{"id":68,"date":"2014-12-18T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thotoharangeto.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2014-12-21T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T08:31:12","slug":"say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"My Failed Tee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jalelujah4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This was originally a submission for a t-shirt contest. I was pretty OD about copyright issues, so I tried to work with plain brushes to come up with a logo. It was a thing that just sort of happened- I didn’t really sit there and consider what was happening- I just made this out of impulse and had to take in what I made afterward because I could tell it had a lot of meaning to me, but it was nested in my subconscious after obsessing over learning about elements of audio production for years.<\/p>\n

While I was upset it didn’t win the contest, especially after hours of nitpicking adjustments to the edges, adding things I thought were missing, and trying to sculpt it out more so I could refine it into something with definition, I was still happy I ended up with a work of art I could be proud of.<\/p>\n

I thought it would be cool to see guys walking around with this on as a t-shirt they’d *want* to wear around, and then when people would check them out, they’d look down at the logo to find out that it’s repping this music hardware company (not named, so it’s nothing personal). Then, they could ask about the meaning of it, and those ‘Music Engineers’ could explain what was written to them from me as the author, and then add their own spin on it.<\/p>\n

And that would inspire others to check out that company and get into that wave of production while communicating some heavy messages in terms of artistry.<\/p>\n

I still want to get this printed and wear it around. I’d re-explain its meaning at this point of writing this post, but I’d rather copy\/paste what I wrote to the guys at the company in my submission letter, since that’s more accurate to what I was thinking and feeling at the time I created this design.<\/p>\n

Check it-<\/p>\n

“This is an extremely cryptic t-shirt design, so I should explain<\/p>\n

The arch into the waveform is supposed to symbolize a rest symbol. Nested in it is what looks like a \u20187\u2019 which is \u2019luck\u2019 or energy that we feed on to compose, which can also depict an ear with the loop around it, or a question mark with the dot below it and outside of the border. The \u20187\u2019 is if you choose to interpret that as the source of ideas, or a musician\u2019s mind, nested in a skull. The dot produces a question mark with the \u20187\u2019 shape, pointing at curiosity that inspires new ideas, but is also a point source for audio output from a \u2018speaker\u2019, or the mouth-like shape behind it (it sort of looks like a person shouting as well, come to think of it). Then you can see a crossover from the \u2018rest\u2019 shape with what looks like a half note, only it has an eye drawn into it that\u2019s filling in a quarter note, the idea being that the eye is the gateway to the soul. The statement \u2018Music Engineer\u2019 is supposed to be ironic where \u2018Music Producer\u2019 and \u2018Sound Engineer\u2019 come together to show that this all culminates in the creation of one single endgoal\/entity- music.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t plan to make a hieroglyph-style ancient design- I just started with a basic software brush tool, elaborated on a design I came up with, and let my personality take over. I intended to do it this way because I wanted to be as vigilant as possible to prevent any sort of copyright issue.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was originally a submission for a t-shirt contest. I was pretty OD about copyright issues, so I tried to work with plain brushes to come up with a logo. It was a thing that just sort of happened- I didn’t really sit there and consider what was happening- I just made this out of impulse and had to take… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":104,"url":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/?p=104","url_meta":{"origin":68,"position":0},"title":"Rockabye Baby","date":"December 31, 2014","format":"image","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/it_qRJqwW5Q This song is dedicated to my nephew. I took care of him a lot as a baby and I always wanted to write a lullaby, so this was my chance to do that, and to show my nephew how much I care about him. As I remember, this took\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music Empire"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30,"url":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/?p=30","url_meta":{"origin":68,"position":1},"title":"Andr\u00e9s Escobar","date":"December 16, 2014","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/szV9vFcN-kk This song started by my obsession with a drum sound. I played a drum pattern with my fingers on my MPC 1000, and wanted to write a song where the drums would drive the track and stand out so you had to pay attention to them. Then my friend\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Black Art Synesthesia"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/szV9vFcN-kk\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":150,"url":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/?p=150","url_meta":{"origin":68,"position":2},"title":"Bramchaat.com","date":"May 3, 2021","format":"gallery","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.bramchaat.com\/ bram: universe; chaat: sauce I worked for months to make this website happen for my parents. My mom always wanted her own e-commerce website, and once I got the know-how to build websites, I took it on myself to learn how to build her one. I doubted myself a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Black Art Synesthesia"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":174,"url":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/?p=174","url_meta":{"origin":68,"position":3},"title":"Rise","date":"May 9, 2021","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S395HSra0us This is the first song that I wrote and produced on my own. The organ was the basis for the song, but then I wanted to record the soundscape of outside my house at night and blend it in with the music. I found an electronic drum and played\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music Empire"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/S395HSra0us\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":66,"url":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/?p=66","url_meta":{"origin":68,"position":4},"title":"Jamie Woon","date":"December 18, 2014","format":"aside","excerpt":"Jamie Woon. I've been obsessed with this guy's music ever since I played a modest show at a local library, where after my set, my friend's older brother told me chords I was strumming reminded him of \"Spirals\" by Jamie Woon. I was offended; why the hell would I want\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music Empire"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thotoharangeto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Cover-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nishadprinja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}