Kraquehaus Productions

Bday Lobster Dinner

2008-12-29T16:11:43Z

Bday Lobster Dinner
Originally uploaded by kraquehaus.

I just had my mom dig this picture up. I had a vague memory of it, but the reality of the picture is so much better than my memory.

As a kid I always asked for a special dinner. I think I turned 5 and the idea of a lobster and clams just seemed like the best idea EVER.

The funny thing? I had never had lobster before and discovered, the hard way, that I am not a big fan of it!

Kandid Fullfrontal Consumption: YouTube

2008-12-11T04:16:26Z

In case you prefer YouTube over Vimeo, I now have my short film on YouTube:

Kandid Fullfrontal Consumption

2008-12-02T16:26:31Z

I have been working on this video for quite some time.

I shot the video and spent a few weeks editing it. Although, there was no music. I edited the video to a complex click track to allow me to edit in time to not only beats, but phrases and other changes that did not yet exist.

Best to click on the link and go to Vimeo where you can actually watch it in the 720p HD I uploaded instead of the small window here.

I did everything except star in the piece. That honor goes to Mr. Where.

Zeppelin Landing at Moffett Field

2008-11-27T02:00:54Z

The Airship Ventures Zeppelin coming back in for a landing after being christened "Eureka".

You can see Hanger 2 once it comes down for the landing; the bed it sleeps in at night.

I had the amazing experience of attending the Airship Ventures Zeppelin naming ceremony at Moffett Field as a guest of Airship Ventures. We were on the tarmac for the ceremony and some of us got to go up in the Zeppelin for a teaser flight. It is an amazing ship and unlike any experience I have ever had. It was almost like being in a large boat, but instead of floating on water we were floating on the air. The craft has an amazing amount of control which allows for some elegant maneuvers.

Airship Ventures Naming Ceremony

2008-11-25T01:44:25Z

Airship Ventures Naming Ceremony
Originally uploaded by kraquehaus.

On friday I was invited to attend the Airship Ventures Zeppelin naming ceremony.

I got the thrill of a 25 minute flight and some great pals.

Check out some of my pics and a video of me sticking my head out a Zeppelin.

A. Tobias Tenney

2008-11-02T19:17:57Z

The official ATobiasTenney.com site.

Currently pre-alpha stage at best. Hopefully many more updates coming up soon.

VIVIsuctionVI

2008-11-01T23:22:11Z

VIVIsuctionVI
Originally uploaded by kraquehaus.

I saw this image and felt it needed a good caption.

For those who are not Skinny Puppy fans:

VIVIsectVI was an album released by them. From Wikipedia:

"...the band became outspoken advocates for animal rights, and used the Head Trauma tour (Europe, 1988) and VIVIsectVI tour (North America, 1988) to draw attention to the issue. The title of the album VIVIsectVI (1988) was a pun intended to associate vivisection with Satanism (ie. the "666 sect")..."

Presidential Roast?

2008-10-17T05:32:45Z

I had no idea they did presidential roasts:

I was laughing my ass off the whole time I watched this.

I am hearing this now

2008-10-10T08:45:18Z

You say yes, I say no
You say stop and I say go go go, oh no
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello

I say high, you say low
You say why and I say I don't know, oh no
You say goodbye and I say hello
(Hello goodbye hello goodbye) Hello hello
(Hello goodbye) I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
(Hello goodbye hello goodbye) Hello hello
(Hello goodbye) I don't know why you say goodbye
(Hello goodbye) I say hello/goodbye

Why why why why why why do you say goodbye goodbye, oh no?

You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello

You say yes (I say yes) I say no (But I may mean no)
You say stop (I can stay) and I say go go go (Till it's time to go), oh
Oh no
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello hello

Hela heba helloa
Hela heba helloa, cha cha cha
Hela heba helloa, wooo
Hela heba helloa, hela
Hela heba helloa, cha cha cha
Hela heba helloa, wooo
Hela heba helloa, cha cah cah

Rare Skinny Puppy Needed

2008-10-03T09:03:09Z

I need Track 10 by Skinny Puppy if anyone has got it.

I know someone on here has to have it.

I am the voice of Airship Ventures

2008-09-29T13:33:15Z

I am doing some work for the company Airship Ventures. Long story short, they knew I also do recording and have an interest in voice over work* so they asked me to be the voice of their phone tree system.

If you call them during off hours or when no one answers, you shall be greeted with my voice in your ear.

I am quite proud of it, actually.

*I am actually interested in doing more of this type of work. I am getting a lot of positive feedback. If you know of any leads, please send them my way!

It is also worth noting that Airship Ventures is an amazingly cool company employed by many amazingly cool cats. I am sure you will hear more about them soon...

Totally Lame Geek Post

2008-09-29T13:18:49Z

I've been up to my dreads with crap going on.

Here is one of them, and it is horribly boring geek stuff:

I have a nice desktop machine. It has 4 hard drives. One is my start-up disk (which is getting full and needs to be replaced). The other three are 350gig drives set up as a striped RAID purely for documents and scratch files. This means I basically have a super fast 1TB drive (roughly). Great for recording and doing video work. Also three times as likely to fail.

My HDs are full.

No, there is no pr0n eating up space. It is a legit 1TB of audio (mostly stuff I have recorded), video, documents, etc.

Roughly two months ago I bought 3 750gig drives to replace all of my RAID drives thus doubling my space. Yay! Only problem is I don't have a backup drive to do the swap. I had planned on buying a drobo now that they support Firewire 800, but the prospect of spending nearly $1k on a backup system (since it would need to be able to backup ~2TB) became a non-option as I must be excessively frugal right now.

Last week I broke down and bought a 1TB drive. I abruptly got a gig needing me to work almost non-stop so I couldn't allow the potential day of down time backup up. I waited until this weekend to do the deed.

Friday night I started the backup. Used Carbon Copy to splash all of my RAID onto my 1TB backup drive. I occasionally checked up on it, and then saturday afternoon my computer would only give me the beach ball. After waiting until late saturday with no alteration, I decided to reboot. It still had 30gig left to copy over, so I knew I had to start fresh to cover my ass. Not cool.

Today I had more work to do, so I did it on my old laptop that runs like a dog, has only really old versions of PS/FW/AI/etc., none of my fonts, etc. while I finished my backup.

Sunday evening/Monday morning the backup was finally done. This meant I could yank the three drives, swap them with the three new drives, test them, wipe them, stripe them into a RAID, and prep for the Big Backup™. To save time, I also yanked out my start-up drive, slammed the 1TB backup in as an internal drive, and plugged the start-up drive in as an external USB drive. This way I get the SATA buss speed during my restore onto my newly created 2TB RAID.

That backup is plugging away right now at a good pace. I'm also using SuperDuper! instead of Carbon Copy this time. Carbon Copy was requiring my admin password every other folder copy or so. Pretty sure I have SuperDuper! set up to avoid this headache.

Hopefully when I wake up all will be restored and I'll have my machine back.

Next, I backup my start-up drive, then go get my previous RAID backup drive (which is a 750gig drive) and swap those out.

I have a good chunk of work to do tomorrow that I need my desktop for (recording), so I hope all goes well.

See? That was a boring post. But, I needed to vent a bit.

Specimen - Indestructible (RARE) 1986

2008-09-16T01:14:47Z

Someone hooked me up with this rare video that Specimen 2.0* produced in San Francisco in 1986.

From my notes about the video:

A rare video produced by Specimen in 1986 in San Francisco. The track is off the never released Specimen album recorded with the '86 SF lineup.

This version of Specimen featured Ollie Wisdom (vox), Kimba (bass & backing vox), Smeg (guitar), Geri Finelli (keys & backing vox), & Dick Nose (drums)

Apparently, the stop motion is by "the cake twins" that baked cakes for all of their favorite rock stars (Kiss, Alice Cooper, Wasp, etc.); apparently they were featured in some rock zines "back in the day". The cakes had all of the guts brains and blood on the inside. This video features a cabbage patch doll being put together guts first.

*This is what I call the reformation of Specimen when Ollie Wisdom took the band name when he stayed in the US and everyone else went back to the UK.

Specimen 1.0 – The original line up (Ollie Wisdom, Jon Klein, Kevin Mills, Jonny Slut, Jonathan Trevisick)

Specimen 2.0 – The SF based '86 era (Ollie Wisdom, Kimba, Smeg, Geri Finelli, Tim Huthert)

Specimen 3.0 – The new millennium reunification. (Me [T.bias], Jon Klein, Kimba, Stephan X, Tim Huthert)

Crazy Japanese Sandwiches

2008-09-01T20:28:54Z

Crazy Japanese Sandwiches
Originally uploaded by kraquehaus.

tongodeon and matrushkaka: I have found your crazy Japanese sandwiches closer to home in a San Mateo Japanese market. They are exactly the same as the ones you brought back from San Jose.

For those not in the know:

-Spaghetti Con Hotdog Sandwich™
-Corn and Mayo Sandwich™
-Soba Noodle Sandwich™
-Fried Potato Pea Fritter & Coleslaw with Tonkatsu Sauce Sandwich™

etc.

Yes, really.

Nico listening to The 9th

2008-08-23T04:20:02Z

Nico listening to The 9th
Originally uploaded by kraquehaus.

I am listening to The 9th and sipping a nice Glenlivet 15yr French Oak Reserve*. Nico seems to like the violas coming out of monitor.

*This is currently my favourite scotch for under $100 I've had. It is smooth and almost sweet without a lot of smoke. If I want smoke I'll go Johnny Walker Green+. I was going to get a bottle of JW Blue, but decided I shouldn't spend the $180 on a bottle right now.

Doing THE Way vs. Doing it A Way

2008-08-14T04:49:13Z

A great article about the difference of between doing it the way and doing it a way as demonstrated between the differences in refueling a plane in Japan vs. China.

Article here.

Cartoon comment alterations by yours truly.

Bigfoot found in Georgia

2008-08-14T04:37:36Z

I found this startling imagery of what is clearly Bigfoot in Georgia.

There have been some other accounts out there.

Here is some clear evidence of said Bigfoot in Georgia.

Avocado Crab Bisque

2008-08-11T07:10:26Z

I made this recipe up, but damn it's good.

No milk products were used. Spent hours boiling crabs, getting the meat out from the shells, using the shells and tomalley to make stock along with lots of other stock making ingredients of course; mirepoix of celery/carrots/shallots, parsley, vermouth, wine, white pepper corns, a little salt to help bring the flavours out (not to season the stock since that can be done later), paprika, dash of oregano, pinch of cinnamon, and probably something else I'm forgetting.

Stock, avocados, potatoes (just enough to keep the soup thick; ended up only using half a potato I think), coconut milk, wine, vermouth, lots of crab meat and a few spices. I then blended it with a new hand blender to make it nice and creamy. Before serving I added a hand full of solid crab meat to each bowl, placed a few of the sweeter leg meats on the top, a little finely diced fennel to give it some crunch and dashed some paprika on top.

It is soooo rich, but amazing, if I do say so myself.

I have left overs. Want to come over and have some? Let me know. ;-)

Required Viewing

2008-08-06T16:44:36Z

Because it has come up in conversation again, please make sure to watch this. It is somewhat lengthy, but well worth it. Know your rights!

Link to Google Video

Carwash

2008-07-27T00:38:58Z

Carwash
Originally uploaded by kraquehaus

Mr. Where got a great video when he took my car through the car wash. It is oddly mesmerizing.

How to Poop

2008-07-17T09:16:23Z

I had to watch this twice. I was crying from the pure awesome.

Presented by the number 2 and the letter Sparkle-Sparkle GO!

Cat in the Box

2008-07-14T18:51:25Z

Cat in the Box
Originally uploaded by kraquehaus.

Nico took a liking to the empty box for tequila that Bevmo gave me to carry my scotch back home in.

The Magic Castle

2008-07-01T18:22:27Z

group_photo.jpg
Originally uploaded by kraquehaus.

Last Saturday I was able to get me and 5 friends into the Magic Castle for a wonderful evening of magic, drinks, dinner, giggles, music, great wine, some cheesy 70's illusion routines, and great friends.

Check out the set for more pics.

Best sushi of my life

2008-06-30T07:05:45Z

IMG_0307
Originally uploaded by kraquehaus.

I just want to get this up, but I had the best sushi meal of my life in the Valley in LA. Total hole in the wall with NO decore. As my friends said, "They spend all their money on the food."

OMG STEAK: Oh yea!

2008-06-27T09:11:47Z

OMG STEAK: Oh yea!
Originally uploaded by kraquehaus.

I just had one of the best meals.

I...wow. Where do I start?

I start by posting these pics and you reading the tags. That is where I start.

Wow.