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As mentioned in class last night, play with the free and open source application Audacity (which you can download here).
There is a tutorial for audacity here, which in turn links out to a number of very useful resources. Also, I hope Samuel will post about his extension for audio recording with Skype.
As for Thursday, we will be work shopping with Audacity to figure out the details, in the meantime be sure you get the MP3 exporting the LameLib codec here (simply follow the directions at the bottom of the page linked to).
By next Tuesday, 3/16, have a audio file that makes an uninteresting told by a friend or family member interesting, look to This American Life, episode 400 for examples.
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I started the story with Edmond being wounded in order that I could have this flashback sequence (aided by morphine use) follow it. In this section we learn more about Edmond. He seems to have served a while on airships in the war (held aloft by hot air), but he is also a Quaker. While there have only been a few things that make it clear that this isn’t quite our history, there haven’t been any major changes yet. There also haven’t been too many things to make it clear that this is a steampunk world. With some of the exposition in the bag, we should be able to see more of the world next post.
But, about steampunk! One of the things that I’ve been looking at doing in addition to this story is cosplaying (dressing up as) a character from this world. I’m planning on doing that both for a realistic photo, and for a costume I can wear at the Steampunk world’s fair. In order to do the realistic one, I’m putting togeather a period outfit for Edmond shortly after the war, circa 1870. At this point he’s got a bit more cowboy than soldier, but I’m still debating whether wool pants or blue jeans would be more suitable. He’ll be wearing a flannel shirt and either a cowboy hat or a wool cap (everyone wore hats back then). The coolest part of the outfit will be the colt single action army replica and the loop belts though!
The most important part of the costume will actually happen after the photo is taken. The next post on the 1882 blog will be schematics/sketches of my character’s new arm and leg. The steam powered prosthetics function (mostly) like the originals, and what I would like to do is photoshop in the arm design on the photo. If anyone knows photoshop and would like to work with me on it, please let me know!
Plenty of folks are also interested in steampunk-ing nerf guns. I’ve been looking at the above examples, and I’m going to try to do the same. I’ve already modded mine a little bit, but I’ll be repainting them and putting gears and stuff on them as well! I’ve got some advice as to which guns to get for what, because some of the action types lend themselves to Steampunk (the maverick from Nerf, and the Doubleshot, from buzz bee), others to Dieselpunk (The Vulcan from Nerf and the Tommy 20 from Buzz bee) and some to more of a cyberpunk time period (The CS 35 from Nerf, and the Clip blaster 10 from Buzz bee).
I try to keep my posts short and readable, so I’ll be talking about the nerf modification more as a companion to the schematic post coming up next.
Just to give a little background, I recorded a prank call one of my friends was pulling (the Asian voice in search for Yoshi) on a mutual friend and inserted audio from a YouTube video for the responses. I know it doesn’t make perfect sense, but I think everyone gets the general idea.
With Professor Groom’s help, I have finally hacked out my header. The tutorial that he posted on the class site was really helpful. However, it wasn’t really as simple as it looked. Tried to incorporate this in 3 different themes that I liked and couldn’t get it to work on any of them. The 3 themes were coded using too many classes for me to go in and edit the header without completely messing the entire header up. Eventually I picked the one I liked the most and had Professor Groom help me out. My next road bump was inserting the images. Storing the pictures on the website for them to appear in the header was simple, but formatting the pictures was an adventure. At first I took the first couple images that I wanted to be rotated and just re-sized them to 940X150 which was the maximum size my header would allow. When I did this I discovered that the entire picture was crunched together and looked really silly. What I had to do was take the original picture, re-size it to a smaller size like 940X650 and then crop out part of it to be 940X150. As far as plug-ins go, I have only been using akismat. I went looking for new ones, but after 4 pages of the most popular ones not appealing to me, I decided to give up. If any of you have any recommendations on plug-ins, let me know.
Sorry that this audio clip is so late! I was having issues with making the audacity file an MP3 even when I downloaded and installed LAME. Anyway, I figured it out, and hopefully it works now! I just uploaded the file straight from my computer and inserted it into my post. I hope it’s ok that it is a link as opposed to a clip that can actually be played on my blog page. Just to let you know, Dolly Suarez and Brandi Harris were also involved in the making of this simple little story. Hope you enjoy it!
This post is a few days late, but it is here none the less! With such a specific title, there’s not much to explain in this post other than that I did another screencast tutorial. Although a few things have already been shown in class, it is worth going over again. Pretty much what you will learn is the basics of how I record audio from Skype, edit it in Audacity, and host it, all for our weekly LOST podcast.
I do have to apologize for the seeming quickness of the tutorial, YouTube now only allows 10 minute videos so I had to be fast. Also for the general annoyingness of my voice in a few segments. Enjoy, though! Rate it, leave some comments, etc!
Story just broke today. I really like this player and when I heard of the story I couldn’t help but to find some similarities to my current situation. Beckham, aged 34, has a suspected torn Achilles tendon. He’s probably looking at 5-8 months out. Not only is that a rather lengthy time out, he is absolutely certain to miss the World Cup in South Africa this summer. Really unfortunate, because Beckham was in the plans for the England squad and he was going to be the first English soccer player to play in 4 world Cups. There is now discussion that he is going to retire from soccer all together since he can’t achieve his dream of playing in the world cup and really has no real glory to play for. Unless you think the MLS Cup a glory…
I really feel for this guy. Theres really no one classier than this guy. For the past two years, during his off-seasons, instead of chilling on the beaches, he went back to Europe and kept playing competitively in Italy in order to stay fit for the World Cup. Leading up to this, he was first throw out of Real Madrid practices because he signed for LA Galaxy and then was kicked out of the England squad because the new coach wanted to make a name for himself. What Beckham did, was just keep his head down and train harder. He made sure he wasn’t a distraction to his teammates nor his team. After a series of bad results for both club and country, pressure was put on both coaches to bring beckham back into the frame. They did, and he didnt disappoint. He helped turn both teams seasons around, and helped Real Madrid win the league and got England within a game of qualifying for Euro 2008. Once proving everyone wrong, instead of calling out his coaches for their mistakes, he defended them and called them great coaches. Beckham is now heading to Finland to see a surgeon specialist about his injury.
Thought it was pretty crazy, that my digital story is about me recoverying from my injury and this story just broke. So I’m going to follow up with it and post on his progress as well.
My Audacity experiment telling a friend’s story may be a little delayed. The mic on my computer is crap and I tried to get to a store this weekend to get a mic (I wanted to buy one anyway) but my ride bailed. So, it might not be up by Tuesday. But, I’m working on it!
Hey hey, I started my fashion blog. I just made my first post explaining what my blog is about and now I am working on my first real post. It should be up later tonight.
