My summer job requires me to travel a lot. I’ve spent most of the summer living in hotels/motels. You start to go crazy when you’re alone in strange places every night.
Alone in a hotel room #1 from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.
Alone in a hotel room #2 from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.
A little while back I wrote a song for a girl. I was going to release it as part of an EP entitled “Embarrassing Songs I Wrote for Girls”, but that probably won’t be happening right away so I thought I’d just release it now on its own.
The song is meant to be funny and sorta romantic I guess. I sampled the beginning of Taylor Swift’s “You belong with me” (that’s where the hilarious song title comes from) and messed it up a little bit. I thought the results sounded kind of like a Magnetic Fields song, so I tried to channel Stephen Merrit while I was writing the lyrics. I threw in the Bon Iver bit at the end because I needed an excuse to use auto-tune. It is so much fun to play with. It was really hard for me not to auto-tune the whole song.
Who is this girl? In the song I refer to her as “Internet Dream Girl” so she’s a girl I know mostly from the Internet. Let’s just leave it at that for now.
Did the song work? I suppose it served its purpose. See, this nice young lady doesn’t live in Winnipeg so I didn’t really have a shot anyways. I just wanted to… I guess let her know. She probably already knew, but now I know that she knows.
The song is a bit sappy but I’m a sappy guy. I hope you enjoy it.
I’ve Given Up from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.
Some of you may not know this but this website has existed in one form or another for over 5 years. In terms of “the internet” that is pretty long, a year before youtube even.
Anyways, this is what the site looked like in what was potentially the best time of my life…
I kind of want to get this textbook for pleasure-reading/personal-interest. I should be reading the textbooks for my classes at school but this one looks a little cooler.
The book details all sorts of manufacturing processes and materials. So when I finally get to the “making things” part of the career-plan it could be helpful.
Photo from Spotd.it
I came across this weird website that has incredibly in-depth reviews and photos of every Super Soaker water gun produced. I was able to find the gun I had when I was 12 years old, the Super Soaker XP 75. The XP was for extra power.
Let me tell you, I had a lot of good times with that gun. My sister had less good times. In those days we spent a lot of time down at my family’s cabin at Pelican Lake. I discovered that the nozzle of the gun was the same size as the spaces between the boards of the boat dock. I would sit in the water there and wait, sometimes as long as an hour, for someone to walk out on the deck. Then I would nail them from below and laugh and laugh.
I’ve started my at my new school Red River College, the Electronic Engineering Technology program.
First Week of School from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.
I’ve blogged about my voguer acquaintance Dangerkat before and now she put up a new super-duper fancy video. Stop motion is in. The photographer behind this bit of magic, Sarah Piantadosi, is from Winnipeg but now lives in London. I hung out with her a little bit when I was there but unfortunately I didn’t vlog anything.
Additionally, the best few seconds of my life were captured with stop-motion.
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