My new studio

Mark Steere

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Apr 6, 2012, 3:51:54 PM4/6/12

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http://s1270.photobucket.com/albums/jj602/MarkSteere/

It started with a big box of sound tiles, which I never ended up using (in favor of thicker ones), and exploded into a major renovation, starting with selecting a quartzite slab. There was a stove, microwave and no tile of any kind starting out. Still waiting for my custom, extended soap spout. And I just ordered a long, narrow glass table to replace the two. You can't see the projector. Many months and really expensive. I could have bulldozed and rebuilt the structure. Lucky it didn't happen in my house.

I was already playing every day, but now I really have to.

Luis Bolaños Mures

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Apr 6, 2012, 5:01:06 PM4/6/12

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Great "architecture" ;-)

Mark Steere

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Apr 6, 2012, 10:38:53 PM4/6/12

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Thanks :D

Steven W. Meyers

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Apr 7, 2012, 1:25:56 PM4/7/12

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You know, it's not a bad idea for us abstract gamers to post a few
pictures of ourselves and our lives. We *are* human beings, after
all :) There's two pictures on my homepage, one of me and my wife on
our honeymoon, and one of my cat Shogi checking out a homemade Forms
board: http://home.fuse.net/swmeyers/home.htm.

Nick Bentley

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Apr 7, 2012, 2:49:40 PM4/7/12

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Ok, here's the ugliest picture of myself I could find. I'm the one on the left.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_qVBdVN3jR4/TmV18tkgNGI/AAAAAAAAAgg/NDrbFiKV1s0/s720/NKatM_Wedding.jpg

Mark Steere

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Apr 7, 2012, 5:15:26 PM4/7/12

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Forgive the cliche, but who's that lady?

Nick Bentley

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Apr 7, 2012, 5:48:05 PM4/7/12

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On Saturday, April 7, 2012 2:15:26 PM UTC-7, Mark Steere wrote:
> Forgive the cliche, but who's that lady?

My loving girlfriend, Kristen.

Nick Bentley

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Apr 7, 2012, 5:59:26 PM4/7/12

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here's a less weird pic: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZMcOzXU-XFg/TzmxqAkG0iI/AAAAAAAAJ40/UAq_-35oxsY/s721/IMG_3168.JPG

nate

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May 2, 2012, 2:28:36 PM5/2/12

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On Apr 6, 3:51 pm, Mark Steere <markste...@gmail.com> wrote:

nice and spartan vibe - abstract simplicity, clean lines, except for
the crack in the countertop - hope you got a discount. but what would
drive me up the wall, so to speak, are the panels above and to the
right & left of your computer screen - they are just the wrong size
enough to distract and i would be constantly staring at them, seeing
all manner of new games appear & disappear with my focusing horribly
akimbo.

i play guitar and write songs myself, so it's good to remember that
you are a saxophone player!

- nate

Luis Bolaños Mures

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May 2, 2012, 3:53:48 PM5/2/12

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See, Watson, our man is left-handed. [puffs pipe]

Mark Steere

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May 3, 2012, 10:33:18 AM5/3/12

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On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 11:28:36 AM UTC-7, nate wrote:
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> the crack in the countertop - hope you got a discount.

No crack, no discount ($5000). The thin streaks are iron ore or something. The fabricator said the streaks were the hardest material he ever cut through in twenty years. It's also electrically conductive. Sometimes you touch the countertop and your iphone a few feet away turns on by itself.

> panels above and to the
> right & left of your computer screen

The chicklet tiles are very interesting. They're about 3/4 the size of a sugar cube, filled with crushed, burnt ember glass, and glazed over. The labor on that went on for weeks. Initially they went up on sheets but I didn't like the look, so I had them removed and reinstalled one by one with little plastic spacers.

> - they are just the wrong size
> enough to distract and i would be constantly staring at them, seeing
> all manner of new games appear & disappear with my focusing horribly
> akimbo.

I thought that too, but it turns out, at least in my case, when you're looking at a monitor, that's all you see. Whatever's going on behind it isn't an issue.

> i play guitar and write songs myself, so it's good to remember that
> you are a saxophone player!

I was looking forward to posting a youtube video to document "year one", but year one came around last month and I was nowhere near ready. Now looking forward to year two, at the earliest. I can play just about anything by ear, if it's not too complicated, but that only gets you so far. Now I'm learning to read, learning the key signatures, music theory, etc. etc. etc. It's kind of a drag but it's necessary for advancement.