Teft’s Blog

Ever wanted to draw on somebody’s web site? Do a little virtual graffiti? Tag a page with your logo? Now you can! Drawhere.com has created a cool, dead simple tool that allows you to draw on any page. Is it Photoshop drawing? No. Windows Paint? More like […]

I recently took a trip into the Humboldt county redwoods park. Avenue of the Giants! Absolutely incredible visuals. To think, some of these trees were alive while Christ was on earth and while the pyramids were being built. Wow! Naturally, I brought my photo gear for some ancient forest photography.
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It’s the weekend, so I figured an off-topic post would be cool. This has got to be one of the best forum threads I’ve followed in a long time! It’s start off with some rules:
Rules: cut the subject out and put him in another situation.
Sounds fair … 28 pages of photoshop’ed images!!! […]

Last.FM has created a very cool social network around music. You discover new artists around other poeple’s music compatibility. If you listen to a lot of Daft Punk, then it will recommend what others have listened to after Daft Punk. How cool is that!? Then, they compile a chart based on […]

Why do we have to have an endless number of audio plugin formats? I can’t imagine being an audio developer today and having to support so many different formats and operating systems. You’ve got Windows, Mac, and now Linux for the OS’s, but the plugins are ridiculous. When Apple bought Logic, they […]

A lot of people ask me when they first get started in building a home studio “what do you recommend I buy?” It’s such a broad question! So many choices, options, and paths to walk down. Do you dance with Digidesign and the ProTools money pit? Or do you amalgamate a […]

Ohhhh baby … this fall is gonna be good, at least I hope it’s gonna be good. If you do a search on “22mp canon”, everybody is rumoring up a storm about the 1Ds MK3 potential release and what could be in store for it’s feature set (1D Mark3’s big brother). First off, […]

I’ve read a lot of magazines talking about lighting up landscapes at night for some dramatic shots. Same goes for macro photography! The key is to take many shots with different lighting angles, because you never know which shot is the winner until you pull it up on the computer screen. A […]

I remember when I first started out in music production not having a single clue how samples and loops were constructed. I was like “how do people produce these sounds?!” One the goals for this blog is to help people learn production techniques and to give away production material (loops, samples, kits, etc). […]

Last weekend Mimi and I took a saturday over to the bay area. Fishermans warf … glorious fresh fish! About three weeks ago I had seen a local news cast talking about a coffee roasting company that was selling coffee out of a garage, and people have driven all the way across the […]