here is another raccoon related creation.  nicole and i decided to try our hands at making some felted animals tonight.  it involves wadding up bits of wool and stabbing it repeatedly with a series of needles to get the fibers to interlock. it isn’t too difficult but unfortunately in also involved stabbing our finger tips repeatedly with a series of needles.

she got a great start on a really cute elephant and i made this tiny little guy.

it was a lot of fun + i look forward to making more little friends for this one.

http://unrecnow.com/dust/audio/10_16_09m.mp3

here is a bit of electric piano + granular processing.  just something slow, twinkly and ambient for your friday night/saturday morning.

all the best to you.  happy weekend.

what a long day.

here is a little thing that nicole + i recorded using a monome 64 (running arpshift by edward loveall) + ableton live.

it pretty much put us both to sleep.

it could do the same for you… so i wouldn’t listen to it if you are driving or operating heavy machinery.

good night.

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090811~m+n

(you can also download it here… 090711~m+n)

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what a nice night.  i don’t think that i’ve had a monday night feel so much like a friday in recent memory.  it was nice to see so many people our riding their bikes and enjoying the sun the last few days. i know it’s sure not to last, but i am really feeling like the warm weather has made it to portland and it makes me happy.  after playing music tonight matt + i walked down the street to valentine’s to see pete swanson + grouper. here are a few photos of pete.  i think that they look much like his set sounded tonight… one sound smearing up against another with textures coming in and out of focus.  too bad my camera battery died.

let’s hope the rest of the week goes as well.

here’s the newest member of the letraset animal family.  he’s a pigeon standing on a crack in the sidewalk… i guess that means that somewhere this little fellow has a mother with a broken back.  that’s kind of sad.

something that is not sad is the fact that this is my 32nd day in a row posting something to this blog.  i have officially made it through my first month of this one year project. someone pointed out yesterday that i was 1/12th of the way through it.  somehow that a bit more overwhelming  than just making it through my first month. they were right though…

 i have a lot of work in front of me.

here’s to the next 11 months.  thanks for looking.

it’s no secret. everyone that knows me well knows that i love penguins… although not as much now as i once did.  it’s kind of hard to see but this little guy is standing on a letraset iceberg.

thanks so much to everyone for the kind words on the last bird i posted.  a site that i really love posted a photo and a link to that one.  it was very exciting for me.