Another ukulele tribute to my favorite band of all time and space :)

Canon T3i with Tamron SP AF-17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II VC and RODE VideoMic Pro. +0dB on the VideoMic Pro, 1 tick above zero on the camera. Clearer audio taken on an M-audio Nova, running through an M-audio Fast Track Pro, recorded into Logic Pro.

Manual focus, shutter speed 60, F/2.8, ISO whatever it wanted to be. Audio post processing done in Final Cut Pro X (+6dB and default Compressor).

Exported manually out of FCPX to Compressor, then uploaded to YouTube.

Hat tip to NPR.

Another ukulele tribute to my favorite band of all time and space :)

Tried a two camera setup just for fun.

Canon T3i with Tamron SP AF-17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II VC and RODE VideoMic Pro. +0dB on the VideoMic Pro, 1 tick above zero on the camera. Clearer audio taken on an M-audio Nova, running through an M-audio Fast Track Pro, recorded into Logic Pro.

Manual focus, shutter speed 60, F/2.8, ISO whatever it wanted to be. Audio post processing done in Final Cut Pro X.

I tried sharing directly to YouTube right from FCPX, but my first try ended up nothing but a title, black screen and audio. Finally exported manually out of Compressor, then uploaded to YouTube.

As requested, a detailed walkthrough for "Dream On" on ukulele.

Quoted for truth.

SOPA/PIPA and government truth squads. Ain't that a corker.

Inconvenient truths.

Happy 119th Anniversary of the 1893 Hawaiian Revolution!

Imua!

For your consideration…

Pay no attention to the data manipulation behind the curtain…

An interesting thing about taxes – ostensibly, they're used to destroy industries, but perversely they create an incentive for government to stimulate the very thing they're trying to destroy. For example, cigarette taxes are supposed to make smoking less attractive, ideally destroying the entire cigarette industry. But a government who wants revenue (as all governments do), will find that in order to maximize its revenue, it has to encourage smoking.

Applying this observation to progressive taxes in general leads to the following conclusion – taxing the rich, and sparing the poor leads to a government that perversely wants to encourage a wealth gap. When the government depends on revenue from the ultra-rich, they will naturally focus on making the ultra-rich even richer, particularly when that's easier than taking a poor person and making them ultra-rich.

By the same rationale, a government which has a broad based flat tax will be more inclined to improve the wealth of everyone, rather than simply the ultra-rich.

You cannot have a democracy and a race-based government.

When observations don't match predictions.

Another thing for natural climate change deniers to deny :)