Category: Blog
Enjoy the latest updates and musings from the studio.
The folks at Wealpe sent me a complementary GoPro harness, so I made this short video to test it out. ...
There’s no time like a pandemic to learn a new skill. Working with Touchdesigner has been a great way to pass the time. ...
In March the Nomadic Soundsters (NS) 2021 residents located in various parts of the world (US, Canada, Japan, Thailand, Tasmania, etc.) were presented with the theme prompt “Fragile States”. The NS 2021 Summer Showcase is a premiere of the virtual collaborative works created by the residents. Program Notes for “Ocean” ...
Testing VCV Rack running with Touchdesigner and OBS on the same machine! ...
As I’ve noted in past technical posts, I’m not very enamored of GoPro as a company because their support is not great, and they have not been very forward thinking in terms of camera configuration – particularly when it comes to using GoPros as webcams. Never willing to just give ...
By the end of May and early June, I still had some drift wood, lots of rocks, and substrate materials left over from my first round of builds. My springtail culture was also going strong, and the isopod culture I started in April was doing well too. During a flea ...
Audio-visual piece inspired by Ivan on Tech on YouTube. Visuals are a combination of Critter & Guitari Eyesy and Touchdesigner. Music is a VCV Rack patch I was building at the time. ...
When I lived at home with my parents, I went through a phase of keeping some reptiles. I think it started with a chameleon, and later (after it died), I tried keeping snakes. At one point, I captured a mid-sized brown garter snake from our backyard. What I didn’t know ...
These are two smaller experiments. I’m placing both of these in a sunnier location than the rest of the closed terrariums to see how they do. The specimen jar is from Goodwill. The other jar is from Dollar Tree. The Dollar Tree jar contains left overs from the bastard terrarium ...
During my earlier terrarium builds, I had some left over bits and needed to get them into a container quickly. I grabbed a large canning jar from the basement, but it didn’t have a proper lid, so I had to improvise something with a canning lid band and some plastic ...
Next up is a container that I found at JoAnne’s Fabric on sale for $10 with a coupon. This is purpose-made for a terrarium and worked really well. This is probably the perfect container for anyone starting out. The centerpiece is an interesting orange quartz specimen from my collection of ...