linked me up to this post from Sam at octopart.com. Basically it is a headphone amp for two people. Well, it’s actually two headphone amps sharing an input and power, on the same board. It’s based on the design that my earlier amp was, and I already had a bunch of parts left over. Sam even sent me one of the pcbs for free as part of a promotion for their awesome site. If anyone who reads this is into DIY electronics, they should bookmark that site NOW. It’s very useful for part finding and pricing, and creating a parts list for a project. It helps you to combine orders and get the cheapest prices from various sellers.

So anyhow, here are a few pics of the thing. Since I can’t seem to poke proper holes in an altoids tin, we’re going to have to just look at it naked for now:




pay no attention to the terrible soldering on the capacitors

Oscilloscope and ‘untitled’ by john and i

Filed under:music,technology — ryan @ 8:57 am

Long time no blog.

I’ll be posting a few blogs today with some media as to what I have been up to. This one is in regards to the oscilloscope I got for ten bucks. Ten bucks! Here I am using it as a glorified iTunes visualizer. Usually, a guy like me would look at this video and say, “what a waste!”. Just remember. Ten bucks.

I still need to get probes for it…to use it so far I have just shoved copper wires into the outlets and attached alligator clips to them. I know, I know what you are thinking. But…ten bucks.

January 24, 2007

This one only goes

Filed under:technology — ryan @ 2:46 am

one way. ONLY.

January 23, 2007

I get so uselessly productive

Filed under:lifestyle,technology — ryan @ 4:01 am

when I don’t have a proper job:

January 14, 2007

reality blogging

Filed under:lifestyle — ryan @ 2:40 pm

Because I don’t really give a shit.

UPDATE: apparently i give a shit!

December 29, 2006

Hey look

Filed under:lifestyle,music,photos — ryan @ 2:14 am

It’s a photoblog again!



So my brother got a very nice digital camera. I got some studio gear. None of which, I just noticed, is showing in that particular picture. The other one is my cat.

November 28, 2006

so i have really been into

Filed under:lifestyle,music — ryan @ 4:59 pm

near-industrial noise type music and ambient, highly orchestrated stuff lately. I blame the latter on Do Make Say Think and the weird things I’ve been noticing in my daily life. I blame the former on a place to bury strangers and girls.

It was really cool that Flaunt fell on thanksgiving night because there’s only so much of your family (and tryptophan) that you can take. I was really REALLY broke but I still got myself good and tanked, and saw a bunch of people I don’t usually see! It was great.

It’s a really strange time right now…one of those pivotal moments, where (in the movies) they show the main character looking oh so thoughtful and pensive….maybe show a quick snippet of a memory or two… the next scene will be a montage of him working very hard and doing mundane things to save up to accomplish his goal (in my case…get the hell out of here, move to either NYC or ATL). The scene after that is the next big, entertaining part of the movie. Stranger in a strange land, romance, intrigue. New beginnings. Old endings. Blah blah. Heartbreak. Smart decisions in the name of justice and poor decisions in the name of love.

It’ll be like the grittier, bloodier sequel to garden state.

Here is something that I started working on accidentally. It’s really early and there’s not much there and what is there is rough. I am not even sure why I post them before they are done. It’s like the sculptor looking at the block of marble and seeing, i dunno, a naked greek dude I guess.

November 26, 2006

1st annual naked guitar hero party

was a success and now i am so drunk so i just want to say. thankst ot all particilpants it was great.

if you are not friends with my myspace you missed the awesome flyer so here it is

balls

next time make the flight

holy dubvkfuck

November 10, 2006

fart jokes

Filed under:lifestyle — ryan @ 4:17 am

This is what I do instead of sleeping, when I don’t go to Flaunt.

wtf


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