Jellybricks

Martini Hour 034, In Which Deke Unironically Uses the Phrase Vis-a-vis (in a Conversation with Garrick Chow)

Submitted by colleen on 2 October 2009 - 12:28pm.

Hey, Martini Nation. Sorry this week's Martini Hour is coming to you a day later than usual. Deke and I are in Las Vegas for Photoshop World and spent yesterday with some awesome dekeLounge denizens at our live show. In our excitement followed by exhaustion, it took us a little extra time to pull this week's show into alignment. But it's a good one: a fun conversation with Garrick Chow, one of Deke's fellow lynda.com trainers, as well as fine representative of the band The Jellybricks, who created the music for both dekePod music videos (101 Tips and The Droplet Song) and those catchy jingles for Deke's Photoshop Top 40.

We chatted with Garrick the last time we were in the San Francisco dekeLounge: Read more » 

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The Droplet Song: MP3 & Lyrics

Submitted by deke on 29 March 2009 - 12:00am.

Before it became about droplets, The Droplet Song was about you. It struck me that a really genuine love song -- one that cared about you more than it cared about itself -- would start off by thanking you for just being there. Hence, the first line I wrote is the first line I sing: "Let me thank you for checking out my thing." Other love songs lament, they plead, they get all whiney and stupid and morbidly crybaby. Mine just tells it like it is: You're awesome, thanks for stopping by, let's stir some of that soulful shit, baby.

Somehow, I'm thinking that now is the perfect moment for an image of a preening seagull to interrupt my narrative:

It was when I (in my mind's eye) saw my song's love wrapped in liquid that the underlying meaning of the piece became apparent. Because, by then, the droplets were everywhere. Read more » 

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