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Friday, April 30, 2010
Follow whoisrico on DeviantART
On DeviantART I’ve been following Rico Renzi otherwise known as whoisrico which of course in my opinion is an awesome tag. He’s posted some of his art work and a lot of his coloring of others artwork. Very sweet.
http://whoisrico.deviantart.com/
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Seth Avett sings..."In The Curve"
i've never taken this curve. drivin' this fast before. a glowing stop sign. but both lanes are mine. no seat belts attached to my door - yet another video demonstrating why The Avett Bros are one of my favorite top notch bands ever
Surfer Blood - "Swim" - HearYa Live Session 3/10/10 on Vimeo
Surfer Blood - "Swim" - HearYa Live Session 3/10/10 on Vimeo
Surfer Blood - "Swim" - HearYa Live Session 3/10/10 from HearYa.com on Vimeo.
Surfer Blood performs "Swim (to reach the end)" live in-studio for HearYa.com. The session was recorded in downtown Chicago at Shirk Music + Sound and sponsored by BEER NUTS Brand Snacks.
Hear more live sessions at HearYa.com
Eat sweet and salty nuts at http://www.BEERNUTS.com
Record music at ShirkMusic.com
Camera-Op: Woody
Video Switcher: Stephen Shirk
Producer/Engineer: Stephen Shirk
Video Editor: Stephen Shirk
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
I'm from Barcelona - Anywhere You Looked (Au Revoir Simone cover)
Awesome song. Sweet cover. If you hear it, it will get stuck in your mind. And you will know I was right.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Rocky Votolato - "Red River"
You ever listen to a song for the first time and just know it's awesome the moment it starts? Well, this is one of those songs.
Best Coast "When I'm With You"
Been digging Best Coast a lot recently. I find it super funny how there is a Ronald McDonald in it and what he eats instead of McDonalds.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Bowerbirds “Northern Lights”
I really like this song, especially since I saw it performed live.
It was a good show I went and saw. The video, with it’s colors and rhythm really does go well with the music. Enjoy.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Why does my Blogger account not have working Youtube videos in RSS feeds when I use Windows Live Writer?
I’m writing this because when I looked for an answer to this very specific question, I could not find one I was satisfied with.
I don’t exactly know why, but I can tell you how to make it work. It’s ridiculously simple.
1. Go to Youtube and go to where the video you want to post is.
2. Click on Embed and copy the embed field info.
3. Go to Windows Live Writer and click on the Source tab.
4. Paste the info here and view from the Preview tab.
That’s all. And you can even modify the size and length via the Source tab.
If I had found something explaining this as simply, I would have never needed to have the originating inquiry.
A Fine Frenzy “Electric Twist”
Nice video w/Dave Days in it briefly.
I don’t know if I like the song or not, but that super bright red hair kept me watching the whole thing.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Just another test
Testing to see if I got it figured out on how to add a Youtube video and have it work from an RSS reader properly
Dave Days finally gets Miley Cyrus in a video
Dave Days finally got Miley Cyrus to be in one of his videos. Not too shabby.
The Bathroom Girl does a great cover of Banana Pancakes
Very sweet cover of Jack Johnson's Banana Pancakes
Angus and Julia Stone “Big Jet Plane”
Such a smooth groove to this. Makes me want to just drive and see where the music takes me.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Cover Me: Shuffle Sundays: The Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog cover)
Cover Me has some awesome covers of Rainbow Connection!!!
Cover Me: Shuffle Sundays: The Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog cover)
Cover Me: Shuffle Sundays: The Rainbow Connection (Kermit the Frog cover)
Friday, March 26, 2010
Those Darlins on LaundroMatinee
LaundroMatinee has a new session with Those Darlins. I really like how LaundroMatinee described their music style:
"The influences are diverse but work well together, as if the Carter Family started covering The Ronettes in a garage with the Allman Brothers. It’s whisky-soaked roots rock, served up southern-style."
I'd post them all, but I think it best to direct traffic to the LaundroMatinee site.
LaundroMatinee session with Those Darlins
Something else worth checking out is their Vimeo channel. I really think Vimeo is superior to YouTube.
LaundroMatinee on Vimeo
"The influences are diverse but work well together, as if the Carter Family started covering The Ronettes in a garage with the Allman Brothers. It’s whisky-soaked roots rock, served up southern-style."
Those Darlins - Cannonball Blues from LaundroMatinee on Vimeo.
Recorded and Mixed by Jeff DuPont and Ben Bernthal
Filmed and Edited by Doug Fellegy, Joe Wallace, and Sarah Miller
I'd post them all, but I think it best to direct traffic to the LaundroMatinee site.
LaundroMatinee session with Those Darlins
Something else worth checking out is their Vimeo channel. I really think Vimeo is superior to YouTube.
LaundroMatinee on Vimeo
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Why has no one told me about The Wheat Pool
I haven't heard anything else by them except this one song. Already I think they are just terrific. The slow burn groove and the solo at the end, makes this song great.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks (acoustic)
This is Jack White's wife. I didn't know she was a performer.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
I don't care much for Justin Bieber...
I don't care much for Justin Bieber... But this video was great.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Validation
Every once in a while I stumble across a little movie or short that's on YouTube that just can't be ignored. Here it is and worth watching and then sharing with others.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Why more and more I HATE newspapers
When I was a child, we did not have a daily newspaper delivery or anything like that. Whenever I would go to someone's house who did or to a restaurant, I would always grab the newspaper and go to my favorite section, the comics section. I really did enjoy reading every single one, from the Peanuts to Dennis the Menace to Family Circus to even flipping to another section and reading Zippy (which as a kid, I really didn't understand).
In time, I found myself sometimes getting the sunday paper for those awesome color comics that were bigger than usual. I would always get different newspapers just to get more variety. The Herald Examiner had Blondie first on it's page. The Press Telegram had Garfield first. The Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register had Peanuts starring Good Ol' Charlie Brown. All of them had something great to offer. I also remember sometimes on Wednesdays the Press Telegram had extra games and strips for kids. This was a lot more exciting for me than just about anything else.
As I grew older I discovered that the library had a special section dedicated to arts and even a specific dewey decimal number for comics, 741.59763, sometimes just 741.5. I can't really forget that number anymore. I read everything they had in that section at my local library in Norwalk. I read all the collections, Lil Abner, Dick Tracy, Annie, Popeye, Garfield, Family Circus, Far Side, anything. When the library didn't have any more to offer, I found you could go on their computer and request other books from other libraries in their chain. This is how I came across even more comics to read like Calvin and Hobbes and even more collections.
Whenever my Mom would go to the mall, I would go. Not to join her in looking for a dress or whatever it was she was looking for, but to go down to the book store and look at all the comic strip books in the Humor section. It was great and always what I liked.
When I became an adult I didn't forget about my precious comics. I would sometimes go to a book store and buy a collection or get the newspaper to keep reading them. As the internet became more and more popular and more accessible, I found that there were even more comics to discover. This is how I was introduced to Player Vs Player and to Penny Arcade and many others that were also in newspapers, but not always in the newspapers that were local to me. I found that the Washington Post's website had a lot of comics for me to stay caught up.
In the last decade, I've had the opportunity to go to the San Diego Comic Book Convention and meet some of the creators behind these great comic strips. I met Jean Schultz (Charles Schultz widow) she's real nice. I met Dan Pirraro, Michael Jantze, Jeff Keane and many more. It's very exciting to meet people that do something you have always enjoyed especially since childhood.
So the question is, Why do I hate newspapers these days? Well for the last few years the newspaper business has been losing a lot of business to the internet. No one wants to read about something the next day when you can read it immediately. No one wants to read the great newspaper story or tell about it. Everyone just wants to hear what it is in the most simplest of terms and then decide whether the news said are important enough to expand on. Since the business has lost a lot they have started to sacrifice the one thing I would get the newspaper for, the comics. Economically speaking I understand why they don't put so many.
It's not like newspapers thrive on comics for business. But the thing is that the magic of getting a newspaper and looking for the comics is no longer an excitement that you can share with someone who's younger. There are always exceptions, but those exceptions shrink every year.
So how do I read comics these days? I don't go near newspapers. They won't offer all the comics that I want to read and I'm just willing to waste paper just for the one section I want to read. I read them all online. King Features was smart enough to make a site for all of their current comic strips and some classics. These are at DailyInk.com, I have a subscription for daily emails to be sent to me with all the strips they offer that I want to read. Sometimes I share these with friends, emailing or sharing through sites like FaceBook. Not just because I think it's great, but because I know they can still be enjoyed. Another site I frequent is Comics.com, they offer a lot of the current strips for free viewing, for free emails and even RSS feeds to view comics in your RSS reader. Also, many of the comic strips creators are now independent and don't have any syndication at all. Their sites have comics as well and many more are always being developed and published. When these creators are lucky enough to have a following, they start making money from the collections, t shirts and toys they offer. It's a very different business these days.
I guess that's my two cents on the subject. Whether it's worth trying to save comics in a newspaper is a difficult question to ask when the bigger question of the subject is whether newspapers should continue to be printed. What I do know, is that the excitement I had when I was a child. The excitement over getting the newspaper, especially the Sunday one, is no longer there for the children today. They have other things I didn't have. They just won't be able to have this specific kind of excitement and they just might not appreciate all the hard work that's come from those who write and draw these comics. Whenever I have the chance I help the comics community but I just won't help the newspaper industry.
In time, I found myself sometimes getting the sunday paper for those awesome color comics that were bigger than usual. I would always get different newspapers just to get more variety. The Herald Examiner had Blondie first on it's page. The Press Telegram had Garfield first. The Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register had Peanuts starring Good Ol' Charlie Brown. All of them had something great to offer. I also remember sometimes on Wednesdays the Press Telegram had extra games and strips for kids. This was a lot more exciting for me than just about anything else.
As I grew older I discovered that the library had a special section dedicated to arts and even a specific dewey decimal number for comics, 741.59763, sometimes just 741.5. I can't really forget that number anymore. I read everything they had in that section at my local library in Norwalk. I read all the collections, Lil Abner, Dick Tracy, Annie, Popeye, Garfield, Family Circus, Far Side, anything. When the library didn't have any more to offer, I found you could go on their computer and request other books from other libraries in their chain. This is how I came across even more comics to read like Calvin and Hobbes and even more collections.
Whenever my Mom would go to the mall, I would go. Not to join her in looking for a dress or whatever it was she was looking for, but to go down to the book store and look at all the comic strip books in the Humor section. It was great and always what I liked.
When I became an adult I didn't forget about my precious comics. I would sometimes go to a book store and buy a collection or get the newspaper to keep reading them. As the internet became more and more popular and more accessible, I found that there were even more comics to discover. This is how I was introduced to Player Vs Player and to Penny Arcade and many others that were also in newspapers, but not always in the newspapers that were local to me. I found that the Washington Post's website had a lot of comics for me to stay caught up.
In the last decade, I've had the opportunity to go to the San Diego Comic Book Convention and meet some of the creators behind these great comic strips. I met Jean Schultz (Charles Schultz widow) she's real nice. I met Dan Pirraro, Michael Jantze, Jeff Keane and many more. It's very exciting to meet people that do something you have always enjoyed especially since childhood.
So the question is, Why do I hate newspapers these days? Well for the last few years the newspaper business has been losing a lot of business to the internet. No one wants to read about something the next day when you can read it immediately. No one wants to read the great newspaper story or tell about it. Everyone just wants to hear what it is in the most simplest of terms and then decide whether the news said are important enough to expand on. Since the business has lost a lot they have started to sacrifice the one thing I would get the newspaper for, the comics. Economically speaking I understand why they don't put so many.
It's not like newspapers thrive on comics for business. But the thing is that the magic of getting a newspaper and looking for the comics is no longer an excitement that you can share with someone who's younger. There are always exceptions, but those exceptions shrink every year.
So how do I read comics these days? I don't go near newspapers. They won't offer all the comics that I want to read and I'm just willing to waste paper just for the one section I want to read. I read them all online. King Features was smart enough to make a site for all of their current comic strips and some classics. These are at DailyInk.com, I have a subscription for daily emails to be sent to me with all the strips they offer that I want to read. Sometimes I share these with friends, emailing or sharing through sites like FaceBook. Not just because I think it's great, but because I know they can still be enjoyed. Another site I frequent is Comics.com, they offer a lot of the current strips for free viewing, for free emails and even RSS feeds to view comics in your RSS reader. Also, many of the comic strips creators are now independent and don't have any syndication at all. Their sites have comics as well and many more are always being developed and published. When these creators are lucky enough to have a following, they start making money from the collections, t shirts and toys they offer. It's a very different business these days.
I guess that's my two cents on the subject. Whether it's worth trying to save comics in a newspaper is a difficult question to ask when the bigger question of the subject is whether newspapers should continue to be printed. What I do know, is that the excitement I had when I was a child. The excitement over getting the newspaper, especially the Sunday one, is no longer there for the children today. They have other things I didn't have. They just won't be able to have this specific kind of excitement and they just might not appreciate all the hard work that's come from those who write and draw these comics. Whenever I have the chance I help the comics community but I just won't help the newspaper industry.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Jesse & Joy - Chocolate
Nice little video completely done with still photography.
Jesse & Joy- "Chocolate" from Carlos Lopez Estrada on Vimeo.
WARNER MUSIC 2009
WATCH THE BEHIND THE SCENES HERE: http://vimeo.com/9758804
CHOCOLATE!
www.lopezestrada.com
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Weezer Vinyl Manufacturing
Regardless of any opinion on whether weezer's red album was worth listening to or not. This video gives an inside look at how the red album was pressed for vinyl. Really dig Vimeo's quality vs what you would probably see for Youtube.
Weezer Vinyl Manufacturing from Roberto Lepe on Vimeo.
Video Documenting the process on manufacturing the (Red) Album.
Shot on a Sony HVR-Z1U
at Stoughton Printing & RTI in California.
You can also find the vid on Weezer's news section "Karl's Corner" here: http://www.weezer.com/news/
or Media here: http://www.weezer.com/player/default.aspx?mid=4521&bhcp=1
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Long Beach Comic Expo 2010
Last weekend I went to the Long Beach Comic Expo 2010. Back in October Long Beach had it's very first Long Beach Comic Book Convention. I went and it was a lot of fun. The expo wasn't as exciting, but still a neat thing to do all day for $10 bucks entry and $10 bucks parking. Lots of good deals and such a great opportunity to talk with some talented artists who wouldn't have as much time in a different convention setting. Here is a video found on the internet about the place.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Bowerbirds - Northern Lights
Bowerbirds. I am just so glad I can actually say I have seen them play live and have said hello to them. Awesome live and worth seeing. Video is very nice.
Time vs Want
Haven't updated anything on this blog for the last few days. I'm OK. Just trying to manage my time a little better so when I add more all works better.
Been using Windows Live Writer. Works fine except I noticed that when I embed videos through it instead of directly from Blogger, it won't play in FeedDemon or my GoogleReader account unless I click the link and see it direct at YouTube.
All for now
---e
Been using Windows Live Writer. Works fine except I noticed that when I embed videos through it instead of directly from Blogger, it won't play in FeedDemon or my GoogleReader account unless I click the link and see it direct at YouTube.
All for now
---e
Saturday, February 13, 2010
We Can Live Anywhere from Big D & The Kids Table
Yet another reason why Big D & The Kids Table are awesome!!!
Excuses from The Morning Benders
New Morning Benders song, really hits it out of the ballpark w/wall of sound style.
Yours Truly Presents: The Morning Benders "Excuses" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
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