[Toups]

Okay here's some random songs I wrote for videogames that never got made:

Overgrown City -- part of the sadly aborted "Blue Arizona" project :(. I found this awesome flute sample on a university website, and recorded live piano and bass for the rest of the instrument tracks. the drum beats are actually sampled from Mother for the NES.

Buttercup Festival -- I made this for a supposed-to-be-made flash adventure game based on the awesome (now defunct) webcomic buttercup festival. I tried to pattern it after the tone of the comic -- bouncy and lighthearted with a brief diversion into melancholy. that weird ethereal sounding sample came from this old radioshack keyboard I found at a pawn shop for $20. the bassline is played on a vintage moog rogue. the drum samples come from a variety of places, including the same mother samples, in addition to the snare drum from the intro of "el scorcho" by weezer, the kick drum from some brainiac song (nothing ever changes, I think). I have no idea where I got that weird distorted cymbal. Listen to this one with headphones!

Nightland Town -- this was for a still-pending project that I don't want to say anything about. not sure if I'll use this since I think I'll be going with something more chiptuney. still it was a fun concept sketch. the concept behind the song was that it's about an abandoned and ancient town which has decayed into ruin -- some pieces are well preserved but much of it is just sprawling wilderness. I tried to capture that contrast by breaking up traditional folk-style melodies and chord changes with more abstract passages. I basically wrote a town song and then took it apart, and inserted passages which captured the mood of a peaceful but wistful landscape. I think it came together pretty well. This is maybe the one composition that I'm most proud of in recent years.
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[SplashBeats]

Toups, what did you think about my song :(

[Toups]

Joe that song was pretty rad man. It's kind of beyond my ability to analyze it, though. I liked that synth part, and the drum sound, and just how uh... weird the whole thing sounds.
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[Churippu]

Toupsie, what did you think of my lamp :(

[Toups]

It looks like something from Mr. Saturn Valley.

In other words please decorate my entire life please.
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[SplashBeats]

[Toups]

so guys what do you think of my songs :(
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[sync-swim]

http://worldinmotion.googlepages.com/02JapaneseManPensivelyWatchesEK.mp3

[shrugtheironteacup]

[shrugtheironteacup]

I guess in years past I've made some pretty ridiculous shit:


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[sawtooth]

[shrugtheironteacup]

[shrugtheironteacup]

..to a milk jug. :(
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[smartblue]

http://www.tedharlan.com/

I was an apprentice to this guy who's a friend of the family. Yeah, some of the things I did with him (that he designed) ended up for sale in shows at the Smithsonian. I feel pretty good about that.

Pieces I like a lot that I got to work on/ make...

Hot Rod Coffeetable


Bronze Asparagus Mirror


Wild Lookin Love Seat


There's lots of other things too that are not in the gallery. We did the interior design of our local independent movie theatre Baxter Avenue Theatre where we also did the ticket and snack counters.

AND MORE.

Ok.
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[shrugtheironteacup]

I mean who hasn't experimented with a few crazy whale-looking clawish knives when they're in college right? :(
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[shrugtheironteacup]

Smartblue that is an excellent mirror, fully exploiting my weaknesses for both the bronze and the wood.

You have some fine taste in thing you assisted in constructing?
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[LWJoestar]

[smartblue]

[smartblue]

[shrugtheironteacup]

[wackodave]

It ain't a knife but here's the character model I'm making for university, it's my first. He's rigged but I haven't bothered posing him yet.

[chompers po pable]

toups those songs are great. really like the first and second ones you posted. i agree with sawtooth: i think these are some of the best ones you've put up.

edit -- sawtooth just listened to the songs you posted, the last three songs are impressive. good stuff man. i really liked the distortion you used in the second song. the last two are just downright groovy.

joe, i dug the song you posted too. you should definitely get back into writing songs if you enjoy it. i suppose the only thing that i thought sounded off was the dry (too) clean drum samples. i kinda like my drums to be muddier/more organic, so. or moog'd (i don't know much about moogs, i'm going on the way the bassline in toups' second song sounded like). or shit, beatboxed through a layer of distortion! good song man.

i will maybe post something.

[Churippu]

Toupsie I just now got to listen to the songs. I really enjoy the first one.

Foot-tappin' in this thread.

[SplashBeats]

[chompers po pable]

that's using your head! run that dull thud through some heavy reverb, throw in a couple of screams and you're golden!

[SplashBeats]

I do want to incorporate vocal elements into some things at some point. However, I lack a decent microphone and the proper environment for recording the uh, "vocals" I have in mind. Neighbors might not dig it.

[sawtooth]

Here is another thing:
Oscillating to the Lower Dimension

Thanks for the comments, chompers!

Smartblue that furniture is really nice-looking (I especially enjoy the love seat).

Joe! download the Ableton Live demo. It's how the music sequencer in my head always looked and felt really intuitive to start using.
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[EU03]

Do these count?
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[Persona-sama]

[wackodave]

I haven't bothered with having any controls for the rig. I'm probably just going to pose the skeleton by hand and maybe use morph targets for the face. The module is all about the modelling really. I designed him mostly with the DC animated shows in mind with a little extra detail.

Pretty happy with how it turned out and it was much easier to make than I expected. Plus zBrush has finally clicked with me and it's fun as hell.

[chompers po pable]

shrug, i like the knives man. post another one. you know you want to!

some stuff i've done recently: landlubber and one i'm still working on.

i would link directly to the songs, though i don't know how to work ftp very well yet.

[Agent Orange]

I made something cool that you'll hopefully be able to appreciate in mid-April.

[Toups]

[shrugtheironteacup]

[EU03]

Goddammit. Why was the yardstick CURVED?!
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[shrugtheironteacup]

Easily the manliest knife ever made for men:



edit: really, I think it would be Pyramid Head's second choice.
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[haircute]

Have you seen that movie with Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro? Del Toro made a pretty manly knife in that one. Sadly, it wasn't enough to finish Tommy off.
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Get Wild and Tough!

[shrugtheironteacup]

[Churippu]

[EU03]

Really? Movie or SH2 version?
Obviously, I'm going for the film one, but I can't figure out how I'm going to see through it.
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[dmauro]

I made a wrench!