FLIR recording of a flatus.

So, the garden is started. Still lots to plant but ’tis started at least.

Quick little video to share. We’d started on a teardrop but moved on to a Gypsy Vardo, this is somewhat a pregnant teardrop. Still cool to see how simple they went with it, and I mean the bare minimum structurally too!

Posted from Naperville, Illinois, United States.

“A Wave of Reason” is the seventh installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It is intended to promote scientific reasoning and skepticism in the face of growing amounts of pseudoscientific pursuits, such as Astrology and Homeopathy, and also to promote the scientific worldview as equally enlightening as religion. It features Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell, Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, Lawrence Krauss, Carolyn Porco, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Phil Plait, and James Randi.

Posted from Winfield, Illinois, United States.

The Simultania Project was an interesting project to participate in!

We didn’t reach our intended recording location (and it was a crappy weather day!) so we recorded the 1 minute at a TA Travel Center at I-90 and US Hwy 20 Marengo – Hampshire, IL.

This was actually quite challenging to time the recording as the artist requested. Took a bit of planning to get setup in time.

Attached is the 2 minute rough cut.



Posted from Hampshire, Illinois, United States.

With winter coming on it’s hard to imagine what to record. We’ve got a few ideas, just have to put them together.

I was building our PBB2N today (full size, using PIP mics) and at about the 95% mark one of the leads came disconnected from the right microphone. Not sure if it was a bad solder or what, oddly enough it’s not my solder connection that failed. It’s the factory one.

I will attempt to solder it back on tomorrow and hopefully it works. These things are sensitive to high heat so this will be no easy feat.

[Photo Credit: Morgue File]

Posted from Winfield, Illinois, United States.

Just a quick upload of a test of a PIP mic array. Handheld audio of our cats waiting to be fed and then eating.

A great documentary of an interesting character and a fantastic recordist!

Added audio on Nov. 2d 2010.

Quick edit of the original recording. It’s about 45 minutes of recording time condensed down to just over 22 minutes.

After we left the mic a Ring Necked Pheasant charged the mic stand. I later went back assuming the pheasant had left and he jumped up and flew away.

Posted from Morris, Illinois, United States.

Taken at the Lake Renwick Preserve.

The whole time I was recording the water I kept hearing the reed bed , so I went and got some audio in the reeds.

Posted from Plainfield, Illinois, United States.

Just a progression of an image I was playing with this evening.

Converted to black and white, adjusted levels and added noise. Kind of Ansel Adams-ish.

Added frame, more noise, sepia tone and a handful of other effects.