#time base

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A bit of a history lesson for you kids out there: if you run in fangaming circles, you may know about Sonic: Before the Sequel, but long ago, before that game existed, the hotness was Sonic: Time Attacked by Jamie Bailey.

Somebody out there has decided to try and remake Sonic: Time Attacked using the Sonic MAX Game Maker engine (with permission from Jamie, of course).

It’s not a total remake, as you can tell -- it seems it’s mostly going to keep the original graphics and original level layouts where applicable, with the added benefit of having more accurate physics.

Back when Time Attacked first came out and I was getting in to learning FL Studio, I made a bunch of MP3s for the Time Attacked soundtrack (before Falk’s amazing Before the Sequel soundtrack, we had @dragonxvi). But this was like, 2004, and finding web hosting for a fangame with tons of digital music was a lot harder than it is today. So they stood as just something passed around by fans in the know while the game itself continued to ship with a MIDI soundtrack.

Long story short, when I saw this remake, I decided I could give the Time Attacked soundtrack a once over. So here’s one of those. I know I have a tendency to redo old songs a lot, but I haven’t attempted redoing the Time Attacked soundtrack in something like 11 years (largely because I misplaced the MIDIs).

For reference, here’s what the original 2004 MP3 for this song sounded like. If you don’t think they sound hugely different, well... on some level, they’re not supposed to. I was actually pretty happy with how my original MIDIs came out, and redoing them is more about tightening some bolts just a little bit. Cleaner rendering settings, higher bitrates, better drums, things like that. Not a remix, just a better mastering.

Anyway, hopefully I’m doin’ right by those that matter.

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Time Based Media - A Journey

The brief consisted of documenting a journey, through the use of sixteen photographs on a time based media project. This journey could be anything, from a trip to college, life, or a series of events happening.  We had no limits, or constraints, but it had to be creative.

The images we take will be presented through a polaroid template, which we will be supplied with. It must include a narrative to support the illustrated journey. It has to be written, with no digital type, but we can hand render, use rubber-stamps, typewriter or a stencil and many other ways we have been taught on how to create and use type.

This is a one week deadline task, including the use of photography, which has been the first chance I have had at using a photography's camera. The advice and briefing of how to use a camera, and be a photography, has helped me a great deal. As I didn't know how to use the camera's, and we were talked through every step on the settings, what to use, and how to make sure we use the correct file types of Jpeg's and RAW Images. I felt this was very useful, as it helped my confidence grow in using a camera, but also on how to take an ideal photograph. We were also supplied with a sheet showing different angles of photography, in my photography part I tried to recreate, and emulate this as much as I could.

Putting together a spider diagram, i began to look at ideas of a journey. Ranging from a dogs journey, pastels wearing down, drawing taking shape, a cigarette being smoked, a match being struck and burning, paint splatter taking shape, pizza making, an alcoholic drink being made with the ice melting. In the end the final few that had some promise where, a haircut, snow making, shaving, crossword, a bath, and candle burning. I focused on two of these ideas.

The crossword, and bath ideas I began to develop on. These evolved into a word search, and then the bath into the journey of rubber ducks to bath time.