55 Minute Frenzies

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:58 pm

I decided to follow through with this plan. The first frenzy is tomorrow. You can find out all you need to know at the radnoise forum.

I hope that some of you participate. I hope to keep this going if it's a success.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:23 pm

Quite the pioneer you are Roger. Good luck on your maiden voyage.

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:01 pm

you're really takng the song skirmish idea to new heights!

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:45 pm

It's weird to put so much structure around the skirmish. But it's cool.

Some suggestions: embed the clock in the page (it is very cool you have a frenzy clock!). Or put the time zone on the due date.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:03 pm

roymond wrote:suggestion: embed the clock in the page (it is very cool you have a frenzy clock!).

I took a shot at that - but the forum disallows all html tags aside from ones I personally allow. I tried allowing the iframe tag, but it didn't work. I'll try a few other things, but if it never really gets embedded, you know why.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:18 pm

I won't be able to join you tomorrow, but you should really state the timezone too, right? Good luck!
-bill

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:24 pm

I think he's in whatever is equivalent to US Mountain Time, so is that GMT - 7..? In any case, he's two hours behind me; I'm good old Eastern Time. I'm expecting to battle at 8:00 p.m. here.

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:21 pm

roymond wrote:It's weird to put so much structure around the skirmish. But it's cool.

Yeah, not that I'll do this but rule #2, Create a 250x250 jpg/gif image file displaying the title of your song, your artist name, and a picture representing the song, seems a bit constraining considering the 55 minute time limit. I'm predicting a lot of G & G songs with Sharpie inscribed poster boards listing the title and the band, but nothing involving the title of the song with the photo.

But hey, I've been wrong so many times before I've lost count. So amaze me.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:31 pm

Dan-O from Five-O wrote:
roymond wrote:It's weird to put so much structure around the skirmish. But it's cool.
Yeah, not that I'll do this but rule #2, Create a 250x250 jpg/gif image file displaying the title of your song, your artist name, and a picture representing the song, seems a bit constraining considering the 55 minute time limit. I'm predicting a lot of G & G songs with Sharpie inscribed poster boards listing the title and the band, but nothing involving the title of the song with the photo.

But hey, I've been wrong so many times before I've lost count. So amaze me.

Yeah, I wanted to say something to this effect, so let me jump on your wagon. Rule #2 is nuts. Is the image supposed to be part of the voting criteria? Honestly, who's going to spend time on the image when they can spend time on the song? The song is the focus, no? I've got to write a song, then go hunting for the subject with my camera? You'll probably get something I make in MS Paint in two minutes.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:20 am

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Quite the pioneer you are Roger. Good luck on your maiden voyage.

Yes, he is quite the ideas man, our Roger - the Nur Ein concept came from his fertile little noggin remember. Ahhhh - youth and enthusiasm - I don't really recall ever having either of them.

Nigel (spOOn) Clements · Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:38 am

This is a great idea JR unfortunately though it's gonna be between 3am and 3:55am over here in merry old GMT land Which kinda screws me, 'specially as it's a Friday morning, but if any more of these come up I'll definately be interested...

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:33 am

Wow, got yourself a whole forum and everything. Nice work.

Billy's Little Trip · Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:03 am

By the way, I registered to show my support, Roger. But I don't know if I'll ever be able to meet your song frenzy skirmishes. I'm just too damn slow at the music making thing. But, you never know.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:44 pm

Lord of Oats wrote:Yeah, I wanted to say something to this effect, so let me jump on your wagon. Rule #2 is nuts. Is the image supposed to be part of the voting criteria? Honestly, who's going to spend time on the image when they can spend time on the song? The song is the focus, no? I've got to write a song, then go hunting for the subject with my camera? You'll probably get something I make in MS Paint in two minutes.

I don't expect anything more - it's more of a bonus challenge (it's not part of the voting criteria). I'll be using the pictures as the link to the song. I think it'll give more incentive to fly through the recording process, especially if people eventually start doing mid-quality drawings. As long as there's some sort of image file attatched, I will use it.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:29 pm

Speaking of bonus challenges, will there be any optional or non-optional challenges attached to your titles? Those are typically pretty fun to include. I'd probably say to start out with optional, at least until we all get used to working so quickly.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:37 pm

I think the optional challenge idea is cool, but we'll avoid that for a while (it'll be hard enough as is!!). After a few frenzies we'll probably introduce some other element.

By the way, I seem to have misplaced my guitar tuner. I have a few hours to find it and get prepared. No time for tuning during the actual process.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:45 pm

jolly roger wrote:I think the optional challenge idea is cool, but we'll avoid that for a while (it'll be hard enough as is!!). After a few frenzies we'll probably introduce some other element.

By the way, I seem to have misplaced my guitar tuner. I have a few hours to find it and get prepared. No time for tuning during the actual process.

Here's a tuner. Don't say that I never did anything for you.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:14 pm

The first 55 minute frenzy is a success! Each musician completed their song in 55 minutes (more or less), with a picture.

If you want to, come over to review and vote!!

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:06 pm

Yeah! Get your ass over there!

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:00 pm

Lord of Oats wrote:Yeah! Get your ass over there!

I agree. There's only three songs to review this week, which is almost no work. The songs are all pretty good for a skirmish.

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:45 pm

jolly roger wrote:
Lord of Oats wrote:Yeah! Get your ass over there!
I agree. There's only three songs to review this week, which is almost no work. The songs are all pretty good for a skirmish.

Pretty good? Our songs rock ass! They're all better quality than the median SF entry, and we didn't get a whole week!

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:08 am

There's another frenzy tomorrow, if anybody wants to participate!