15 days offline

that was really good! 15 days offline...
now i'm back, will slowly improve my site and
make more collages and music this year.

happy 2007 for you few readers : )

Whats happening lately

Just a little post with some updates...

- I noticed that my audio section (the player) isn't working. Gonna fix it soon...

- I received the first package from a virtual friend to make some baseball related collages (gonna get paid also!).

- I've already made the first one. I'll upload it here (if my PC resuscitate from the dead. Yes, i couldn't turn it on today and don't have a good backup of my stuff)

- Live is workin' fine on my laptop, although it asked for RAM...  So new music maybe comming soon... (i want to try MaxMSP too).

Barba, Dawn, Gaia

So here are three new analog collages (smaller than A4). Enjoy...

Barba Flower

Dawn Wanderer

cu y de gaia 2

Fun, Ensaio and H2O

Three of my somewhat bigger collages (> than A4) that i finally managed to Digitize (using this technique)!

Fun (a collaboration with Paulinho)

Ensaio sobre a Pintura: Caravaggio meets Gisele

H2O Forever

How to take a Photo of a Collage

thats the way:
- using 2 lamps (40W) making a 45º light incision on the image/collage/painting;
- the ladder i've used as Manual Image Stabilization;
- to further the Stabilization process i've made a 2s SelfTimer.
- Then, afterwards on photoshop you might use Levels>SetWhitePoint to make to white, white! (because of the bad light).

It (kind of) works like a charm, altough i prefer my scanner for the smaller collages. So now you'll see 2 bigger analog collages i've made on 2004 and 2005 (and hadn't worked out a way to digitalize them - they're framed!)

iuriBook

So that's my first laptop: iBook G4 (14inch / 1.2GHz / 256RAM / 60GB).
I'm gradually moving my dialy life to it (obviously called: iuriBook).
Since i'm still learning how to use OS X (i'm on 10.4.8 now).
Thanks Kike for this great deal!!

Impressions on how i'm dealing laptop / OSX and mobile life to come...

managing iTunes on OSX

ok, iTunes sucks, but since i don't have musikCube on my iuriBook (OSX) [will post about it soon], i'll have to get around with it. So i figured out how to manage my folders without iTunes messing the names (and having a Watched Folder).
On "Preferences > Advanced", uncheck both 'keep iTunes folder organized' and 'copy files iTunes music folder...'

So this way i can add my songs, the way i like (Genre/Artist/Album). And everytime i update my library (manually copying the song to my Music Folder) i just need to update it by selecting "File > Add to Library..." and choose my Music Folder.

So the songs that where already there don't loose their ratings. And i can move the songs around the folders and it still keeps track of them.