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September 11, 2010

Psychics Bananas and Driving

Filed under: Tyler's Mind — Tyler @ 11:29 pm
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Psychic Banana Forester Experience

Have you ever had a Psychic Driving Experience? Maybe you have and you never even noticed it. Sometimes I’m in the car, and I stop at a yellow-turning into a red light. And if there is a car on my left I’ll sometimes slowly turn my head and look at the person in the car. Here’s what’s weird. Almost nine times out of ten, when I look over there is someone else either turning their head to look at me, or else they are already looking at me. Not psychic enough for you? I remember I was in the car with an old friend and we were about to turn left into an empty street. And I said to my friend, “Hold up a second,” and my friend asked, “What’s up?” And while he asked that a car drove super fast, blazing by at rapid speed. It totally could have crashed into us. Still not psychic enough for you? Back in the day I was listening to Alice in Chains, “Man in the Box” over and over again. And during that week I was eating a ton of bananas because bananas seem to always get ripe around the same time. I was doing the dishes, putting away the glassware. I was putting some drinking glasses away into the cupboard and the glass in my hand was a little bit wet from the dishwasher. Then when I put the glass down on the shelf I had this feeling. It was kind of like, “You can move this.” And so I put my hand near the glass but I didn’t touch it. Then I concentrated on moving the glass with my mind. No joke the glass moved about an inch or so in the cupboard. I thought to myself, “Whoa.” I tried to reproduce the effect but I couldn’t.

Anyway I ate three bananas today and so that made me think about psychic stuff. I was looking up psychic quizzes on the internet and one was taking so long to load I thought, “I sense that I will…NOT wait for this page to load and will navigate away!”

Check this out: Time Travel. Whenever you think about what you want to do and imagine yourself doing it that’s one thing. But if you actually imagine yourself doing something in the future and then you actually manifest yourself doing that very thing. That’s almost time travel. The reason why I say that is because reality is only a mixture of sensory input that we experience. So if you can experience in your mind exactly what you are going to do in the future, there is almost no difference between the two and it is as if you Time Traveled to that very moment. This is an artform and something that must be practiced. The “Secret” and all those movies that try and tell you that you can get whatever you want by just thinking it try to touch on this piece of information, but they charge you $19.99 for it. They also sugar coat it for you, they try to act like getting what you want doesn’t take work. And people listen to that and gladly hand over a few buck and then get frustrated because they didn’t get exactly what they wanted from it. Here’s the whole deal broken down in a couple sentences and for a lot cheaper.

First, pick a target. By target, I mean choose an actual experience that you know you could attain during your lifetime. You may be thinking, “I want a million dollars.” It doesn’t work like that. You need to actually pick an EXPERIENCE. But that doesn’t mean a million dollars can’t be a part of it. So a possible example may be, “I see myself selling one of my houses for 1.7 million dollars. And I feel OK about it.” Can you see how that’s different? You’re actually doing something. But I don’t think the house thing is the best way to start with this. I’d start with something that is achievable in the short term, so you can hone your skills. For myself I was blogging every day, but I wanted to start blogging twice a day minimum. So I actually visualized myself blogging twice a day or more. I imagined myself sitting in my desk chair, drinking San Pelligrino and maybe a Starbucks drink. Having my headphones on. Listening to music. Can you see how this is a more complete visualization? And then here’s the trick to it. After the visualization is complete, actually do exactly what you set out to do WITHOUT FAIL. Don’t let anything get in your way. Complete the visualization. That’s the key. It’s kind of like opening a worm hole to another time. Let the actual work getting you there be the fun part, and focus on the goal. So I did that and it worked so now I’m moving on the bigger things. For example I had real trouble contacting one of the professors of my school to help me figure out my graduation issue. And I just visualized that I was going to call him during the day on a Tuesday and he’d give me the thumbs up on my request. And I called him multiple times to no avail. Then finally I did it again and it looks like I have the go ahead to complete my last two classes and graduate this Spring 2011. It’s pretty cool. So now I am imagining myself working out the details to getting my diploma mailed to me. I am actually visualizing myself calling the person in charge about making sure the diploma gets mailed to my Orange County address instead of my old San Francisco address. I’m going to make that happen. Just as a side note. This is my third blog post today. We’re talking bonus stage here people.

I visualized when I was going to be ASB President of my High School when I was in 8th grade. I saw the current ASB President at that time give a speech. And I said, “I’m going to do that.” Now, there are things that I’ve visualized that haven’t come to fruition yet. For example, I wanted to have my own spaceship by now. And in reality I drive a 4 cylinder car. So I have a long way to go on that one. Am I giving up? No way.

-Tyler

Writing and ReMixing music stimulates the brain

Filed under: Tyler's Mind — Tyler @ 8:44 pm
Multitrack View

Multitrack View

My brain gets stimulated in a unique way when I write or remix music. I can actually feel my mood change. It is a form of creativity and labor that accesses both hemispheres of the brain. On one hand, it takes the left side of the brain to figure out panning and volume levels, as well as navigating through the several programs used like Adobe Audition and FL Studio. While the right side of the brain has a load of work to do because it determines the “Sweetness” of the sounds that are being created and it senses emotional shifts in mood due to the frequencies presented. I’ve been working on a Remix of a song that is way overdue and I only recently have had the guts and determination to open it up. The project was really daunting because the artist I’m working with created a very long and complicated song with multiple pattern changes. And I want to make sure to do real justice to the track. But all the remixes I’ve been listening to lately has given me a boost of inspiration and determination to work on the track. I really want this track to crank hard.

There is a methodological process that happens when writing and ReMixing music. Right now I am taking a song that was written in FL Studio, and exporting samples to be used in Adobe Audition. When working with FL Studio you use patterns that are usually short sequences of samples placed in time. What’s interesting is that these patterns can be converted into MIDI sequences and then imported into REASON which is a very cool program. The only problem I have with doing so is that I will lose the original sounds for the pattern. But the good thing is that I feel that REASON will do a much better job for specific sounds, specifically the drums. As for Adobe Audition I am working on the intro right now and I’m able to do manipulation of effects and panning of the samples. There is one pattern that was using a piano roll that was pretty complex. So I broke it by cloning and copying the channel and then splitting it into several single lined phrases. This way I was able to export the pattern one channel at a time into Adobe Audition. From there I was able to do some good panning techniques to make the intro much more punchy and compelling. Because in today’s music if you don’t hook the listener in the first few seconds there is a good chance he/she will skip to the next one.

One major thing that I’ve noticed from working on music is how fast time flows by. I can literally spend hours on a few patterns without noticing. It’s not like blogging. When blogging, I notice time by how many times I’ve listened to a piece of music. Isn’t that strange how we track time through music, not hours or minutes? I remember when I used to drive from Santa Barbara to Orange County all the time. I used to gauge my trip by how many albums I’ve listened to. If I had listened to an Orbital album, I was about one-third closer. If I listened to Lifeforms by Future Sound of London I was making good progress to getting to my destination.

When I wrote, “Time in Horizon” it was a very stimulating and spiritual experience. The day I wrote the music for the verses, It all flowed out in one stream. Layer after layer, everything came together. The part that solidified the experience for me was when I added the flutes to the song. That gave a dimension of fullness and depth that made playback more palatable and it inspired me to move onward with more orchestration. I remember when I went to sleep, or at least tried to, I was lying in bed with the song playing over and over again in my mind. After lying there for at least an hour I decided sleep was futile so I went back downstairs and created the chorus of the song. Then and only then, was I able to sleep. It was like there was a piece of creation that had to happen before I could rest. Certain pieces of information can’t stay in the mind. They need to exit and experience the universe themselves, without being confined in your body.

-Tyler

Custom Starbucks Cups can make you feel special

Filed under: Tyler's Mind — Tyler @ 4:31 pm

Little things in life do matter. Take your Starbucks cup for example. If your barista takes the time to write an “L” on the bottom to stand for latte that’s one thing, but when they write your name in some ornate way and maybe draw some designs that a whole different animal in the ecosystem of beverage art. And that little bit of extra time and attention makes me feel special. It really does. Not everyone gets an extra special cup with, like today, a cup with a nice spiral swirl at the end of the letter “L” in the word Tyler. And the “R” was all fuzzy and funky looking, as if it had been SHOCKED with electricity! At least 3 people commented on my cup as I drank my Latte today. In order to get a custom name drawn on your cup you need a few things. First of all, you need to be nice to the Baristas at your Starbucks. If you are mean to them and annoy them they will probably draw the information on your cup in a colored pencil or crayon. Or else they won’t write your name at all. The next thing is to make your Baristas laugh every once in a while. Remember, they are human beings too. So if you can add a little something to their day you will probably make friends faster. I personally like to make friends wherever I go. And here is the most important thing, if someone does go out of their way and they draw something special on your cup say something about it. Saying nothing is like buying a piece of artwork and when the artist asks what you like about it, you say, “I don’t like it, I’m buying it for the frame.”

So when I walk around town and I have custom name art on my cup I feel more special than I do than when I have normal cup. The only problem I have is that I eventually need to throw the custom cup out. It is like throwing away a piece of art. It is a painful experience. A little piece of suffering that happens everyday. I guess it is kind of like a nice haircut, it is only a temporary pleasure. In time it will all change.

-Tyler

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