{"id":87855,"date":"2012-05-01T00:34:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T04:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87855\/mirrors-rain\/"},"modified":"2012-05-01T00:34:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T04:34:39","slug":"mirrors-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/87855\/mirrors-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirrors in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">One of the favorite things I made in my video making history was the Mirrors In The Rain series.  It started out rather innocuously.  I had made an acquaintance in the owner of my local music store. Back in 2007, I bought my first ukulele from this guy.  We talked about making music, life and all kinds of things.  One thing about his guy, Sam Bartelle is his name, is that he had achieved his life goal.  He had written, produced and published his own Opera. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">It\u2019s called \u201cMirrors in the Rain\u201d, and I got a free copy of the CD with my second purchase at the Countrywood Music Store. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">One lunchtime, I challenged myself to record, edit and upload a new YouTube video during my hour away work.  I lip synced one of the tracks from Mirrors in the Rain. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">After this innocent fun, I made one of my very first videos with this new thing I had discovered, the greenscreen and chromokeying.   Mirrors in the Rain &#8211; Part Two!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Five years ago tonight, I was looking for my next epic video project.  I sent out an e-mail to everyone in my office.  I worked as a mortgage loan officer at the time.  I had one simple question: Who are your favorite singers?   See, at the time on YouTube, lip syncing was very popular.  Unknown people \u201csang\u201d the songs of famous musicians.  Why not turn it around?  Let\u2019s have famous singers, as represented by the favorites sent to me in the office, sing the work of an unknown, the Walnut Creek Opera, Mirrors in the Rain. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">This video was SO epic, it required TWO \u201cMaking of\u201d videos.  I think these are better than any if the actual vids,<\/font><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Enjoy!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the favorite things I made in my video making history was the Mirrors In The Rain series. It started out rather innocuously. I had made an acquaintance in the owner of my local music store. Back in 2007, I bought my first ukulele from this guy. We talked about making music, life and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}