July 2010
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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services... →
cameronmizell:
This is a good read about valuing your time and expertise. The author uses a previous article by Chris Brogan as a launching point, and essentially discusses the conflict of giving free advice to friends while clients pay you for the exact same expertise.
I do some consulting myself. I keep a low profile about it because my ideal career is that of an artist, but when it comes...
“You don’t have a million things to do today; you have one thing. If you get that...”
– Merlin Mann (paraphrased) (via spencersokol)
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My SpinTunes Round 3 Song (shadow)
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SpinTunes Round 3 Shadow Song Bio
So when I was eliminated from round 2, I fully wanted to continue participating in SpinTunes as a shadower, especially because the challenge this time was theme driven rather than technical, but I just wasn’t sure if I would have time because I have so much going on right now. (The actual bio starts after this list of stuff, if that’s what you are most interested in. :-))
1. My best...
Spinning
I’m having a hard time turning off my brain.
I ended up 3rd to last place in round 2, which means I’m eliminated.
Pretty much everything the judges said I agree with. (I’ve posted their reviews for my song below).
I agree it was choppy, especially trying to get back into the verses. The drum loop I had for the verses had some nice little fills to smooth out the transitions,...
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“The transitions are just a little too abrupt here. The time signatures...”
– Dr. Lindyke’s Blog Review of SpinTunes 1, Round 2
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“Heather Miller: Okay, everybody. Fun game. Sing the lyrics of Daydream Believer...”
– SpinTunes #1 Round 2 Review: Niveous
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“HEATHER MILLER - BULLSEYE
The chorus and the verses feel like two completely...”
– SpinTunes #1 Round 2 Review: Sammy Kablam
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“Heather Miller - Bullseye
An odd one this.
The instruments sounded very...”
– SpinTunes #1 Round 2 Review: Joe “Covenant” Lamb
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“6 - Heather Miller - Bullseye
The transitions are very sudden. Also, the song...”
– SpinTunes #1 Round 2 Review: Julia Sherred
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“Heather Miller – “Bullseye”
You’re another unique voice in this competition....”
– SpinTunes #1 Round 2 Review: Heather Zink
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My SpinTunes Round 2 Song
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My Trials & Tribulations of SpinTunes Round 2...
I woke up on Monday wondering what would happen if I tried switching to 6/8 for the verses and 4/4 for the choruses, and thinking it might be nice prosody even to have the solid, dependable, always on the mark, 4/4 in the chorus part about the bullseye.
I tried it, and it was sooooooooo much better fitting to the lyrics, but I had to leave for work. While out and about, my dad called to say that...
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My Trials & Tribulations of SpinTunes Round 2...
My original idea for approaching the challenge was to create a music track and write lyrics to fit it. I tried to put pieces together in a million different ways, making two different files in GarageBand and thinking to paste them together but it wasn’t happening. I started to get a little panicky then.
After a couple days of not getting anywhere I realized I needed to take a new...
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My Trials & Tribulations of SpinTunes Round 2...
If you’ve been following my tweets for the past week and a half or so, you may have picked up that the challenge for Round 2 of SpinTunes TERRIFIED me and although I started working on it pretty early, I was fighting to get it done, yes, up to the last minutes!
(Well, I wanted give myself at least a little bit of a buffer for uploading, so there were a few things I would have done over,...
