Remember back to those early days of Sesame street?
"One of these things is not like the other...?"
What follows are some incredibly strange combinations of songs,
that actually do go well together (when 'mashed up')
Check out this classic Doors song, combined with Blondies' hit "Rapture"
Deborah Harry and Jim Morrison, together.. actually that's not so odd afterall!
Take a danceable 80's song from 'one hit wonder' group Dead or Alive, combine it with the angst of Nirvana to get "Spins like Teen Spirit"
We bring the 'Sexy Ghosts' back in this Ray Parker Jr/Justin Timberlake mashup
What's a post about music without some mention of Lady Gaga? Christopher Walken
just nails the lyrics on this one!
Another Lady Gaga with those guys from Dead or Alive. "You Ring Me Right Round"
Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce vs Dead or Alive - You Ring Me Round (Like a Telephone) - Mashup by FAROF from djfaroff on Vimeo.
Finally.. the Beatles, Kinks and LCD Soundsystem help you 'Get Back to where Daft Punk really *has* Got You' :)
Aug 6, 2010
Which of these things is not like the other?
Jul 28, 2010
IC design goes mainstream (Why the EE glamour days are gone)
Who knew that IC design knowledge was so commonplace these days?
Hip/Hop R&B artist Kanye West, @kanyewest in his first tweet ever said; "Up early in the morning taking meetings in Silicone Valley". He then quickly corrected his spelling error in his second tweet with, "Lol I spelled Silicon wrong ( I guess I was still thinking about the other type of silicone ITS A PROCESS!! : )"
Some observations:
I appreciate the other kind of silicone as well as the next guy, but in general, for us in the IC design industry, as Electronics Engineers, we're concerned about how "small" things are in silicon :) This is quite the opposite of the other "silicone" that Mr. West was referring to.
I'm wondering though if Kanye knows more about IC design than he lets on. Analysis of his second tweet (unintended or not) reveals a deeper understanding of deep sub-micron design. When we talk CMOS geometries, and sizes, engineers often refer to the 'process node' or 'process size'. In this day and age, it's measured in nanometers (nm) with the leading edge around 22-25nm and most high-end mainstream design at 32-45nm in volume.
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| Kanye on the merits of TTL vs CMOS design |
Perhaps Kayne has redeemed himself? After all, it *is* about the process! At either rate, he's already closing in on the 200,000 follower mark! :)
Jun 23, 2010
Drums Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel Remix Contest Entry
More dabbling in Garage Band. Stayed true to the original, but added tons more drums, some phase shifted vocals and an 'industrial' ending.. Always thought the original sounded a bit "thin" :)
Incredible amount of talent on this website.. just check out these other mixes that put mine to shame...amazing stuff!
The GarageSale Remix.. (all acoustic percussion)
An acoustic take.. (guitars)
Dub/Reggae Mix
A 70's funk... wah wah guitar remix
An 80's Daft Punk Disco Version
WorldMix Bongo Version
80's Synth Pop Version
Rock Style..1
Melodic DubStep
Rock Guitar
Synthy Groove
PinkFloyd/Kansas Remix..
Unplugged
Another synth style remix
The piss remix.. :) (funny)
Atmospheric Mix
Flatbred Mix
Babboon Bop Mix
Jun 6, 2010
Summer Arrives!
After a relatively mild spring, summer arrived in full-swing this past weekend here in Phoenix. Tom and I started early (about 6am) but not nearly early enough. We started up Javelina Trail, then joined Mormon and climbed up. The slight morning breeze was cool at the passes, but the temps were climbing quickly. I'd not been on the bike in about a month, so I was sucking badly.. :(
Turned it around at the junction of Mormon/National and headed back down. A quick video after the jump.
Later that day, I took Jaden to the last day of his 3-day Cub Scout Day Camp. I was back at South Mountain for the second time that day.
Lots of sunscreen, water and fun was the order of the day.
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| From Cub Scout Day Camp - 2010 |
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| From Cub Scout Day Camp - 2010 |
As residents of the valley, we often forget what a great resource we have in South Mountain Park
Apr 13, 2010
Apr 8, 2010
Yes I can still play piano and sing.. but is it really music? :)
I hadn't played around with Garage Band (or any musical stuff) on the Mac for quite some time. It's all I can do as of late to sit down and play a few songs on the grand piano downstairs.
The other night after a back and forth on Facebook with Gretchen (high school friends, neighbors back in Rose Hill KS) the subject of that old standard "Perfect Country and Western" song came up.. yeah the one by David Allan Coe? In a fit of desperation.. after I got the song stuck in my head, I plugged in the mic to the Tascam US122 interface and layed down this quick vocal Sometimes singing makes it go away for me :)
Now that your ears have recovered that horrible beating.. prepare yourself for what is to come!
A week or so ago, I noticed that one of my followers on Twitter.. (yes I can say that snoopdogg is one of my followers ;-) was doing an online remix contest.
In the past, Trent Reznor of NIN (nine inch) has done these. The *really* cool thing about what Trent does, is that he makes the original digital datasets available in several different forms. These are the raw tracks in Apple Logic, Garage Band, or Avid's ProTools. You pull the whole shebang down and fire up the application and it's as if you were sitting in the recording studio as the console engineer! Pretty neat learning tool, even if you dont produce anything useful. It is also really cool to see what other people come up with. Sometimes the best part is just hearing the other ideas that people/artists have when given the same starting point.
Snoop had released a track on his new disc called 'That Tree' and he posted the individual audio tracks for download.
I'm such the music nerd from my band and keyboard/synth days that I pulled down the .zip file a few weeks ago, figuring that I'd just have the tracks to play around with.. not really time to edit anything useful.
After hooking up the condensor mic and the Tascam XLR/Midi interface to the Mac, I got fired up to dive back into at least Garage Band. It was a newer version that I'd not ran since I installed iLife 08 several months back.
Garage Band (although lots of pro musicians like to poo poo it) is really an amazing program for what it does, and for how easy it is to use. I wish *any* musical instrument mfg. Yamaha, Roland, and the like, would come up with as intuitive of an interface. That is really why I play my keyboards so little these days. I have to scour the manual of my Yamaha Motif ES88 to remember how to do even the simplest thing. The UI's on most synths leave a *lot* to be desired!
Well I missed the memo on the key signature of the song *and* the beats per minute (tempo) so I just took a guess at it.. besides it's RAP.. how hard is that to pitch bend/time shift etc? We'll.. I was slightly off, not too bad I suppose for a few hours of messing around.
See if I improved the original or not? Frankly I dont really like this song that much, and I tried to at least add some intro music/tracks with organ, and a bit of old school funk and I cut several minutes out of it.. just goes on too long IMHO
Check it out.. you can click on the original and my version on the embed. below :)
-tim
ps: That DAC song is still in my head.. and I keep thinking of a twisted.. 'skapunk' reggae version (with appropriate lyrics ;-) look out.. it just might happen!?
I give you the 'ThathonemasterTreeMix' Peace out G's!
Mar 29, 2010
Trail 100 and Greg's inagural Turner DW 5 Spot Ride
When Gregs' 6 year old Specialized FSR bit the dust a few weeks ago, we finally got together for our own version of a bike 'demo' ride.
We hit Trail 100 at night and I loaned him my 2009 Turner DW Link 5 Spot. One ride and he was sold!
After some back and forth on the 'make vs buy' decision, he ordered up the frame direct from Turner Bikes (in California) and it showed up the next day.
Then we spent the next few days emailing back and forth over parts. I also left my 2005 Titus Motolite with him so he had something to ride while waiting for the new frame to arrive, and to get an idea of another mfgrs frame for comparison.
Got the bike built up last Thursday evening:
Hit the trails on Saturday for a shakedown ride on Trail 100 in Phoenix:
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| Trail 100 Turner DW 5 Spot Ride |
A great video of the 5 Spot from pinkebike.com
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