I’m going to update this thing regularly, even if I don’t have something ready to upload and show all the time. I spent some time this week setting up a MySpace page - Why? I don’t know. It’s ugly, I can’t seem to get the profile customization settings to work properly, but there it is. At least it will direct people to this site (hopefully).
Continuing work on the game soundtrack project tomorrow, and shooting parts of a new short on Tuesday. Stay Tuned!!
*Update*
I figured out how to add some remix links, as useless as they may be since I’m sure 99% of the people who come to my site do so from Overclocked. - but there they are anyway. I still can’t access the profile costomize page which must be a quirk in the band profiles since in my personal profile, it works just fine. C’est my space I guess. Friend-wise, I’m starting from scratch there and I tried to go and type in a bunch of names I remembered off the top of my head to friend and keep in contact with. If you’re on myspace feel free to add me as as I likely just forgot or couldn’t find you.
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I typically don’t like ‘teasers’ of sorts, but considering these songs could either be sitting on my hard drive for a few weeks or out here for people to listen to, I figured I’d go for the latter for a change.
These songs are from a project I started working on last year, left for quite some time, and intend to finish within the next few weeks. I’m working on it with a great friend and incredibly talented artist with whom I’ve worked with in the past. I don’t want to go into it much except to say that it will be distributed completely for free, and that it’s an original collection and homage of sorts to the older music of Umeatsu, Mitsuda, and Kondo, presented in a more SNES / PS1 sound.
This was the type of music which initially interested me in game music to begin with, so it’s only fitting that I would revisit that from which I have drawn so much inspiration through the years. There should be much more in a few weeks, but for now, enjoy!
This was probably what seemed to be the fastest 3 days of the summer last year. There’s theme parks, and then there’s Hershey Park. Say what you want about anywhere else but any place that has roller coasters, water slides, and CHOCOLATE is quite possibly the greatest place on earth. Sorry Disney, chocolate is better than mice and ducks…
This was our “consolation prize” trip of sorts… When our second planned trip of the summer was cancelled due to bad weather, we decided to take the day off and go to the Brooklyn Aquarium and Coney Island. A little ghetto, but fun and not without some great images.
Woohoo! I have finally jumped on the Youtube bandwagon with some videos!! I was thinking of setting a webcam on myself and taping myself talking like oh I don’t know a BILLION other people, but I figured it might be a little more awesome if I just shut up and put up remix videos. And by remix videos, I mean that quite literally, because for each remix, I recorded myself playing the game, then transferred the video to premiere and edited the video to the remix itself. It took 8 excruciating days to complete the 26 current remixes up, but I think the nostalgia factor alone is enough to make it worth it in the context of the remixes now.
Ventured out yesterday to Conneticut with my brother and Kei for some sightseeing and photos (for Kei and myself at least). We visited Gilette Castle, and then an old train / steamboat trip. Between the two locations, they provided a ton of great footage - here are the photos for now. If I decide to do anything with the small amount of video I took, I’ll be sure to post here as well.
I created some gameplay videos to show some of my work with Gaia Industries. They can now be found in the Wing Commander Areana and Street Trace NYC pages.
As I work on the page from now on, I’m going to comment on its progress. I just spent 9 hours at first finding some of my old remixes (songs from almost a decade ago tend to be strewn amongst several hard drives) - then re-encoding the ones I had existing WAV files for - then creating a master list and transferring them all to my web PC - followed by renaming each one, making sure all the ID3 tag info was good - and then finally uploading, testing, and creating write ups for each one that were around 40 words each.
I think the length of that run on sentence made up for all the words I didn’t say in my write ups. BUT… it is done. Next are the originals, which should (hopefully) be an easier project by comparison. Can’t wait till these sites are up and then just need to be updated instead of built.
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July 2, 2009 8:54 pm | 
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