by Blender Dumbass Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".
From 2 years ago. Information or opinions might not be up to date.
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I'm Not Even Human ( a film that I made in 2018 ) has an original score written by me. This original score is also the first time I used MIDI to compose music instead of playing it on the electric piano. The first song "Explosion" was originally composed and recorded using the piano, but the sound quality of the piano was nowhere near where I wanted it to be for the movie. So for the first time I touched MIDI and redone the song in MIDI, which sounded great. So I made all of the original score for the movie in MIDI apart from 3 songs. The Bill's Into was recorded with live guitar. Abstraktation was improvised on the piano. And the final Bonus Track was recorded the same way as my album The Pentas.
↩ Reply Link to the page about the movie I'm Not Even Human↩ Reply Download from Internet Archive↩ Reply Explosion↩ Reply ↩ Reply Abstraktation↩ Reply ↩ Reply Ownership↩ Reply ↩ Reply Pito's Theme↩ Reply ↩ Reply 4211D79th Theme↩ Reply ↩ Reply Bill's Intro↩ Reply ↩ Reply Bill's Theme↩ Reply ↩ Reply The Attack↩ Reply ↩ Reply The Chase Part 1↩ Reply ↩ Reply The Chase Part 2↩ Reply ↩ Reply The Chase Part 3↩ Reply ↩ Reply Crystal Castle↩ Reply ↩ Reply Hallucination (Bonus Track)↩ Reply ↩ Reply The music of this album are under both the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licenses. Choose either.↩ Reply When I made I'm Not Even Human in 2018 I didn't know nothing about licensing and thought that putting "Non-Commercial" is better. Later I learned that Libre Stuff should not block the ability of sales. More about that on GNU.ORG. I cannot remove the previous license. Because creative commons licenses are irrevocable. But I can add another one. And so now you can choose between the two.↩ Reply
An article by Troler about Libre Software made me remember an email conversation I had with Richard Stallman the other day. I suggested to have a sort of freedom ladder analogue, to encourage non-libre software developers to, at least, move closer towards user-freedom. I thought ranking software based on how close they are at achieving user-freedom. How close they are to being Libre. If they have source code published, but no license. This is still better than having no source code published at all. Stallman firmly stood his ground against my idea, claiming that anything less than Libre, anything less than software that grants all 4 essential freedoms to the user, is automatically not good enough. But then in that article by @Troler I saw something interesting. Maybe merely granting the 4 essential freedoms, might be not good enough, either.
In my review of Babylon I claimed that it was 1941 of Damien Chazelle. But there is one filmmaker that makes 1941s all the time. And his name is Michael Bay.