As some readers may know, we are building a tiny home (of sorts) based on a Gypso Vardo. Since beginning the build I have (much to my wifes dismay) become fascinated with the whole tiny house movement.

It makes complete sense to me to downsize and live once again within our means. Living small means less stuff, less work, more time for fun, relationship building and more enjoyment of life.

That brings on a lot of things to do, a lot of questions to answer, and a whole load of “what if?” questions. So, this documentary might be a good place for newcomers to start:

 

Posted from Naperville, Illinois, United States.

Sorry for the lack of posts. We have so many other projects going on that I never get over here to post.

Dayna has her own blog titled Project 30 where she documents her effort on reaching “My Very Best Self” by age 30.

Together we’re both working on Stop and Go Radio which is soon to become Naperville Community Radio (link to follow). We’re building an internet based community radio station for what we’d like to believe is the *best* community in the Midwest if not the whole country! I guess that’s the advantage to living in a high tech community to boot – Internet based radio would work very well indeed, it’s a highly connected community.

Personally I’ve been working on the regular job and more. I’ve not personally had the best year health wise but things are getting better slowly.

Stick around! More posts coming soon I promise.

• Garden is going in, we’ll be blogging about that.
• The Gypsy Vardo is nearing completion.
• More Audio and Photos Coming.

 

Posted from Naperville, Illinois, United States.

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.