The 'chronotrack' alarm still goes off. I haven't been very diligent tracking but I'm still on CT Time.

Hosted a wedding. Set up a site for Kevin Daviet.

Played 11.1.11 at the Zoo Bar in Lincoln as Animato with Josh Hoyer (sax) and Andy Marker (drums, from Somasphere), the projection system rigged to my piano worked out well. Funktion from Michigan closed the night. They are a solid funk show band with modern R&B and rap flavors. First Friday was fun, got there late and played some live Lazer / Dubstep with Owlsley and Eye In The Sky. I have one Brand Ambassador gig left to execute for Clearly Promotions / Pierce tomorrow. Also Winged the show at Cultiva Coffee (without a sustain pedal) but the crowd was supportive. I've been enjoying my coding workflow (FileZilla, Notepad++). I built a custom interface for the Control app on my iPhone (Javascript). So far this has been the most productive coding project I've undertaken. FFGL is on the back burner. I had to turn down Double Daughters in Denver for a gig in November, but likely will play during the week in December (the live-in piano teaching position is a go). I sent one stem pack (Chief Rock) to Valance Drakes in London. I have two or three producers in my Soundcloud inbox who are interested in doing remixes that I need to attend to. Also as of today, Mike from Afton contacted me via Soundcloud about a show at the Oriental Theatre in Denver on Sunday, December 18th. I have one fan on Facebook who found Maestro Vex via Soundcloud and 'liked' it on Facebook.

Speaking of super friends, I'm chatting with Jim Mullet (who I toured
with in Alaska) and learning that he has programmed C++ for years.
He's on the FFGL plugin project. Go team!

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That means we have a project manager, a designer and coder.

Making a mailing list, whether or not I actually send it is useful. It
makes me think of my super friend list, if not super fans. Super
friends are great too.

The faucet is leaking in the back and the echo sounds like birds from
here. I'm thinking we should just put some rocks and plants under it.

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Chronotracker has been indexed, so the search works now. Need to start
transferring links from EF. Although this blog is a personal time
stream, it may hold value for the audiovisual creative and
entertainment set. Anyone with interactive, musical or VJ ambitions
might want to follow what I'm doing. Plastikman, Amon Tobin, Schpongle
as well as Zebbler Enchanti Experience (edit) are examples of the type
of thing I'm going for.
About me for branding purposes later:
I started playing piano professionally at the age of 17 in a country
band called Freeride. We played as far south of Lincoln the Office Bar
in Beatrice.
I have played in the studio with Rilo Kiley at Presto! Recording
Studio, produced beats for Rig 1 (These are Saddle Creek Artists). In
2008 I worked for the Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO, first on the street
team (for Gabriel Cortez) and later on the stage. My Production
Manager was Colin Peterson. I left the Fox to tour with Salem
representing Columbia Sportswear during which time I performed for two
nights at the Tugboat in Steamboat Springs with Bill McKay from
Leftover Salmon. In 2009 I started renting studio space in Boxcar
Gallery (Denver) where I showed my interactive electronic
installations on the Santa Fe Art Walk. In June and July of 2010 I
partnered with Kevin Daviet in operating Approaching Zero, a gallery
and event space which hosted several 100+ person events and the
talents of many Denver artists including Reak Havok and Video Junkie
Zombie. It was located next door to the Primerdome. In 2011 I built an
interactive installation at Colorado Art Center with Justin Larwick.
Also in early 2011 I began collaborating online with London IDM artist
MusSck aka Valance Drakes (recently signed to Schematic) under the
alias Maestro Vex. In August of 2011 I leased gallery space in
Historic Downtown Fairbury, Nebraska to continue working with bass,
visuals and interactive media, as well as found objects (Gallery
413). I'm 28.
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I'm playing around with Blogger. I have too many dead blogs. Element Future needs some serious revision.

Search function isn't working (likely hasn't been indexed yet) but when it does, searching EF and links from here will be handy.

Found this:

http://www.bandjob.com/

Ate a pepper sandwich. Emailed JK and JJP to peek at CT (this will be
useful for project descriptions).
Added Google Calendar. Chatted with B about FFGL and discovered vvvv
thread. Asked B to research embedding JNI inside of C++.
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I decided some time ago that my waking hours should try to be between 9 AM to 3 AM (that's 6 hours of sleep, I get up relatively early, and  can stay up or out relatively late. It usually gets weird after 3, anyway).

To help using this blog as a time management habit, I set my alarm to ring every 3 hours. 6 AM is silent.

I noticed that I posted a lot in one day. I will continue to track ideas as they arise, but hopefully a quarterly log will condense the posting. I'm posting everything, but with a focus on completed tasks.

I received this email:

"Events and Promotions is looking for people in Colorado Springs to work wine and spirits events.  You must be out going and good with people. Jobs usually run 4 hours and are on the weekends. I pay $25/hr per event. If you aren’t in Colorado Springs and this sounds like this is something that you would like to do, let me know!"

I'm wondering about pursuing it from my current location. 

Becca digitized Processing/FFGL notes and annotated them with SDLC methodology definitions. I added the two design concepts I posted earlier.

Wasted a bunch of time on social networks. Looked at Element Future site. This is the kind of thing that kills time. Heard about Barcade from J who says I can gig there.

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This workstation deserves better time management. I cringe at the
words. Maybe 'time leadership' is more palatable ala Seth Godin.
Whatever. Just do it.

Right away, Engineering and Business are the trending topics in my mind, which I know means I am procrastinating from music and subsequently art. It's because I'm worried about not making enough money fast enough, and using the computer as a crutch to avoid doing any real work (imagine that!). The all night sessions are fun but can be detrimental if I burn out in the process. I don't feel like sleeping, and I don't feel like working. Go figure. It's well enough time to quit the banter and cut to the chase. At least I get annoyed with myself.

Meanwhile, IRL, I'm sitting in 2,500 sq ft of gallery and event space. I need to monetize this space. I need to contact the list of JeffCo artists who might be interested, as well as the list of artists I found gallery hopping in Lincoln.

iPhone battery died. Up late, too tired to start something. Sitting here, getting used to blogging. It should provide valuable feedback for time management. In the future I hope my efforts are more concentrated and concise. My primary activities are divided into three areas which converge into one:

Music (audio)
Art (visual)
Engineering (interactive)
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Business

How do individual objectives within the Art category fit into Business objectives, etc? They are reconcilable fields in my case. I have so many of these thoughts... hopefully logging them will increase productivity. I need to break my creative process into sections (prep, cook, serve).

-M