family, woodworking, photography, K-pop
A lot of people lament the rise of singers using auto-tune. It’s becoming popular in hip-hop music and with rappers-turned-singers. Basically, auto-tune corrects your voice so it’s on key but distorts it in the process so it sounds robotic.
In general I’m not that fond of auto-tune but I love this use of it:
Thanks to those who weighed in on the Great Business Card Debate of Aught-Nine. I still haven’t decided yet: I saw a few more options on Etsy and N’s cousin offered to use his mad design skillz to whip up something for me so we’ll see what happens.
Shopping for cards reminded me of this video N showed me a while ago. This guy is everything I hate about salesmen but he’s pretty entertaining.
(Hmm…it seems like the video is having some trouble. If you can’t get it to work, try this version. It’s worth it.)
Another fun video. Via N’s recommendation.
N. showed this to me the other day; the editing is great.
This game is all the rage at our house right now. In Broken Picture Telephone, users alternate drawing pictures and writing descriptions of them. And you only have ten minutes.
I can’t draw to save my life, but I like looking at the stories and watching as they develop. N can draw quite decently and has been having a lot of fun playing the game. You can see his pictures here.
Oh, and happy St. Patrick’s day!
***Edited to add*** It seems like the game’s servers have been having trouble today. Try the site later if you’ve have trouble.
I have seen my share of poorly staged wedding/engagement photos and so this McSweeney’s feature cracked me up.
My Ideas for Staged Photos Set Me Apart From Other Wedding Photographers by Frank Ferri.
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not as well versed in Star Wars lore as I need be to maintain any sort of serious nerd cred. But I think I know a (tiny) bit more about the trilogy that the girl in this video. She’s pretty awesome, though.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
It’s been a busy day today: we took N’s cousin to the airport this morning and then E and I went to my office’s holiday lunch today at Tucano’s, one of those all-you-can-eat Brazilan grill places…three hours later I’m still full. (Curse you, fried bananas and delicious cheesy bread!) And now E and I need to drive to the candy supply store to buy several pounds of chocolate so we can make peppermint bark.
I don’t really have anything especially noteworthy to share and so I’ll leave you with the surreal “Hamster on a Piano.”
N showed me this video last night. It is AWESOME. I’ve always thought it would be fun to have daughters but just watching this video wears me out. The best part is that one of their parents had the foresight to set up the camera.
I already posted today, but then I saw this over at Metrodad and thought I’d share.
It totally cracked me up.