A couple of months ago I posted Ergo Proxy as Eric’s anime pick. We’re still going through the series, and the last few installments have been really good. I’ve blended a bit of one of them into the prologue of the next episode to highlight the contrast between them. Don’t try to make any sense of this!
[flv:http://www.dograt.com/Video/SEP07/ErgoProxyDoubles.flv 448 252]
The Beat Goes On
Thanks go to Heidi MacDonald over at The Beat, the Publisher’s Weekly comics blog, for linking to my re-mastered Merry Marvel Marching Society records.
In Search of Steve Ditko – Part 2
That’s Fabulous Flo Steinberg, Marvel’s Corresponding Secretary, in the preview frame.
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In Search of Steve Ditko – Part 1
The BBC program In Search of Steve Ditko, by Jonathan Ross, was pulled from YouTube, but not before I downloaded it, so I’ll post it here. This is a tiny 320×240 video, and letterboxed at that, scaled up to 440×330.
[flv:/Video/SEP07/SteveDitko1.flv 440 330]
Colbert In Parade
Hey, did you see that Stephen Colbert is in this week’s normally conservative-to-milquetoast Parade magazine? It’s a good article. Don’t miss it.
By the way, I didn’t watch Colbert with Jon Stewart on the Emmys last week. I clean forget they were on! Sorry.
The MMMS Records Remastered
Since it seems I’m the primary provider on the Net for the audio from the two flexi-discs that Marvel Comics produced in the 1960’s, I thought I’d offer them with superior sound compared to what I posted five years ago. Here they are, remastered for the best possible audio fidelity.
The Voices of Marvel
Scream Along With Marvel
Technical notes:
- Technics turntable, Shure cartridge, AGI pre-amp, AKG headphones.
- Captured using Audacity from pre-amp line level output.
- 24-bit resolution, 48 kHz sample rate.
- Click removal used sparingly. No other noise reduction or equalization.
- A dimple in the flexi-disc causes a recurring thump between 3:15 and 3:35.
- The left channel in each recording was deemed better, forced into 2-channel mono, then exported as lossless WAV files.
- WAV files converted to MP3 at 256 Kbps CBR.