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Latest Post - October 21
Uhhhhhhhh...
Is this thing on?
Whaddup whaddup! Gonna preface this one by saying rest in power to D’Angelo. I was gonna type this up sooner but the news of his passing hit me pretty hard, especially since I still haven't gotten over losing Ka just last year. Both artists were incredibly gifted and carried a body of work that will be remembered as the greatest in their lanes. Never met the guy but with a discography like that it'll feel like losing a family member. Go listen to Brown Sugar today if you haven't already.
(10/31) P.S. writing this on Halloween because I can't save it for November!:
Today marks the seventh anniversary of the first Tornada premiere stream! I still remember that night vividly.. was out trick-or-treating with some friends, tryna tell them all about it and keep the hype going as the stream went up late, couldn't stop lagging, and had cartoons that weren't even finished yet. My involvement back then was minimal but the seven years that followed have been a learning experience for me and everyone else involved. It's not an exaggeratoin to say we've come a long way since then. And right on time, we've got a new cartoon out with work from everyone in the group. As usual I handled some of the editing, and you can watch it on the Tornada website.
On the music side of things, my boys over at Shanghai are back in a new YouTube-exclusive mixtape! Gotta emphasize the "YouTube-exclusive" part for copyright reasons.. these instrumentals are so good they won't even let me embed them properly. Fourth track on this tape, CINEMASCOPE, features a piping hot verse from yours truly, which you can check out right here!
Peace to Freeze, Bluvelv, and DJ Rayzor for putting this together and letting me hop on. Ever since the last track we did together, I definitely been tryna figure out how to step my game up.
What a time to be alive. Mass psychosis is at an all-time high, AI videos are still making people fat and retarded faster than ever, and worst of all.. I still got a nigga who owes me money! Everything feels like it's moving backwards while getting torn to shreds but just know I'm still kicking! Not doing this for anybody except myself and for y'all. If anything, now's the best time to live in your own little world if you haven't already. One way to start is by writing down affirmations to tell yourself in the mirror every morning. As someone already practicing this I got a few here: Never stop trying. You smell real smooth. Gait and posture lookin' healthy like always. Fuck ICE. Tell your mom you love her. Rest in piss Ian Watkins. We good now? Aight let's get into it...
Some Recent Arrivals:
A signed copy of Deltron 3030, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter II, Digital Tsunami EP by Drexciya, Allmost Invisble (DVD), Tornada's Redfaced Bastards II, Damn Son Where Did You Find This? by Michael Thorsby and Tobias Hansson, Lil Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation + 2022 singles (CD), three (3) video mixers from DJBajaBlast and MeWantGoodMusic, and a Mista Thug Isolation rolling tray.
Last time I was on here, I mentioned ordering a set of video mixers after catching a video by Nathan Colby breaking down the allure of his analog glitch setup that a geek like me would kill for. Turns out you can get a lotta mileage outta being able to make a screen flicker whenever you want. They all finally showed up except for one and lemme just say that I have found a new favorite toy. Basically these things are like audio mixers but for video signals. You can plug in mutliple sources and manipulate them in real time using an attached board of knobs and switches. How you tweak it determines how the output on the screen looks, which usually ends up being a hot mess of colors that an old, dusty CRT was not built to handle.
The first two mixers to land came in an interesting package from @djbajablast, who specializes in various DIY trinkets like this. They're ultimately nothing more than circuit boards with RCA yellow jacks soldered on so setting it up was pretty straightforward. Two go in, one goes out.. how hard can that be? For the inputs I had one connected to my laptop playing some visuals I'd already made through an HDMI-to-RCA converter, then the other one hooked up to my VCR whirring its way through a beat-up copy of The Nutty Professor. After plugging that into my RF modulator, which is connected to my CRT, you already know what I had to do.
This setup ended with a gross mess of wires (not showing that here) but the visuals it left were killer. I even threw on some music in the background and did a 15-minute "set" that only became more chaotic upon learning I could flick the switches back and forth to flash between signals. Instagram already saw a clip of it but here's another one you can watch here.
Words can't even begin to describe how much fun I had just playing with the switches and turning the dial back and forth. Truly felt like I was in a zen state and honestly the TV would prolly say the same thing. I still got a lotta time to master these so if you ever need some glitchy visuals then holla at me.
As I'm writing this, it's also become official that Windows 10 is fucking dead. He was just a kid too! As I'm writing this, it's also official that Windows 10 is finally dead. He was just a kid too. The last few years in tech have made me accept that growing up means realizing every operating system sucks and you just have to pick your poison. My thoughts on Windows 11? Garbage. Sometimes I'm shocked I've been able to get any work done on a system this bloated. Setting it up felt a lot like installing 10, having to turn off ads and location services and fiddle with the taskbar. I'm used to it, but it's only worse this time around.
They really said instead of Candy Crush Saga you niggas will get Copilot. Talk about propaganda I'm still not falling for. I swear that AI wrote the fuckin operating system too because issues keep popping up that never happened pre-"upgrade." Just today I had to deal with notepad crashing, followed by the start menu going blank while trying to use its search bar. I love technology but only when it works. Any other time and it just makes me miserable.
Speaking of technology not working, anyone else enjoy yesterday's AWS outage? Last time the internet went down this long, you might as well have just gone outside.
In the wake of the usual bullshit from Microsoft, it's never been a better time to be (rightfully) annoying about knowing how to use Linux. So why am I still on Windows? Ehhh it's complicated. I actually have Xubuntu running on every laptop here except my two main computers, which I use for all my editing (and gaming too, though that hasn't been an issue in years). With every breath I've been saying that if I can get After Effects and VEGAS along with all my plugins running on Linux, ya boy will make the switch for good. Still waiting on that day to come.. any day now. I've been told to check out programs like WinBoat but no GPU acceleration means that's not happening. Not interested in any alternatives to my editing software either; tried nearly a dozen and they all suck! Avidemux is still cool tho.
Still here? Alright, back at it again with the update log:
- In tandem with adding direct links to my videos + a share button in the last update, went ahead and added shortcuts to each page (such as 3cks.net/#/donate). Tried to implement this a while ago and just came back to it.
- Added button to toggle CRT effect
- Tweaked "About" page just a lil
- Fixed bug that made Gallery images not open on mobile browsers
- Fixed bug with CRT effect that made half the screen darker at certain resolutions
Take it easy yall, see you in the next one!
Whaddup whaddup! Gonna preface this one by saying rest in power to D’Angelo. I was gonna type this up sooner but the news of his passing hit me pretty hard, especially since I still haven't gotten over losing Ka just last year. Both artists were incredibly gifted and carried a body of work that will be remembered as the greatest in their lanes. Never met the guy but with a discography like that it'll feel like losing a family member. Go listen to Brown Sugar today if you haven't already.
(10/31) P.S. writing this on Halloween because I can't save it for November!:
On the music side of things, my boys over at Shanghai are back in a new YouTube-exclusive mixtape! Gotta emphasize the "YouTube-exclusive" part for copyright reasons.. these instrumentals are so good they won't even let me embed them properly. Fourth track on this tape, CINEMASCOPE, features a piping hot verse from yours truly, which you can check out right here!
Peace to Freeze, Bluvelv, and DJ Rayzor for putting this together and letting me hop on. Ever since the last track we did together, I definitely been tryna figure out how to step my game up.
What a time to be alive. Mass psychosis is at an all-time high, AI videos are still making people fat and retarded faster than ever, and worst of all.. I still got a nigga who owes me money! Everything feels like it's moving backwards while getting torn to shreds but just know I'm still kicking! Not doing this for anybody except myself and for y'all. If anything, now's the best time to live in your own little world if you haven't already. One way to start is by writing down affirmations to tell yourself in the mirror every morning. As someone already practicing this I got a few here: Never stop trying. You smell real smooth. Gait and posture lookin' healthy like always. Fuck ICE. Tell your mom you love her. Rest in piss Ian Watkins. We good now? Aight let's get into it...
Some Recent Arrivals:
A signed copy of Deltron 3030, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter II, Digital Tsunami EP by Drexciya, Allmost Invisble (DVD), Tornada's Redfaced Bastards II, Damn Son Where Did You Find This? by Michael Thorsby and Tobias Hansson, Lil Ugly Mane - Mista Thug Isolation + 2022 singles (CD), three (3) video mixers from DJBajaBlast and MeWantGoodMusic, and a Mista Thug Isolation rolling tray.
Last time I was on here, I mentioned ordering a set of video mixers after catching a video by Nathan Colby breaking down the allure of his analog glitch setup that a geek like me would kill for. Turns out you can get a lotta mileage outta being able to make a screen flicker whenever you want. They all finally showed up except for one and lemme just say that I have found a new favorite toy. Basically these things are like audio mixers but for video signals. You can plug in mutliple sources and manipulate them in real time using an attached board of knobs and switches. How you tweak it determines how the output on the screen looks, which usually ends up being a hot mess of colors that an old, dusty CRT was not built to handle.
The first two mixers to land came in an interesting package from @djbajablast, who specializes in various DIY trinkets like this. They're ultimately nothing more than circuit boards with RCA yellow jacks soldered on so setting it up was pretty straightforward. Two go in, one goes out.. how hard can that be? For the inputs I had one connected to my laptop playing some visuals I'd already made through an HDMI-to-RCA converter, then the other one hooked up to my VCR whirring its way through a beat-up copy of The Nutty Professor. After plugging that into my RF modulator, which is connected to my CRT, you already know what I had to do.
This setup ended with a gross mess of wires (not showing that here) but the visuals it left were killer. I even threw on some music in the background and did a 15-minute "set" that only became more chaotic upon learning I could flick the switches back and forth to flash between signals. Instagram already saw a clip of it but here's another one you can watch here.
Words can't even begin to describe how much fun I had just playing with the switches and turning the dial back and forth. Truly felt like I was in a zen state and honestly the TV would prolly say the same thing. I still got a lotta time to master these so if you ever need some glitchy visuals then holla at me.As I'm writing this, it's also become official that Windows 10 is fucking dead. He was just a kid too! As I'm writing this, it's also official that Windows 10 is finally dead. He was just a kid too. The last few years in tech have made me accept that growing up means realizing every operating system sucks and you just have to pick your poison. My thoughts on Windows 11? Garbage. Sometimes I'm shocked I've been able to get any work done on a system this bloated. Setting it up felt a lot like installing 10, having to turn off ads and location services and fiddle with the taskbar. I'm used to it, but it's only worse this time around.
They really said instead of Candy Crush Saga you niggas will get Copilot. Talk about propaganda I'm still not falling for. I swear that AI wrote the fuckin operating system too because issues keep popping up that never happened pre-"upgrade." Just today I had to deal with notepad crashing, followed by the start menu going blank while trying to use its search bar. I love technology but only when it works. Any other time and it just makes me miserable. Speaking of technology not working, anyone else enjoy yesterday's AWS outage? Last time the internet went down this long, you might as well have just gone outside.
In the wake of the usual bullshit from Microsoft, it's never been a better time to be (rightfully) annoying about knowing how to use Linux. So why am I still on Windows? Ehhh it's complicated. I actually have Xubuntu running on every laptop here except my two main computers, which I use for all my editing (and gaming too, though that hasn't been an issue in years). With every breath I've been saying that if I can get After Effects and VEGAS along with all my plugins running on Linux, ya boy will make the switch for good. Still waiting on that day to come.. any day now. I've been told to check out programs like WinBoat but no GPU acceleration means that's not happening. Not interested in any alternatives to my editing software either; tried nearly a dozen and they all suck! Avidemux is still cool tho.
Still here? Alright, back at it again with the update log:
- In tandem with adding direct links to my videos + a share button in the last update, went ahead and added shortcuts to each page (such as 3cks.net/#/donate). Tried to implement this a while ago and just came back to it.
- Added button to toggle CRT effect
- Tweaked "About" page just a lil
- Fixed bug that made Gallery images not open on mobile browsers
- Fixed bug with CRT effect that made half the screen darker at certain resolutions