Multiple Sclerosis Brain Melt

To make it perfectly clear if I upload a video about my Multiple Sclerosis it's NEVER for sympathy!
They are uploaded to either gain awareness give support to others or for my own study of the disease.
As the proud owner of said disease I am interested in how it effects my body and mind over time.  I can actually learn a lot about it just by watching myself back, and in return see where I am losing ground.
Recently somebody commented they liked the way I speeded my videos up!
The reason behind that is because I talk very very slowly, so you either get a video of me talking a normal speed which would make a standard video say six minutes long or I speed it up and you get four minutes and something that sounds normal and a little bit comical to the ear.
You have to work the illness in your favor - make the most of it - use it as it uses you...!
Unless you have the illness you can't know what its like on a mental or physical level.

Hopefully in some small way this will show you one side of the many faces of MS.

LOKI

YouTube Video Link

Minimal Sounds

Minimal Sounds
So to my first little solo offering I've built up a short ambient piece of music which I felt had a slight Boards of Canada feel to it in places or more to the point I'd had stumbled across a few sounds that I'd heard often used in their work.
On this particular track produced using Reason 7-8 I've used the following.

1- Sound Cell After Glow
2- NN-XT + RV7000
3- Dr Octo + Alligator
4- Antidote

Sound Cell is a lovely little refill, packed full of those really handy little ambient sounds that can really make a difference when constructing a track.

NN-XT which I always use for running my samples through, mainly because its easy to use and does what it's suppose to do with zero fuss!

Dr Octo and the amazing Rex loops - This tool is the boss - If your dead lazy and can't be bothered to sequence a pattern, then Dr Octo is your new best friend :)

The video isn't much to speak of, but I was more or less trying out a few new filters and wanted a moving object that would allow me to see the changes as it plays out, it's more an experiment of colors and layers of footage to gain sharpness and a testing ground for future videos to come.
So there you go, short nice little jolly minimal ambient piece of music and a crappy testing ground video :)

Thanks for watching the video and listening to my music.

YouTube Video Link
Download Track Here

And YES feel free to use my music in your videos - a credit or link to my YouTube channel or link to my Soundcloud would be nice :)

Flutterby AKA Nlin Loki

Starting over

So I thought it would be a good idea to start the year with the last video from 2015 that I didn't get time to finish, but if I'm honest it actually works better this way.
I wanted the video to be more of a clean slate, and a fresh start of a new line of video.
I've invested more into my music software this year to give me the chance to develop my sound tracking skills, writing small pieces of ambient styled tracks.

Which gives me plenty of scope to come up with some equally interesting looking videos.

Nlin Loki Star Date today

The Children of Loki X-Rated.

Its been quite the trip...!
Unsure on when to finish... This rampant wild orgy of times gone by.
I think it's the attraction to scanning hours of vintage video clips, each one has its purpose
and lays a golden egg or two.  That one tantalizing moment of footage that changes everything...!
 I feel it's one of those grey areas of creating something that will just run it's own course and when it's time to move it to one side, I'll shuffle into the next concept?

Also it's been nice to spend sometime off camera, you can quite easily find yourself living your life on camera and this can be an unhealthy thing to do if your continuously updating the world or who wants to know your life's timeline and all it's in's and out's ups and downs.
Lucky enough I bounce off of most things such as writing and music making editing cross-dressing etc... something to do with spice and variety so I'm told...!

Naturally as a total nerd of video making of all flavors I do have quite a lot of what I would class "Basic Stock" videos to post.  I've actually held back over the last few posts and feel it's really not worth me putting up single videos anymore. 
And am much more comfortable uploading bigger chunks of video with more volume of content, as shown in the "Children of Loki" or "The Naturally Strange" videos.
Some one once told me "If your going to make a sandwich, then make it a meal."
So I equate that to my video making and make a real visual meal of it...

And what of Kathleen Dawson or Just Kate?
Again and using totally the wrong choice of words, It's a suck it and see type of deal...!
I have many plans for her for next year and have been working on a stand-up rountie for her.
I still hold this dream of taking Kathleen to the stage and trying her out on an open mic night at a comedy club.

Music: I thought I better add a few words about my current music making.
After getting slowly sucked into the COL videos I found that sampling the actual video clips could be quite interesting to play with.  Doesn't sound much, but trust me it opens a whole new world of fiddling... I.e. "Don't give up" very pleased with this cross over of video audio clips and music software, very interesting results... we be working hard to improve.

As always you've got to have dreams, when your nightmares are waking up each day and seeing what world we truly live on.
So there we have it... as about as much as I wish to report at this moment in time.
Things are pretty sweet at the moment COL will run as long as it does.
I will be posting some very strange, naturally strange videos.
Music is growing and turning a new corner.
And Kathleen will at some point take to the stage with a new look and routine...maybe?

Loki