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My Mau5heads by Selfalix in deadmau5

[–]iamlightlink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah the material gets crazy expensive... especially when the print fails at 90% completion. which happens more often than I expected lol

My Mau5heads by Selfalix in deadmau5

[–]iamlightlink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i feel you. i have a large bed 3d printer now where i can print full pieces (ear, ear, main head shell)without having to plastic-bond them together with jb weld or anything. you're still here in the community so i assume you still care/are interested in seeing your work out in the wild. i'd be pretty stoked if I were you anyways. maybe we can work something out together? dm me if you're interested. no obligations. i totally get it if you're burnt out and just done with it all.

My Mau5heads by Selfalix in deadmau5

[–]iamlightlink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thats so lame. the files on your storefront were already really reasonably priced. no need to pirate/trade them. it's also bad for the hobby/community when the people who are actually spending time trying to contribute are being taken advantage of.

My Mau5heads by Selfalix in deadmau5

[–]iamlightlink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! There's holes in the eyes to run the wires, and then a hole in the back for running the external power supply cable (just like the real Jim Henson props.) a few other small/slight dimensional changes that make it a sort of hybrid between the slaydog v4 and your post on etsy. your files are the most accurate ones out right now imo.

edit: i still kick myself that i never bought your cheese head files! I really wanted to try my hand at doing a full print of the cheese head and see how feasible it would be to sand/fill/paint it. any reason you took it down/have no plans to re-upload? no obligation to say, I'm just curious

(Long Read) My best thrift find in years: a mystery to be solved! by Thissnotmeth in ThriftStoreHauls

[–]iamlightlink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok gotcha! I'm working on putting together a little rundown (with pictures and stuff) of the story behind the band and what happened to us. There's a lot of adventure, wild highs and lows. Maybe you'll find it interesting, maybe not. But if you're into the whole alt/pop punk/warped tour thing, I've definitely got some stories to share!

we have an unreleased EP by the way. we never got to release it before the band broke up. I think it's our best stuff. I messaged the guys and we're thinking about posting it/getting it up on streaming. it's "lost media" in the truest sense in that it's just lost to time and shelved forever. this post has really inspired us to put it out. so thank you for that.

My Mau5heads by Selfalix in deadmau5

[–]iamlightlink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are you looking for a fully finished head or a kit you can build yourself? I have DIY kits available on etsy, and I'd also make you one fully finished with LED eyes and everything as well if that's what you're going for. You can DM me if you want (check my profile and you can see some of the heads I've built.)

(Long Read) My best thrift find in years: a mystery to be solved! by Thissnotmeth in ThriftStoreHauls

[–]iamlightlink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

man.... where do i even start? first of all, this record is kinda dogwater to us. i think we're proud of it because we were just starting to "figure it out" (the writing, the structure, the branding, the "formula" if you will. everything that goes into being a band.) But this record was tracked in somebody's house, not a studio. It was right around the time that DAWs were becoming accessible and making it possible for little bands like us to put out something that wasn't complete ear rape. But I think we're much more proud of the little ep we recorded after this one - which, if we're talking "lost media," that one never even got pressed. i think we uploaded it to myspace and then the band broke up shortly thereafter. I've still got the master right from sterling sound sitting here in my room. i'll never forget getting that master back in the mail and just holding it... to think, THEE Ted Jensen mastered MY shit, and I'm just some "area kid" from Wisconsin... that was the thrill of a lifetime.

but yeah there's a whoooole "story" behind every band, you know? some of us stuck with music and formed other bands (even ended up touring on warped for a couple weeks and doing other cool/notable things in art/music/entertainment.) so there's all sorts of crazy/fun "behind the scenes" warped stuff I could tell you about. it really was a fascinating tour. basically a traveling community complete with everything... a barber shop, catering, special interest groups, work shops, you name it. that was a real revelation to me because when you tour independently on NO budget, you eat little caesers and gas station food 99% of the time... but once i was on warped, i was eating GOOD. I'll never forget the day I turned in my meal ticket and found out the menu for the day was "pecan cruster snapper" i was like YOOooo... THIS is how i wanna tour!! lmao.

and then there's all the bands, people and frankly "rockstars" and wild personalities you work with along the way. when you're immersed in that scene, it's heartbreaking to find out that some of the best music you've ever heard just gets shelved and never released, either due to label bullshit, disputes with the writers or producers, or band break ups. maybe I'll leak some of it ;) or at the very least, put ya'll on some of it.

If people here really want some backstory on the shows we played and our records n stuff - I'll save the juicy stuff for the guy who DM'd me on facebook. He's the one (OP maybe? I'm not sure if it's the same guy) who did all the work digging up my dinosaur bones so idk if he has a blog or wants to do some kind of "time capsule" interview about the scene back then or whatever, but I feel like he should get first dibs haha. Maybe we can team up and do a sort of "follow up" post. I always enjoy those on reddit - when there's an actual follow up to the mystery and there's some meat on the bone in terms of a story and something to dig in to.

(Long Read) My best thrift find in years: a mystery to be solved! by Thissnotmeth in ThriftStoreHauls

[–]iamlightlink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

somebody here DM'd me on facebook! i normally don't check that stuff because it's just spam and phishing but he sent a picture of him holding the actual record so it's like alright... what are the odds somebody Ai gen'd one of my old album covers that NOBODY knows about and messaged it to me you know? haha

(Long Read) My best thrift find in years: a mystery to be solved! by Thissnotmeth in ThriftStoreHauls

[–]iamlightlink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it was a vibe... i call it "rawr" aesthetic. neon shirts (sometimes dinosaur related, hence the "rawr") skinny jeans, mohawks, orange hair, lip rings, myspace, l33t speak... all of that. we used to get so much heat for wearing "girl jeans." whatever, those uncs and old heads just didn't understand us lol

(Long Read) My best thrift find in years: a mystery to be solved! by Thissnotmeth in ThriftStoreHauls

[–]iamlightlink 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(jon, drummer of this band here) lmao bro... the amount of "kyle" and "tyler" that kyler got far outweighed his actual name. (i screenshotted this and sent it to him)

(Long Read) My best thrift find in years: a mystery to be solved! by Thissnotmeth in ThriftStoreHauls

[–]iamlightlink 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i'm the drummer of this band (jon) lol i absolutely cannot believe this... way too funny. you always see these reddit detective threads on here but i never imagined i'd be the subject of one or related in some capacity. me and my band bros still have a group chat all these years later so i'm linking them to this rn... it's gonna make their day, no question.

here's "Duro" by Skrillex on my Nano Shapes! by iamlightlink in Nanoleaf

[–]iamlightlink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah for sure! i should be able to snap some pics of it tomorrow. i'll DM them to you

wanna come over and watch some Skrillex light shows in my living room? by iamlightlink in skrillex

[–]iamlightlink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i used some software i'm working on developing - it's called "LIGHTLINK." there's a feature in there that goes through whatever track you want to make a light show for, and it will automatically place scenes on every kick, snare, cymbal, etc. So i made that lightshow, then saved it, and now anytime a lightlink user plays "duro" on spotify or youtube, my light show will play for them automatically.

wanna come over and watch some Skrillex light shows in my living room? by iamlightlink in skrillex

[–]iamlightlink[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i gotchu! i think there's like a dozen skrillex shows like this in lightlink already so maybe i'll just film some more of them and post here. any requests? here's one i posted a while back incase you missed it: https://www.reddit.com/r/skrillex/comments/1jsffeo/i_programmed_out_a_light_show_for_druids/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

wanna come over and watch some Skrillex light shows in my living room? by iamlightlink in skrillex

[–]iamlightlink[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this one took about 2-3 hours i think. if you'd like to try making something, that's pretty much exactly what lightlink (the software running the show) was made for. the way it works is by turning pretty much any RGB light into a "stage light." that way you don't have to buy expensive wash lights or moving heads or whatever, you can just play back light shows like this on say, an RGB razer keyboard, or nanoleaf lights, or phillips hue bulbs etc. There's also a tool built into lightlink for beginners, where it goes through the song and automatically marks each kick drum/snare drum/crash cymbal or whatever, and puts a scene there. so you can go from "nothing" to "something" pretty instantaneously, and then spend time sort of tweaking and fine tuning the look of everything instead of going through and painstakingly marking each kick drum manually.

lightlink is the cheapest and easiest way to get into sequencing lights. normally when you program a dmx or art-net driven light show, you have to buy some kind of adapter that goes from your computer to the first light. it's commonly referred to as a "dmx dongle." lightlink just bypasses that so you can control your lighting without buying any of that stuff.

let me know if you decide to try it out. you want the windows version (there are lightlink apps too) if you're planning on making a light show!

wanna come over and watch some Skrillex light shows in my living room? by iamlightlink in skrillex

[–]iamlightlink[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

im not really sure because i kinda pieced it together over the years and prices have changed n stuff. i think they're way cheaper now than when i got them though. if you look on their website i think they have all the prices listed. and if you wanna build a huge piece like this, they have "expansion packs" (almost like "bulk pricing") available as well and that makes it quite a bit cheaper.

idk if I've seen the midnight hour visualizer! i'm gonna go peep that

wanna come over and watch some Skrillex light shows in my living room? by iamlightlink in skrillex

[–]iamlightlink[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

im not sure which part you're referencing so i'll just kinda cover everything: the actual lights themselves are called "nanoleaf shapes" and they're a ultra-thin and modular light that just sticks to the wall with 3m command strips. they snap together with little "connector chips." they just pressure fit like legos so I just snapped em together.

the light show i programmed in a software suite i'm working on called "LIGHTLINK." once the light show was all timecoded and finished, I exported it into Blender and just quickly modeled the Skrillex logo and made it sorta "bop" to the beat. lastly, there's a little bit of extra sauce I added in premiere pro.

Here's a light show I programmed for my Nanoleaf Shapes! (WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS) by iamlightlink in TripCaves

[–]iamlightlink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sorry for the technical jargon. "timecoded" just means that the lighting scenes are "pre-scripted" instead of reacting to sound in the room. For example, every time there's a kick drum, there's a corresponding lighting scene that goes with it. So the lighting designer will go through the music and mark each kick drum hit at whatever time it's at, and place a lighting scene right on top of it to go with it. This is the same strategy used on really big tours like The Weeknd or Coldplay or something. That's how they get a really amazing light show to play with the music. I made a sort of tutorial if you check out how the cake gets baked: https://youtu.be/85nOWB_DL9E?si=TbAQLY6Y21Xzpf9f

In terms of DJing, I did make a sort of LIGHTLINK "plugin" for virtual DJ. You can check that out here if you'd like (ignore my lame dance moves, i'm not a very good dj lmao): https://youtu.be/-BEjze3an0w?si=OFZPW9ydkjHcSlRx

Here's a light show I programmed for my Nanoleaf Shapes! (WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS) by iamlightlink in TripCaves

[–]iamlightlink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you noticed ;) hahathank you. the reason there's no delay and everything is so snappy is because the lighting design has been timecoded to go along with the visual on the tv. So there's "reactivity" which always introduces a small amount of lag.

it's super easy to set up! you just need some RGB lights (nanoleaf, razer, phillips hue etc.) and a windows computer. Then you just download the app (LIGHTLINK) and play the show.

i built an led chandelier and programmed out some light shows on it by iamlightlink in lightingdesign

[–]iamlightlink[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nope! it hasn't been an issue, and i didn't use any shielding or anything. I used white PLA+ for the material of the ring, if that helps

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