I got caught in a rainstorm many moons ago, during which my 1st Gen. iPod Nano started acting up. I figured it would be fine after it dried out. It turned out not to matter, because the very next day I got lucky. The generous friend who bought me the iPod as a birthday gift got an iPhone. She offered me an extended loan of her 3rd Gen Nano, and my iPod sat on the desk for a while.

The next time I picked up my old Nano, I realized the rain had done some permanent damage. It would not hold a charge, and it took several minutes after plugging it in before it had enough life for iTunes to even recognize it. I didn't care too much. I was rocking a new 8 gig. A few months ago, I moved out of Boston, and my extended loan ended. I was iPodless.

We just finished our second record!

John and I spent the morning at Sound Mirror with Mark Donahue (Multi-Grammy nominated Mastering Engineer). As the photos show, this room is GORGEOUS! Lots of API limiters and channel strips, tons of Weiss EQ's, a pair of golden ears, and several hours later... we're done! I just need to layout the artwork and send it off to the presses.

Stay tuned.
Shawn

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So, I have recently reconnected with my Taoist roots and begun to take a new scholarly approach to meditation and Taoism in general. In order to combine that with my great need to use my hands, I designed and made this Yin Yang table. It's for holding such various items as chimes, incense, candles, idols, desserts, and what have you. It sits before my meditation pad in a section of my room. I think I have contracted hippie disease.

Another day, another 'Turd.' This film actually has a decent amount of visual trickery, but still gets the turd moniker because it was made in one day. It's all about water that just can't follow the rules like it's supposed to. Stupid water. Why can't you just be normal like the rest of your brethren? This was created for Open Screen a few months ago.

This is just a test to see in this Drupal module successfully passes my key to ping.fm and updates the twitter posts.

Every project needs power, and every hobbyist needs a variable bench power supply. It's a surprisingly easy item to build, either from scratch or scrap parts, and you'll get lots of mileage out of it.

We'll look at the components of a linear power supply, and various ways of building them. Some are safe and simple, others require working the 120V line voltage of your home. Use with caution!

One of my first films with 20 American Dollars. A mockumentary in which people believe their heads are enormous. Part of Open Screen Best of 08!

We do a 12 hour movie marathon on halloween at my theater. We like to do little skits and things in between. I planned on making a few movies one year - but as usual I dropped the ball, and also as usual, this made me sad. On the night before the show, I shot this and stayed at the theater all night to edit it.

In Boston, we have a thing called Open Screen. It's an open mic night for movies. I always try to make movies for it, but usually fail. One day, I got real bummed out about that. With the show that night, I quickly came up with a concept. After work at 6, I shot and edited this frantically, to submit it for the 7:30 show.

I've been messing with Vimeo and my site structure to determine how best to approach this. Here's what I've got so far.

This film, Home Alone, fits in a category I call "Turds." They are films I make very quickly with no real regard for image quality. Sometimes, I do this because I'm bored, or upset at my lack of film output, or under duress to finish something because I have put it off too long.

In this piece, I was having a suprisingly hard time renting my apartment, and it was bumming me out. I figured, if the room was going to be empty, it may as well become a sound stage. Here is the result of a couple hours of shooting, and several more editing over a weekend.