I've obviously always had an interest in video and film in general but audio has been my main focus for longer than I can remember. I mean, it's been so long did I ever have a different focus?! Hmm. Well, I can't be 100% sure. Still, I think the need for a more regular presence on YouTube and such is quickly going to become a priority so I decided to download the program and start dabbling. Initially, it didn't seem too terribly frightening, and it occurred to me after a bit of thought that I think audio in general is much more scrutinized than video, or at least simple short videos/music related videos. This gave me a bit of comfort, to be honest, and made the hill not seem quite as steep. Honestly, I wouldn't mind learning a bit about video, etc.
I also finally started diving into the artwork that I'm going to need for all these upcoming releases. The "Mirror Land" artwork has been done for years; no joke, years, a bit to my embarrassment...but at least it's done and just needs some touch up here and there. Defrost Nixon has not had any artwork ideas and since that album is now looming on the near horizon, I was starting to sweat a bit about that one. And, then there's also "Wrecking Ball" which I had not been able to get any decent photos for on my own, nor did I get any real promising leads from putting out an SOS to friends on Facebook. So, the sweat was starting to form there as well. Needing one album cover is bad enough but two?! Ugh.
I literally went through 98 pages of stock photos on the Adobe site and picked out about 25 possibilities for the "Wrecking Ball" album. It took me about 2-3 hours to do this and then I started playing around with mock up's for the album cover. I'm fairly pleased with my initial designs so my anxiety went down quite a bit. I don't usually like the idea of using stock photos and such but I think this time I might have to bend unless I just happen to run into some rubble out and about that I think will work.
Even better news, though, I started doing some mock up's for the Defrost Nixon album based on the photo shoot we did ages ago. I knew I had limited photos to work from and since I'm no longer in MN it would be tricky to add similar photos without getting on a plane, etc. My initial designs failed to entice me but then I happened upon something that I really liked, from a completely different direction, and I dare say that I may have the front cover mapped out. I'm now in the "marinating" stage for both album mock up ideas, basically revisiting every day or so to see how I feel about them throughout the week. I at least no longer feel so under the gun about this.
It was pretty nice to work on something other than the "Mirror Land" mixes this weekend and I'd almost call it refreshing, as strange as that might be to say. I'll be posting about the EP in the next few days, most likely. I'm eager to get this one wrapped up finally. I'll soon be dabbling in merch as well.
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