LoftyPursuits

A VR test video

Play this, just music almost no talking, but you can drag the image around and look at different places. If you are watching on a phone, you can tilt it to look around.

Let me know what you t...

Podcast #11 Grapefruit candy and a riot of zoot suits.

We go to some background about my grapefruit tree, the grapefruit candy we make, and the music choice we made. We also cover the history of the song Zoot suit riot, and we cover the riots from the ...

Binaural test #4 I think ..

The last video taught me a lot, and there were two or three sound guys who chimed in an taught me about notch filtering, and a few things about distortion. This let me re-design what I was making. ...

Doing more Tiki research.

And waiting for the Disasternauts to go on stage.

The Binaural Sound video

We made a custom candy order of the radiation symbol in Strawberry Lemonaid. It may take a few minutes for the video to finish processing. 

I'd love to have you listen to it with headpho...

Binaural Audio part 2

Well I re-built the rig. This time I made the ears out of a printable rubber called TPU and the frame is PLA. This should improve the quality of the audio. Also I made the "Head Shadow" 1cm larger ...

#10 Pikes Soda Fountain, New T-Shirts and a Giant Banana

This weeks podcast is about my visit to pikes soda fountain, the influence of Andy Warhol on my work, and the story about our giant banana.

Binaural sound test

Let me know what you think, but keep in mind it won't work without headphones.

The strangest request of the year

Well I got a call from a major firm that wants maple sausage flavored candy canes, and a lot of them. The flavor sample that I commissioned came in today. It sure smells right. Not sure how right t...

Still playing with Binaural sound,

Ok, the head was too top heavy so I designed a body for my ears. Sadly I glued the mics into that head, so I'm waiting for new mics before I can test. The storm has delayed everything Amazon.

Tiki Candy assortment on-line for order!

The video is up. I'm going to try and post some of the concert I recorded of the Intoxicators for you later.

Mai Tai - Tiki Candy

Well I made the first of the series. Mai Tai. While I think I could improve the contrast on the future ones, I am happy with how it came out. It tastes great. It will be part of a 4-8 flavor set th...

#9 Raspberry Drops and how I create stories.

This weeks podcast will cover the history of some of our equipment and how I come up with story ideas.

Binaural sound part 2

Ok,  i was not too happy with the first rig, and then I learned about something called head shadow.

It's not just to get the ears right, but you need to have a head shadow in the way to ...

I only have ears for you

So folks REALLY want me to record the natural sounds of the store when I'm making the candy.

This is very hard as we have tons of refrigeration running all the time. The hummmmmm is not too n...

Another Rabbit hole I can't figure out

Ok, any guesses why Darpa (our developmental branch of the military) needs am underground location on short notice? 

"Attention, city dwellers! We're interested in identifying university...

Developing Subscription Boxes

We've wanted to do subscription boxes for some time. This will take a major upgrade in our order system as I don't want to do this badly. This is the kind of thing that is easy to mess up if you ar...

Grapefruit video going on-line tomorrow (but you can see it now!)

https://youtu.be/jcbJVcJrzrU

(well, when it finished uploading, and I will get the title updated later)

A no-dialog advanced video

Youtube compression can be weird. When you upload a video they re-compress it. Normally you don't notice this, but with my slowmotion sometimes if I do it wrong I get a lot of artifacts.

Late...

The oldest podcasts are up for public enjoyment.

I put the first four on-line today. I'm not sure they are propagating to the iTunes of the world yet, but they are located here

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So I went down a "Caddyshack" rabbit hole.

Some background. Caddyshack is an amazingly funny film. If you have not seen it, stop right now and go and watch it.

This was Billy Murray's break through film. So here I am, going down a rab...

Why candy equipment became so common around 1880

I've been wondering for a while why candy became such an industry around 1880. 
It started to become popular to make the machines and start candy businesses in the 1860's but things became ...

A rabbit hole about Lake Peigneur and it's change.

It started as a 6' deep large lake that was freshwater, and it ended up making a 1300 foot deep lake that is salt water now. 

It generated 400' geysers, from the air from the salt mine t...

#8 Tie Died candy

This is a podcast about  making the tie dyed candy for Terry at Hercules Candies and about the trip I made there a few years back.a year back or so.

We are moving the podcasts to come ou...

Well lets try this again

So I sent this video to Tyler (who's in this video and in this image) and he pointed out that Pikes had closed. I think I knew this, but their website looked live, so I thought they still were open...

Pink Floyd ... With a glass harmonica

So what Pink Floyd was playing in Venice Italy they stumbled across a street performer who's playing what I think it's called the glass harmonica. it's wine glasses with wet lips that are tuned so ...

Looking for suggestions for the new video

Tomorrow I hope to film a video that will be released Thursday, but none of the videos I've have the the lineup to be made are ready for prime time yet. 

I'm not sure what to expect, but...

Next major draft of the Banana Shirt design.

So I felt the skin and the banana was lacking the texture of the skin, and by going down another rabbit hole I learned that the original album cover was a sticker over a pink peeled banana. Since i...

Going down a underground rabbithole

Spent the evening working on this potential shirt design. I tracked down matching fonts and i peeled the banana of Andy's. I tried to make it match our giant one. Thoughts?

Easter egg

A lot of my videos have inside jokes hidden in them. A viewer found the one in the Raspberry video. There is a blue grass/ukulele version of Eric Carmen's song "All by myself" in the background. Bo...