Where have I been this year???

Well...

Life just seems to get busier and busier. I've spent the year doing music mostly. Tapping into my love for guitar. I've been learning online at the following sites.

http://www.riffninja.com
http://www.guitarjamz.com
http://guitarzoom.com

Here's a couple of tracks I've put down over the last few weeks. Just demo quality. Learning about home studio recording while I'm at it ;)

Aussie Rules Football

ADELAIDE CROWS FAREWELL FOOTBALL PARK from Dan Thompson on Vimeo.
I'm not much of a fan of the sport, but I made this video of the Game on the weekend. It was a fun day out for the whole family and a good subject matter for me to test some slowmotion on my hacked GH1.

A Piece of the Pi

The following paragraph has been lifted from http://fxrant.blogspot.com.au/

 

A protest at this year's Academy Awards is taking place today to draw attention to the current state of the visual effects industry. While visual effects films are making billions of dollars at the box office, visual effects facilities are declaring bankruptcy and going out of business. The situation has never been more bizarre and ironic than the recent bankruptcy announcement of Rhythm & Hues, the visual effects shop that created the creatures of "Life of Pi", a film that has earned $580M worldwide, and, which many believe is the frontrunner to win the Oscar for visual effects at today's awards show.

"Piece of the Pi" Protest at the Academy Awards https://www.facebook.com/events/102072926647311/

USB MIDI Drum Kit with EZDrummer

I bought this rubber drumpad of ebay. Then downloaded two bits of software:

USB2Midi - Remaps MIDI signals from the drumpad
http://usb2midi.info/pages/usb2midi_history

Loopbe1 - Creates a virtual midi output from USB2Midi for use in other MIDI software such as Reaper.
http://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html