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River City Limits on WRIR – 10-8-22

October 14, 2022 / admin / 0 Comments

View the playlist posted on WRIR’s website HERE

Mackenzie Roark – Sweet Thing
Spooky Cool – The Sweat Off Your Back
My Darling Fury – Perfectly Mad
Prabir Trio – America
Cut The Architect’s Hand – Contempt As A Weapon
Erik Larson – Drop In The Bucket
Bearstorm – Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Cannabis Corpse – Voice Of The Bowl
Burma Jam – Crunch
Damn Near Red – Confession
Hindu Affiliate – Il Fin Du Mundo
Farquhar – Mummy Wheat
Avers – Empty Light
Horsehead – Emptiest Arms In The World
Murphy’s Kids – Violence Of A Special
Kind Long Arms – Crazy Bet
Frog Legs – The Threshing Floor
Labradford – Midrange
Houdan The Mystic – The Butcher
Everyone Dies In The End – Stay Alive No Matter What Occurs, I Will Find You
The Technical Jed – Cartoon Train
Kepone – Virginia Creeper
Microjoy – Betrayal
Wow, Owls! – Gems
Inter Arma – The Cavern

Good Eye – Susanna Calvert – Foundation for Family and Community Healing

August 29, 2022 / admin / 0 Comments

Susanna Calvert is the founder of the Foundation for Family and Community Healing. Their mission is to “empower us all to create healthy, positive, rewarding relationships woth ourselves, each other, Earth, and the loving force greater than ourselves”. What started as something Susanna began in 2018 following several tragic life events now reaches internationally helping people “change their behavior, and change their world.”

Foundation for Family and Community Healing

Launch of thier Synapse Hub Sept 13

Silent Auction Fundraiser Nov. 18, at the Crossroads Art Center

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Cycling – Go Forward Together Ride 2022

August 29, 2022 / admin / 0 Comments

Register for the ride, or just come out to Final Gravity Brewing in Lakeside on Saturday, Oct.1. Riders will start getting back to Final Gravity about 11am after the ride. There will be an after event with food and fun for everyone.

Info and registration at GoForwardTogetherRide.com

Good Eye Podcast – Henry Katinda – Empathy Children Initiative Uganda

August 11, 2022 / admin / 0 Comments

Henry Katinda is a Ugandan Educator, Tourism Entrepreneur and Humanitarian. He is the Founder of Empathy Children Initiative, Uganda. It’s a charitable nonprofit helping vulnerable children in Uganda access education and other basic needs. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Henjo African Safaris, a Safari company that organizes Adventures, Vacations, Study excursions and Safaris to Uganda and Rwanda.

Links:
Empathy Children Initiative Uganda
ECIU on Facebook

Any kind of assistance can be donated to via GoFindMe.
https://gofund.me/fb75d625

Safari Tourism
Henjo African Safaris
Henjo African Safaris on Facebook

Jay Smack VO – Design Blasting Services

August 5, 2022 / admin / 0 Comments

A new VO project for Design Blasting Services. I love digging in on a read like this – authentic, blue-collar, a little gritty, unhurried. Great vision, production and direction by Dawson Waters.

Design Blasting Services | Director’s Cut from Dawson Waters on Vimeo.

Go Forward Together Ride 2022 – Routes and Info

July 27, 2022 / admin / 0 Comments

This is the 50-mile route and the 1.5-mile kids’ route for this year’s Go Forward Together cycling event fundraiser.

This year we’re proud to have added some new partners. In addition to sponsors Primis Bank, The Goddard School, Virginia Credit Union, The Social Ginger, and Garth’s Gourmet Goodness, Final Gravity Brewing will be the location of the start/finish and the post-ride celebration, and the word is that they’ll be brewing a beer especially for the ride. Carytown Bicycle Company will provide mechanical assistance and support. And Palani Drive is providing lunch for the registered riders thanks to food sponsor Red River Foods.

Check out the routes via the Google Maps below, and get more info and sign up via the link.

#goforwardtogether

INFO, SIGN-UP AND SOCIAL
Go Forward Together Ride info and sign-up – find all the info you need and register for the ride.
Go Forward Together Strava Club – all are welcome whether you’re doing the ride or not because COMMUNITY.

ROUTES AND GPS
Strava Route
Garmin Connect Course
Ride With GPS Route

Google Maps of both routes – the 50-miler and the Kids’ Ride.

Jay Smack VO – Recent Project for Raken

May 5, 2022 / admin / 0 Comments

Activate! on WRIR 4-14-22 (filling in for Mike Rutz)

April 15, 2022 / admin / 0 Comments

Mike Rutz’s show Activate! on WRIR is known around the station as one of the most challenging shows to do, especially since you’re sitting in for Mike who does it every week. He’s used to it. It’s an audio music calendar featuring music from bands and artists who will be playing in the Richmond area over the next week. So you have to do a lot of research for it in a short amount of time and also find music to play which should represent the artists appropriately. Do you play the new single? Or do you play an old favorite? What do you play by local artists who listeners may or may not know? It’s fun, but you want to do it justice.

I sat in for Mike on Thursday and even though it’s a relief to find plenty of music to play and plenty of live dates to promote, there is always so much more that you could play and highlight. And that speaks highly of Richmond’s live music scene which is pretty cool.

2022 0414 Activate! – Host Jay Smack (in for Mike)

FM SKYLINE – Astral Baths (local)
Black Iris; April 16 @ 8:30pm (w/ Alfred; FM Skyline; DHEMO; DJ Bedspread Radio)

HOTSPIT – Epitaph (local)
SIPPER – Party (NYC)
Hotspit (w/ Loving; Sipper) @ The Broadberry; April 21 @ 7pm

AUDACITY BRASS BAND – Raise Your Glass (local) Brambley Park; April 15 @ 9:30pm

DUCTTAPE JESUS – Fiddy Cent (local)
The Camel; April 18 @ 7pm (w/ Hunting Dog; Digital Hell)

DEAD BILLIONAIRES – Engines (local)
PRABIR TRIO – America (local)
Dead Billionaires EP , The Camel; April 20 @ 7pm (w/ Dead Psychic; Prabir Trio; Sweet Potatoes)

DUMB WAITER – Frzk (local)
GULL – Mouth To Mouth (local)
Gallery 5; April 16 @ 7pm (w/ Gull; Payton Baril)

LUCY IN BATTLE ARMOR – Funk Jedi (local)
JJ SPEAKS – Sneaky Little Wizards (local) – news of a special show in Sept later BABY BUGS – Hey Bunny
Bandito’s; April 16 @ 9pm (Lucy In Battle Armor, JJ Speaks; Baby Bugs)

.GIF FROM GOD – take the flesh; make it stretchy (local)
Benefit for Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project at Ask a punk; April 20 @ 8pm (w/ Prisoner; Terror Cell; Cimitir)
PRISONER – Tyrant (local)
Benefit for Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project at Ask a punk; April 20 @ 8pm (w/ .gif from god; Terror Cell; Cimitir)

CIRCLE JERKS – Coup d’Etat (live)
7 SECONDS – Here’s Your Warning
The Broadberry; April 18 @ 7pm (w/ Negative Approach; 7 Seconds)

SEA OF STORMS – Gentleman’s Jam (local) DARK WATERS – Mazy (local)
Cobra Cabana; April 15 (w/ Dark Waters; NC 17)

SUPERCHUNK – Endless Summer (Chapel Hill)
Richmond Music Hall; April 16 @ 7pm (w/ Torres)

DELTA SLEEP – Planet Fantastic
COLIN PHILS – Trust/Fall
GENDER ROLES – Dead or Alive
Canal Cub; April 19 @ 7pm (w/ It Looks Sad.; Gender Roles; Colin Phils)

DEAD FORMAT – Daybreak (local)
NINTH REALM – All Hail Treachery (Maryland)
The Bike Shop; April 15 @ 7pm (w Heavy Is the Head; Defying Death; Wasted Space; Dead Format; Ninth Realm; Gradal Slip)

HOT TUNA – I See the Light The Tin Pan; April 18 @ 7pm

TIN CAN FISH BAND – Long Time Blue
Sound of Music; April 16 @ 5pm (w/ Craigslist Jerry; Kooler Heads)

THE JOB – Here For You (local) -new

SEPARATION – Rise of Kings
MURDERSOME – Living Is Illegal
I AM THE LIQUOR – Destroyer of Worlds
Reunion show Sept 17 at Canal Clubwith Murdersome, I Am The Liquor, Fallen Under, JJ SPeaks

Editors are storytellers – A tribute to Taylor Hawkins

April 5, 2022 / admin / 0 Comments

Editors are storytellers.

Post production editors, mixers, motion/graphic artists, animators, composers, cinematographers, directors, and other creative technicians often work in secluded rooms using creative vision as a compass. It’s not for everyone, but for some, it’s the only thing they could ever envision doing.

Please excuse the sharing of someone else’s work, but when I saw this tribute piece for Taylor Hawkins I was floored. I don’t know who produced and edited it, but we rarely do, do we? It hits all the right notes and deftly combines the emotional impact of losing such an inspirational figure with the artistry of this production to generate a visceral reaction. The rhythm, the shot choices, the length of each shot, the song, the timing, all of it comes together to say what words never could. It tells a story succinctly, passionately, honorably and completely.

Music is what got me into this business and it’s what prevents me from ever leaving. I have to be close to it. It’s the same for many of us. As a vo artist/audio post mixer (and drummer) navigating a career path through the intersections of creativity and commerce, it hasn’t always been an easy business to be in. But I couldn’t imagine it any other way.

RIP, Taylor Hawkins. Thanks for the music and the joy. And thanks to the lifers in this crazywacky business who remain unsung, which is most of us. And we’re fine with that. #postproduction

The Genius of Jonny Greenwood

March 2, 2022 / admin / 0 Comments

You love film scores? You love the music of Radiohead? You love the musical compositions of Johnny Greenwood, guitarist for Radiohead? Ok then.

Ashton Gleckman is a composer who produces a series on YouTube call “Art Of The Score”. If you’re a film score nerd you’d love it.

This episode is all about Jonny Greenwood and features analysis of and commentary on his compositional approaches and techniques used in scoring films such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” and “There Will Be Blood“, “Spencer” about Princess Diana, “The Power of the Dog” and “Phantom Thread“.