Author: Don

Today’s quote

Stolen Laughter:

I herded the church kids into the art room so they could play together. Twenty minutes later, I discovered them staring in complete silence at their phones.

The only kid without a phone was mine. She was drawing a picture of her cat surrounded by cat toys, colorful blankets, and bowls.

This is a new thing, by the way. I vividly remember kids playing and running around in the art room. It’s like in that fairy tale where an evil magician stole the children’s laughter.

Fourteen

Against my better judgement I participated in this year’s February Album Writing Month (FAWM), in which one attempts to write fourteen songs in twenty-eight days. Despite a late start, I succeeded, uploading the fourteenth tune today.

They aren’t great tunes. Most of them were written and recorded in just a few hours, and they sound like it. However, quality was secondary; my main goal was to become more comfortable with Studio One Studio Pro, and at that I made good progress. I still miss Logic, but not as much.

While most of my tunes were essentially rough first drafts, there were some that I’m not entirely unhappy with, and I may rework and expand them later. Here are a few for the morbidly curious.

A dance in 6/8:

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Pixels and letters

Let’s compare apples and oranges. Here’s a poem by William Carlos Williams you might know:

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

I fed the poem into Z-Image Turbo and requested a watercolor. This is the result:

Which is better? (Count the chicken toes before deciding.)

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Which is better?