New album release 
Spooky “ambient” improvisations with modular synth, Polyend+Dreadbox Medusa, Arturia Microfreak and software FX.
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I like “Transitional Series”. Thank you for sharing this.
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Well.
All this stuff about the guy currently at 1600 Penn. Ave. has brought back memories of my time at HOUR Magazine in the subscription department for…four years, what a coinkydink!
I hate working for sociopaths, and most of my jobs have been under such folks, now that I think about it. And the severely emotionally-damaged folks who take their home problems out on their underlings…gaah!
So, I’m going to write about it on Medium. I have some articles up there, using my real name, so iffen ya wanta read my old stuff, feel free!
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Taking our cookies pro. Order them for holiday events. They come individually wrapped.
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Pastiche, perhaps, but an affectionate one…
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I used cut-outs of vintage greeting cards that my mom kept on hand for gift tags; the surface is the remnants of a lid to a vintage Christmas gift box; and the glitter that’s sprinkled on the poinsettias - yup, that’s vintage, too! The holly leaves and the centers of the flowers have been accented with glitter nail polish from this century, lol. And I STILL HAVE SOME LEFT, lol.
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I used one of the four panels of “Think Twice!” on a separate collage (first pic), then I used the remaining three for their own collage.
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My daughter and I have been starting up a cookies business. If you want a great gift, we offer free shipping by priority mail.
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If anyone is interested…
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Just released:
Drone/ambient/electronica inspired by the use of language in William Gibson’s Neuromancer. Full of heavy FM drones from vintage Yamaha chips and digital noise.
I bought some steel bracelets but I didn’t want the standard high polish so I got them with a gunmetal finish. it was ok, but a little too dark.
so I made a rock tumbler:
and after 3 hours of tumbling:
it’s not the best pics, but it really is different. the gunmetal finish was charcoal colored but high shine. the tumbled bracelets have a slight bit of the dark finish still there but more silver, but also dull and non-reflective despite being very smooth. pretty much exactly what I wanted.
I’m toying with the idea of putting them back in for 45 min but I don’t want to goof it.
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Cool!
And I love your rock tumbler. Is that part of a skateboard?
skateboard
yeah, the motor just spins a bolt glued through the lid of the bottle. the weight of the sand, water, and whatever you’re tumbling aren’t supported by that bolt so the weight must be borne on external rollers. when it came to assigning a household item to the task, I couldn’t even think of anything but skate wheels.
aside from availability, it was trivially easy to unbolt the “trucks” (the metal parts which the bearings and wheels spin on) from the deck of the skateboard, estimate the distance needed for the wheels to cradle the bottle, then bolt the trucks back down to a piece of scrap wood. putting them back on my skateboard will only take a minute.
the tumbler was made completely on the fly from stuff I just grabbed around the house. I checked the internet to be sure, but a rock tumbler is just a round container with a tight-fitting lid and a means to spin it. then you add a bunch of sand and water with the rocks (or bracelets). that’s it. there’s a million ways it could be improvised. I looked at a couple DIY tumblers before I got started, but I note with some pride that my version was quicker and easier than those.
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Cool!
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