New Podcast Episode

I finally got around to re-recording the vocal track and mixing the rest then uploading it to the Internet Archive: Flotsam and Jetsam The Podcast - Episode 1: Mountain from a Molehill is now available as an m4a (Quicktime) track (I think that's because I dragged artwork into the thing which meant it was not just an audio track. My bad.).

I've also embedded it at the end of this post. Credits and links are below (next time I will insert these into the podcast):

• Background image: Westcoast Flotsam (by me)
• Opening track: Heaven on a Dish (uncredited composer/performer from the Open Source Audio collection)
• Closing track: Triple Funk (by Wilhelm, Gub, Bigmoon from the Open Source Audio collection)
• 43Things.com
• my list of 100 Things that Make Me Happy (besides money)
• "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music

The production took a lot of planning (most of a week) and I spent several hours combing through the Internet Archive for suitable music. I recorded one version of the vocal tracks earlier in the week (but I decided it was not good enough) then re-recorded and mixed tracks this evening -- about 4 hours work in Garage Band. The finished project runs about 7 minutes and 15 seconds. I enjoyed it but should I do more? Let me know...

Multimedia Wrap-up

It's the end of the week and the end of the DHSI and I have finished a bunch of projects for the Multimedia Design for Visual, Auditory and Interactive Electronic Environments class.

You'll notice a new title image above (courtesy of the Fireworks and Blogger Templates portions of the class) and if you follow me on Facebook, you may already have heard my little Coffee on Campus podcast --  I put it up on the Internet Archive for all to hear. The only problem is that there is supposed to be an initial image of a coffee cup that doesn't come up right away and I haven't had time to fix it (and I don't have the program we used -- Garageband -- at home).

Another assignment was to design an invitation, here's the finished result (there's actually a white border around the image, too... but it disappears on this page):

 

But the one thing I was really excited to play around with was Flash. So after a frustrating start, I did manage to put together the world's cheeziest Flash animation, complete with dance music. I have exported it as a Quicktime movie so that I can upload it for you to watch (and share the cheeeeeze):

[EDIT: apparently, the compression or perhaps the delivery over the web, sucks so the video above is very choppy. Sigh. If you want to see the original, let me know and I will figure out a way to share it.]