| In defense of the Slow Creep. |
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| For my MFA degree I created a thesis film, which is called Slow Creep, and it's around here somewhere. Additionally, I was required to write a defense paper, which is a kind of work I had successfully avoided since my freshman year of undergrad. I won't tell you it's good, but it is on the internet. You can find it: here. Also, in the foreword I specify that I wasn't allowed to present it in the format I had written it in, and I say I'll make it available in that format, but honestly, I don't know where my original files are. If I find them I'll put that up here too. |
| Alternate forms of video. |
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| I went through a phase where I made a lot of webpages out of tiny gifs scaled up large. They were pretty nice, and were featured in some show somewhere but I don't remember where. I submitted them under the name Elizabeth Enormous, so if you want to search for that maybe you can find it. The place they were once hosted is gone, though. Browsers scale images differently than they used to, so only one of them still looks right, but it's my favorite one anyway, so I put it back on the internet: here. |
| Audio pieces. |
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| James End vs. Jimmy Miike: I used to make a lot of pieces with razor-cut records. This was one of my favorites. Also: the Loss of a Dog: A story about a dog, with Jason Michelitch. Stories: I recorded several friends telling stories in college, and then cut them together. Featuring Kevin Williams, Christine Hou, Anya Rose, Ross Norman. Field Recording: DC Metro: It is exactly that. The Day Wayne Gretzky Shat the Bed: A short story about a tragic day in the life of a child. |
| Sonic Potential in Architecture. |
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| A man named Michael Steinmetz contracted me to create an interactive audio system for an architectural installation. It was collaborative and delightful and a great experience. The documentation is nice, but it doesn't do justice to the space. But you can see it: here. |
| Sometimes I draw. |
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| I'm not very good at the drawing. But sometimes I do it. Sometimes on computers, sometimes scribbling in notebooks. I'm putting some of that here, I guess, for posterity or to celebrate/embarrass myself or something. Link. |
| You can't call payphones. |
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| I lived in the DC area for a few years, and a thing I did to entertain myself while I was waiting for trains was to save the numbers from the payphones in the Metro on my phone, and then call them and see who picked up. After I moved away I had the idea to come up with a series of questions to ask strangers, deep ones about love and death and collective thought and philosophical whatever, and then record calls to payphones where I ask them. I thought I would get some really nice answers. When my list was complete, I tried calling the platforms of the DC Metro, and found that none of the payphones would accept incoming calls anymore. I found some lists online of payphones around the country and, trying a few at random, discovered that very few payphones anywhere will accept incoming calls anymore. I did find a few in Las Vegas, however. I called one, and a woman picked up, and I asked her one of my favorite of my questions (a big one, about death and the impact we have on the world), and she got really freaked out and hung up on me. Which, in retrospect, was the right thing for her to do. Anyway, I was scared off and gave up, but maybe I'll go back to it someday. The idea is nice. You can hear my one failed attempt: right here. |
| Other/older music. |
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| There's a link on the main page of my website that links to some of my music, and from there you can find my soundcloud, where I put things occasionally. But I just discovered that a bunch of old things I thought were lost are available for downloading from last.fm, so I will detail them here in roughly chronological order. I make no promise about any of them being enjoyable.
Funk E. Chicken was a thing I did in high school. Parts of it are me wanting to make electronic dance music and parts of it are me learning to make weirder things. Science Academy was a band my friend Kevin Williams and I had in undergrad. Late Night Television - Commercial Success: Every year in February I participate in the RPM Challenge. My first year (2006?) I found out about it halfway through the month and used it as an excuse to learn how to use some new software. Also all these songs are about commercials that aired during Blind Date. Misters Presidents - International Hats for Men: my friend Jason Michelitch and I booked a recording studio for 24 hours in 2007, I think, went in with vague ideas, had a bunch of musicians swing by to play a thing or two, ate a pizza together, took a nap on the studio floor, and ended up with this. American Tufffs is another project I did with Kevin Williams. We made two songs, but planned a couple more, and I can only find this one on the internet. Cat Time - Knife Fight at the General Store: A group of friends and I got together in a studio and spent a week pitching concepts/styles of music and then writing songs to fit. Personnel included Jon Sargent, Adam Engelmeyer, Sam Brodsky, Emily McCabe. Cute Cartographers - No, It's a Machine: An attempt at collaborating via email. It's tough. The collaborators were Jon Sargent, Adam Engelmeyer, and Maggie Carson. Uncle Fungus can be found elsewhere, but I think there might be more here than there. |
| Uses for frame rates. |
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| I'm not so enamored of higher frame rates than 24. I do think that higher frames rates are a fine artistic choice if you want things to look slimy-slick, like if you wanted to shoot a film in 48 and then step everything except the greasy aliens back into 24, maybe that'd be rad. But in general I'm not in love with it. That said, I was talking to my roommate about it and he pitched watching two 24fps films simultaneously, which is brilliant, so I put a thing together as a proof of concept. It's running at 50fps (because my Final Cut refused to do 48), so you can't really watch it streaming and have it work, you have to download the whole 700mb thing. Sorry about that. It's a little piece of Cool Hand Luke and a little piece of Cool Runnings happening at the same time. I could easily watch a couple full features this way. Get it from: here. |
| One-act plays. |
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| Father Brecht and Galileo: A friend of mine was writing a play as her thesis and I offered to help. My way of doing that was to write a different one-act using the same characters, but without really doing research. There's a fair amount of historical reference in here, but it's equal parts Living Newspapers and Mel's Hole, so good luck making any sense of it. Barn MacDougal, Master Cartographer: A fake episode of a fake radio play. the Spirit of Klezmer: A one-act play written instead of a final paper for a class in college. It's very dumb. |
| Negative feedback. |
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| After regretting selling a banjo on ebay, I started following up on my ebay sales. I am documenting that: on this page. |