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Band Parade
As we grow older there is no doubt we’re eternally learning more and more about ourselves. The confidence of our youth either gets empowered, broken down, or we discover that our strength rests somewhere else or maybe we haven’t quite found them yet. There is no doubt at this point in my life I feel more perceptive and in tune with what I care about, how I feel, and who I want to become, but there are always things that creep in or surprise me as days go by. Over the last few years, I’ve learned that dreaming, creating, aspiring, and reaching for the things beyond my own reach take up a large portion of my mind, time, and energy. I’m always wanting to do more, pushing for growth, and working to develop ideas into something tangible.
In late 2013 I had this idea, with no name, no imagery, and no idea how to pull it off and I knew there was no way I would be able to do it alone. What I did have though were friends, people with vision, people who dream like me, those who see the potential in an idea, have passion for things beyond themselves, and want to build, grow, and push beyond their current GPS coordinates. I know all this sounds, romantic, poetic, or just plan ridiculous, but whatever the case, its true. I knew there were people in my life who are as crazy as I am, who believed in this idea, and who now are helping me pull off something I’m extremely proud of, something I hope can really help bands and artists showcase their talent, passion, and what they’ve put hours of thought, practice, and sweat equity into.
I can’t believe it was almost a year a half ago that the idea for Band Parade somehow found its way inside my mind, scratched at me till I couldn’t stand it, and eventually drove me through all the unknowns and finally to the point where I built out the idea. I can’t thank Dan Middleton, Mitch & Destany Colagrossi, Chris Viel and Curtis Wood of Syndeo Studios, Jon Kopecky, and so many other people. They all sat, listened, troubleshooted, tested out ideas, got frustrated, encouraged me, and most importantly helped bring my idea to life.
Currently, we’ve filmed 7 sessions, 5 of which have a home on the site, 1 thats unusable, and 1 we’ve yet to released but are super excited about.
I sat down in front of the computer with the intent to post a few pictures I took during the last session we did, and instead felt myself feeling nostalgic and grateful. Thanks again you guys, for taking this risk and wild ride with me! Here’s to whatever this whole thing leads to! Cheers!
Oh yeah and here are some pictures of Bailiff
Testing and tuning his kit.
Content!
King of the drums!
Checking the bass
Focused and ready to record.
Click HERE to check out their session on Band Parade.
And please like our page on Facebook and follow us on Instagram.
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Tagged 90s music, Artists, bailiff, Band Parade, Bands, Bass, Build, Create, Dan Middleton, Digitracks, Digitracks Recording Studios, Drums, Entreprenue, Guitar, Inspire, Jamacian Queens, Jon Kopecky, Josh Siegel, Live Recording, Live Recording Sessions, Mitch Colagrossi, Music, Owen O'Malley, Ren Matthew, Spirit, Syndeo Studios, Tom Petty, Tracy Chapman, Vocals
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iPhone 4 Screen Replacement
I’ve been brave enough over the past few years to open up and explore my damaged iPhones. After virtually owning every iPhone thats been released, i’ve learned to repair them when they break. Whether dropped, or in this case of my friend’s white iPhone 4, repeatedly thrown into a wall after a heated argument. It doesn’t have to be the end of the road for your phone. Below are a series of pictures as I went through the process of repair. If you have a broken iPhone and need it repaired, I offer a quite reasonable rate.
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- Front Phone Screen Damage
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- Back Phone Damage and internal components..
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- The battery and speaker housing removed.
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- The battery, speaker housing, and motherboard removed.
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- The entire phone completely disassembled looking at it from the back.
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- The entire phone completely disassembled looking at it from the front.
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- The new iPhone LCD screen and digitizer.
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- The new screen in place, and putting the rest of the phone components back in.
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- The iPhone completely reassembled, except for the back cover plate.
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- The new back cover plate, pink was the customer’s preference.
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- The front of the screen after reassembly.
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- Front of the iPhone, side by side with the old screen and back cover
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- Back of the iPhone, side by side with the old screen and back cover.
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Tagged Apple, Brokem Glass, Digitizer, iPhone, iPhone 4, LCD, Pink iPhone Case, Screen Replacement, White iPhone
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Happy Father’s Day
“Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a Dad.”
My dad has taught and shown me so many things over the years. I’m looking forward to all thats yet to come. Happy Father’s Day.
Mac Mini Memory Upgrade
After discovering the power cable to my parent’s Mac Mini has gone bad, I decided to upgrade their computers memory because my mom does tons of stuff with pictures, or should I say, she takes a ungodly amount of pictures. The original 1GB of memory, which the Mac Mini came with, was annoyingly slow. After about 5 minutes of contemplation, I decided to purchase the maximum memory the 2009 Mac Mini can handle. Below are some pictures of the disassembly and the installation of all 8GBs of memory freshly upgraded.
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- Before disassembly
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- Mac Mini with the top case removed.
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- Separated the disc drive from the components, placed springs and screws off to the side
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- There was dust caked everywhere so I blew some compressed air across the components to clean it up a bit.
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- The Mini originally came with just 1GB of memory so needless to say its gotten a bit slow.
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- I upgraded the Mini’s memory to its maximum potential of 8Gb
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Tagged 1066, 1GB, 2009, 8GB, Apple, DDR#, Mac, Mac Mini, Memory, Memory Upgrade, Pictures
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Selling my iPhone 4
Ok… so I have mentioned I would be selling my iPhone 4 before but I would really like to sell it without putting it on eBay. If no one buys it directly from me here, it will find its way to the auction.
This used to by my primary phone and it has definitely been used. This phone works perfectly fine. I just upgraded to the iPhone 4s and don’t need a back up anymore. This is an out of contract 16GB AT&T version iPhone which comes with all its accessories in never used condition except for the charging chord. I’m asking $400 for the phone but I’m open to offers. The pictures below are of the actual phone.
Ryan and Kayla meet Raven
Few may know that my brother and his wife Kayla have been in the process of trying to adopt a child for over a year. They have been trying to raise money and have had to endure a process filed with piles of paper work, interviews, and the standard bureaucratic hoop jumping. Through prayer and patience they have been undoubtably anxious to find out when they would be selected to receive a child in need of adoption.
As things continued to slowly progress, they were given a few leads on potential kids and thought briefly they could be chosen to be the parents of a sixteen month old boy named Raven. As luck would have it they were eventually notified things weren’t going to work out. None the less, they continued to pray and be patient remaining calm knowing a child would eventually come.
Well, as God would have it, a few days ago they received a call that in fact the boy they thought wasn’t going to work out actually was to be their son. Bags packed and hearts racing, both Ryan and Kayla drove down to Miami to meet their new little boy.
On September 21st, 2011 conveniently also my birthday, my brother and his wife got to meet and hold their child for the first time. Talk about a birthday present!! Allow me to introduce you to the my new nephew and member of our family… Raven Weaver.
In the mean time the adoption process is quite expensive. If you’d love to support my brother Ryan and his wife Kayla, please donate here!
The Making of Shake The Dust
An amazing photographer/videographer/blogumentarian and friend of mine Adam Sjoberg is working on putting together quite an amazing story. Connecting Hip-Hop, B-Boy dancing’s and the culture of many third world countries. These people are living such inspiring and transformative lives within their communities. Take a look at his site and watch “the making of” the Shake the Dust documentary below!
Check out his blog Loose Luggage where he released the video this morning and talks about all the other things he is doing!
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Tagged Adam Sjoberg, Blogumentary, Break Dance, Brooklyn, Hip-Hop, Loose Luggage, Music, New York, Travel
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Foster The People of Nashville
Just a few weeks ago my friend Evan Perigo mentioned he had an extra ticket to the Foster the People show in Nashville, TN. I am not one to turn down the opportunity to go see one of the best new bands out right now, so of course with no hesitation I said I’d go.
Aside from going to the show, we wanted to go visit some friends who we hadn’t seen in awhile, so we packed up my Volkswagen and headed down to the music city.
Upon arrival in Nashville we met up with our friend Kyle who was nice enough to let us crash at his house while we were in town. For the next few days we did whatever we could think of, toured the Corsair Artisan Distillery , ate at some amazing restaurants, caught up with some newly made friends, and went to a couple local shows, one which was at a really cool place called The Family Wash.
This road trip wouldn’t have been complete had there not been some unexpected problems. The night we went to The Family Wash we had just finished touring the Corsair Artisan Distillery. While there we took the liberty to wonder around the other parts of the building. In the midst of the building being renovated crumbled bricks and paint sprayed walls made for some fun exploration. Nonetheless, as we wondered around looking for trouble Evan whipped out his camera and took a couple random snapshots.
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- Its hard not to enjoy being in Nashville
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- I am sure Kyle was doing something weird off to the side
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- Buggin out apparently
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- Check out Kyle rocking the carnigan like a ‘deep v’
I’m telling you this is because afterwards we went inside and sampled a couple beers but had to leave cause they were closing up shop. We then decided to head over to the venue in East Nashville and catch a few local acts. The only problem is that on the way over I discovered, I left my drivers license at the distillery. This made for a small, ok medium sized, headache and no more beverages for the rest of the evening. Bummed, yet not willing to let this ruin the night we decided to go back the next day and look for it. Determined to find it, we made our way back to the distillery and found my I.D. underneath the table we were sitting at. Relieved and ready to leave Nashville with a bang we re-grouped at Kyles place and ended our time there at a place called The Paterson house. This is my all time favorite place to grab a drink while there and would recommend to make special arrangements to visit next time you’re down that way.
The trip home, which always seems longer then the way down, was pretty uneventful. Aside from the removal of clothing as the ole VW doesn’t have AC, we made it back safe. Overall a great trip and I’m looking forward to returning soon.
Thanks to Evan, Kyle, Tal, Darren (who was a bit under the weather), and Marisa for the memories.
WordCamp Chicago 2011
This past weekend I made the just over three hour drive to Chicago from Indiana with Ryan Imel. This was my 2nd WordCamp and was looking forward to visiting one of my favorite cities. I have several friends living in Chicago from medical school and we made plans to save some money and crash both nights on their floor. With plans set and a place to sleep we hit the road for what turned out to be a really fun weekend of hanging with great people from the WordPress community.
Upon our arrival in Chicago we made our way down to the area surrounding DePaul University, where the WordCamp was to be held the following morning. We put out a feeler on twitter and made contact with some people at a local pub called Sheffield’s They had several great craft beers on tap and at least four separate areas to eat and drink, a very cool place. (oh and I had a great pulled pork sandwich!)
The best part about WordCamps is the opportunity to meet and get to know the people I read about and see their work all over the web. This past weekend was no let down and to those of you who I met, it was such a pleasure and I look forward to running into you at future WordCamps. I wanna give a brief run down of the parts of the camp I enjoyed and the things I didn’t.
The WordCamp Chicago facilities were great, being that #wcchicago was held at DePaul University, I expected a nice and comfortable atmosphere with class/conference room style setup. Overall, the close proximity to several restaurants made our lunch breaks easy and kept our stomachs full. The event staff was helpful and prepared for the over four hundred attendees, registration was quick and the two days of camp went smoothly overall.
The obvious downside to the WordCamp was lack of internet the first day. Upon arrival we were given usernames and passwords to the school internet only to find out the flood of new users crashed the system. Ryan and I were a bit frustrated because the plan was to live blog the event. Every WordCamp, Ryan live blogs on WPCandy and I was excited cause this was the first time I was able to help out with it. Nonetheless, we did the best we could by simply using our 3G connection and iPhones to monitor the twitter stream and post updates to the live blog for the first part of day one. It was kinda cool to know that even without the computer we were able to still get some decent content up on the site for those following along.
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- Otto and Ryan struggling to get internet even after it was fixed 🙂
The 2nd day there were no issues to be seen, internet was great there were some decent speakers and life was good.
As is widely known about going to WordCamps, the after party and the after after parties are the most anticipated and memorable parts of the events. The after party was held at a place called McGees (looks likes the pub uses WordPress too) and we were served beverages and food for three hours. If your wondering, I approve!
Overall, I had a great time, the event, the people, and the place was a perfect combination for those of us who love WordPress to come together, share, discuss, and collaborate. Congrats to the coordinators and to the event as a whole! Job well done!