Teft’s Blog

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 […]

A few days ago my post on the song “This Old Heart” brought down my hosting plan. Dead in the water. Server not responding. I had no choice, I must upgrade my hosting plan! Shared hosting sucks … it’s great for budget setups and low traffic sites. But, when the […]

I love the 4th of July. It’s a great holiday. It’s the United States birthday, people light off fireworks, and we have backyard barbecues! When I think of photographing fireworks, I usually think of the big ones. This year we had the small variety (California approved) … the whistler, phantom, tuber, […]

Over the weekend Apple made a killing with half a million iPhones sold! Let’s see 500,000 x $600 = $300 Million! 700,000 units sold at $200 million profit! Way to go Steve Jobs! With that many sold, somebody in my family HAD to buy one …. no it wasn’t me […]

Ok, so I signed up for RawSugar, created an account, and started submitting some URLs. I’ve used Digg for awhile and recently starting using Reddit, but I haven’t really explored the social bookmarking services. Delicious seems to be the biggest, with StumbleUpon being a runner up. I saw RawSugar from Add This’s […]

Recently, Judy (Mom) came back from a spiritual retreat. A lot of it focused on what messages mother Earth is giving to us (mankind). We had written this ambient track a while ago (last September) and shelved it because it didn’t fit the artistic vision of “Mimi & Teft”. When Judy got […]