Blog from November 2011

There are 2 blog entries from November 2011

Ave Maria
November 30th, 2011 | View Post
JJ Baty is performing Ave Maria in the upcoming Kujda wedding. He's a well-trained opera singer and I have no doubt that he's going to kill it. But since he doesn't really want to do it A Cappella and doesn't want to use a tape, he asked if I could play a basic background accompaniment to it.

Since he lives in Houston and I live in Austin, I recorded this quick version just so that he had something to work with. It's FAR from intricate, but should suffice for what we're doing.

Many thanks to my good buddy Preston for lending me his cherished classical guitar.


My Brewster Logo
November 16th, 2011 | View Post

The original
On our way back from Orlando, I was showing Caroline some tricks for getting a little better at Photoshop. Unfortunately whenever I try to show anyone how to use Photoshop, particularly if I have my own computer with me, it just makes me want to play with it as well. Anyway, we started playing with a picture we had recently taken on our trip to Garner State Park of Brewster (her dog) standing on the hood of my car.

After about an hour of trimming, layering, and really not having any idea of what I wanted to do, I came up with an idea to create a simple two-tone picture out of the original. The image below is what resulted.


Brewster: 1) Caroline's Dog; 2) A former Austin city council member