Random musings of Jeromey Balderrama
Earlier this week I posted my Rockies logo for my Graphic Design class. Last weekend, I put together a personal project. Greenfoot is playing a benefit show for the CSU Alternative Spring Break, and I volunteered to put together the poster for this show. I’d be anxious to hear your thoughts:
Also if you’re in Fort Collins/Northern Colorado, we’d love for you to come out on Sunday night and support a great cause with us!
Continuing our month of new releases, my band Greenfoot released our third of four new songs today. This one’s called Pagans:
Pagans is one of the strangest songs in the Greenfoot catalog. Not only does the song bounce between melodies, but also changes tempo, time signatures and beats to reflect the lyrics. Some images that came to Jake, our lead singer when writing the lyrics: Celtic lore, sacrifice, and celestial worship. It also touches on mob mentality and the difficulty of opposing the establishment.
What do you think of the song, especially in comparison of the other songs we released? If you want to hear the rest of them, check out greenfootmusic.com/music
Check back next Friday, we have a really fun song to round things out!
Speaking of the Rockies, I’m taking a graphic design course this semester. I needed to get some elective credits and figured this would be a pretty fun class. Our first project was to either re-design the Colorado Rockies logo, or the University of Colorado logo. I decided to do the former and go for a replacement of the “CR” letter logo, going for a more classic look. I’m anxious to hear what you think:
Part of this project was to create an identity package, which includes hats, jerseys, a bus and a plane. I’ve applied my logo to those as well:
<br /> <br /><img border="0" alt="Rockies Logo" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/3010994652_ba7bcec00f_o.png" width="500" height="172" /> <br /><img border="0" alt="Rockies Logo" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/3010994604_e7a887178d_o.png" width="500" height="192" />
Once again, I’d be anxious to hear your thoughts!
The news came across today that the Rockies traded Matt Holliday – arguably their most popular player – to the Oakland A’s.
I’m not a big baseball fan, but I just wanted to put this out there and say that while this was a good trade, it’s going to be perceived as a boneheaded Rockies move. The young talent that we received for a player in the last year of his deal – a deal that’s too expensive for the Rockies to re-sign – will make this trade worth it. Rather than have nothing to show at the end of next year when Holliday would have left, we’ve managed to get something for it.
Nonetheless, one can’t deny that Holliday is a popular player and put fans in seats. We’ll see how this plays out next year, especially if the Rockies aren’t competitive.
My band, Greenfoot is happy to share the 2nd of 4 new songs: Entangled
Entangled is one of the most fun songs to drum. As we were writing this song, I experimented with a lot of different cymbal colors and rhythms that change in each phrase. I love bass riff Julien adds in the middle of the song (around the 2:19), as well as how the soloing guitar trades off with the vocals at this part.
If you’d like, you can download a free MP3 of this song by becoming a Friend of Greenfoot. Just go to http://GreenfootMusic.com/friends/ and sign-up – it’s free!
I’d love to hear what you think of the song! Be on the look out next Friday when we release the 3rd of 4 new songs!
