Ecsyle - Roy Lindauer: Artist, Web Junkie, Music Lover

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Lunchbox Radio - Support Electronic Music Poster

I needed a break at work today, and I needed to take my mind of all the stressful things related to work. My release today was this poster for Lunchbox Radio:

Cross posted in Arts

Got a new car!

Finally. My old busted honda civic just wasn’t cutting it. It was well past time to upgrade. So I got this, an Audi A4 Quattro 1.8 Turbo.

Woo!

Lunchbox Radios First Radio Liners

Over the weekend The Mantis and I made our first Radio Liners. This was the first time I have attempted to create anything with sound. It is definitely fun and I am excited to learn more about it. We used cubase to record and compile the audio. We made one for Jager Hour, our not so consistent show where we play records and ramble on until we are too drunk to continue, and for general broadcasting on Lunchbox Radio.

Check them out!
Jager Hour
Lunchbox Radio

Amsterdam

Noble Studios took us on a trip to Amsterdam for a 2 day workshop, team building, and they 5 days of whatever the hell we wanted. It was not wasted, although, we definitely were. The workshop was unexpectedly productive and the entire trip has brought the whole office closer together. We were mentally stripped down built up again. Personally I feel refreshed and focused. More focused than I have been in a long time.

We knew it was going to be a good trip from the minute we got the airport at 6am. Everyone was all smiles and completely embracing, especially towards Nicole. This is the first time they have met here and honestly, they probably, up until that moment, didn’t think she existed!

The flight was easy. We started drinking in Reno and didn’t stop until Amsterdam. Definitely made the trip smoother. Once we were finally there, and thanks to our pilot we got there an hour earlier, we unloaded our gear and headed straight for a coffee shop. From here the trip is a blur of laughter, fun, productivity, art, drinks, good food, and flight butt. Oh and the best pot I have ever smoked. I could probably go on and on on details that are unimportant except to those of us that were there, but I won’t. Basically, the trip was amazing. Everyone I work with is amazing. And it was absolutely incredible to have shared this experience with Nicole and crew. I can’t wait to go back to Europe.

Nicole and I at the Bushdoctor coffee shop:

Drawing and smoking at the Bushdoctor:

The best pancakes I have ever had in my life. Something I am going to crave for years:

Perry Bible Fellowship to end next week

Sad day indeed. This was probably the funniest and most beautifully drawn comic I have ever read.

NEW YORK Nicholas Gurewitch’s “Perry Bible Fellowship,” the offbeat comic that ran online and in newspapers, will end next week.

“I’m making this decision for a variety of reasons, but mainly because I want to do other things besides be a cartoonist,” said Gurewitch.

A “Perry Bible Fellowship” hardcover book called “The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories” was published last fall by Dark Horse Comics.

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WTF: The Most Favoritest Icon

Holy shit! Worse Than Failure comes through with a real head slapper this morning.

Every so often, Bob B. observed that his company’s e-commerce site would crash-hard. No one had any clue as to why it happened, but everyone knew how to fix it. Restart both the IIS and SQL Server processes and, voilà, within a minute, the site was up and running again.

Like an old car with a few quirks, the company worried that tinkering with the application might make things worse. But after a few months and a handful of customer complaints, Bob was permitted to investigate the issue so long as he wasn’t too intrusive.

Pieces started coming together. Some Web surfer from Ohio got into an infinite redirect loop that was creating a new session with each iteration. Apparently, the AOL user was patient enough to let that loop continue for almost 11 hours.

In the end, Bob figured out exactly how the problem had happened: some random visitor using an older version of AOL bookmarked their site. The user wasn’t trying to visit the site, let alone waiting 11 hours for a page to come up. He or she just happened to have the AOL browser open, which would then periodically attempt to update the favicons for its bookmarked sites, and then diligently follow the endless redirects as ordered.

Scandalous Wench!

The Perry Bible Fellowship always puts a smile on my face. Its brilliant in every way.

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Jager Hour with The Mantis and Ecsyle One

Today I picked up a Presonus Firebox and MXL 990 microphone from the, for some reason that defies all logic and horror stories, helpful and supportive Guitar Center. Don’t know why, but they rock. The staff is always on it and quick to help out, without being pretentious, arrogant, “musicians”. I also picked up an old G4 Powermac from a friend, an old monitor, and have it all setup at Nicoles house. Right now we are playing music that we like, but later the fun begins. What usually happens when we get together and get a few drinks in us is that we ramble about some shit we don’t know about, talk shit about music we don’t know about, and generally just get all “emo” and play music to each other back and forth. Good times. So we decided that since we have all this fancy new equipment we might as well broadcast our rambling online for everyones amusement. Should be quite interesting. Check it out, but remember, we will not be held accountable for what we say. Ever. Lunchbox Radio

Update - 01-05
Broadcast was mostly successful, we were able to learn a lot about the limitations of the setup and are still working out some issues. 

Got some new sketchbooks today

I spoke with an art dealer last weekend about, surprisingly enough, art. We were on the subject of sketching and moving past the stage of drawing for myself, to sharing it with the world. He liked what he saw for the most part and suggested that I gift my work at burningman this year as a way to get my name out there. Nicole and I thought it was a great idea. He suggested I pick up some Moleskine books and just start working, then, as things tend to go at burningman, hand them out to the people that I meet. I ordered two last friday and they arrived this morning. All I have to say is that I absolutely love them. They are the perfect size, the paper quality is amazing, and the bind is top notch. The books open up perfectly flat so I can use every inch of the paper. There is an elastic band to keep it closed, a page marker, and a very handy & convenient folder in the back. My boss loved it so much I had to give him my second one.