My new site design
April 11th, 2010
I built this site design from scratch. However, some of you may find that I am very clearly influenced by a certain blogger in the typography and color choices. I doubt he’ll ever see this site, but if he does then I hope he takes it as flattery. For what it’s worth, I coded it all myself from scratch, only using his design as a visual reference. No copy and paste.
UPDATE: I have been gradually building in comments and styling them to match the theme. Huzzah!
So, what do you think? Is this a good look for my site?
Orient Is His Name
January 3rd, 2010
Lee Bozeman (Luxury, All Things Bright & Beautiful) has just put out an EP entitled Mea Culpa under the moniker Orient Is His Name. I had the privilege of contributing to one of the songs on it. Definitely check it out. It’s available for download here:
http://orientishisname.bandcamp.com/
Some websites I’d like to point out
May 20th, 2009
Just wanted to take a moment and point out a few websites I (or someone close to me) has had a hand in. So, without further ado:
Rotating Pilgrim
http://www.rotatingpilgrim.com
With a title inspired by the writings of people such as Søren Kierkegaard and Walker Percy, I started this site to post writings, meditations, thrashings, inspirations, and anything else I find intriguing. It will generally center around literature, arts, philosophy, ethics, and religion. You can also follow Rotating Pilgrim on twitter.
Listen To Your Friends
http://www.listentoyourfriends.com
Storytelling is awesome. Unfortunately, where I live, most of the time we are going to external sources for stories. Whatever happened to telling stories to each other? Reading books to each other? Something about the spoken story told well by someone we know just rings true to me. That is why I started Listen To Your Friends. Anyone can upload an mp3 to this site and your reading will be there for all to hear! LTYF is also on twitter.
What are you waiting for? Get involved!
World Story Organization
http://www.worldstoryorganization.org
World Story Organization is dedicated to providing a storytelling and film production education for communities around the world. My brother, Justin, is the founder. He would love whatever support you can give him!
Further Up & Further In
http://www.cslewisblog.com
Maintained by C. S. Lewis scholar and father of yours truly, Bruce Edwards, this web site is focused on providing essential resources for lovers and students of C. S. Lewis, and his friends among the Inklings. Begun in 1995, as one of the very first C. S. Lewis web sites, Further Up and Further In is intended to serve both the novice and the experienced reader of Lewis.
You can also follow Bruce’s Lewis work on twitter.
Good news
July 7th, 2008
I got the job in Lima, OH working as Instructional Designer for Rhodes State College! Woohoo!
This isn’t news to 99% of the people that read this blog, but I figured I’d get it up for-the-record.
I’m going to be doing a lot here and I look forward to it all coming together. Creating workshops, collaborating with faculty, maintaining a new e-learning blog (inspired by Terence Armentano’s work), and more!
Plus, having a great job like this will support my passions in creating music and…well…playing video games on the side.
Lately
June 23rd, 2008
Lately I’ve been recording the Stop Don’t Stop record. It’s been sort of slow, but it should be pretty good. The first full-length that will come of a band that I have been in (thus, I am not counting The Family Album from ’05).
Aside from that, I am now in search of a job. I am torn between the loss of independence of a full-time job, but need the financial support to invest in many things in the future. Music, trips, future life, it’s all going to take that dreaded thing called money. If none of my full-time searches pan out, then I will have to resort to something less ambitious.
While a full time job will mean less music time, I haven’t been as productive as I could have been with all my free time. I am hoping to prove that I can change that, though. I’ve been meditating lately on “self-control” and how doing whatever you want at any given moment can actually mean a loss of control, because you only end up doing whatever you have an immediate desire for, and few or no longer-term goals will be worked towards. This happens with work, but also with leisure, with eating, with interacting with others, etc.
Final show for The Tapes
April 26th, 2008
Last night was the final show for The Tapes. What a sendoff. They played just about everything from their new album, Out of the Great Black Swamp. You can pick that 11 song beauty up at the Pseudobook Music Store.
I had the good fortune of playing banjo on A Silver Song. What classy guys. Bless their hearts.
New Releases on the Pseudobook Music Store
April 24th, 2008
The JustInKenya Benefit Concert live performances, available FREE!
The Tapes: Out of the Great Black Swamp
Release Date: 04/25/2008
Presented by…
dunvint
April 14th, 2008
This past weekend my friend Benji Robinson visited and we spent some time recording a number of drum tracks for Dunvint. There is no web home for Dunvint yet, so I keep pointing links to the entry on the Pseudobook Music Blog which can be found here. That’s our demo song of our (not avant garde, but very fun) mixture of rock and roll with sampling. I’m a melody man, so I prefer to anchor my songs with lyrics and in some sense center-of-attention vocals, but I think we’ve got some very nice songs up our sleeves.
Benji is very, very good at drums and has been exercising his click-track playing. I dream of someday performing this music live and doing it justice. Until then, we have some work to do learning best how to mix computers and live sounds.
Enjoy our demo, “Beat Em Up”:
The town of Dunvant, not Dunvint
mastering
April 14th, 2008
Lately, I look at tasks, skills, and other projects in my life and think about completely obliterating them. I look at a piano and I want to be fluent, smooth, controlled, etc. with it. I see an old 8-bit Ninja Gaiden game and I want to master it, be able to beat it without dying. Think of an idea for a website, and I want to know how to make it happen. Does it require learning new languages? Ok, whatever it takes. My room is a mess. Ok, get it clean, just do it, get through it.
I helped on a video production and 3 audio productions this weekend, over 16 hours of effort.
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Forthcoming
April 10th, 2008
I’ve been working on my new website here. As soon as possible I hope to be able set this up as a slick little place to hear what’s new with me, see when I am playing live, and offer the ability to purchase my music for a very good price (as no-DRM, 320kbps mp3 files).
Other things that occasionally slow down development of this page:
Until this page is officially launched, enjoy this picture:
Cymbalism
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