DISMANTLE WHARF

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!

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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

http://instagram.com/maryspianostudio

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

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.

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

Wowee! Everyone is so talented here!!

My new project:

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

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

https://youtu.be/SvVHB6XBxBw

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

it's great!

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

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.

I love it too!

Thanks frems <3

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

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.

Nice video!

>>[CLICK]<<

Ooo that Popularity one is really nice too!

Just got around to looking at it.

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

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!

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/

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!

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

It's not you.

I somehow boofed it on that link.

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

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

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

The gum one is obviously for and about Dismantle messageboard culture

I <3 gum guy with the bulging googly eyes

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.”

Went back and rewatched this part. Best part!

For those who hate video:

Me like Gumby movie!!!!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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!!