http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:28:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've watched almost an hour of coverage so far this time, I probably wouldn't have seen any of it, but then I found out that BADMITTEN (Badminton) IS AN OLYMPIC SPORT!!! Also, we found out last week that we have cable and didn't know it. But now I think I'm done ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/08/11/my-take-on-the-olympics/ I've started making some Dark Tower related Photoshop art. Right now I'm working on a few pieces for it, and I have 25-30 more that I'd like to do. Its another one of those long term project. I gotta find models to take pics of and find some nice looking ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/08/11/dark-tower-art-project/ Tony sent over a couple more polished images for the San Diego book. They are both rather sweet, one has a sort of Tarzan kind of feeling, and the other kind of reminds me of something from the Dark Tower, if Roland had been a caveman. San Diego is rapidly ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/07/16/rhet-source-more-concept-work-2/ Tony sent over a few more images today! There is still a lot of fine tuning and writing that need to be done before Comic Con. It looks like now if we do show anything to anyone at Con it will be just concept and some writing. My ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/07/10/rhet-source-more-concept-work/ So my tape deck came in the mail today!!! I can finally listen to some of the tapes I've picked up over the last couple of years. I haven't owned/listened to anything on casette in a few years, but it sounds much better than I remember. The first thing I popped ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/07/01/tsukimono-bat-heads-roll/ I finished the script for the first Rhet sequential about a week ago. Tony just sent over the first page of pencils for me to look at. I had a couple of minor suggestions, but overall I think they look amazing! Rhet is coming... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/06/20/rhet-source-page-1/ Those of us that have land that can grow will be the ones who survive... most of us are fucked. http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/06/17/when-the-shit-hits-the-fan/ By Tony Guaraldi-Brown The two of us are putting together a little promo book for San Diego Comic Con this year. It will contain some of Tony's art and some of my writing about Rhet. If we have the time it will also have the first sequential Rhet story ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/06/08/rhet-scource-initial-concept-drawings/ Took a little over a week. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFGVzt7c5bY] http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/05/22/lego-boulder-i-had-a-small-hand-in-making-the-boulder-itself/ 666gangstaz - become ::: (1:08)(192kbps) ["..now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.." ] http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/05/08/remember-the-baby/ [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOrG1r3S6ZA] http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/05/08/tom-waits-speaks-to-the-press/ I haven't been talking about music lately to anyone. There has actually been a lot of good stuff in the past few months. It was basically laziness that kept me from talking about this album. Exotical Privates is the best remix album I've heard since Coil's The Snow EP and Nine ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/04/17/cex-exotical-privates/ Disclaimer: I have no good concept of time. So this whole thing might not add up as for as years go. I might be a few years older than I thought when all of this was happening. The first memory of music that I have is my parents singing to ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/04/07/a-personal-music-history-part-1-1980-1990/ A good friend of mine has been given permission from Barron Storey to put his 30 years of journaling online. The journals are absolutely amazing. Honest and beautiful. I have had the weird twist in my life to get to know Barron fairly well since moving to California and have been ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/31/barron-storey-the-journals/ [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU] The only politician that doesn't make me puke in my shoes! (Other than Nader) http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/26/sound-of-the-day-barack-obama/ We went to Point Reyes a couple of weeks ago. There was death on the beach. It was a lot of fun. http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/24/point-reyes-pictures/ So I've been working on this for a while. I think it is finally at a place that I can post it without it looking like a hack-job. http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/24/photoshop-piece-blue-rusty-face/ A couple of new songs that are mostly done. The production is almost right, it just needs a bit of tweaking on both. The Solar track, needs a little more variation as well, but for now, enjoy. ECLIPSE Solar ECLIPSE Lunar http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/24/two-new-songs/ So for the last few years I have been collecting monsters from some of my favorite comic artists. I get the vast majority at comic conventions. Some times they are free, some times I pay money for them and some times I wish that the artist would let me give ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/23/the-books-of-monsters/ A couple of quick ink things that I scanned and Photoshopped. Quickly. 10 min max. http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/23/a-couple-of-sketches/ In a bad way... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/20/battlestar-galactica-painful-humor/ This is actually a pretty accurate representation of an Adult show. One of those bands that sounds just huge live, no matter how small the room actually is. This video also comes pretty close to capturing how ominous they can be. http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/18/sound-of-the-day-adult/ I am: Stanislav Lem This pessimistic Pole has spent a whole career telling ironic stories of futility and frustration. Yet he is also a master of wordplay so witty that it sparkles even when translated into English. Which science fiction writer are you? http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/17/i-am-stanislav-lem/ [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rorBOzwR3Tc] http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/12/ds-synth/ Let's hope someone takes care of this before it is too late. I LIKE LEADVILLE! Custom engraving on Moleskines The next place I'm going to test out for CD duplication Sorry had to turn of comments on this one, it keeps getting spammed. http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/03/06/link-dump-7/ synapse.project - warm day I'm just randomly posting this. Eventually it'll be part of a syn.pro release (the return of Noiseusse is imminent!). Its the first new song I've made this year. Enjoy. This is what happens when we get radical weather shifts where I live. http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/02/12/new-song/ Short film adapted from Brian Evenson's short story Altmann's Tongue. Really Really cool. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuxbbv2NbLU] A few years a ago a really great collab CD was released on Ant Zen featuring Evenson, Xingu Hill, and Tamarin. One of my fav recordings of all time. http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/02/08/the-language-of-birds/ Warning, milk shoot out of your nose if you watch this while drinking milk. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8g6tGpxbi0] http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/02/08/sound-of-the-day-king-diamond/ Found here Rhet is coming... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/02/06/rhet-soure-image-split-tower/ Dashboard test http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/01/31/dashboard-test/ I am listening to... damn, its not working. http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/01/28/test-of-cutom-fields/ These guys are amazing! http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/01/21/sounds-of-the-day-wolves-in-the-throneroom/ I can see a one off story about an old nomad dying for his sheep in Rhet's future. Rhet is coming... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/01/17/rhet-source-hailstorm-in-the-desert/ http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2008/01/15/sandstorm-video/ I had sort of a slow music year this year. There were a few gems though. No particular order. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero M.I.A. - Kala Burial - Untrue Venetian Snares - My Downfall (Original Soundtrack) Cex - Sketchi Cex - Exotical Privates Rasputina - Oh Perilous World http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/12/20/music-i-enjoyed-in-2007/ [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJA9RPX9mRY] http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/12/15/welcome-to-hell/ The Iron Giant by John Watkiss. Total shock and glee (my head exploded) when I was presented with it. Thanks a lot John and esp. Ryan! 11 x 14 Acryllic on board. http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/12/11/birthday-present/ So a while back (October 2006) I started working on this idea for a caveman story, called Rhet. Rhet is the name of the main character. I started filling up a notebook of ideas for Rhet stories, timelines, character descriptions, small doodles of ideas barely visible in my brain. The notebook ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/12/11/rhet-source-the-idea/ http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/12/11/machine-girl-i-have-to-see-this-movie/ I haven't heard the new album yet, but I've been hearing good things about it. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1llNYAlYrc] http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/11/20/sound-of-the-day-saul-williams-list-of-demands/ I've already posted some of this to myself, but I just looked at the whole thing again, and need to have the whole thing I think. Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Rhet is coming... slowly... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/11/20/rhet-source-landscape/ [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPnIJz8EvFU] http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/11/19/another-amazing-winged-suit-vid/ [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2SeEzxMuE] http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/11/18/antarctica-condition-1-weather/ I don't have any info about this pic. Found it on Dark Roasted Blend. Sure would be a great image to adapt into one of the later covers. Rhet is coming... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/11/14/rhet-source-cover-idea/ I spent a little time tweaking this thing in Photoshop. http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/11/14/sketch-3-part-2-photoshopped/ [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLC3-BciWlk] About the video http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/11/14/rendez-vous-car-movie/ So this was totally sweet before I got the bright idea to try shading it by hand. I'm just not there yet. I did a whole bunch of different creepy male faces in this pad I made out of a bunch of scrap sheets of brown paper that we had ... http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/11/09/sketch-3-creep-face-learning/ underground wonders Livescribe – SUPERPEN I'm totally gonna get one of these Promachoteuthis suclus (Creature) Marine Invertebrates (Creature) Gary, Indiana – Dead Place Some really funny movie posters http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/11/07/link-dump-6/ This song is just freakin awesome. The rest of the album pretty much destroys as well. Audio Addiction Add to My Profile | More Videos http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/11/05/sound-of-the-day-kode9/ http://synapse.project.noiseusse.org/blog/2007/10/21/sound-of-the-day-android-lust/