Other Parts Of Media

So, going on from the last post, you may have read that I was not doing too well in terms of creative thinking and inspiration.

I can confirm that I have began getting out of this (I'll call) 'mood' and I have now started to resume almost where I left off. This 'mood' is still somewhat affecting me still, but not as much as it was. 

Strangely enough, as I walk on the thin line that is my degree to career path, I can't help but notice my interests are beginning to set in motion other media interests I assumed I was not going to go into or be bothered, and so this path is starting to have multiple different paths now.

The meaning from my 'trippy' description is, that I am starting to get interested in other parts of media I thought I wasn't going to pursue nor even try to work under.

Although I type posts in my blog, I've never really seen myself pursuing any type of job that would require me to type posts professionally such as journalism. I always thought of the Weekly Changy to be more of something to do and report to you in my spare time, but Ive never really considered it to be a job. Now that university is over however, I can't help but think, whether I could type up articles for a magazine or something? just to get the ball rolling.

I wouldn't say Im a literate person nor would I say I am a grammar master to be able to type up articles all the time, but who knows.

Another completely different side to what I've been taught in my degree is music making. To the delight of Dave Collins (aka Ion Daemon) when he eventually reads this, I have recently found the urge to begin music making. By music making I mean attempting to make dance music tracks. 

What genre? I have no idea, whatever Im good at I guess. The only problem I have with this notion of making music, on the computer (through ableton) is that I don't have a clue as to what all the music technology terms mean and what they do. I've only recently learnt what the 'filter' does and what the 'Gater' and 'Flanger' does to tracks, as for practically everything else, I haven't the faintest idea. One thing I do know though, is the piano. I have learnt that I can create new chords and synths very easily, but I just can't can't carry on from that.

In terms of equipment, I have my mac, and a 49 key MIDI keyboard. I am unsure whether this is all I really need to begin making tracks. 

If I am to work on my first track, whatever it will be, If I can make one, that is around 3 minutes +, then I will be satisfied and will go on to continue. I have more ideas and plans that surround this trend, but it all depends on whether I can make the tracks that I audibly envision in my mind (if audibly is a word). I know everyone has their own way of 'getting there' and their own way of making music, but to be honest I feel that I am dipping my toe into the pond of music making, and so far have found nothing for me to go on, apart from being able to make chords and synths spontaneously and easily.

Other News:

JAK'D Union Closes It's Server.

As you may have or may not have known, I wasn't only typing posts for the Weekly Changy. I was also part of the JAK'D Union, that was a FTB Server and I was typing articles and PR's for the players and events surrounding the players on the server. 

However due to a large time period of inactivity, the JAK'D Union have cancelled and closed the server.

During my time of being in Skiathos, moving to the flat, and having no Internet for a while, there was also a large patch of post inactivity too. Over this period also saw a mass decrease in players signing onto the server, and so all members of JAK'D Union felt the closure of the server, to be the best decision. 

So for those who never saw such extravagant constructions such as Hudson1911's naval vessel, RamothV's tower, Piceas1's Bank (and maze but I never even saw that!), Ionzor and Hudson1911's prison, then Im afraid you will never see them.