Bits of the Watchmen Trailer remix

I left out some of the good bits I did for http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zs5Ip9o-gJ0 so here they are served up in less musicky form - enjoy

Bits of the Watchmen Trailer remix

I left out some of the good bits I did for uk.youtube.com so here they are served up in less musicky form - enjoy

Watchmen - Michael Forrest Trailer Remix

I thought I'd try to make a piece of music using only the video and audio from the latest Watchmen trailer. I tried to prolong all the best bits in the process :)

Hope you enjoy. More of this sort of thing at http://grimaceworks.com/videos

Watchmen - Michael Forrest Trailer Remix

I thought I'd try to make a piece of music using only the video and audio from the latest Watchmen trailer. I tried to prolong all the best bits in the process :) Hope you enjoy. More of this sort of thing at grimaceworks.com

Making of a Video Composition

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This is me seeing how much order I can extract from chaos - I wanted to get some insanely raw footage and turn it into something musically appealing. Also important in this edit was to make sure the girls looked nice at all times, and that there wasn't too much of my ugly mug in it :)

The drum preset Elena plays at the start is the funnest drum preset known to man - it's like a jazz thing - the bassline walks with the kick pedal and there are vibes and trumpet stabs on the cymbals.

Notice that I don't really have anywhere good to store my bike, hence its frequent appearance. The same goes for my air conditioning unit.

I thought I'd do the edits in the way Lars Von Trier says to do them in documentaries - edits always flagged by fading through black. The music is diegetic, to say the least! I liked the idea of doing this to contrast with the pace of the editing creating the hyper-reality (verging on total fiction) of the finished cut.

I've uploaded the result of this experiment before, making me regret saying 'grimaceworks presents'. Also, apologies for some inconsistent sentence / title case in the first couple of captions.

When I was more excited about this, I imagined doing a series of them, with different girls each time. But then.. I suppose I do tend to get carried away... Happy for any volunteers though - if you want me to make it look like you're an amazing musician :) (Elena kept getting people asking her to join their band after they saw the drumming in this :-s )

I have edited out most of the bits where I make suggestions as I can't stand to listen to myself. I have also edited out a couple of times where I say "uh.. that's terrible"... As well as all the times I said "that's brilliant!", of course....

Making of a Video Composition

grimaceworks.com This is me seeing how much order I can extract from chaos - I wanted to get some insanely raw footage and turn it into something musically appealing. Also important in this edit was to make sure the girls looked nice at all times, and that there wasn't too much of my ugly mug in it The drum preset Elena plays at the start is the funnest drum preset known to man - it's like a jazz thing - the bassline walks with the kick pedal and there are vibes and trumpet stabs on the cymbals. Notice that I don't really have anywhere good to store my bike, hence its frequent appearance. The same goes for my air conditioning unit. I thought I'd do the edits in the way Lars Von Trier says to do them in documentaries - edits always flagged by fading through black. The music is diegetic, to say the least! I liked the idea of doing this to contrast with the pace of the editing creating the hyper-reality (verging on total fiction) of the finished cut. I've uploaded the result of this experiment before, making me regret saying 'grimaceworks presents'. Also, apologies for some inconsistent sentence / title case in the first couple of captions. When I was more excited about this, I imagined doing a series of them, with different girls each time. But then.. I suppose I do tend to get carried away... Happy for any volunteers though - if you want me to make it look like you're an amazing musician :) (Elena kept getting people asking her to join their band after they saw the <b>...</b>

Episode 1: Cousin

Programming Love: ActionScript

Grimaceworks.com on iPod Touch / iPhone

Just thought I'd mention that my new website has been tested on my iPod Touch. I wanted to point out that all the media works - you can listen to any mp3s and watch any videos thanks to the way I've done the Flash fallback content. So if you want to check my stuff out then you don't necessarily have to be at your computer!

Geoff Tyson - Here Again.mp3

This is the second track I’ve done with Geoff Tyson. Geoff has his own Wikipedia entry because he was a student and jamming-buddy of guitar hero Joe Satriani. He also features on one of the Guitar Hero games. He knows how to put a song together too, so it was nice to work on this stuff – I have been able to focus on sonic experimentation instead of boring stuff like pitch and timing correction! This one is pretty intense. Hoping to do something a bit more restrained for our third effort.

Geoff Tyson - Here Again.mp3

Boomshine

Ric Moore of bedroomlab.com just put up this game to play online. I gave him the music and sound effects.



If you get stuck on the higher levels just make your window smaller and reload. Then it will be easier :)

Play it!

Don't Let Me Down.mp3

Here’s something that I’ve been working on with Fátima Eiras over the Internet. Fátima is supporting the Ting Tings in Madrid next week as “Fatima Meets Kuriaki”. So she’s gonna be famous very soon.

Don't Let Me Down.mp3

Days 1..300

Clicking through old posts via my 'random posts' widget I saw my entry "Day 1", dated 25th February 2008. This was Day One of my attempt to start carving some success as a musician or artist of some sort. This site shows how far I am with that.

I thought I'd find out how many days I am into my project now. Date.today - "25 Feb 2008".to_date Today is Day 260. A round number. Not as round as, say, one hundred though.


>> day1 = "25 Feb 2008".to_date
=> Mon, 25 Feb 2008
>> day1 + 100
=> Wed, 04 Jun 2008

4th June 2008: my 30th birthday. I got a surprise party! Just like I always wanted! And this:



Day 101 involved me losing my best friend, most promising musical collaboration and the path I'd decided to take towards achieving musical success without having to be lonely. A laptop was destroyed in the process. I'm still somewhat less-than-chuffed about that whole development.

Let's fast-forward to Day 200. Friday 12th September. No - let's go to Day 210 - that's when I decided I wasn't capable of being in the foreground, artistically, and started pursuing the more pragmatic and realistic aim of focusing on production. More geeky, less fraught. Along I go.

Day three hundred will be the 21st December. I thought I was going to have a million pounds by about day three hundred. That would have been three thousand three hundred and thirty three pounds a day. I suppose that's something of a high expectation to have of myself. Suffice to say I'm a long way off. And, well, now I need to get twenty five thousand pounds a day to meet by goal by day three hundred.

Anyway, if it wasn't obvious, I spend too much of my time looking inwards. I think I shall step out of my comfort zone and make a phone call.

Not 'art': experiments.

New Website

I have revamped my website! It's less of a blog and more of a fully-formed showcase site now.



There's a feedback widget to the left you can use to control where I focus my efforts from now on.. Hope you like it!

Uh, yeah, thanks Last.fm

I'll be retiring on these royalties then.