http://archive.homepie.org The Homepie Archive Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:06:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This weblog is largely inactive, but I'd like to give a few words why. It began at a time where I had a lot of time on my hands. I was living at home, having left college, saving up money to go abroad. I had time. I had time to do ... http://archive.homepie.org/annotation/year2008/the-necessity-of-no-update/ Recently, the need for a set schedule of recording, encoding, and uploading audio has been on my mind. Much of it has already been transferred and resides on one of my happily chaotic hard drives; it merely needs organization. But a great bulk still resides in a tiny box in ... http://archive.homepie.org/annotation/year2005/daunting-task/ The Premise: I have accrued literally years worth of audio from various sources, on various media, and I am doing nothing with it. My trusted bionic microphones have recorded a veritable canon — a canon which includes friends sitting around and talking, walking around and people-watching with said friends, friends ... http://archive.homepie.org/annotation/year2005/the-theory/ A short little recording today from my faithful wayback machine: the Getty Center fountain. A transient pause with Lauren and Michael in a day filled with art. Posing. Smoking more than expected. Shooting the shit. Where's Bren? What cat scratched you? The sound's not too great. I'm told it was a ... http://archive.homepie.org/audio/year2003/at-the-getty-center/ A trip to the Riverside County Date Festival, starring Mickey and Lauren, Angela, the kids from the center, lotsa goats (and other livestock), some awesome and not-so-awesome karaoke performances, and more than a few windchimes. Yes windchimes. In the second track, "Wandering Ear," I appear to have walked around ... http://archive.homepie.org/audio/year2003/the-date-festival/ A gathering of minds and the atmosphere of an age: being at Angela and Mike's. I had to work hard to get this one—my MiniDisc recorder crashed and didn't write the TOC, making the audio completely inaccessable. I had to improvise by using my old (broken) Sharp MT-15 to rewrite ... http://archive.homepie.org/audio/year2002/house-matusiak/