For anyone that’s been wondering where I’ve been for the past week or so, I just moved. Not surprisingly, I packed my beads and music-related stuff last so I would have a chance to work on various projects until the day I moved, with the intention of jumping right back into the action once I was settled in. Here is it, about a week after the move, and I haven;t even unpacked my beads – but I have been working on learning the in’s and out’s of MidiNES, starting with transfering the tracks from my upcoming 80’s and 90’s TV themes and cartoons album.

Soon, I’ll be back in full swing, but I need to take a vaction from work and hobbies, so I’m taking Memorial Day to do so and then it’s back to the grind!

For those who’ve never heard of MidiNES, it was created by a genius by the name of Chris Kann, aka x|k. This modified NES cartridge plugs into the Nintendo like any other cartridge, and via any external MIDI device, one can utilize the NES soundcard to create their own original chip-tunes using the authentic NES sound.

Needless to say, I’m excited to try this out with the tracks I’ve been working on for my upcoming TV Show and Cartoon Themes album, due for release at the end of May, 2009. Up until now, I’ve been utilizing plugins that merely simulate the NES sound, but this is the real deal!

I’m going to make my best efforts to convert all my current tracks to be compatible with MidiNES for a better sound, but with a move in mid-May, a busy work schedule and other projects going on, I may be cutting it real close.

Anyone who follows me on Flickr! or deviantART will likely have seen these already, but for those that visit my blog for music related news, I want to share these.

Videogames lend themselves well to bead art, as the beads easily represent pixels in the pieces, but ever since I’ve been beading from custom pixelart, I’ve tried to expand into other nerd culture besides videogames, one of the the first of which is comic books.

Just in time for the movie with the most ridiculously profitable opening day, I present Wolverine!

This piece contains 23,188 beads and is currently sitting inside a black frame. It’s the size of a standard movie or music poster, at around 36 x 24 inches, and this is definitely my favorite so far, especially the details on the reflection of the claws. Just for the hell of it, you can hit the jump for pictures of the other two, Magneto and Phoenix.

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