Overhauling…
Posted on May 11th, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 6:46 am
…My site design some more, that is. I’ve added a nice a little top bar with some static pages with theoretically useful information (like where to listen to my music, who I am and how to contact me,) and I’ve moved the post catagories up there too. Hopefully, this aids in navigation rather than detracting from it. Besides, I’d rather have a less than perfect top bar than have a double right side column I’ve seen on sites like Fark and SA – I don’t have that much info on my site, so I have no need to resort to pug ugly webdesign (well, pug uglier webdesign.)
Of course, all those pages should probably be fleshed out some more. However, I accidentally pulled an all-nighter getting the framework setup, so I think a few hours of sleep are in order first. Well, after a few random asides:
-I also did some actual overhauling these week, or atleast a little car repair with my dad. Air Mass Flow Sensor on my mom’s car died, resulting in the car’s computer freaking out a bit. I’ve been driving my grandpa’s car, a Mercury Grand Marquis, as such. As much as I like driving in a car with a fully-functional sound system, the gas it guzzles is lame.
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Apparently Last Place Isn’t All Bad
Posted on May 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:01 am
Thanks to my last position and what I can only assume is a time-pressed editor at Double Viking, a site that mixes Maxim, 2600 and 1up, I managed to get the icon position in their link to Hipster Please’s Nerdcore Artist Top 10. Take that more successful and popular Nerdcore artists who I’ve all met and who I think are cool (except for MC Hawking, who I have not met, but still think is cool.)
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Palette Swap, New Sprites And New Dialog Boxes
Posted on May 1st, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 3:27 am
To put it another way, I shifted back to a gray BG (sorry, I like it, it manages my Windows color scheme,) and I add some new banners to the rotation, some of which are much contrast, necessitating a little modification of the header text area (personally, I think it has a bit of a CNN International-flare to it.) It’s a bit of celebratory thing in relation to being back up after being down for almost a month, but it’s mostly to keep the site from being so visually repetitive that even I’m tired of looking at it.
PS: I also finally uploaded the CSS file for the old blog archives, making them much visually appealing to you, the end user.
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To the LJ Readers
Posted on April 30th, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 5:06 pm
Looks like the new version of the LJ/Wordpress crosspost plugin chokes on embedded video. Now, in the future, I’ll just link to youtube and such, but the old posts are broken now. As such, you may need to look through the actual site for older posts, not LJ (or atleast until I have time to fix a lot of older entries.
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Looks like I got this blog back up barely in time…
Posted on April 30th, 2007
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 2:02 pm
…to shamelessly brag about being in 10th place on a list of The Top 10 Nerdcore Artists of All Time. Actually, really surprised that I managed to barely sneak on the list. There are certainly other artists in this genre who manage to lay down a more accessible and traditionally hiphop sound, and there are certainly mc’s who have recieved a lot more real world press attention, so I’m kind of surprised that some one as flagrantly experimental and niche as me managed to make it.
Of course, a lot more than that has happened while the site was down…
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KarlROlson.com Reloaded
Posted on April 30th, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 3:44 am
Well, atleast partially so. Took for ever for me to work where in the giant mysql backup the actual information was, but I finally found it, and thus atleast the blog part of this site is running. Hopefully, LJ crossposting is also back up as well so that all of my friends there can also rejoice in the good news, if allowing me to have an outlet to rant can be called “good news.”
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Back In The US / Concert After-Thoughts
Posted on March 20th, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:55 am
So, after a week or so spent largely in another country (Canada,) I’m back in the US for atleast a couple weeks. It was definitely time well-spent, as for the first time since December, I was able to spent time with my girlfriend w/o some major event/concert/convention eating up most of the time. I’ll spare readers the details, but in short, great food + great shopping + a great city + wonderful company = an awesome time.
Of course, there was still a little concert in all that, and I’d have to say it was one of my favorite nerdcore shows to date, at least in terms of concerts I actually performed at. Of course, the fact I was able to really just lay down a very good set without any technical difficulties nor memory glitches helped that notion, but the fact that everyone else gave it there all and did awesome sets certainly aided and abetted that sentiment as well. The whole night made me think that Nerdcore really does have room for some more big artists, and that I could maybe even be one of them. Maybe. 😉
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Nekodashi’s Back, Finally.
Posted on March 10th, 2007
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 3:56 pm
Watch as album sales tumble 😉 (which is fine, because I’m not in the US to ship them right now anyway.)
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Collaboratificationed
Posted on March 8th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:36 pm
To those of you out there who think I don’t sound hiphop enough, I recommend checking out ZeaLouS1’s Collabocide, as it’s a nerdcore hiphop album that really gets the hiphop part right without sacrificing the nerdcore part at all. I mean, yeah, I also do a collab with ZeaLouS1 on this CD where I rap about my love of shoujo anime and manga while ZeaLouS1 raps about the Gar/seinen side of anime and manga (track 17, “Animezing”,) so maybe I’m little biased when it comes to recommending it. However, I assure the rest of the collabs are even better, so I recommend it if you enjoy nerdcore, but love rap.
PS: Watch out for YTCracker name dropping me in his collab with ZeaLouS1 (track 18: “nerdstyle.”)
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Romance Language Reviews
Posted on March 7th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:04 pm
So, since Nekodashi is still down (BTW, Misu, get back to me on that.) Anyways, in lieu of actual music downloads (though I guess I should put a zip sooner rather than later.) However, a few managed to download it before Nekodashi died, a few others even bought the album for some bizarre reason, and members of both parties have decided for some weird reason to review my album. There’s a review from Z of Hipster, Please and a whole thread about the album at Rhyme Torrents. If those reviews don’t convince you to buy my album without listening to it, you’re patient. Good for you 😉