357 - A Week in Bali

Day 357. I finally got around to editing some of the video footage I collected in Bali the other week. This was all shot on a GoPro camera on a GoPole (basically a video selfie stick). Music is a Creative Commons track via Jamendo.com and it was edited together using Adobe Premiere Pro.

356 - Balinese Doors

Day 356. One of the lovely aspects of wandering around Bali is seeing all the beautiful doors that lead off the main streets: some highly ornate and others very simple. Some lead to family home complexes, some to temple areas, and others, who knows? But they look delightful and are a real part of the cultural landscape there. These are six doors that caught my eye, shot with my Nikon D7000, tweaked and treated in Adobe Lightroom and arranged with Diptic for Mac.

355 - A Little Bit Krafty

Day 355. One thing I really like about using digital tools for making music is that you really don't need to be all that musical in order to make something reasonably interesting. Take Auxy for example. Auxy is a very cool iPad app for making sequences and arranging them into tracks. It's very simple to use and with a bit of thought I think you could do some very cool things with it. It's very forgiving for non-musicians like me, as you can literally jjst mess around until you get something you like.

Anyway, for what it's worth, here is my first attempt at making something with it. I thought it sounded a bit Kraftwerk-ish, which is probably the style of music that is the most obvious type of thing to make with Auxy. Have a go yourself and see what you come up with.

354 - Stratafied

Day 354. No idea. Just started making marks with Adobe Draw. Ended up with this. Andre Breton would be proud. Sigmund Freud would be scared.

353 - Polarr Opposites

Day 353. I discovered an amazing web tool for working with images called Polarr. It's a pretty serious online image editor that offers a credible cloud-based alternative to Lightroom or Aperture. It even works with RAW files, and all just in a browser which is pretty amazing. It is mainly used for colour corrections and image fine tuning, not actual image creation, but the range and depth of the tools it offers is pretty stunning, and very Lightroom-ish.

Here's an image that I sort of went overboard on, but it's just fun to play with all the sliders.

352 - Bali Bluster

Day 352. There was a huge storm brewing over our hotel room in Bali so I set the GoPro to timelapse mode and took a shot every 5 seconds, then stitched all 118 photos together in Adobe Photoshop and exported it as a 256 colour Selective mode GIF with 100% dither to reduce the posterisation as much as possible. It still has a bit, but you can definitely see how the storm is swirling around.

351 - Poolside

Day 351. This photo of Linda was taken by the pool at our resort in Bali, but was treated with an app called Oil Painting then processed with another app called Distressed FX. Thanks to my friend Nicole Dalesio for the great app suggestions and the idea for the image.