Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie

What does it mean, what does it mean?

Category: creativity

Get Rid of The Crappy Stuff

Nike CEO receives advice from Steve Jobs in his new post. A great idea for all companies, organizations, and individuals.

Humbly I’ll Fall, a Sammy J Original

I recently finished up recording a song that I wrote. The title is the title of this post (minus the Sammy J Original part… however… hmm). Anyway, would love for you to check it out. I hope you like it. For those interested, I recorded the song entirely in Logic Express using my laptop. I [...]

Guitar Riffs United: Just Add Drums

So I was playing around in Ableton Live and put this together rather quickly. It was fun, I thought it sounded neat, so I’m sharing with you. I hope you like it. I’m trying to use Ableton for songwriting and ideas when they hit. The way it works makes it very easy to do so. [...]

Musical Birds on a Wire

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo. From the creator: “Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original [...]

Come See Me Play: Acoustic Ovation on Saturday night

Tallahassee folks, come on out to Acoustic Ovation this Saturday night, October 17th at 7pm. I’ll be playing some of my original tunes (about 10 or so) for the evening split up in the middle with poetry by local artist Elaine Anderson. Cost is $5 (equal to a cup of Starbucks coffee which you don’t [...]

It Really Is a Small World After All

Found this video on the the Disney Parks Blog. They created it using a technique called Tilt-shift photography. Because of the way the photo is taken, the subjects look like toy models, but they’re not. They’re actual cars and trains and people walking and moving around. Pretty neat stuff. Enjoy.

Language is No Barrier to Telling a Story

This is so amazing creative, touching and beautiful. I hope you enjoy it. [Youtube link for mobile viewers]

It Might Get Loud

Rarely can a film penetrate the glamorous surface of rock legends. It Might Get Loud tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos – The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes). It reveals how each developed his unique sound and style of [...]

Take a Few Photos, Make a Music Video

Fat City Reprise – Long Gone from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.

Using Logic Produces ‘Trip-Hop’

Wanting to get into recording, songwriting, and having more power and flexibility for what and how I record lead me to purchase Logic Express 8 a few months ago. Opening up the program you can see that it’s incredibly powerful and even overwhelming with all the amount of stuff available to do. As much as [...]