#concept building

In March right before I recorded 'you're the voice' I was talking to some people about googling ourselves. I did it to me, and my name came back to the actress I share my name with (she seems like a nice person). I googled DEARCL, and I found a picture of the album 'Everybody's Dead But I'm Still Dying' I did in March 2016. We (my producer at the time and I) put a ton of work and effort into this project, it was supposed to be my 'break-out' and it kind of fizzled out even with all the energy put into distribution, pressing my own copies, etc. It was the final project made by us together after the original 'I'm a Ghost'. By the time I was done promoting it, I felt drained. A month later I was writing Manic and the original version of Seal Team Six. Nowadays it's not one of my favorites because of the events surrounding my life at the time even if a lot of people still like it. Still that album helped me out for along time, I'd sell extra copies whenever I could and sometimes I really needed the money so I appreciate it in the end. I think we pressed around 400 and in the end we only had around 10 left. The ebay one (shown above) might be a bootleg tbh. I clicked the picture and it sent me to a google link of a guy reselling my album, I reached out to him initially planning to ask him to take it down but he told me a story of finding it in some record store in Connecticut. This was weird to me, it had been like 5 years since I've been around especially music wise. I posted to reddit asking for advice on what I can do and people clowned on me for taking it negatively, which is funny to me now honestly it makes me laugh. So I took it as a blessing. One day around then Dontae told me 'Why don't you just upload all of your music online dude' or something and at first I was like 'well' but then I thought about it and he was right. I had my music stored away, and I really looked at it. The biggest thing that I had never done at that point was organize all of this music that over the years i've recorded, and there was a lot of it. It's hard to do it without a clear idea in mind especially with music when often concepts are just themes or things like that. I started with dates, then I expanded - I moved to what sounded good in between. The more I listened, the more I saw connections between each song. The little lyrics and pieces that repeat, that in hip hop usually are used for personification of the rap character but in my music propelled a story. And honestly, in everybody else's too. Once I realized that people won't listen to full extended versions of my projects with throwaways, I split whatever didn't fit on the Light Trilogy I released this summer/fall/winter into unreleased projects. They're not my favorite anyway. Those projects are more aligned by themes of sound, not really a story. I'm working on five projects right now with two recorded. The projects are expanding on the narrative concept, but I'm still learning. Compared to the Light Trilogy what I'm doing now amazes me, but today isn't about that. I understand how hard it is to organize music especially if you can't stop recording, and the narrative stuff helps me with that a lot. It's my own little sagas, with the stand-alone narratives helping me create the projects outside of my main storyline/sounds. The saga of 'Everybody's Dead' is that even if I didn't like it, I was reminded of all the people who did when I learned the story of how that guy got the CD. My co-workers who'd play it everyday, the random people who really liked the effort put into it, the shows, the clubs, all of it came back. My story was worthwhile even if at the time I didn't think so.

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-I Island Adventures: Mini stories from their trip to introduce Dave to Iron. Things like movie night with Melissa. Recover issues with nervous All Might. All Might wondering if Dave spent this much time with him when he made his first suit. 

I thought this up and now I want to draw that too! XD Plus I still want to do summer swimsuit pictures. If my hand could keep my head I would be in great shape. 

So this semester, we’re learning about 3D printing and mould making. We’ve learnt about Thingiverse and Meshlab and Sculptris. The processes of 3D printing and mould making are reproducible and have the potential to create things in multiples. They are also man-made. These processes influenced my concept to work with dichotomies between the organic and man-made and the unique and the reproducible/multiple.