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| Tiny Animation #15: The Adventures Of UNIMOG |
 A little over a month ago, I was out on the town with my band mates from UNIMOG. Once the bars closed, we decided to go get something to eat. As we were about to get under way, two drunk asses mistakenly tried to get into my friend's car and all hell broke loose. While I have for the most part stopped my habit of recording bits and pieces of my everyday life with my phone, the phone WAS recording the events of the night and I got this moment on tape. It was a bonding moment between band members. |
| Entry Date: January 29, 2012 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.com/index.php?id=209 |
| Black Friday |
 About a week ago, I wrote this song "Black Friday" for my punk band, UNIMOG. Yesterday, I started playing around with my drum machine, just old style hip-hop beats... and it ended-up with my translating the punk rock song into a hip-hop track. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the video completed for Black Friday, but it probably doesn't matter as everyone was out shopping. |
| Entry Date: November 26, 2011 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.com/index.php?id=208 |
| Moving Picture #006 (Spring) |
 My friend has been suggesting that I do a piece using leaves, flowers, etc. probably since I created my first moving picture composition. Everything came together over the weekend and I was able to complete this, which is the first piece using my new camera. I didn't intend to show the edges of the paper, but I couldn't come-up with a solution to get the camera closer to the ground. This also features my favorite new piece of music in quite a while. |
| Entry Date: May 25, 2011 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.com/index.php?id=203 |
| Kitchen 808: Butternut Squash Soup |
 Whoa... forgot to update the 60bpm home page with this one. This was meant to be the first episode of a cooking tutorial, then I didn't think it would be accessible enough, then it turned-out to be the most popular thing I ever created... so I'm gonna try to produce a few more. |
| Entry Date: March 17, 2011 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.com/index.php?id=201 |
| 0degreesK :: Spirits :: Round One |
 This has been going-on a little behind the scenes. I created the 0degreesK :: Spirits site to keep track of all the different cocktails as I try them. For a while, I didn't know what to do for the images of the drinks. Do I grab them from the places that I get the recipes? What if they don't have images for their recipes? Then, I thought of the whole Tiny Animation technique of animation I'd been using and tried it out. Here is a compilation of all the cocktails I've tried over the past month or so. |
| Entry Date: February 13, 2011 | Type: Artwork | item Link: http://gallery.60bpm.com/view.php?id=354 |
| Sunflower |
 Valentine's Day reminds me of flowers and the flowers remind me of the summer. I'm more of a fall/winter type of person, but I have fond memories of my sunflower gardens from the previous two years. I'm looking forward to the next one. |
| Entry Date: February 10, 2011 | Type: Artwork | item Link: http://gallery.60bpm.com/view.php?id=353 |
| 0degreesK :: Spirits |
 During the holiday season late last year, I attended a few cocktail parties with a friend of mine. He told me about this guy who made amazing drinks. He was right. I just asked him to surprise me each time he asked what I wanted. And he did surprise me. Actually, he impressed me a lot. Then, a week or so later I start thinking about it and decide to give it a shot myself. Naturally, I can't just do something... I've got to make a project of it. So, I built this site to document and share my discoveries. |
| Entry Date: January 31, 2011 | Type: Interactive | item Link: http://spirits.0degreesk.com/ |
| 0degreesK :: Page-A-Day |
 For Christmas, I was given a daily calendar. You know, the kind of thing where you have a sheet for every day that features a game or a quote or a word for the day? Well, this one featured a sudoku puzzle, a quote for the day and a large area for notes or a to-do list. After the first few days of faithfully completing the calendar, I realized that it was capturing an abstract snap shot of my life. So, I whipped-up this site to document it. |
| Entry Date: January 24, 2011 | Type: Interactive | item Link: http://pageaday.0degreesk.com/ |
| Tiny Animation #9: Burrito Buggy (Faux Shuffle) |
 In Athens, Ohio, "The Shuffle" refers to hitting every bar, from the Cat's Den on Union Street all the way up to... whatever The Greenery is today on Court Street, in a single night. If I remember correctly, that was about 24 bars, and you had to have a drink in every... single... bar. One of the gimmicks of performing a shuffle was to name your shuffle (i.e. "The DaydreamTV Shuffle") and have a commemorative t-shirt signed at each bar.
The vast majority of people who complete (or even attempt) a shuffle end-up getting carried-off to home, vomiting the entire way. That's just way too much liquor for most people to drink in a 6-8 hour period. But, there are a lot of poseurs out there who just like to wear the t-shirt and claim they completed a shuffle.
We didn't like these people at the Burrito Buggy. |
| Entry Date: December 20, 2010 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.com/index.php?id=194 |
| Tiny Animation #7: Hanging With AE (Hell's Bells) |
 In this episode, AE tells us the story of his bell from the "Church of the Living Dead" as one of us put it. It was put on backwards which prevented it from swinging freely. This didn't stop him from playing it for us. I've wanted to do something with this audio for a long, long time. This one makes me happy. |
| Entry Date: December 17, 2010 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.com/index.php?id=192 |
| Tiny Animation #5: Melting (A Vision) |
 So far, this piece demonstrates the power of the tiny animation series the best. While I was coloring the cells, I was upset with myself because I thought it was a good piece and I was ruining it by using markers on it without trying them out on a lesser piece or a demo. After scanning and assembling the bits, though, I came around to love the final production. I still need to get better markers, though... these are horrible. |
| Entry Date: December 8, 2010 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.com/index.php?id=190 |
| eCorpse v2.0 |
 The past month or so has been spent updating eCorpse. New features include the ability of registered users to monitor their invitations and functionality that allows the transfer of outstanding invitations to new participants. Our first newsletter went out this afternoon, asking that recipients take a survey to determine what the next eCorpse storymaking tool will be. |
| Entry Date: December 1, 2010 | Type: Interactive | item Link: http://ecorpse.60bpm.com/ |
| SAS-1 (Demo) |
 This is next to nothing, but it's the first purely creative thing I've done since the end of 2009. The main component is a free iPad instrument, a synthesizer called the SAS-1. Very limited and simple, but I'm intrigued with the new interface. |
| Entry Date: October 13, 2010 | Type: Music | item Link: http://music.60bpm.com/redirect.php?id=49 |
| Arlington Street Project |
 I've put the final touches on this new site in time for the closing reception tonight. The past two-plus months were spent creeping up-and-down Arlington Street in east Akron, accumulating the sights and sounds. Take a look here, and come by the show, if you get a chance. |
| Entry Date: June 25, 2010 | Type: Artwork | item Link: http://arlingtonstreet.60bpm.com/ |
| eCorpse: Experimental collaborative storytelling |
 About a month ago, a friend of mine told me about the "Exquisite Corpse" -- a technique of creating art collaboratively where participants are not allowed to see/read the portions that other participants are creating. I applied this idea to storytelling on the internet. |
| Entry Date: June 3, 2010 | Type: Interactive | item Link: http://ecorpse.60bpm.com/ |
| Moving Picture #004 (Mode II Crack) |
 With some help from a friend, I was finally able to get two axes (left-to-right and up-and-down) moving at the same time. Once again with this moving picture technique, the artwork for this composition was finished well over a month ago, and the video itself was captured late last month. Oh well, hopefully things get moving more quickly now. |
| Entry Date: January 24, 2010 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.org/index.php?id=179 |
| McBeats |
 A co-worker sent me a few audio files of things he was doing on the drums and guitar. I used these bits as the basis for this track, which is essentially a... learning experience on how to use Logic Express 9 to create loops and then assemble a composition using those loops. This is something I've wanted to be able to do in a single package for a long, long, long time. |
| Entry Date: January 23, 2010 | Type: Music | item Link: http://music.60bpm.com/redirect.php?id=46 |
| Echoes And Beyond |
 While the legend that Pink Floyd's "Echoes" was composed as the soundtrack for the final section of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" may not be true, the two elements do compliment one another quite well when played simultaneously. See for yourself. |
| Entry Date: January 22, 2010 | Type: Interactive | item Link: http://interactive.60bpm.com/echoesandbeyond/ |
| Cyan Auto Blues |
 The past weekend was spent creating master, redundant archives, swapping external hard drives and upgrading my laptop to Leopard (finally). Without getting into what that means, it basically amounts to having a lot of downtime away from my computer. I picked-up the guitar for the first time in a LONG time and liked this easy progression, so I had to break-out the Tascam Porta07 to record it. It was nice going back to 4-track simplicity, but I'm still looking forward to getting my copy of Logic Express in the mail soon. The title comes from the song's dedication to a friend who loves the blues. |
| Entry Date: January 4, 2010 | Type: Music | item Link: http://music.60bpm.com/redirect.php?id=45 |
| 2009 60bpm Season's Greeting eCard |
 Like I said yesterday, at the latest possible moment, I decided to create a holiday eCard. Well, here's the final result, less than 24 hours later! To be honest, I grabbed the existing Flash animation from a piece I did way back in 2001, when I first met Harry Christmas, and the music player is from my music portal. Still, it was quite a feat to get this out the door. My Photoshop skills are impressive, no? |
| Entry Date: December 24, 2009 | Type: Interactive | item Link: http://www.60bpm.com/newsletter/harrychristmas2009/ |
| Harry Christmas "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" |
 Today, at around... 1:30 PM, I thought, "Hey! I should make a holiday eCard for 60bpm!!!" Up to this point, I'd only recorded two new Harry Christmas tracks, and I'd originally planned on four. Well, that wasn't going to happen, but I knew we could put one more together. Harry chose this track, expressing his desire to flex the golden pipes one last time. This is ALL Harry! No effects or anything... wow, what a talent. |
| Entry Date: December 23, 2009 | Type: Music | item Link: http://music.60bpm.com/redirect.php?id=44 |
| 60bpm :: Interactive |
 Yesterday's posting of my new Flash piece inspired me to create this site listing all of the Flash pieces that I've built over the years. I guess it's also a proactive start of something amounting to an online Flash resume. |
| Entry Date: December 22, 2009 | Type: Interactive | item Link: http://interactive.60bpm.com/ |
| Season's Greetings From EYEMG Interactive Media Group |
 While this isn't really a creative item that I created on my own time, it took away enough creative energy and studio time over the previous weekend that I'm counting it as today's submission to this project because I had to take a day off. Yeah, I know, sort of defeats the whole purpose. Regardless, it inspired me to create a new 60bpm sub-domain for my interactive creations. I already have the next one in mind! |
| Entry Date: December 21, 2009 | Type: Interactive | item Link: http://interactive.60bpm.com/verymerry/ |
| Harry Christmas "Let It Snow" |
 Harry Christmas got into the studio over the weekend to record a second track for the EYEMG 2009 Holiday eCard. It turns-out that the guys in charge liked both songs, so I had to modify the piece at the last minute to give the audience a choice of which to listen to. |
| Entry Date: December 19, 2009 | Type: Music | item Link: http://music.60bpm.com/redirect.php?id=43 |
| Dave Matthews |
 This is yet another piece made for a Christmas card. I have two more to make and then I'm done. The subject for this piece is Dave Matthews. I've never actually listened to any music by Dave Matthews on purpose. As a matter of fact, I usually make a point of avoiding it. |
| Entry Date: December 18, 2009 | Type: Artwork | item Link: http://gallery.60bpm.com/view.php?id=326 |
| Ronald Reagan |
 My lightbox interpretation of Ronald Reagan. I thought of doing this immediately after completing Guerrillero Heroico (1209A0) for obvious reasons. This is one of my favorite lightbox pieces. |
| Entry Date: December 16, 2009 | Type: Artwork | item Link: http://gallery.60bpm.com/view.php?id=324 |
| Sometimes Silver |
 It can't always be gold. I said this at the end of each track during recording, but I cut the file short. This one sneaked-up on me. There were many things on my mind and I was exhausted. |
| Entry Date: December 15, 2009 | Type: Music | item Link: http://music.60bpm.com/redirect.php?id=42 |
| Dot-Dom Champions League 2010 Warm-Up |
 The office foosball organization was playing short-handed for a while, so I came out of retirement to play defense on Holland United. After a month or so, we began talking about how much fun it would be to create a regular wrap-up of the best moments from our games, something like "This Week In Baseball", for our company's upcoming portfolio site. This is my first attempt at realizing the idea. In the future, we'll have the camera mounted directly above the table, which will improve the visibility of what's going-on. For now, this will have to do. BTW... the names are all goofs. I'm sure we'll come-up with better ones, but I needed something to go with last night. |
| Entry Date: December 14, 2009 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.org/index.php?id=177 |
| Daler Mehndi |
 Here is my lightbox interpretation of "The Undisputed King Of Pop" Daler Mehndi who recorded such great tracks at "Tunak Tunak Tun". The guys at work brought him up during lunch today and he's now stuck in my head, but at least he pushed Miley Cyrus out! These lightbox pieces can be so crazy to do sometimes because I can't help but completely focus and ponder the subject. In the end, I came-out thinking Daler Mehndi is a pretty cool guy. |
| Entry Date: December 11, 2009 | Type: Artwork | item Link: http://gallery.60bpm.com/view.php?id=322 |
| Harry Christmas "Carol of the Bells" |
 This is quite an exciting moment: The return of Harry Christmas!!! He released a four song holiday album back in the winter of 2002 to wide critical and commercial acclaim, but abruptly retired and was nowhere to be found... until now! Considering he accomplished what he did back then without half the tools he has at his disposal today, we can only think that this is just a starting point. You rock, Harry! |
| Entry Date: December 10, 2009 | Type: Music | item Link: http://music.60bpm.com/redirect.php?id=41 |
| 60bpm :: Cross-Country Journal :: Entry 5 |
 The fifth entry into the 60bpm :: Cross-Country Journal finds our protagonist entering the city of St. Louis, Missouri. It's my first attempt at classic animation using After Effects. There's got to be a better way of doing this, but who can I ask? It's getting easier, but I've still got a long way to go. |
| Entry Date: December 8, 2009 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.org/index.php?id=175 |
| Nightmare ASE |
 Computer-based hand spliced via computer and enhanced by the hand. I don't know where this came from, but I had a vision of this image in my head. It changed a little, but not much. The scanned image of the hand wasn't there at first. |
| Entry Date: December 7, 2009 | Type: Artwork | item Link: http://gallery.60bpm.com/view.php?id=319 |
| Imperfect Machine |
 I'd planned on doing a picture for today, but while transferring some files I picked-up the guitar and this came out. I thought it'd be more interesting to make a bit of music. I tried working on the Tascam Porta07, but guess what... the one that can mix down can't erase the 4th track! So, put both machines together and I have one that works because the other one can't mix down. Anyway, this was recorded directly through my FA-66 and it's changed a lot from the original idea during my struggles to record it. I have a great video in mind for it, but it will take a while to complete. |
| Entry Date: December 6, 2009 | Type: Music | item Link: http://music.60bpm.com/redirect.php?id=40 |
| Scanner Totem |
 Today's submission in the 1209 project is a little different. To be honest, I didn't have a lot of time today after driving back from Athens, getting dinner ready and then heading for a family tree trimming session. It'll just have to do, though. |
| Entry Date: December 5, 2009 | Type: Artwork | item Link: http://gallery.60bpm.com/view.php?id=320 |
| Moving Picture #003 (Modern Day Cave Painting) |
 The artwork for this composition was finished over a month ago. As a matter of fact, it was the lack of follow-through on this piece that caused me to begin 1209 (one piece per day in December 2009) of which this is the fourth item. The theme of a "modern day cave painting" is derived from a painting I made over five years ago. The original piece resembled pre-historic cave paintings more than this one, but I think the style is similar. |
| Entry Date: December 4, 2009 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.org/index.php?id=173 |
| Passion Flower |
 Here is a soundbed for a Moving Picture video that depicts what I called "modern day cave paintings." Last night was the first time I tried to use my studio after introducing my patch bay into the mix. It gave me fits. I was all ready to work and I just ran into technical issue after technical issue. Finally, I just pulled my Tascam Porta07 out and worked on that. The rhythm came easy, but I didn't know what to do after that. I guess I was just frustrated. This morning, I threw the rest together. |
| Entry Date: December 3, 2009 | Type: Music | item Link: http://music.60bpm.com/redirect.php?id=39 |
| Today's Lesson: Installing a Leader |
 Today's item features my Tascam 44 reel-to-reel that I recently installed in my studio. While creating this piece, I kept in mind the educational films of the 1950s, but resisted the urge to add the cheesy faux film grain filter or anything like that. |
| Entry Date: December 2, 2009 | Type: Video | item Link: http://www.daydreamtv.org/index.php?id=172 |
| Guerrillero Heroico |
 The first item of one per day for December 2009. It's a picture. Looking for something to watch last night, I found the first part of Steven Soderbergh's Che. While reading about him afterwards, I found this image that just about everyone is familiar with. I'd thought of creating one thing, every day, during this month of December 2009, because I'd produced nothing in November, and doing a lightbox seemed like such an easy way to begin that I chose this as the subject. Who hasn't at this point? |
| Entry Date: December 1, 2009 | Type: Artwork | item Link: http://gallery.60bpm.com/view.php?id=317 |
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After seeing some recent home videos of my nephew acting-out stories using his LEGOs, I thought I'd give this iStopMotion application a try. Here's the demo.
It's looking like the band I'm in is going to be called UNIMOG after I made this video for a theme song.
The first new piece of music in a long time, this one is obvious heavily influenced by the legends of Krautrock, Popol Vuh.
While I had the multitrack fired-up, I decided to record another cover of this track, which is always fun to play. Hank Williams... the first punk.
Six months in the making, here is my dramatic acting debut in a short film to end the zombie apocalypse once and for all!
A pretty easy one to understand. Here I am at various points during my recent trip to Waynesboro, Virginia. You'll get a good sample of my current musical tastes as well.
Here's the first installment of another new series. This one will feature minimalist views of the Akron area.
This is basically a test to see how stop-motion would work using tiny animation stills. I'm happy with it for the most part, but there are a couple of things I don't like. Ultimately, it served its purpose and I'm going to begin working on a full-scale piece now.
One night, a friend and I are hanging-out in this bar when somehow the conversation got turned to concealed-carry laws and stuff like that. Next thing we know, we're talking to this guy about all his run-ins with the FBI and how they're still after him. Interesting night.
A new postcard.
A piece of artwork inspired by a paranoid discussion about snipers in the bushes.
The Burrito Buggy clips are coming to end, which should be evident with this movie. Nothing really happens here. It's getting towards the end of the night. We're tired and the customers are irritated.
Here's a typical moment in time from Corky's Thomastown Cafe on Arlington Street in Akron, Ohio. This is definitely my favorite bar of all time. Long live Corky's!!!
The uncut artwork for the trim of a dream machine. This was for the third dream machine I've built.
The uncut artwork for the base of a dream machine. This was for the third dream machine I've built.
A "walking taco" is where you open up a bag of Fritos, dump in all the stuff you like on a taco and then mix it all up. What's better than that? How about a walking BURRITO?!? And, that's the connection to this series' most popular topic.
Back at the Burrito Buggy, a customer tells us who she would like to push in front of a subway car.
Our champion is headed out of St. Louis after a year in purgatory! I've been looking forward to the next couple of entries. The plan is to do something a little different than what I've done so far for this project. Coming soon!
We're back at the buggy where we have a conversation with a customer about her vacation to Italy.
I'm on a roll with the Tiny Animation technique, so I've applied it to the Cross-Country Journal project to raise it from the dead. This episode finds our hero still making his way through St. Louis.
This is really just the IDEA for a story, something I recorded so I wouldn't forget about it later. In a way, it worked, because here it is, but I didn't take it any further. Use your imagination!
The second of the "tiny animation" series introduces us to AE. My friend introduced me to him about thirteen years ago at his home in the country just outside of Athens, Ohio. We went out there quite a few times over the next few years. All occasions were memorable. This was a good one.
Here's the first episode of the "Tiny Animations" series. This one takes you inside the Burrito Buggy, where I worked for 2 1/2 years, way back when.
Here's my first bit in over two months. It's nothing creative at all, but I'm hoping it gets me back into things.
Snap shots of a work in process are assembled into a stop-motion picture.
Without a doubt, this is the most complex and intricate piece I've ever created. It represents my "Line Work" technique to the extreme. This will be the basis of a typical moving-picture piece, as well as a Kaleidoscope Project composition.
Using an X-acto knife on a black velvet mat, I've created a new technique for myself. Special thanks to Amy for providing the new medium.
This piece was made for a Christmas card. The subject is Tom Colicchio, the head judge for Bravo's cooking show Top Chef.
While talking to the other guys at work last week, some ideas involving stop-motion video were brought-up. Here's a quick-and-dirty bit of that at 60 bpm. More to come in the near future.
My lightbox interpretation of Richard Wagner.
Straight-line-based moving picture subject. This presentation is incomplete. Pieces will be cut-out so that in the moving picture version the movement underneath the paper will be visible.
