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All the other stuff
One Obsession After Another!
I do have other interests....
- Pictures and video!
- Editing those photos and video projects
- Although I suck I do like playing music as well as listening to music. I play a bit of guitar, Ukulele and bass for my own fun and satisfaction.
- I do try to sing along occasionally... again for my own satisfaction (certainly no one else's!!!!)
- I putter with my AV stuff endlessly...
- Target Shooting
- Creating websites... There is this one and....
- www.NDLS.US www.EDGH.org and http://www4.utsouthwestern.edu/toxicology/index.htm
Photography and Video
Photography and Video Acquisition
I've been taking pictures and making films/videos for a long time. As a youngster, about twelve I believe, I purchased my first camera from the local Five and Dime. It was only a hunk of plastic but it was so cool to take those pictures. No instant gratification here... it took over a week to get the pictures back. I made a darkroom in my closet and started developing my own film (B&W) and printing my own pictures. I sure took a lot of pictures but have only one of the hundreds that I can now find and it is on the right. It was a self-portrait that I snapped with the mechanical timer on my $10 Dime Store camera. It's in color so it must be one developed by the local camera store :-) I would think I was around fourteen or younger at that time. About the same time period I was experimenting with Super 8 film. Those are long gone along with my Kodak Super 8 camera.
Later as a young man I bought a nice Minolta SLR and was once again hooked! Through the seventies and eighties I traded up to nicer and nicer SLR's. Minolta and then Olympus OM10. When digital hit its stride I jumped into that with a Nikon point and shoot and later came Canon SLR's and Digital ELPH's (I still have and occasionally use my Canon ELPH 300HS, and later still came Sony SLR's.
When I decided to get into video I started with a Sharp Hi-8, Minolta Mini-DV and graduated to a variety of Sony Mini-DV Professional and Prosumer cameras before settling on the current Sony Pro 4K cameras I'm using now. I got rid of all my SLR's and lenses using the still capture modes in the video cameras or grabbing a frame in my NLE (Non-Linear Editor) for pics.
I don't think I'll be upgrading anytime soon! I really like what I have now.
video, photo and audio editing
Content Creation
Major changes just made to my digital creation rig :-) I'll post new pics as I get a chance!
The study houses my main computer and digital work space.
This is where I edit video and photos as well as write reviews, stories and novels.
The Hardware
Apple MacBook Pro 16" 2020 - 2.3GHz, 8-Core Intel i9 Processor,
32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, 1TB SSD, AMD Radeon Pro5500M 8GB Video
RSHTECH 4 TB Raid 0
Sonnet Thunderbolt Hub with Blu-Ray Burner, connectivity options and 2 TB RAID 0
Apple DVD Burner
27" Apple Thunderbolt Displays (x2)
MOTU M2 DAC/Audio Interface
PreSonus Eris E5 Nearfield Monitors
Blue Microphones Orange Spark (and some others)
Apple Time Capsule 2TB (2)
The Software
Apple Final Cut Pro
Apple Logic Pro 10
Apple Motion
Apple Compressor
Adobe - Lightroom
Affinity Photo Editor
Microsoft - Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint, Outlook
Toast PRO - DVD and Blu-ray burning and Authoring
Misc. - Airy, HandBrake, Many Others
The full suite of Apple "Gimme'" Apps
PreSonus Studio One Pro Ver 4 DAW
Guitars and music
GUITARS AND AMPS AND UKULELE'S... OH MY!
I got my first guitar at around fourteen (1965) with the first stereo I purchased. Brown's Department Store on Main Street (I think that was the name of the place :-) had a special... Buy an all-in-one Philco portable record player and stereo speaker system and get a "FREE" electric guitar! I did and I did. The the stereo looked something like the one on the left. They had a guitar jack right there on the side of the thing and you could play along to the records as they played! Fantastic.!
I learned a few chords and tried to learn more. The guitar was a piece of crap and I played until my fingers bleed (as they say) and finally just gave up. My younger brother asked if he could have the guitar and I gave it to him. Harry was much more disciplined than I was and actually learned how to play the thing. He was quite a good guitar player and played in popular local bands until he passed away a few years ago. I don't know whatever happened to that old piece of junk but Harry quickly traded into a newer one as his skills became better. I bought a Bass guitar and a twin 10" Kalamazoo Bass amp and we started a couple of bands in the sixties. Harry was much too good a player and soon kicked me to the curb leaving to join other far more talented players than me :-).
Today, I play for my own satisfaction. I consider and see the guitar as art and use the instruments as aesthetically pleasing additions to my media room.
My little collection includes;
PRS - Single Cut
Wechter - Pathmaker Electric
Takamine - G523 Acoustic Electric
Ibaez - SoundGear 320 Bass
Line Six - Spider VI 120 Amp
Line Six - Pedal Controller
Line Six - Wireless Guitar Transmitter
Avid Eleven Rack Guitar Processor
Behringer FCB-1010 MIDI Controller
Fender Bassman 60 single 12" Bass Amp
Kustom Monitor Wedge - 150 watt amp
guitars and music
