all things mau

update: you can download an mp3 of this mix here.

the remix

The instrumental

The story behind this post

If you don’t understand this post, it’s ok. I forgive you.

red team representing.

In case you missed it the first time… Here’s my latest editing dork venture at Revision3.com. Having fun with Rock Band:

It’s unfortunate that I had to embed this using youtube. If any web geeks have a good wordpress video embedding solution, don’t hold back.

So we’re all racking our brains, trying to figure out what to etch.  It’s the tattoo syndrome.  What do you mark yourself with when it’s permanent?  And to take it a step further, why am I suddenly aware of how much my laptop is an extension of myself?

Laser etcher in the office, originally uploaded by maubrowncow.

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I get a dash of pride, and cup of cringe in viewing this. I assume most of us do when looking at one’s early work in any artistic endeavour. The phrase, “if I only knew then, what I know now” comes to mind often.

My first week(end) of work has come to an end. It’s turned out to be mind boggling boring. When Ali would ask, “What did you do today”, I couldn’t really answer. I’ve decided to document what it means to do nothing in a computer lab.

7:30am - ignore work procedure and only open and start up 3 out of 21 editing rooms. Weekends don’t have more than 2 students at a time and the overkill is too much work and wastes electricity.

7:38am - begin documenting my day here in wordpress. Start up iTunes radio>Eclectic>KCRW Simulcast on my laptop using the only Ethernet connection at this station. My weekend co-worker says he doesn’t want to use the internet during work so he can read and play video games. We’re the ying and yang of the weekend.

7:43am - Update my Tadalist. Feeling stupid attempting to play along with Will Schwartz puzzles on KCRW radio.

7:50am - Remedy stupidness with Brain Age on my Nintendo DS. Unlocked a new game called “Time Passage” where I have to compare two analog clocks and answer how much time has passed. How appropriately inappropriate given my boredom.

8:20am - Co-worker arrives. Switch to playing RC Pro am and Excitebike on Nintendo Emulator on the Mac. Talk with co-workers about Nintendo, Japan, Japanese mail order brides, Okinawa, Karate Kid part 2, Clint Eastwood movies, movie spoilers, Massachusetts chicken farming.

8:40am - write that last entry.

8:41am - Listen to KCRW again, but this time, music stream. Simulcast was boring

8:48am - Chat with Allison Greenheck on IM. Not sure why she’s up at this hour on a Sunday. Turns out both her and John are Fantasy Football freaks now.

9:22am - Bored with Fantasy Football Videocasts. Hungry. the hunt for food begins.

9:35am - Found some.

11:56am - Finished watching “The Graduate” on VHS. My career pre-move was Benjamin’s life in college. My current job is Mrs. Robinson. Repetitive, safe, soul sucking, and trapped Mrs Robinson. Only as long as I let it shape me, rather than shape Mrs Robinson myself. Chilling.

12:11pm - Handed a vegan raw dairy free chocolate by Ben O while writing the last entry.

12:17pm - Looking up Mike Nichols career in IMDB

12:30pm - took a walking tour of the entire building, floor by floor. Realizing I have millions of dollars worth of resources at my fingertips with a staff ID. Planning out my own education here.

1:12pm - Wrapped up a long conversation about tango, general ballroom dancing, competition, martial arts competitions, that one time I got my ass kicked, Brazilian jujitsu, meditation, focus, chi, homeopathic healing, the power of suggestion, and doritos.

1:21pm - Tried to maintain 4 separate conversations on IM by using the same phrases with each response. Results here.

1:48pm - Walked to whole foods for lunch. 7 Veggie Curry Biryani, and Daal were too gross looking to post on mausmenu. Shared a refreshing beverage with co-worker.

3:03pm - Rocking the casbah with Culver City Dub Collective. Here… have a listen.

3:04pm - Look up the history of the Clash’s “Rock the Casbah” on wikipedia.

The song was inspired by the banning of rock music in Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini. The song gives a fabulist account of the ban being defied by the population, who proceed to “rock the casbah“. The King orders jet fighters to bomb any people in violation of the ban. The pilots ignore the orders, and instead play rock music on their cockpit radios.

3:12pm - Caught up on Twitters from 1/2 the quatro currently at the Austin City Limits music festival. Wrote the header to this Entry: My first week(end) of work has come to an end. It’s turned out to be mind boggling boring. When Ali would ask, “What did you do today”, I couldn’t really answer. I’ve decided to document what it means to do nothing today. But you’ve already read that.

3:30 - Complete my home schooling curriculum. Photography theory, Calculus 1 review, Java programming, Intro to Motion Graphics, Mixing and Mastering in Pro Tools, and PE. School begins tomorrow.

4:12 - Called a Tech Shaman by a faculty member cuz I helped him get sound to the monitors. My first tech support moment of the day and I’m off in 15 minutes.

4:30 - Walk downstairs and read “The World Without Us” on a bench as I wait for Alison to pick me up. Smile, noticing a Browne Berd, the mark of a Venice California Artist, here on the cabling of New Montgomery and Howard.

Squirrel Depression, originally uploaded by maubrowncow.

Neighborhood critters and a 300mm lens makes for good porch sitting. At least until the neighbors freak out that I’m aiming a shotgun of a lens all willy nilly.

click on the photo above for missmartini’s morbid comments.

Jason and the boys have a Cameron Fry moment ala “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, at the Culver City Artwalk.

This is one of my favorite records growing up. Who knew the count was preparing me to be labeled as a pirate.

update: ha! from Flickr user Malcom:

I’m working with a friend who does AACS work.. and
I want to use your image as a joke in a sample book chapter
about image processing…. it’s the cutest of the 09f9
images.

We’ll never publish the image, but I thought you might want
to contribute to a very sharp jab to the AACS folks

I have hereby granted permission to use an image I don’t fully own.  (I photoshopped the hex code into this existing album cover.)

I’m sure I’m not the first math geek who’s done this. Oh lord, please let me not be the first to ever come up with functions to create a smiley.

The function:

The Graph: