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Go see The Swell Season if you can. Amazing!

Nelsonville.

Hell yeah camping cooking YEAH!

What’s up I’m a frog. Or a toad? Who cares man, I live in the forest.

A barn we found from a long time ago.

It had badass staircases!

And cool stuff inside.

MushroomMushroooom!

Friendly root parasites.

The wise old snail.

Makeout mushroom for beetles.

Bow chicka wow wow!

A cool fern of some kind(?)

An arachnid! The end.

Go hiking clouds?

A cave. Just in case.

deerski

a lake we finally found.

a waterfall.

hello.

ima tumor ima tumor.

treeeeeeee!

Well that was my adventure to Old Man’s Cave at Hocking Hills which was great. Camping trip 2010 anyone?

Hrm.

I finally made it to the world famous site of MILLIONS of people’s Facebook profile pictures!!!! LOOK! There is one happening now!!

Hmmm…well it is kinda cool, maybe I’ll…nah, I just can’t do it.

Over here, there is a building.

And another! Chris gets to work in this one. Sweet.

Next time I’m in Chicago I’ll try to be around for more than just a few hours, so I can see some more of the lovely people I know there.

M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I river.
There are three states in this picture, can you guess which ones?
(Iowa, Illinois across the bridge, and Wisconsin starts in between the rail bridge and the other bridge in the background.)

TREES

BEHOLD

Big.

cone 1

cone 2

phone…woops.

empty 1

empty 2. The end.

Yes, the rumors you have heard are true. Last year in November I moved to Columbus, Ohio, to become the best damn aerial survey camera operator in the world. Who knew that getting a photography degree would (eventually) actually lead to a sweet job. I never thought I would move to Ohio, but here I am. Columbus is alright. I won’t lie, it’s not my favorite place in the world, and I still hardly know anyone but hopefully that will change soon. I at least live in a cool part of town, and the music scene is decent. Been to a few shows, RJD2 rocking out to 800 people was the best so far.

I also bought a new camera this week, which is great. I’ve been needing a smaller, stealthier camera to take around with me so I can shoot more. The Lumix DMC-LX3 is exactly what I needed to help document my continuing adventures. I’ve been traveling a bit, and I plan on exploring the more interesting areas around here now that the weather is improving. Expect more regular updating from me again now that I am more settled in here.

I was walking through the park today and I saw an albino squirrel. I have named him snowball. I couldn’t get very close otherwise I would have a much better picture:

That is all for today, it’s been a long week. I hope all of my billions of readers out there are doing well, particularly you, crazy Russian spammer who comments daily several times even though none of your comments show up because they are so obviously spam… Anyway, spring is here, rejoice and whatnot. Winter was cold. Hooray.

I made some music. This was all made with free open source software on linux. It was fun to make. It’s a four song EP thing. Have a listen.

Download it here: headband
Listen here: http://soundcloud.com/madd00dz

This is my room which is pretty much a nice little mini recording studio right now. It would take a really, really long time to type out all the stuff I have done and programs I have gotten working since my last music related post, so I will just say these things:

1. I have a LOT of software synthesizers, including a ton of vintage synth emulators at my fingertips that I can play in real time by using my real life digital synthesizer as a MIDI controller, which is really really cool.

2. I am writing and recording music using my synth, a MIDI sequencer, software synths, vintage drum machine emulations, an MR-8, guitars, Ardour, and various other things. I suspect this list will continue to rapidly grow.

3. I have learned a ton of stuff about synthesizers and recording music in general. I have a new understanding of synthesizers, recording, and electronic music. I finally now have the tools and basic knowledge that I need to properly record, mix and master audio. Because of this, each song I start work on now sounds better than the last, and I am getting to the point where I will soon have a finished product that I am very happy with.

4. Right now I have a bunch of songs that are semi-finished. As long as my computer stays alive for the next few weeks, I should have a 5 song EP (or whatever) type thing ready for downloading hopefully by the end of the month, and more material after that if all goes well. I know my fan(s) (Alex, Ben, plus or minus 1 or 2 people) out there have been waiting a long time for this, and probably didn’t believe me when I said that more music was on the way, since I’ve been saying it for a few years now with no actual results, but it’s for real this time. I’ve been pretty productive with this stuff since DEMF and MEG energized and motivated me to work on making electronic music again. That’s all for now.