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Hair modelling is weird

mukelarvin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:15:26 +0000

Hair modelling is weird from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.

Here’s how they turned out. Freshair Salon – Ginger Photoshoot

Oh boy. If you can’t get enough there’s even more pictures here.

Icelandic Dreamgirl, Gimli, Sentimentality

mukelarvin — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:04:40 +0000

Not pictured: Me making an uncharacteristic embarrassment of myself at the fire at the end of the video. There was vomit.

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

Improv Everywhere – Redhead Protest

mukelarvin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:44:52 +0000

I’ve Given Up

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

I’ve Given Up from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.

Transitive Property

mukelarvin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:06:27 +0000

So I am in a picture with this lady…

Which pretty much means I sat one chair away from Michael Kors. Two from Heidi.

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

Writing a Book-on-tape Part 1: I suck at names

mukelarvin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:05:36 +0000

I’m writing a book-on-tape. I’m skipping the book and going straight to the tape. I’m writing exactly what I would have loved to read at age 13. In fact the hero is even named Luke and has long red hair. I’m aware of how self-indulgent this whole thing is. It is a fantasy, there are flying airships. So don’t take it too seriously.

In addition to not being able to remember people’s names in real life, I am terrible at making up names. (Unless of course we’re talking about puns, then I’m the champ. I have a friend named Bronwyn. She has the best name ever for punning. Bronwynsaurus, like Brontosaurus. Bron-loser, change the wyn to loser. Etc.) I think I have all of the characters and locations figured out, but I do not have names for all of them.

I’ve only got four characters out of 11 named. It’s hard. I don’t want to give them stupid Fantasy names…

(Back to my story…)

The Hero, Luke. I’m back and forth on this one. Some days I feel too vain, other days I just don’t care.

An old captain, Malcolm Reynolds (Stolen directly from Firefly.) It is supposed to be an homage but I might have to change it a bit. Maybe I’ll change “Reynolds” to “Reyn” or “Renn”. Although that is starting to sound a little bit too Fantasy.

An upper class lady, Clare. Named after a contestant on Australia’s Next Top Model.

A scientist, Colin. Named after a contestant on Make Me A Supermodel.

I know… two people named after modelling-reality-show contestants. It’s just that I was watching these shows a lot while I was making up the story and these two fit the characters quite well. Although both characters have to be older in the story than they are in real life.

I still need names for an old Princess (40ish), a soldier, a tough-young-lady, a grumpy old man, a handful of bad guys and a few others.

Don’t worry, the Princess won’t be named Tyra.

Haircut

mukelarvin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:48:45 +0000

Haircut from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.