PLUG THREAD:

tim · Post by **tim** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 7:47 am

hey all!

a bunch of comedy friends and i have been working on this zine. the first issue is here: http://functionallydead.com/

sorry for plugging, but think it's very ~DISMANTLE~ group, maybe!

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:31 pm

This is really funny, Tim! Thank you for the laughs!

tim · Post by **tim** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:40 pm

yourfriendclaire wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:31 pm This is really funny, Tim! Thank you for the laughs!

Yay! I'm glad you liked it!

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:44 am

Maybe this is PLUG THREAD now!

Share your projects / things you’re proud of / work things / etc!

This is a Crass cover we released last week to raise money for the One Fair Wage emergency fund for tipped & service workers:

https://yacht.bandcamp.com/track/do-the ... s-a-living

tim · Post by **tim** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 7:22 am

yourfriendclaire wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:44 am Maybe this is PLUG THREAD now!

Share your projects / things you’re proud of / work things / etc!

This is a Crass cover we released last week to raise money for the One Fair Wage emergency fund for tipped & service workers:

https://yacht.bandcamp.com/track/do-the ... s-a-living

this is so sick. i love love this song AND love love your cover.

Post by **joni** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 3:08 pm

https://youtu.be/vfN_m8TOrkc

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:30 pm

This is so good [jonathan_stick]. I'm trying to learn this on piano rn. It's hard! Also I don't know how to play piano.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:30 pm

I’m thinking of properly learning to play piano in the next phase of quarantine. You doing online lessons or just freestyling?

Abe · Post by **Abe** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:53 pm

I released a new VCA Product on Monday.
It looks like this:

After 5-6 years I can finally make an "all me" voice.
That was neat to release something after a year of development...

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:12 pm

My friend Mary is a brilliant piano teacher. She teaches children and adults, and offers classes by web video.

http://instagram.com/maryspianostudio

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 6:56 am

We made a Larry Gus cover. For fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmBYFpWRHvw

kenbaumann · Post by **kenbaumann** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:54 am

I like small-community plug threads!

I recently self-published a novel called The City. It's a near-future thriller set in the collapsed United States in which electric power no longer exists and the federal government revives the horrors of the 20th century. It's a sequel to a shorter novel called The Country.

Here's the first book, and here's the second.

I'm proud of them. They're accessible and tightly-plotted thrillers that manage to smuggle some thoughts about Holocaust literature, the problem of power, and the future of care into stories that even my doesn't-really-read father enjoyed, lol!

And here's a short essay I wrote about COVID-19.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 8:42 am

m o l l y wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 6:56 am We made a Larry Gus cover. For fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmBYFpWRHvw

Jona and I are CRYING tears of joy

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:11 am

Wowee! Everyone is so talented here!!

GARY-19 · Post by **GARY-19** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:13 pm

My new project:

https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=ht ... isual=true

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 1:50 pm

Jona and I spent an unholy amount of time making this stop-motion music video:

https://youtu.be/SvVHB6XBxBw

Post by **joni** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:44 pm

We also spent a good amount of time on the song, which is a Sparks cover.

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 5:02 pm

it's great!

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:56 pm

Thank you! We’re gonna do claymation next I think!

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:09 am

Love the Sparks! Love those cars! Great work, friends! I am loving these vids! Especially loving imagining you at your table with all your mag-scraps. I want more pics of that! Keep em coming; they are a delight.

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 2:48 pm

I love it too!

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Sat Apr 25, 2020 3:31 pm

Thanks frems <3

richjensen · Post by **richjensen** » Sun May 03, 2020 9:21 am

Excited about this: [Sound Series / Organizing Space] https://rec-on.org/sukitoaonamau.html

Post by **joni** » Sun May 03, 2020 2:22 pm

We did another one. This time we covered Dub Narcotic Sound System.

https://youtu.be/cMWz0xc3M7Q

We shot the video on our phones then ran it through a machine learning model that estimates the depth in each frame and outputs a depth map. This is the same technique that makes "Portrait Mode" possible, but you never get to see what it's doing in the background. Right now people only use this information to fake depth-of-field, or to do filter effects that are depth-aware, but I really like this raw ghostly stuff.

richjensen · Post by **richjensen** » Sun May 03, 2020 3:02 pm

Nice video!

>>[CLICK]<<

Ooo that Popularity one is really nice too!

Just got around to looking at it.

>>>[[CLICKING BACK TO REAL LIFE NOW]]<<<

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Mon May 04, 2020 3:02 am

This is a fun and cool technique! Favorite things: drum set looks cool, dancing in hoodie, trash cans in the driveway, great color combos- purple and white! pink and blue! orange and something!
Thumbs up!

Post by **joni** » Mon May 04, 2020 8:52 am

Thanks [mention]richjensen[/mention] and [mention]m o l l y[/mention]! The color combinations were inspired by a bunch from this book: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/51181/

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Mon May 04, 2020 9:12 am

Oh cool! I saw a sewing lady talking about this book on the webs! Same sewing lady who turned me on to using adobe capture for saving great color combos from the wild streets! Thanks joni!

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Mon May 04, 2020 10:48 am

This is so cool, Jona and Claire! I love your deadpan, breathless vocals, CC—cheeky take on the originals.

The shapes that the depth map makes are natural and interesting. I love that you layered the frames, it makes the edges exciting.

richjensen · Post by **richjensen** » Mon May 04, 2020 2:10 pm

Some hard working punx have launched an organization today called Union of Musicians and Allied Workers. Check'm out here: Union of Musicians . One of their first orders of business is a letter to Congress demanding emergency support in these exceptionally gigless and precarious times. Maybe you want to sign? COVID-19 Relief Letter.

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Tue May 05, 2020 2:12 pm

I was thinking about that little cowbell moment in the Dnss cover. Such a crucial detail.

Is there any way we can get a video where Claire "plays" the instruments and Joni lip syncs? Now more than ever in these trying times?

uncleboatshoes · Post by **uncleboatshoes** » Wed May 06, 2020 9:53 am

I turned my Quarantune of the Day series into a podcast that is now happening every dang day.

It's short.

1 song is the focus and there's a couple minutes of me chatting about it.

It's called Everyday Joy & Pain
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e ... 1511441466
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6LQM9Bi4g ... sUl0F8unzw

Check it out.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed May 06, 2020 9:56 am

Wonderful!!!
The Spotify link did not work for me. Could be because I am regionally impaired?

uncleboatshoes · Post by **uncleboatshoes** » Wed May 06, 2020 11:45 am

It's not you.

I somehow boofed it on that link.

Here's the correct one:
https://open.spotify.com/show/6LQM9Bi4g ... sUl0F8unzw

Post by **joni** » Thu May 14, 2020 1:48 pm

We recorded a Scout Niblett cover and did a claymation video this week. [mention]robo[/mention] does a sick job playing a recorder.

https://youtu.be/tCNfWZB-Ho0

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Fri May 15, 2020 7:53 am

You guys made such cool little monsters! One with a safety pin earring! One that is GUM!!!
I love it.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Fri May 15, 2020 8:57 am

The gum one is obviously for and about Dismantle messageboard culture

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Fri May 15, 2020 9:17 am

I <3 gum guy with the bulging googly eyes

Post by **joni** » Fri May 15, 2020 9:21 am

I made that one and just could not wait to show it to Claire. I was in the other room just giggling. My favorite part is when “he” sweeps his arm and tiny fingered-hand to present “Gum Pal.”

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Fri May 15, 2020 9:35 am

Went back and rewatched this part. Best part!

Post by **joni** » Fri May 15, 2020 9:56 am

For those who hate video:

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RCH · Post by **RCH** » Sun May 17, 2020 9:01 am

Me like Gumby movie!!!!

Post by **joni** » Tue May 26, 2020 1:25 pm

New one today. Cover choice inspired by [mention]uncleboatshoes[/mention] great pod.

https://youtu.be/3A-KFlcMA_Q

tim · Post by **tim** » Wed May 27, 2020 7:35 am

joni wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2020 1:25 pm New one today. Cover choice inspired by @uncleboatshoes great pod.

https://youtu.be/3A-KFlcMA_Q

this is great! love this.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed May 27, 2020 7:55 am

I will respond with all my thoughts, as usual:
First thought, this is Paint! I also know you got out a vintage computer recently. Did you use that in making this?
Next thought, I feel like the video went well with the song. I paid more attention to the song this time than in the last couple where it was kinda all about the video experience for me. After the clay one, I asked Korn if he'd seen it and he was like, "I heard it on bandcamp, if that is what you mean. They are a band and make music, right?" And I actually had to think about what the song even was, I was just that into the gum guy. This time though it felt like a nice balance.
Last thoughts, I like the song. I like the video.

jamessumneriii · Post by **jamessumneriii** » Sat May 30, 2020 10:07 pm

plug-wise i am wildly excited and transcendently exhausted re: The Last of Us Part 2 coming out next month but want to shout out this 100% accurate write-up from a gameplay footage release on wednesday, in part bc i worked a lot on the ps vita owner shown:

RIP THE LAST PS VITA OWNER

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Sun May 31, 2020 11:24 am

None of that made sense to me, as a non-gamer, but this looks SO cool and I can't believe you made it out of bleeps and bloops!

jamessumneriii · Post by **jamessumneriii** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:56 pm

[mention]meadows[/mention] thanks! it was an exhausting year but i'm really stoked to see ppl play it finally

jamessumneriii · Post by **jamessumneriii** » Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:56 pm

apropos the game: if anyone wants a ps4 code for The Last of Us Part II, reply here and @ me i have two codes up for grabs right now. first reply first uh becodèd

tim · Post by **tim** » Fri Jun 19, 2020 2:48 pm

jamessumneriii wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:56 pm apropos the game: if anyone wants a ps4 code for The Last of Us Part II, reply here and @ me i have two codes up for grabs right now. first reply first uh becodèd

oo to be becodèd... [mention]jamessumneriii[/mention]
never played the first one, but everyone told me to!!