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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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While rooting around in some boxes of old stuff, I found this little spaceship and thought I'd post some pictures of it. I scratch-built this in 2000 or so, during my LEGO darkages. It's made out of styrene plastic sheets and bars that I bought at a hobby train store. Almost everything is hand made including the hinges, although I kitbashed some greebly type details from Star Wars Micro-Machine toys. Apparently I've been drawn to this color combo for a very long time. Cheers!
Lee "Scratch" Perry is a musician, who has been influential in the development and acceptance of reggae and dub music in Jamaica and overseas. He employs numerous pseudonyms, such as Pipecock Jackxon and The Upsetter.
Perry's musical career began in the late 1950s as a record seller for Clement Coxsone Dodd's sound system. As his sometimes turbulent relationship with Dodd developed, he found himself performing a variety of important tasks at Dodd's Studio One hit factory, going on to record nearly thirty songs for the label. Disagreements between the pair due to personality and financial conflicts, a recurring theme throughout Perry's career, led him to leave the studio and seek new musical outlets. He soon found a new home at Joe Gibbs's Amalgamated Records.
Working with Gibbs, Perry continued his recording career but, once again, financial problems caused conflict. Perry broke ranks with Gibbs and formed his own label, Upsetter, in 1968. His first single "People Funny Boy", which was an insult directed at Gibbs, sold well with 60,000 copies sold in Jamaica alone. It is notable for its innovative use of a sample (a crying baby) as well as a fast, chugging beat that would soon become identifiable as "reggae" (the new kind of sound which was given the name "Steppers"). From 1968 until 1972 he worked with his studio band The Upsetters. During the 1970s, Perry released numerous recordings on a variety of record labels that he controlled, and many of his songs were popular in both Jamaica and the UK. He soon became known for his innovative production techniques as well as his eccentric character.
In the early 1970s, Perry was one of the producers whose mixing board experiments resulted in the creation of dub. In 1973, Perry built a studio in his back yard, The Black Ark, to have more control over his productions and continued to produce notable musicians such as Bob Marley & the Wailers, Junior Byles, Junior Murvin, The Heptones, The Congos and Max Romeo. With his own studio at his disposal, Perry's productions became more lavish, as the energetic producer was able to spend as much time as he wanted on the music he produced. Virtually everything Perry recorded in The Black Ark was done using basic recording equipment; through sonic sleight-of-hand, Perry made it sound unique. Perry remained behind the mixing desk for many years, producing songs and albums that stand out as a high point in reggae history.
By 1978, stress and unwanted outside influences began to take their toll: both Perry and The Black Ark quickly fell into a state of disrepair. Eventually, the studio burned to the ground. Perry has constantly insisted that he burned the Black Ark himself in a fit of rage. After the demise of the Black Ark in the early 1980s, Perry spent time in England and the United States, performing live and making erratic records with a variety of collaborators. It was not until the late 1980s, when he began working with British producers Adrian Sherwood and Neil Fraser (who is better known as Mad Professor), that Perry's career began to get back on solid ground again. Perry also has attributed the recent resurgence of his creative muse to his deciding to quit drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis. Perry stated in an interview that he wanted to see if "it was the smoke making the music or Lee Perry making the music. I found out it was me and that I don't need to smoke."
In 1998 Perry reached a wider global audience as vocalist on the track "Dr. Lee, PhD" from the Beastie Boys' album Hello Nasty.
Perry now lives in Switzerland with his wife Mireille and two children. Although he celebrated his 70th birthday in 2006, he continues recording and performing to enthusiastic audiences in Europe and North America. His modern music is a far cry from his reggae days in Jamaica; many now see Perry as more of a performance artist in several respects. In 2003, Perry won a Grammy for Best Reggae Album with the album Jamaican E.T.. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Perry #100 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. More recently, he teamed up with a group of Swiss musicians and performed under the name Lee Perry and the White Belly Rats, and made a brief visit to the United States using the New York City based group Dub Is A Weapon as his backing band. Currently there are two feature length movies made about his life and work: Volker Schaner's Vision Of Paradise and The Upsetter by filmmakers Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough.
After meeting Andrew W.K. at SXSW in 2006, Perry invited him to co-produce his album, Repentance. The album, released on the 19th of August 2008, on Narnack Records, features several guest artists including Moby, Ari Up of The Slits, producer Don Fleming, drummer Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt, bassist Josh Werner of Matisyahu, and porn star Sasha Grey.
In 2008, Perry reunited with producer Adrian Sherwood on an album called The Mighty Upsetter. Unlike the dancehall/pop oriented Repentance, The Mighty Upsetter returned to the dub/reggae styles for which Perry is known.
In 2009, Perry collaborated with Vienna based Dubblestandart on their Return from Planet Dub double album, revisiting some of his material from the 1970s and 80s as well as collaborating on new material with Dubblestandart some of which also included Ari Up of The Slits. In 2008 leading up to this release, Perry's first foray into the dubstep genre was released on 12" vinyl, a collaboration with Dubblestandart and New York City's Subatomic Sound System called "Iron Devil". That record was followed by several more reggae oriented dubstep collaborations with Dubblestandart and Subatomic Sound System on digital and vinyl, first Blackboard Jungle Vol.1 & 2 (2009) which featured dancehall vocalist Jahdan Blakkamoore and then Chrome Optimism (2010) which also featured American filmmaker David Lynch.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_%22Scratch%22_Perry
art is meant to be seen
not felt
not heard
it's just paint
they're just words
and fingers are for feeling
fists are for beating
scabs are for healing
and blood is for bleeding
that's just how
I used to be
but I'm not even good at
being me
anymore.
This is a sheet of distressed copper deck-liner from the hardware store, a variation of the same image from Scratched Copper 2.
It was shot with a 60mm Nikkor macro lens, long exposures at f/57 and processed variously in Lightroom. I am astounded by the range of looks I can develop from just one of these camera raw images in Lightroom. I just sat there making Virtual Copies and experimenting with the controls. I had trouble choosing which ones to upload.
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
Find out what happened at the June 2014 Final Scratch Educator Meetup at MIT - bit.ly/jun2014-scratch-meetup
Check out our events page for more info on upcoming meetups. - scratched.media.mit.edu/events
Another old (May 2009) brown bear picture taken in the Dählhölzli zoo in Bern, this time scratching his forehead, quite funny!
One of the less flighty White-faced herons I have tried to photograph. I think it helped that his perch was quite high off the ground.
if you post this on any other website you better be crediting this to me or i'll cut your dick off and play jump rope with it
Daisy's paws on her scratching arch. Yes, I know she wasn't scratching when I took the photo - but she says a girl's manicure is private ;-))
7DOS b&w "scratch"
This photo was taken while Scratch and our gray male tabby, GT played in the backyard last month.
Scratch is our neighbor cat who has become part of our extended cat family. When his humans leave for trips they bring him down to stay with us and after a few times doing this he has a good sense of security in knowing that we are his default home when his family is away. When his family is home we get semi-regular visits from Scratch, these visits generally involve some big pets and a snack before he heads out on his way again.
The first day of the Scratch 2012 Conference included an opening keynote by Karen Brennan and Mitch Resnick, concurrent sessions, and posters and demonstrations.
These guys are so funny to watch. Doesn't matter where they are, if they have an itch, they will rub up against just about anything. We watched another one not far from here rub himself against a small pine so much so that he peeled the bark right off the tree. This one really went to town, rubbing against the deadfall.
I made it 3-1/2 years with no scratches on my car but when I cam out after work today, the driver's side of the hood was all scratched up. It looks like someone set a box on the car and slid it around. The guy sitting in the car next to me said (With no prompting from me)."I didn't do it, it's a shame." He had a large box with staples on it. But I could not prove anything. Some of the scratches were deep.
This is a pretty minimal desktop, using a rainmeter theme that has tabs that open up, to take the least amount of space possible.
Rainmeter themes:
Crooked Calendar xeissirk.deviantart.com/art/Crooked-Calendar-172876929?q=...
ABP
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Background: Scratch by Blearat
blearat.deviantart.com/art/Scratch-201986577
And of course, objectdock with token icons.
"Think of me as a scratched record, I´m repeating myself constantly and it makes you crazy, but I can´t help it"
Yashica Electro 35 GT, Rollei R3.
I just woke up and there was a scratch on my face. I'm not just talking about like a little red line or something. It's an actual pretty deep scratch. One of the dogs must have done it in the night while I was sleeping. I'm a really deep sleeper, nothing wakes me up. Whenever any of my friends sleep over sometimes later they tell me "yeah I was jumping on you and hitting you and everything and you just wouldn't wake up" lol so yeah I slept through tornado sirens once.
In scratching out a 64-61 win over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday evening at the HU Convocation Center, the Hampton University men's basketball team snapped its six-game losing streak.
The Pirates improved to 9-14 overall and 5-5 in the MEAC on the season.
Head coach Edward Joyner Jr. won his 91st career game in the process, becoming the program's all-time winningest Div. I coach – surpassing Steve Merfeld.
Guard Reginald Johnson registered his second straight 20-point game, leading all Pirate scorers with 21 points on 7-for-15 shooting. Guard/forward Dwight Meikle added 16 points and a team-high 11 rebounds for his fourth double-double of the season.
Guard Deron Powers added 11 points and four assists.
The Pirates shot 44.2 percent (23-for-52) from the floor – thanks in large part to a 14-for-25 effort (56.0 percent) in the second half. Hampton scored 25 points off of 16 UMES turnovers, and Hampton held a 26-22 edge in points in the paint.
A layup from Devin Martin with 2:14 left in the game tied the contest at 58-58, before Johnson answered with 1:11 left by converting an acrobatic 3-point play to put the Pirates up 61-58. Dominique Elliott cut that lead to 61-60 with a jumper with 55 seconds left.
But Meikle put his stamp on the game with 42 seconds left, finding space on the fast break before floating in the air, making it look as if he would finger-roll the ball into the hoop, before slamming the ball home with one hand to give the Pirates a 63-60 lead.
The two teams traded free throws down the stretch, but Martin missed both of his 3-pointers in the closing moments to hand the Pirates the hard-fought win.
The UMES led much of the night, though – particularly in the first half. The Hawks opened the game with six straight – thanks to back-to-back 3-pointers from Ryan Andino – before the Pirates cut the lead to 6-5 on a jumper in the paint from junior forward Jervon Pressley.
The Hawks opened the game back up, taking a 22-10 lead at the 8:37 mark after a 3-pointer from Martin. A dunk from Michael Myers and a layup from Devon Walker gave UMES a 29-16 lead with 2:39 left in the half.
But Hampton scored the last seven points of the frame – a jumper and 3-pointer from Meikle and a jumper from Powers – to cut UMES' lead to 29-23 at the break.
That momentum carried into the second half, as the Pirates cut UMES' lead to one on three separate occasions before taking their first lead of the night on a Johnson layup with 15:12 left – putting Hampton up 36-35.
Johnson then hit a trey to put the Pirates up 39-35 at the 13:32 mark.
Johnson added a layup with 13:14 remaining to give the Pirates a 41-37 lead, before UMES went on a 10-1 run to take a 47-42 lead with 10:39 left to play after a dunk from Elliott. Elliott later gave the UMES a 53-48 lead at the 6:29 mark with a free throw.
After a pair of Martin free throws gave the Hawks a 55-50 lead, the Pirates went on a 7-0 spurt, taking a 57-55 lead with 3:13 left to play after a jumper from Powers.
Red Weasel Media was sitting on the baseline to capture all of the high flying action. Go Pirates!
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
Find out what happened at the June 2014 Final Scratch Educator Meetup at MIT - bit.ly/jun2014-scratch-meetup
Check out our events page for more info on upcoming meetups. - scratched.media.mit.edu/events
350 Scratchers celebrated Scratch's 5th birthday at MIT's Scratch Day event on Saturday, May 19, 2012.
some of my art work, this was done by scratching off the ink with a blade and then adding watercolors.