The truth is, regardless of what success or failure happens with regards to creating the work, it will never matter to me. I would like to develop a more *stoic* approach to my reactions to the praise and the negativity. This allows for me to make better choices with the projects I take on. So…
According to this article, these are the top 15 music sites in the world as of December, 2016. I found it interesting that Pandora was #1 of course, and not Spotify. I did not expect that, but knew they would be in the top 5. Yahoo music I did not expect at all. But that…
I have been working on a new logo for endpop for some time now, on and off for a few months. It was a journey sparked by my colleagues who were in the process of the same thing. Through the observation of the work they had put into what seems like such a simple process,…
In the wake of learning about Bowie’s death, one of two things compel me to write. One was how amazing the film Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars was. I actually watched it on his birthday on Friday night with my love. I found myself so enthralled by the sound and the performance,…
Scroll Down for the 2017 Update! I first tried ‘Supertone‘ on my endless search for better noise handling on the GH4 and loved it, but thought at first that the skin tones were a bit too ghostly. So I built my own version of this stunning GH4 film setting. After experimenting with it, I made…
I should really state that it has truly begun already since the pre-mix stage for most of the songs is already a step in that direction, but it is a technicality in truth. Mixdown has begun. There is one song left to edit vocals to, and that is Polaroid. There is a song called Dead…
This morning was a little tough. I awoke with this feeling of my mortality on this world. I am a believer of an afterlife, or rather an interim life, since what I believe actually happens is that you come back here to learn a lesson, or maybe even take a class on an aspect of…
I was out shopping… leaving the store. I kept thinking that my morning had been off to a strange undefined start. An accident that morning (not mine), my wanting to scrub things, the decision to hold off creativity, but not being able to (wrote music this morning) seemed to me markers of sorts.. but when…
Creo que la felicidad no es un misterio, solo que no debe ser definida. Todo cambia. Entonces, mejor no definir si no explorar las avenidas que se abren o se cierran en la buscada de una vida mejor.
Time is a vampire. It begins taking from you the moment you are conceived. Draining you of life slowly. There is no sunlight, garlic, wooden stake or prayer that will stop this monster. It eventually feeds until there is nothing left
Hay días en cual ciertas memorias vuelven como fantasmas en las brisas de verano. Me hace parar y pensar. Aveces hasta sonrió. Es increíble la memoria de la piel.
I found this quite endearing to watch as I was coding this blog.
When I last left off, I was leaving the area between Sudan, TX and the plains of New Mexico, which was a full day and night of dreary driving in the rain and fog. I dubbed that jaunt The Wastelands, and although this one village I filmed and photographed was indeed a prize to end…
I was in the heartland, and it was so sunny, so wondrous.. but by nightfall last night the rain had begun, and everything seemed grayer than my camera could take it. I stopped in for the night near Sudan, TX and had a good night’s sleep. My spirits were high. That is until I stepped…
I awoke to find that the rain had not stopped, and it did not from the time I left till now, at Cline’s Corner.. NM. I have 6 hours to go before reaching the Grand Canyon, but this last jaunt of the trip has been the most trying for me. The weather turned from rain…
I have stopped in the town past Santa Anna, Tx, funny enough. The place just called out to me. There’s nothing for miles but this little Steak House in the middle of nowhere. And here I am, enjoying a Coor’s Light and waiting for a T-Bone, Texas style. This will be my full meal of…
The flight to Houston is great so far. I managed to sleep one hour, and when I awoke, the melodies of two songs I still needed to commit lyrics to were on my mind. Out came the laptop, and I went through them both. So although no vocal tracking was done, I can honestly say…
Take the ego, and show it what the soul can do.
Claude S.