And that’s how I learned my lesson. Interesting to frame a strip where I’m the one being taught, instead of the other way around. But I was so amazed when I discovered the mechanism behind the record groove, I thought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Whilst researching antiquated and unusual instruments for this strip, I found many different shapes, sizes and purposes, with one common thread: medieval music sounds terrible. YMMV, but them’s my deductions! I also found a few lovely quotes, such as this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This might be one of those cases where I really really wanted to cap the strip with a certain image maybe kinda a little. I can totally see Data as a Rush fan, possibly because of this video. As you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’d like to take a moment and bask in the idea of Frank Zappa, Dee Snider and John Denver not only sharing the same ideological makeup, but just being in the same room together. *ahhhhhh* A few interesting tidbits I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A modern parable! No, I don’t own a music shop, but doing this strip makes me wish I did. Some clefs I didn’t get a chance to go into: One may notice I mentioned the C-clef (which also serves as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As much as I liked getting into the nuts and bolts of the vocoder (and I hope you did too), I want to back up to the Euphonia for a twinkle. Okay. It’s 1846. Imagine you’re at a demonstration for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So here it is! The strip that started it all, basically. I originally put it up on Tumblr, but felt it was never given a fair shake; despite being a well-known image repository, it’s very stingy with how big those[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What a boot to October’s cobbles! Yes, I’m mighty interested in the ways the spirit world has (purportedly) attempted to contact us. As mentioned, I’ve gone ghost hunting along Archer Avenue in Chicago, the Eldred House in Eldred, IL, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Extra, extra! Curious newspaper all about Leon Theremin’s life unearthed and put up for display! No, it’s not me aping a ’30s era daily just because I could! Gosh, these old-timey rags sure used a lot of exclamation points! For[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
aka SFERICS: A DUMB NAME FOR A COOL THING LINKITY LINKS: A thorough sferics website with aesthetics and coding from 1998 Live streams of sferics from Europe and the East Coast Good examples of sferic sounds Sferics from Earth and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…