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Alone in a hotel room #1 and #2

mukelarvin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:39:21 +0000

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.

You (May or May Not) Belong with me

mukelarvin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:53:29 +0000

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.

You (may or may not) Belong With Me

I’ve Given Up

mukelarvin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:01:13 +0000

I’ve Given Up from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.

Thanksgiving Cuteness

mukelarvin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:40:12 +0000

You don’t need iPhone gloves

mukelarvin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:18:29 +0000

Nostalgia

mukelarvin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:33:58 +0000

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…

Becoming too much of a Nerd

mukelarvin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:41:51 +0000

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

Super Soaker Nostalgia

mukelarvin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:18:10 +0000

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.

First Week of School

mukelarvin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:24:04 +0000

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.

Stop Motion Vogueing

mukelarvin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:54:54 +0000

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.

The best few seconds of my life from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.