theremin chronicles

bottom of the hill Originally uploaded by lorelei. we’re playing a show tonight at bottom of the hill! we’ll be on at 10pm – hope you can make it!

it’s weird to see your own house on the pages of business week. it’s still cool, though. lord knows we never would have made it into architecture digest. (pics here)

thanks to schlomo, good friend and filmfatale housemate, the latest episode of wink! features one of my stop-motion animation pieces. yay!

sad news – it appears that arthur magazine may have put out its last issue. i send good thoughts in jay’s direction and will continue to hope that it can pull a lazurus.

we just felt another quake today of the same magnitude and the same epicenter as a series of quakes that happened on the hayward fault right before christmas last year. this got me to looking up information on foreshocks and i found this great earthquake faq from the usgs.gov site. there’s a whole lotta shakin’ [...]

theremin tracks Originally uploaded by lorelei. we wrapped up our recording for the next album last saturday at the magic shop. i had to lay down a couple more theremin tracks, steve had a few percussion bits to finish up and josh added a few final touches. next step: final mixdown

michael sent me this really interesting read about matthieu ricard, former scientist and current monk, now the dalai lama’s right-hand-man. neuroscientists have tested him and have concluded that he is the happiest person they’ve ever tested. not a bad score, really.

a couple years ago, representatives from the association of space explorers came to our work and gave a presentation on the kind of havoc that would be wreaked if some of the larger near earth objects (neo) hit the planet. tsunamis, nuclear winter and all sorts of hell could potentially occur, but the presenters admitted [...]

the first reviews of evan almighty seem positive from our temp screening last night. the crew breathes a sigh of relief (and then we continue to push pixels).

cassidy posted this awesome link on his blog about purple and brown, aardman animations latest super-mega-awesome contribution to the art of stop-motion. it looks like tiny shorts they make during their free time –  i’m completely addicted.