For Your Listening Pleasure I: Snow

I thought I'd take a 45-minute break from my studying for finals to record a little Christmas diddy for my faithful follower(s). I haven't released anything musical for over a year, so I figured you'd like to hear something new of mine. Just a quick a recording of a totally new arrangement, written by yours truly.

Also, we got our very first snow today! Yippie-kai-ay for a light dusting.

It's a wonderful song...I don't know why I can't find any other people covering it. And I thought I'd give a you a little looped animation to look at while you're listening.

So here it is. Snow from the movie White Christmas. Hope you enjoy.


(c) 2009 Brian Schroeder

Blue Trees

I was away from Blogsville this week because I had a major test, a 10-page exegesis paper, and a less important art project due. Knowing me, I'm sure you're confident that I put more time into the art project than the other more important assignments. Who gives a pretty crap. I was given permission to make another StopMo animation! Many, many hours later, about 600 photos, 12 camera batteries, and a colossal mess on my desk later (dot dot dot, enter the pic)...



...I've got a pretty wonderful 2-minute animation called Blue Trees, including my own original score! Hope you enjoy.



Here's a higher-quality version on YouTube. Darn you, Blogger...only giving me 100MB to work with!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaquhsGKPB8

By Popular Demand...

Well, actually only by two people saying I should post it...

Here's a 5-second StopMo I did right before I went to bed the other night. It's not much, but it's kinda fun. Also, it's the first time you readers of my blog get to hear me sing in the 5-second score. 

Here it is on YouTube. 

I Planned To Clean My Room...

...but first I decided to check my blog.  And then I looked at a cool blog I'm thinking of following by an artist who uses Stop-Motion animation (think Gumby or the original Rudolph movie). And I pondered, hmmm...I wonder how he did that. Can I do that?

Which sent me to google. To Wikipedia. To a groovy site saying that I can make my very own StopMo video with my digital camera and iMovie on my Mac. And now it's 1:30 and I'm posting what I've been working on for the past few hours. The quality is low, but I posted it on YouTube so you can see it better. And I performed the original 15-second score, haha. 1:30 in the morning. 

And my room still isn't clean.