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Change is good

Shawn — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:31:41 +0000

Things have been a bit sparse around here lately. And if you’ve been following along for the last few months, none of this will surprise you.

I decided a little over a month ago that it was time to retire Shawnogram. The site is coming up on its four-year anniversary. And it has served me well over the last four years. But it’s time to move on.

I’ve been thinking that it’d be good for me to have a real “business-card” type of website. Something I can point people towards to showcase some of the “professional” things I do. And for the most part, I don’t feel Shawnogram (or any other site I’m contributing to) can really do that.

The plan going forward is two-fold. My new professional site can be found here: http://shawn.mx/ The site contains some basic information about me as well as a journal where I’ll be writing about things like music, podcasting and media production. (There are already a couple posts there to get things rolling.) I’ve also started an attendant Tumblr blog where I’ll be posting personal stuff and various digital ephemera. There are already some posts there as well.

My advice is, if you want to get everything, bookmark/subscribe to both sites. The RSS feed at shawn.mx is podcast-enabled, and you can subscribe to it in iTunes or any other podcatching program. It hasn’t yet been submitted to the iTunes Store, so you’ll have to subscribe manually for now. (Contact me if you need help doing this, it’s actually pretty easy.)

I’d like to thank everyone who’s followed and contributed to this site over the last few years. I hope you’ll stick with me through the changes. Good things are ahead.

(The audio enclosure below pretty much just restates everything I’ve posted here.)

A walk to the coffee shop

Shawn — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:44:19 +0000

I recorded this yesterday morning but couldn’t post it until today because my web hosting company’s servers were down.

Anyway, as the title suggests, I took a walk to a local coffee shop and let my iPhone’s voice recorder roll during the process. No monologues this time. Just the sounds around me. A bit of a throwback to the old SLOwalker days, perhaps.

Saturday morning kids shows

Shawn — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:52:45 +0000

Being sick over the last few days has put me on a rather strange schedule. I found myself on the couch yesterday morning watching kids shows. In today’s podcast, I talked about those shows.

I couldn’t find any online videos for the first show. Here’s some kind of promo video for the second show:

Remembering Wesley

Shawn — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:46:15 +0000

Today’s podcast is dedicated to Wesley. Earlier today, I learned that he recently passed away. I am shocked and saddened by this news.

Wesley won an award at SXSW for this short film:

See his other videos here and here. Also, here‘s Wesley’s photo blog and here‘s the Facebook group I mentioned in the podcast. Finally, here‘s the song “Hey, Wesley.”

Job application post-mortem

Shawn — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:12:28 +0000

I applied for a radio job over the summer. I didn’t get the job and that’s OK. In today’s podcast, I talked about the application experience and I also included the airchecks I produced as part of my application.

Split show 2010 part 1

Shawn — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:57:50 +0000

Since 2008, Jen and I have done a “split show” during NaPodPoMo. Here’s part one of this year’s version. To hear part two, check out Jen’s site later today.

Update: You can now get the second part of Split show here.

Making a plan

Shawn — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:43:27 +0000

Aspirations and ideas – thoughts about what I’d like to do with music and guitar playing.

Would Kerouac use Twitter?

Shawn — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:07:10 +0000

My thoughts on this.

NaPodPoMo week 1

Shawn — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:57:01 +0000

Some thoughts on the first week of this year’s National Podcast Post Month.

Stormy Sunday

Shawn — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:51:03 +0000

Yesterday morning, I was walking out to the laundry hut when I spotted this interesting break in the clouds:

While I was inside the hut, a bright flash of lightning occurred followed by loud, rolling thunder. Weather forecasts from earlier in the week had called for storms, but that doesn’t always mean anything around here. When I got back to the computer, I found this PG&E dispatch in my inbox:

Thunderstorm Warning for Sunday and Monday (Oct. 17 and 18, 2010)

An upper-level low pressure center is developing off the Central Coast. This system will move south and parallel to our coastline today through Monday and then southeast across Southern California on Tuesday and Wednesday before exiting the state. The moisture and instability associated with this upper-level low pressure center is currently producing scattered thundershowers along our coastline and over the higher terrain. Scattered thunderstorms and rain showers will continue through Monday. Thunderstorms can be accompanied by brief heavy rain showers, hail, gusty winds and lightning.

The thunder and lightning continued, accompanied by a nice steady rainfall. During a break in the rain, I went outside to capture some footage.

This image was isolated from the above video clip.

The audio file below contains some recordings of thunder from this storm along with assorted ambient sounds. A few more photos can be seen here.