Quote of the Day
“Borrow money from a pessimist, they won’t expect to get it back.”
I can tell you right now that that quote isn’t true; I tend to be a pessimist, but when I lend out money (which is rare in itself), I will continue to hunt down and harass the person that owes me money until their debt is paid off or they’re dead.
But either way, I thought the quote was funny.
Photograph of the Day
It’s actually not a photograph, but a screenshot that I took yesterday night of a new project that I’m working on.
A while back, I said that I would put my song covers back up after I remake them. The original reason I took them down was because the quality was too low and they were too plain. It was simply me playing the guitar and singing, which in my opinion, is boring. I actually had the idea illustrated in the screenshot above for a while, but I never acted on it because it required a lot of work (at least, more than I’m used to). Now that I don’t have much stuff to do except read and program all day, I decided to act upon my ideas.
The four panel split screen is basically what my song covers are going to look like. I’m going to make the idea of a one-man band a reality by filming myself multiple times playing the same song and combining all the audio of the recordings into one. Then, I’ll put together the video clips after resizing them. The final product will look something like the first 20 seconds of the official music video for Weezer’s Pork and Beans.
I don’t know how long this is going to take, but I’m hoping that I can finish it before I head off to college. Only a select handful of people know what the first song that I’m going to do is, and I’m going to keep it mostly a secret. The only hints that I’m going to give is that the four panels will alternate between one guitar, two vocal parts, a cello part, a basic bucket drum part, and most likely a basic piano part; and that the song is a punk rock song.
As for my second song, it will be the first single of a female artist, who released it on May 14, 2002. Anybody that knows my favorite female artist should immediately know what this song is.
The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day
Get creative with abstraction today. Make a photograph of patterns and/or shapes that aren’t recognizable objects.