Mr. Maxwell and His Magnificent Musical Generator.

ikenbot:

I cringe every time I see this quote along with Galileo’s name or picture accompanied by it with a gajillion notes.
As much as I love Galileo and the work he did put out, these are not his words. This line is an excerpt from “The Old Astronomer”, or “The Old Astronomer to His Pupil” written solely by poet Sarah Williams (1837–1868).
I love poems as much as the next person, even more so when it expresses the night and stars so creatively, but there’s already enough wrongfully cited publishing done by women attributed to the men of history.. Let’s at the very least give her credit for what she did and quit dedicating artwork, doodles, T-shirts, paintings towards the wrong person.

I cringe every time I see this quote along with Galileo’s name or picture accompanied by it with a gajillion notes.

As much as I love Galileo and the work he did put out, these are not his words. This line is an excerpt from “The Old Astronomer”, or “The Old Astronomer to His Pupil” written solely by poet Sarah Williams (1837–1868).

I love poems as much as the next person, even more so when it expresses the night and stars so creatively, but there’s already enough wrongfully cited publishing done by women attributed to the men of history.. Let’s at the very least give her credit for what she did and quit dedicating artwork, doodles, T-shirts, paintings towards the wrong person.

(Source: twistedcaricatureofintimacy)

I created 100% of the content used in my last video. Youtube wants proof that I “have the appropriate commercial use rights for all included content.” This is the best I could come up with.

I can only hope that it will be enough.

morosemocha:

this used to hang on the wall of my cubicle before management told me it decreased morale. funny. it made everyone else smile.

My special lady friend’s self portrait.

Fun with Youtube Adsense. (Or how a video created solely by me isn’t being allowed to make money.)

I promise this isn’t going to be a rage filled tirade.

Is this about the Youtube monetization thing? Yeah, it is. Will this be an incoherent rant were I begin frothing red-faced while pounding on my keyboard, eyes bulging and veins popping? Not really.

To be honest, I think I’m flattered. Let me explain.

I put up a video on Youtube in response to the Trailer for the Total Recall Trailer that will be coming out this Sunday. Never mind the fact that the first Total Recall movie has only recently reached legal drinking age but a Trailer… for a Trailer? What postmodern absurdist Monty Python Sketch reality have we landed in?

So I made a video which I feel accurately projects what movies will end up being in 3 years. (I also made sure to point out that my video is not the actual trailer for the yet-to-be-made movie but a trailer for it’s trailer.) As I usually do, I opted to have Youtube monetize the video because I am a broke bastard.

A few short hours later and I get an email from Youtube stating they weren’t going to approve the monetization of my video, stating: ”we were not able to verify that you have the appropriate commercial use rights for all included content.”

Needless to say, I was a little confused. I made the whole thing myself in 8 hours in my apartment. Everything was shot, edited, music scored for it in less than half a day. They asked for me to send proof (i.e. paperwork from the rights holder showing I was allowed to use the content) if I disagreed with their decision.

I don’t recall giving myself express written consent to use material in that video when I made it so I did the next best thing and sent this reply:

The music used in this was created by me (Micah Maxwell) expressly for this video. The copyright for it would be 2012 Micah Maxwell. There are no lyrics to provide for it and it isn’t a cover of anyone else’s work, although I did ape heavily from styles currently being used in modern movie trailers.

All of the sounds used were generated by Native Instruments software, Vienna Symphonic Sounds and sequenced inside of Sonar. Sounds of note that were used include:

A Wagner tuba run through distortion and two rotary effects
A solo cello with delay and reverb
Artillery fire run through flange, phase, wah and EQ effects.

The only other potential issue you may have had was that I put “Total Recall Trailer response” in the tag. I did this because the video I made is satire, poking fun at the current convention of constant rehashes due to lack of ideas.

I found it absurd enough that a Trailer for a Trailer was being put out, but found it more Absurd that the movie the Trailer was going to be about was yet another reboot of a movie already made.

Yes, I realize that the 1990 Total Recall didn’t do so well sticking with the original Philip K. Dick storyline but there are so many other stories he wrote that haven’t been made into films yet. I personally feel you should exhaust an author’s canon before rehashing one of his works you already made a movie out of.

The only instance where rebooting a movie should be allowed is if it has been greater than 30 years since the first version was made. I know there has been precedent set by “The Last Man on Earth” (Vincent Price 1964) and “The Omega Man” (Charleston Heston 1971) but in that case the story lines were only loosely related and they had the decency to go by different titles.

If the new Total Recall holds to the original novella more than the 1990 version then the name should rightfully be changed to “We can Remember it for you Wholesale.”

Sorry. Didn’t mean to go off on a rant there.

I used the slow motion function on my Sony Handycam and in the background of one of the shots you can see the corner of an early 20th century Martini and Rossi Vermouth poster advertisement.

I’m sorry but that is all I can think of that was in the video that may have been an issue. I filmed everything and scored music to it over an 8 hour bloc yesterday. If you felt the music was too good and must have been nicked from somewhere, I can honestly say I am flattered: it wasn’t my best work.

If you did think the music too good, feel free to point people in my direction who need films scored. I’m sure I could work out a modest pricing schedule. After all, I need money. That is why I clicked to monetize this video in the first place.

It’s been a while since I bothered to post anything, so to celebrate the fact I am using my tumbler and to reply to the Trailer for the Total Recall Trailer I decided to make a trailer of my own.

Don’t worry, my trailer is for a trailer that won’t released for three years for a movie that hasn’t been written yet. Odds are pretty good the movie will eventually be written and it will probably star Nicolas Cage.

gerrymanderer: