Ember Frame
A new web home for my professional video services
Articles
Nostalgia - a lost Some Pulp episode
A conversation I never got to have with my father about nostalgia
Dispatches from an iPad Pro 11”
The iPad makes for a bad laptop, but a great tablet
The Apps I Use
From taking notes, automating my computer, to publishing my website, here is a list of some of my favorite apps and services
I Can’t Sit Here and Pretend This Is OK
It shouldn’t be up to people of color to hold white hands and patiently educate over and over again
This is Enough
We are by now painfully familiar with how social media coerces us to paint a smiley face all over our lives.
Open social media: microblogging with Micro.blog
Micro.blog recasts many of our now-familiar social media concepts in the spirit of open indieweb principles
Riding The Mastodon
What social media should be: a decentralized open protocol
Politics and Empathy
I believe that politics is a good word, even though we are tempted to believe it represents only the worst of our interactions as a people.
Give Us Your Data
This social contract is rampant in technology: give us your data so we can give you goodies
Lost in the Cosmos
We live in a deranged age. So, let’s hash everything out in a semi-private discussion community
1 Month A.B.
I miss you, dad.
Sunrise Robot, or What 52 Weeks of Non-stop Podcasting Will Do to You
This is the story of how we created a podcast network.
Thinking about Academic Technology in Terms of Disruption Theory
New ways to think about education and faculty and students
You People Did This
Larger phones are harder to use one-handed, but they are more useful for some other things.
Separating Permanent from Impermanent
We create a lot of things with our online presence. What should we keep and what should we treat as ephemeral?
I Still Haven’t Found The Wearable I’m Looking For
A look at Apple’s first entirely new product in many years
Swift Journal: Hello, World in iOS 8
I decided to dip my toe into some coding
Scott Derrickson on Flannery O’Connor
Is there anyone quite like O’Connor?
Pseudobook Podcast (re)launched
We plan to cover the territory of creative people who are doing creative work.
CU Online Spring Symposium Flyer
It fell to me to create the flyer for this year’s Spring Symposium.
Podcasting With Remote Guests using Skype, Soundflower, and Audio Hijack
My journey figuring out how to route audio between local microphones and Skype calls to produce a high quality podcast.
What Sticks With You
From your childhood, there’s the stuff that still holds up, and then there’s everything else
CU Boulder professor learns the wrong lessons from online teaching
Why must online education constantly justify itself against ignorance and a bias toward face to face instruction?
Soundtracking Detectives
Me and my friend Benji have embarked on a journey to compose a movie soundtrack.
Be A Little Bit Sad About Your Work
How do you find the balance in demanding excellence of yourself without also paralyzing yourself?
I Don’t Care Anymore (Smartphone Edition)
iPhone or Android? Who cares…
Why I Disable Notifications
If everything is important, then nothing is important
Some Thoughts On Online Courses
Answering questions about the nature of online courses and the future of digital education
Crafting Systems Suck
Almost invariably when a game includes a crafting system it ends up being one of the least enjoyable parts of the game.
Just Pull On The String
Art is hard
To Bruce Edwards Jr. on his Birthday
A tribute to my dad, Bruce L. Edwards Jr.
Music
Crimson and Clover
A cover of Tommy James & The Shondells’ classic pop rock song Crimson and Clover
Radio Ga Ga
A cover version of Queen’s iconic, epic, melodramatic celebration of radio.
I’m (a)live on Twitch & Patreon
Livestreaming my life, work and leisure, and creating a brand new album of music.
Genetic Engines 10th Anniversary Livestream
A live YouTube performance of the entire album
The Best Songs I Heard in 2019, in Their Own Words
Curated lyrical excerpts from the best music I heard in 2019 with links to listen on Spotify and Apple Music
Shut Up EP
I have released a new album of cover songs featuring Sufjan Stevens, Purity Ring, The Verve, a golden oldie, and a Disney classic
The Best Songs of 2018, in Their Own Words
Curated lyrical excerpts from the best music I heard in 2018 with links to listen on Spotify and Apple Music
A Moment of Appreciation for Kate Bush
Despite efforts over time to constantly discover new music, there are always those artists whose work you completely miss
True Love Waits
A heartbreaking song from Radiohead’s latest album
Montropo album release show
Follow Me cd release
Joy Division
A friend gave me a Joy Division mixtape to alleviate a gaping hole in my musical education
Reviews
Metroid: Samus Returns
Does Nintendo’s remake of the Game Boy classic hold up?
The Zero Theorem
In Terry Gilliam’s latest film, an eccentric computer programmer named Qohen Leth is waiting for a phone call that will give his life meaning.
To The Wonder
Reclusive writer-director Terrence Malick gives us a film that does not seem concerned with explaining itself
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
What did and didn’t work in the first Hobbit movie.
Cloud Atlas
It’s quite the sprawling intertextual panoply!
Photos
Pumpkin Carving
We had a blast carving some pumpkins this year with our housemates and fall weather
Columbus Clippers and Michigan
Some photos I took at a minor league baseball game in Columbus and on a trip to Michigan farmland
Going and Leaving
They are not the same thing
Inherited Books
Some of the books I inherited from dad’s library.
DDD Recording Session Photos
Photos of my recording setup for the movie soundtrack to Detective Detective Detective.
Videos
riverrock
A beautiful and moving poem by Arthur B. Sacks about his beloved mentor, expressed in a creative video
Let’s Play Super Metroid
A fully narrated playthrough of the Super Nintendo classic Super Metroid
Gagging Order (Radiohead)
Playing around with a Sony action cam.
Seattle Vacation 2014
Shelby and I took our first real vacation in a long time.
Design
Birdie Walk Cycle
Animated walk cycles are hard
Pixel Portraits
Limitations can be really motivating sometimes.
Drawing
Sketch #9 - Mike Wazowski
A time-lapse video sketching Mike Wazowski from Pixar’s Monsters Inc.