made in costa rica: a blog by josue salazar of short notes in toronto about tech » music http://www.madeincr.com short notes on technology by josue salazar Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:35:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Stop Motion Sunsets http://www.madeincr.com/notes/stop-motion-sunsets/ http://www.madeincr.com/notes/stop-motion-sunsets/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:50:45 +0000 Josue Salazar http://www.madeincr.com/?p=503 Continuing with my experiments in stop motion photography comes my latest project.

The scene is what’s leftover from a bonfire the night before (in what probably will be the latest bonfire of the season), chairs turned upside down over night by the wind make for a memorable view.

5 hours of shooting frames every 15 seconds with my Canon Rebel XT on a tripod, with the shutter handled by Dragon Stop Motion on my mac.

Post processing included bumping the vibrance and highlights all the way up in Aperture for every shot and doing an Image Sequence in Quicktime Pro set to 6 frames per second.

The song is The Field’s Everybody’s got to learn sometime.

The video is embedded below but I highly recommend you click through to Vimeo and see it in HD:

View “Fall in Muskoka, a timelapse of the sunset” in HD.

PS: There’s another timelapse coming later on today.

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FAIL.

]]> http://www.madeincr.com/notes/the-submarines-fail/feed/ 0 Francis and the lights http://www.madeincr.com/notes/francis-and-the-lights/ http://www.madeincr.com/notes/francis-and-the-lights/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:58:30 +0000 Josue Salazar http://www.madeincr.com/2008/11/13/#note-491 Francis and the Lights is a band I discovered recently. They’re a part of The Normative LLC, the “record label” founded by Jacob Lodwick, the guy who started Vimeo. They don’t do normal record deals, Francis and the Lights recently incorporated into it’s own company with an initial investment by Normative. It’s all a very interesting initiative for the band to control what they produce and for Normative it’s a great act to promote. We’ll see where it leads, but there’s no doubt they are producing great music.

Their first album was released a few months ago, available on their website as a $5 download and on iTunes as well. Not only that but their first music video is a work of art, set in a simple stage with Francis pulling some awesome dance moves reminiscent of Prince’s style and with live audio, it’s so good they made it available as an HD download.

Their music is lovely and certainly unique, electronic lovers will appreciate the beats and rhythms they produce. Francis voice gives them a very unique sound and brings some classic stuff to their show.

All in all they definitely are a band I’ll be keeping an eye out for.

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matthew dear

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to get tickets for telefon tel aviv and matthew dear and it was great. Two bands which I’ve followed for a good while, stuff I love, obviously I was very excited to see them. The venue was pretty hot, it’s apparently a new spot in t.o. (wrongbar), and it worked.

Telefon tel aviv have been doing some really interesting things with their music, mixing lots of influences and ideas to create really compelling sounds.

Matthew was only playing his old songs (which were great for me). He’s such a class act. I love the guy.

Telefon Tel Aviv @ Chop Suey, Seattle, WA, 10/8/2008

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]]> http://www.madeincr.com/notes/rip/feed/ 3 house music mix.a http://www.madeincr.com/notes/house-music-mixa/ http://www.madeincr.com/notes/house-music-mixa/#comments Sun, 13 May 2007 19:07:38 +0000 Josue Salazar http://www.madeincr.com/2007/05/13/#note-434 I love house music, it’s great, but not everyone likes it (which is normal really), the problem is that most of the time people assume house music is electronic -in way it is, but here electronic is used to refer to crazy rave shit- and it’s not, it’s different and it’s great.

I bet if you don’t like it you’ve never really given it a chance, so that’s what you’ll do today. Below is my “house mix.a”, my first house music mix, it contains five amazing songs which you should love. Check out the ad, click play in the song order (btw the song title links to the mp3 file if you want to download it) and RELAX & ENJOY!.

house mix.a madeincr

  1. Audio Bullys – I’m in love. [audio:http://madeincr.com/sh1t/audiobullys-iminlove.mp3]
  2. Timo Maas – Caravan. [audio:http://madeincr.com/sh1t/timomaas-caravan.mp3]
  3. Junior Jack – Hola. [audio:http://madeincr.com/sh1t/juniorjack-hola.mp3]
  4. Groove Armada – I see you baby. [audio:http://madeincr.com/sh1t/groovearmada-iseeyoubaby.mp3]
  5. Cassius – The Sound of Violence. [audio:http://madeincr.com/sh1t/cassius-thesoundofviolence.mp3]

Damn that was good. Enjoy your sunday!.

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