A little while ago, I wrote and produced a song that can only be described as THE PARTY HIT OF THE SUMMER.
But I’m older now, and a little wiser, and my beard is a little saltier. I still honor and respect my previous work, but I feel like the time is right to revisit it a bit more…seriously.
The message, however, remains unchanged. Boom, you see – a bear, indeed, comes out.
I made a video with Kris Straub!
Kris makes videos of his own too (with Mikey Neumann), they are very funny. This one is with ME though.
This is of course in support of all the nonsense I talked about last week, which you can get here!
I’ve been making a bunch of videos for Machine of Death Kickstarter updates, and I love watching the particular brand of YouTube channel about making low-cost DIY camera equipment, whether it’s a camera stabilizer or a slider or a TelePrompTer (so capitalized because it’s a trademark).
The stabilizer and the slider I can approximate with some scrap wood and a skateboard, but I got to watching a few of the prompter videos and realized that, while I didn’t have all the stuff mentioned in the videos, I did have some other, similar stuff and could probably figure out how to build my own. I was fascinated by how simple the key element is — literally just a piece of glass — and thought I’d give it a try.
So here’s my DIY video, “Building a DIY TelePrompTer for $0.00, Using Just The Stuff I Already Have Lying Around.”
I assume you have all the same stuff, so go ahead and follow along.
Sort of! In a battle of WITS, at least. HERE’S THE PROOF:
Machine of Death vs. THE WIZARD from David Malki ! on Vimeo.
Machine of Death games are in the warehouse and shipping now! A bunch of people have already gotten theirs! This is incredibly satisfying to me!!
We will make them available to the general public after all the pre-orders go out. Hooray!!
Here’s something neat! I was contacted by Audible.co.uk and asked if I’d like to help promote the new book by historian and memoirist Bill Bryson, One Summer: America 1927. TURNS OUT it’s a really interesting book filled with factoids and stories about the personalities and social movements of the 1920s — Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Al Jolson, and many others whose names are less familiar to us now.
Audible allowed me to, uh, loosely interpret some of the moments in the book to create a series of six animated videos! The first casts Babe Ruth & Calvin Coolidge as odd-couple roommates. The second is about good ol’ Henry Ford.
I’ll post the others in the coming days. Check out the videos, I hope you like them! We had a lot of fun making them.