Sketches for a series of icons to illustrate the main aspects of the Ubuntu Brainstorm site: Post, Vote, Discuss, See, Participate.

Part 1
Nicolas’s selection

It has been a while since I came up with the original concept which proved to be hard to get across. But now there’s a Python-GTK demo, a GTK feature request and a narrated video

Ogg Theora from archive.org

Thanks to drew Roberts for helping me with ponunciation, it would be worse without him

Nicolas asked for artwork for a Ubuntu Brainstorm help page.

Rough sketches to collect ideas:

A while ago I published a work-in-progress version of this. My intention was to add melodic parts later on, but today I decided that there’s enough going on already and that my time is better spend working on other tracks.

Woxitron at archive.org

Recorded and arranged with Ardour. Mastered with Jamin.

There’s also a tar archive of the Ardour session with wavpacked audio files up there. Remixes are welcome

License: CC-BY-SA

A few more sketches:

Someone wrote a bit about Lumiera, also linked from digg.

Previously:
Lumiera Logo

A piece of music about the feeling of being rejected. Don’t worry about me, I just had to let of some steam in a way

Online player, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Flac, all on the Internet Archive.

While all sounds originate from my mouth or household objects, I did mean things to some of them

Recorded and arranged with Ardour. Mastered with Jamin.

There’s also a tar archive of the Ardour session with wavpacked audio files up there. I would love to hear replacements, additions, remixes …

License: CC-BY-SA

Paul picked the right side of the previous set. The final icons, only slightly touched-up (separate files, ready for use):

Soon in a SVN repository near you.

Just one variation on the fold back corner. Will likely do some pixel-pushing after deciding on this. Using CodeTangoSet as reference.

Lumiera is a young project for writing a professional non-linear video editor.

A few early sketches for a logotype and one idea for an icon. I took inspiration from Leandro Ribeiro ’s first design.

Once in a while I take a look at the number of downloads and whether anyone bothered to add a comment for any of my tracks on archive.org. I announced all of the newer tracks I didn’t just record and master, but also arranged on Linux, on the Linux Audio Users list and that should explain most of the about 100 to 230 downloads each of them got. Not stellar, but so much more exposure than with my previous method of playing stuff to classmates and relatives who didn’t manage to flee fast enough

The other tracks where uploaded in 2 or 3 sprints, so their release dates don’t vary much. But there a few run away tracks among them, approaching or having more than 500 downloads each. I can see no pattern, except that these are among the better ones. Found no pages linking to them, so it must have been word of mouth!?
Relax (595)
Daydreaming (51
Chordless (486)

On the other end, 3 times pseudo rock (I can see why):
Loud (10)
On the Rocks (12)
Close to the Limit (16)
And an odd one:
Spontaneous Trip (1