Sleep, brochures, computers, upcoming albums, album covers, trips
I don't quite know what it is, but I've had this thing for some time now that makes my internal clock want to go crazy all the time. I'll get on a normal schedule for maybe a week at a time, but before long, I'm up all night and asleep much of the day before I start getting back towards some type of a normal schedule.
Well, I do know that part of the reason is that I just get more done at night. Last week I finished a brochure for this school-visiting program I'll be taking a crack at. It came out much better than I would've thought, actually. But, you see, I had to lose the brochure twice before it was really finished.
You see, I was done with it at around 5:30am last Wednesday morning before the computer crashed as I was trying to save it. You see, for whatever silly reasons, you can't save those type of documents to the desktop of the campus computers. So, I was trying to save it elsewhere and it froze and everything was gone.
So, I couldn't go home and sleep for a few hours and maintain a nearly normal schedule. I stayed at Webster, reconstructed it within maybe two and a half hours, and then, guess what?
Yup. Different computer, more or less the same issue. Lost the brochure again.
Fortunately, this time I'd taken extensive notes about how I'd made the brochure before I lost it. So, doing it a third time wasn't such a huge deal, though still a 'deal', I guess.
Had I not gotten help from someone, I may have lost it a third time, but, alas, it's safe.
This brochure is really cool, I must say. I got some help from a Microsoft Publisher template and some really nice photos taken by photographer Lindsey Nichols, a friend of Todd's, at my last concert. I made the cover, the text layout, wrote the copy, and arranged all of the photos. It really is on the level with any other brochure you'll ever see, like those really cool ones you may have gotten from colleges when you were a senior in high school.
A little bit before that, I played my upcoming album and/or parts of the album for a couple of the returning Webster students. I played the whole thing for my friend Michael, who is a very talented sophomore piano performance major. He said "It's really hard for me never to be bored when I'm listening to something, and I wasn't bored for one second." He also said he thinks it's a great album!
That was good to hear, because I do strive to give every moment of every piece great signficance. In other words, very little filler or air in the mix. Very potent music, in essence.
I played the first two tracks for another friend, and he was taken back as well. But I'd like more people to hear it. I just haven't been around campus much during the waking hours for these aforementioned reasons.
So, we've started work on the album cover. I've worked up something that's based on a photo illustration that Lindsey [the concert photographer] made, and I like it. Todd says he doesn't think it's there yet, but that I've done some great things to the image. Keep in mind, I'm not a designer. I've always been fascinated with text layout and things, and I can do a good job with it. But actual art diection is not something I'm supposed to be able to do at all.
So, there's a ways to go before this album is ready for sale. Fortunately, discmakers.com looks like it still is the absolute best place to go if you want to print and release something independantly. There's the 'dualdisc' thing where you can have audio on one side of the disc and DVD video on the other, and discmakers.com does offer than option. I told Todd about that and he was excited. This is something we'll be looking at as well.
I'm typing this on my home computer, which has been offline for months. It's back, thanks to my brother Matt, who is visiting and will be leaving with us in six hours or so for Nashville to see family and etc.
He set up my mother's incredible new computer. I've never been on a better computer! She got a big flatscreen and a color printer/scanner/fax. It's really something! I spent a few hours on it yesterday burning 5 CDs for the trip. Todd's going to give me Photoshop, so it'll be great to be able to work on the album artwork.
I'll be up until we leave. Maybe I'll sleep in the car.
Well, I do know that part of the reason is that I just get more done at night. Last week I finished a brochure for this school-visiting program I'll be taking a crack at. It came out much better than I would've thought, actually. But, you see, I had to lose the brochure twice before it was really finished.
You see, I was done with it at around 5:30am last Wednesday morning before the computer crashed as I was trying to save it. You see, for whatever silly reasons, you can't save those type of documents to the desktop of the campus computers. So, I was trying to save it elsewhere and it froze and everything was gone.
So, I couldn't go home and sleep for a few hours and maintain a nearly normal schedule. I stayed at Webster, reconstructed it within maybe two and a half hours, and then, guess what?
Yup. Different computer, more or less the same issue. Lost the brochure again.
Fortunately, this time I'd taken extensive notes about how I'd made the brochure before I lost it. So, doing it a third time wasn't such a huge deal, though still a 'deal', I guess.
Had I not gotten help from someone, I may have lost it a third time, but, alas, it's safe.
This brochure is really cool, I must say. I got some help from a Microsoft Publisher template and some really nice photos taken by photographer Lindsey Nichols, a friend of Todd's, at my last concert. I made the cover, the text layout, wrote the copy, and arranged all of the photos. It really is on the level with any other brochure you'll ever see, like those really cool ones you may have gotten from colleges when you were a senior in high school.
A little bit before that, I played my upcoming album and/or parts of the album for a couple of the returning Webster students. I played the whole thing for my friend Michael, who is a very talented sophomore piano performance major. He said "It's really hard for me never to be bored when I'm listening to something, and I wasn't bored for one second." He also said he thinks it's a great album!
That was good to hear, because I do strive to give every moment of every piece great signficance. In other words, very little filler or air in the mix. Very potent music, in essence.
I played the first two tracks for another friend, and he was taken back as well. But I'd like more people to hear it. I just haven't been around campus much during the waking hours for these aforementioned reasons.
So, we've started work on the album cover. I've worked up something that's based on a photo illustration that Lindsey [the concert photographer] made, and I like it. Todd says he doesn't think it's there yet, but that I've done some great things to the image. Keep in mind, I'm not a designer. I've always been fascinated with text layout and things, and I can do a good job with it. But actual art diection is not something I'm supposed to be able to do at all.
So, there's a ways to go before this album is ready for sale. Fortunately, discmakers.com looks like it still is the absolute best place to go if you want to print and release something independantly. There's the 'dualdisc' thing where you can have audio on one side of the disc and DVD video on the other, and discmakers.com does offer than option. I told Todd about that and he was excited. This is something we'll be looking at as well.
I'm typing this on my home computer, which has been offline for months. It's back, thanks to my brother Matt, who is visiting and will be leaving with us in six hours or so for Nashville to see family and etc.
He set up my mother's incredible new computer. I've never been on a better computer! She got a big flatscreen and a color printer/scanner/fax. It's really something! I spent a few hours on it yesterday burning 5 CDs for the trip. Todd's going to give me Photoshop, so it'll be great to be able to work on the album artwork.
I'll be up until we leave. Maybe I'll sleep in the car.
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