Apple: The Underdog Monopoly

27 July 2009 No comments »

As many of you probably know, I am an OS X programmer. I write programs for OS X and every now and then I’ll write something for the iPhone. Usually these are just to fill my own needs and never get released, but nevertheless I have to deal with Apple to get my apps running.

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MeGUI Tutorial

23 July 2009 2 comments »

MeGUI is my preferred encoder on Windows, something I still haven’t found an equivalent for in OS X (though Handbrake is pretty close). It’s incredibly powerful, but unfortunately it can be a bit difficult and confusing to get it setup at first. So I give you the first in a series of videos about encoding video covering everything from encoding to deinterlacing to fixing levels on both Windows and OS X.

Links:
MeGUI – http://sourceforge.net/projects/megui/
ffdshow tryouts – http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
AviSynth – http://avisynth.org

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History of Recording – Bonus Material

14 July 2009 No comments »

When I originally went to interview Cas for my History of Recording documentary I actually spent the entire morning there and ended up with almost two hours of interview material of which I only got to use about 3 minutes worth in the documentary itself. So I picked out some other interesting portions of the interview that didn’t make it into the documentary for everyone to listen to.

This first clip is the full introduction segment:

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Next is the story of how the term Hi-Fi for High Fidelity came to be:

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This is the story of his favorite recording and how he came to do personal recordings of Rosa Ponselle singing after she retired in Baltimore:

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A short clip on the original mechanical Victrolas as well as the first of two records in their entirety:

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A clip on the quality of recordings and records during WWII, and the full recording of Enrico Caruso from 1919:

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A clip on the origin of stereo and how stereo records work as well as the introduction of LPs:

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And finally, the full conductors introduction to the first LP edition of Handel’s Messiah.

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History of Recording

13 July 2009 No comments »

Here’s another project I did in Spring ’09 for Audio Production class. This was my audio documentary project on the history of recording. It won 1st place in the Audio Doc category at the Media Arts Festival at my school.

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by: Kevin Vinck

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Death by Scrabble

11 July 2009 No comments »

While I’m working on a fully functional project page I figured I would post some of the projects I’ve been working on here.

This first one is from my Audio Production class last semester. The assignment was to take a short story and create and audio drama out of it. We chose Death by Scrabble by Charlie Fish. Enjoy!

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by: Kevin Vinck, Brian Debbie, Rachel Stump.

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Northern Central Rail Trail

10 July 2009 No comments »
NCR Trail

NCR Trail

Yesterday I decided to get out my bike and head to the Northern Central Rail Trail up in Northern Baltimore. I had actually tried to get there twice before but was thwarted by unforeseen circumstances (I couldn’t figure out how to attach the bike rack to my car.)

The Northern Central Railroad Trail runs along what used to be a a railroad track, running 21 miles from Baltimore, Maryland to Sunbury, Pennsylvania. I rode the portion from Monkton to White Hill. Since it used to be a railroad track the trail is very smooth and even so I went a good 10-12mph the whole way.

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iPod Color

22 December 2008 No comments »

 

Touch the rainbow.

Touch the rainbow.

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Thus the Cold Comes

10 December 2008 1 comment »

Thus the Cold Comes

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A record player hums softly in the background of the dark room, the whispered tones of Sinatra filling in the dusty corners. A solitary candle sits glowing on the table in the center of the room, the flickering light illuminating the wrinkled crevasses of the old woman’s face. Ms. Bockner sits in her wheelchair at the table reminiscing of times gone past. She was once a powerful woman, the CEO of a successful company. That was all gone now. Lost to the winter winds, the result of an ill-considered business deal. She now sits alone. She sits apart from humanity and blames it for her fate.

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Prometheus Fire

6 December 2008 No comments »

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Kalen

10 November 2008 No comments »

A story I wrote for class, based on the Finnish legend of Kullerwoinen.

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Kalen was cursed. He was cursed since birth. He was cursed in everything he did. Or at least that the way he would tell it. In reality, Kalen was a blue-collar worker living in New York. 25-years-old, barely having finished high school and still living with his parents, you could say he was a bit of a late-bloomer. Or he could just be “slow.” In any case, he was plagued with incredibly bad luck. Ever since he was a baby he could never seem to do anything right. He was born prematurely, a breech birth, and almost died in the action. His mother was young. Too young to have a baby, and too righteous to have an abortion (or so her parents said), and thus the baby was given up for adoption.

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