brokenpants.com

broke some tape players

stopmakingsteve — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:39:09 +0000

Hey in brokenpants.com-of-days-of-yore type news, I had a moment of inspiration or something today and got out my soldering iron today. It’s been packed away inside a toolbox inside a basket inside a closet, along with all the accumulated unused electrical components I have left, but this afternoon I used it to fix some stuff that’s been sitting around. Really basic stuff, just connecting wires to things, but it’s been a long time so I’m crawling and maybe I’ll walk at some point.

Here’s some walkman distortion units that had broken wires

The one on the right was my old favorite during the all too brief Blood Waterfall-as-a-band period of uh 2007-2008ish. It used to sound cool as hell in a feedback loop by itself, with a wide range of PSSSHT sounds, and really responsive to knob twiddling and touching random points on the circuitboard, and the radio parts still worked and kind of mixed with the input. Now it doesn’t even have an input attached and it’s still crazy, it makes loud rhythmic sputtering noises and the volume knob is like LFO rate, and you can still sort of hear the radio, it’s weird……….

Here’s a contact mic! I broke all the ones I used to use, probably from chewing on them too hard. Hope epoxy isn’t poisonous lol!!!!!

Here’s a dumb phone that I will try to use as a mic and hopefully will sound good! Like Japanther except stupid!

Oh also I started this comic a long time ago and hated the way it looked, but it’s an idea I like and I’m going to try to start over and make it a lot bigger and longer and it’ll probably take a million years to never get done but oh well!

Also I think I said this before but I’m trying to write and record musical songs. So far it’s mostly just been a lot of slowing down Steely Dan samples and grooving on that but I’ve been focusing on stripping down the sound and getting back to my roots and brightly punching so who knows perhaps I’ll have some music output someday soon.

Now I have to go off to work! At 10pm on a Saturday night! Say WHAT?????

I’ve been writing songs and trying to record them but it’s not working

stopmakingsteve — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:56:17 +0000

here’s a cool youtube though

Max n Otto

stopmakingsteve — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:59:54 +0000

Sorry I haven’t been drawing much, I will draw more in the future.

one more

stopmakingsteve — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:32:33 +0000

two strips

stopmakingsteve — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:03:55 +0000

more Max n Otto

stopmakingsteve — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:32:55 +0000

A Twisted Tale

stopmakingsteve — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:02:46 +0000

I updated my blog

stopmakingsteve — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:21:06 +0000

Hey! I’ve been out of the cartoon-drawing and blog-updating games for a little while now.

anyway first things first here’s a cartoon

Sonic Celluloid was really fun, and my poster looked good, I think:

I did the program, too

Oh yeah one of the reasons I’ve been out of things is that my girlfriend and I moved to Urbana. Our new house is cool, I now have my own little man cave for my pedals and crap.

Bad pic but I was trying to capture the christmas lights glow-y, stuffy, closetness of the space.

I’ve been playing more music and writing songs and stuff, so check this website sometimes and maybe there will be more art on it

Sonic Celluloid 8

stopmakingsteve — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:38:34 +0000

It’s coming up soon!

I’m doing a poster for this

stopmakingsteve — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:04:15 +0000

Sonic Celluloid 8

the info on that site is from last year, this year is going to have Fielded, Illusion of Safety, C Spencer Yeh, and Fat Worm of Error, and the poster is going to be cool as hell as soon as I finish it

it’s May 21