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3 New Mixes
It’s obviously been a while since I’ve posted much, and I don’t really have anything substantive to say today either. Here are a couple of mixes I did recently - enjoy!
Best first - this is a house and progressive mix of tracks I recently spun, and I do believe it’s one of my finest mixes:
Second, here’s a mix comprised entirely of tunes from djdownload.com’s most popular tracks of 2009:
Finally, here’s another brand spankin’ new mix:
Enjoy! If you give a listen and like what you here, please drop me a note - I love a little love!
February 21st, 2010
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Another New DJ Mix
Got another new DJ mix for your listening enjoyment. This one is a blend of Tech and Progressive house with Electro tinges.
And here’s the tracklist (also embedded in the Mp3)
October 11th, 2009
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Election Day
Not much to say about this, except please go vote. Everyone should have their voice heard. Too many times of late this has not seemed to be the way things were working, but it surely doesn’t function when we don’t try. Lets make history today.
November 4th, 2008
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New Portfolio
I’ve put up a new portfolio with a larger selection of work (and it’s prettier than the old one too!)
Take a look: paulrobare.com
October 21st, 2008
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SoniBall now online!
Regular readers will remember seeing me write about how successful my project was for Golan Levin’s class last semester. That project (which nearly all of my friends have played at some point or another), was a game/toy called Soniball and written with Processing. Sadly, I was not able to get Soniball working on the web for a long time. Well, it turns out that Java applets don’t like to run when the applets resolution is bigger than the browser. So, I’ve scaled Soniball down to mini-size and now have it online for everyone to enjoy!
I’ve even left in links to the code. But please don’t talk to me about what a nasty mess my code is - I’m well aware but have neither the time nor the motivation to fix it. I’m a designer not a developer. The only reason I’ve left the links to the code is because several people have asked me for it. Well, it’s there and free to anyone to use. The only thing that I ask is that if you use the code (or scrap it and rebuild the whole thing), please credit me. Or, better yet, get in touch with me and we’ll work on improving the whole thing together! I would love to see this project continue, but I simply don’t have the time to code it right now.
Finally, a few things to know before loading it up: you’ll get a message asking if you want to trust a certificate from Sun, just say “yes” or “trust” or whatever. Also, be patient! The applet is about 10 megs because of all the sound samples, so it takes a while to load. Also, please remember that the original version that I was so proud of was huge and projected on the wall, making for rather a different experience.
So, without further ado, I present SoniBall!
September 28th, 2008
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My Spores
I’ve been having a lot of fun with the Spore Creature Creator lately. For those who don’t know, it’s basically a mini-game released a couple months ago to get people ramped up for Spore, the new Will Wright game that will be released next week. The Creature Creator is amazing in how simply it implements 3D modelling - somwthing that is usually very hard and requires immense skill. Within the (admitedly ver limited) scope of the game however, the creature creator is really amazing.
Anyway, one of the things the Creature Creator comes with is a web widget for you to show off all you creations. So here it is!
August 30th, 2008
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My Childhood returned (via the interweb)
As I’m sure that all of you, dear readers, are aware, more and more ends up online as the internet ages and grows. Sometimes I’m surprised by what hasn’t gotten uploaded yet (e.g., home movies from the 70’s can be hard to come by). But today I was surprised to find something of my own past that I had forgotten.
First, let me admit: I regularly Google my own name. I know it’s a bit narcissistic, but I feel that it’s important that I know what’s out there on me. I Google other people when I meet them, so why shouldn’t others do the same to me? I’m also fortunate to have an extremely rare name, and so most of the results that get returned really are about me (all of the top 10 I’m proud to say, the top two of which are my own sites).
Today there was a new link - Love is Not Abuse - a press release from 1991. I had almost entirely forgotten this, but when I was 12 years old I somehow got chosen as one of a small group of Chicago Public School kids to work with well-known childrens writer Leah Komaiko to author and illustrate a new childrens book. We had (weekly?) meetings in the as-yet-not-open-to-the-public Harold Washington Chicago Public Library (on Congress at State). One of the pictures that I drew (or more? I can’t remember),ended up in the final published book. I’m sure there’s a copy of that book hidden somewhere in my parents house, but I haven’t seen it in well over a decade.
So I guess I can say I am a published illustrator. And I didn’t even remember. I wonder what further treasures of my childhood will be uncovered by the internet in the years to come? I must admit that I’m sometimes nearly overcome with the urge to blog meaningless memories I have, simply because the information has not yet been collected in the world’s hive memory. So far I’ve resisted though…
EDIT: A little further searching uncovered a bit more online about the book. This small slideshow has a few pics. Slide 5 is everyone who participated, though I must admit I’m having a hard time identifying myself in the picture. I might be the little head popping up directly above Leah Komaiko (even at that age I almost never wore glasses, which may be what’s throwing me off). More interesting is slide 6, which is the drawing I did that made it’s way into the book. I can almost remember drawing it. Man I couldn’t draw back then (this was pre-art-school) .
August 30th, 2008
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Blogeroni!
My noble natal newtastic blog.
Does the world (or our shared data-verse as the case may be) need another blog?
Honestly, I don’t really read blogs, so I have no idea. But I do feel I have some things to say and images and bits of music to offer, so this shall be my platform. Hooray for the printing press!
May 1st, 2007
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