Jai's Laboratory

I’ve had the pleasure over the last month or so, to be working with a great talent like Jason Danielson. Aside from being a pretty amazing human being, he is also multi-talented in many different disciplines. An accomplished musician, and nigh-expert coder, he never ceases to amaze me. When I got the call from him that he wanted to work together on a new project he is starting, I of course jumped at the chance.

Jason is building a music website that will function both as a record label for DJs & Producers, but also as a place to purchase new music, templates, stems, and DJ tools to be used in programs like Ableton Live. I think he’s on to something here, since most online resources for DJs tend to not cater to producers who also perform live.
So, the company is called “Swingset Sounds”. It gets it’s name from a bunch of different places, and has various meanings behind it. First off, is the musical inflection. In a swing-set, the drummer hits the ride cymbal with a double-1/4  beat before the 2 & 4 of a 4/4 time bar (If I’ve lost you, don’t worry). You hear it all the time in Jazz, Blues, and Swing tracks.

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Well, there has been a bit of a hiatus. Since I started doing some motion work for the excellent people at Sequence Post, my life has been a complete blizzard. I just completed 2 freelance contracts last week, and got another one to make a friend’s webpage (which I think I’ve already mentioned.)

I’ll update more on this as soon as Jason gets back to me with his next image.

Until then, check out this photoshopping contest over at worth1000.com that @JennyMcBryde tipped to me. Thanks Jenny!

Have a good one!

I have been working with BoogieNet on a project for a client where they needed an Email template for an group mail-out to their clients. I was approached to do some graphic template work, and then some light coding.

After about 2 weeks (thanks to my dear friend, Influenza), I had the graphics signed off on, and I began coding the form. What I wasn’t aware of was that the form needed to be in PHP (oh-shit), and it required the use of tables (double oh-shit) for it to work in the WordPress-style user interface. I had only used PHP a couple times in my life. Once when I was working with LB, since the forum ran on PHP and BBCode… but I wasn’t the webmaster at that point so my contact with it was minimal. The site Admin, Sven, was responsible for most of the hard-coding (& thanks to his dedication and skill, the site is still running smoothly with little maintenance). The other time was in the 2nd month of school when we were forced to eat the big “PHP shit-sandwich” at knife-point. It wasn’t that bad, but imagine trying to eat a shit sandwich at knife point. Oh YOU’LL eat it, but you’ll have a constant gag-reflex, a constant conflict going on in between your mind and your body, and a tear in your eye with every bite. So… more PHP? GREAT. Read more »