Blog Closed! Mcom News Moved To Facebook

Effective today, Mcom news will be posted on the official Micah Atwell Facebook page. This blog will remain up but will no longer be updated. If you are not already a Facebook member, you can still access the page... no sign-up is required.

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New SONG... Until I See You Again

MicahAtwell.com/music...

click the info button on the player to view lyrics

Mcom News Page Has Moved!

MicahAtwell.com News will now be posted here on the blog exclusively. If you had subscribed to the old news feed, you will only need to re-subscribe to the feed here. Sorry for any inconvenience, this change is in effort to centralize the updates. Thanks for visiting!

FuturePrimal.com

http://www.futureprimal.com

My newest website, launching this spring! Also, stay tuned for a new MicahAtwell.com.

:)

To My Followers...

Apologies as I have removed the Follow widget from my blog in light of the recent (and quite obvious) changes made to it. Like Steph initially opted, I too was going to give it some time for them to realize the err of their ways before removing it. But, I have gone to the ropes with Google before over similar matters, recalling last year when they silently issued a drastic and horribly dumbed-down up(down?)grade to the image search page. It took a lot of us (developers mostly) badgering them incessantly and stating the numbers before they finally relented. For that, specifically, it was worthwhile. For a little widget, not so much. So, sorry to you for the inconvenience, and hopefully with enough other people tossing the widget a lesson learned for the Blogger devs.

New Track: I Feel Embryonic

Available now on the Music Page!

New Music and Audio Player Upgrades

I made several upgrades to the audio player and have added 2 more playlists and a ton of additional tracks. Here's what's new...

Audio Player upgrades:

• fixed issue of playlist images not displaying


• added copyright field to info dialog


• changed font and font-size on info dialog to allow for improved readability and larger text content


• added download buttons beside each track in tracklist. just click the green arrow to download the mp3.


• added right-click menu option for downloading tracks (downloads the currently playing track)


• added tooltips


• added a hack to force the player to load the most current player/playlist data (you should not have to clear your cache everytime to see the changes). PLEASE NOTE: you may still have to clear your cache this one time to get the fixed player.

New Playlists:

• Album: House of Secrets (2003) - This is the playlist for a private-release album I produced in 2003. The album was really just an anthology.


• Analog Dayz - old analog recordings - This playlist contains a number of tracks I recorded prior to converting to the digital recording world (roughly 1999-2000). Some of these were recorded on standard tape decks and the rest on a Fostex X-18H 4-track cassette recorder.

New Tracks:

Most of these tracks have been released on earlier versions of my website, but there are 3 that have never been released until now! Those tracks are:

• evil.lil.me


• Part of the Plan


• Awaken To You

They're each in the "Various Music" playlist. But if you're a newer visitor, there are likely many more "new" tracks for you to check out.

effin spam

Just to note, the Looney Tunes TV widget is gone. They're planning (or have already begun) to include ads in the feed so they've been nixed. At least they were nice enough to warn us a couple weeks in advance. Too bad, but it was nice to reconnect with my childhood for a few hours.

Anyway, I replaced the widget with my own, my random chord progression generator. Ok, it's not technically a widget but you can grab it if you want, just ask if you need help adding it to your blogger template.

Hello, ol' friend!

I've been having a great time getting reacquainted with Photoshop and graphic design lately. Started working on a new music project and when it came time for a logo and myspace profile design, I looked up some photoshop tutorials (not because I need them, but because I wanted some new ideas). I only looked up some 3D text tuts, but those sparked my creativity and ingenuity to experiment in other ways. This got me back into graphics like I haven't experienced in many years, where I've been manically spending several hours straight in photoshop while the rest of the world dissapears into oblivion (I haven't really missed much, lol). But now it's time to get back to the project's music and hope it lives up to the image I've created for it. I think it will, though ;)

New Track: Continue...

I know it's my birthday, but instead I'll give you all a present... a new piece of music titled Continue...

I wrote this piece back in 2006 --as a matter of fact it was 2 years ago this coming Friday. It's not the piece I mentioned in my previous post, actually it's not even one I planned to work on this weekend. It's been sitting on my hard drive this whole time because I had hopes of doing more with it. However, to date nothing has jumped out at me so I figured it must be done already... wrap it up and push it out before I do something to ruin it :)

Click Here to listen

Shuttle Sidebar

Just created a little sidebar extra to display the remaining Space Shuttle launch info. As you probably know, the Shuttle fleet is scheduled for retirement in 2010, so these are the last shuttle flights we will ever see. Due to a number of issues, there's little chance of ever seeing another spacecraft like this. The fleet is expected to be replaced by the new Constellation system beginning in 2014, which will be extremely reminiscient of the Saturn V rockets used during the Apollo program that took humans to the moon. If we ever see another airframe-styled space vehicle, you can bet it will only be from the likes of Scaled Composites (Burt Rutan) or some other private-sector company.