{"id":1111,"date":"2017-03-26T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2022-01-29T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T20:02:56","slug":"weekly-mix-12-march-26-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/weekly-mix-12-march-26-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Mix 12: March 26, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I nerded out<\/a> about the social bookmarking service Pinboard<\/a>, which I use to help produce each episode of The Weekly Mix. I hope you\u2019ll contirnue to indulge me becasue today I\u2019m going to rap with you about how I create the album art that accompanies each show.<\/p>\n

One of the things that tickles me about producing The Weekly Mix is how much work I am able to do just using my iPhone. To build the album art that I insert into each podcast and to each blog post I start with the illustraiton of the headphone wearing girl that Geneva B<\/a> has so graciously let me use for the show. I also use a graphic for the number of the show that I\u2019ve created in Adobe Illustrator<\/a> (I hope to some day build this graphic on my phone as well). To gather the album art from the bands and musicians that are featured on any episode that I add to my own album art I use workflow from my Workflow<\/a> app that saves the album art from whatever song I\u2019m listening to on Apple Music to my photos folder. From there I\u2019ll use Instagram\u2019s<\/a> Layout<\/a> app to organize all the graphics just the way I want. And that\u2019s how I build the album art for each show.<\/p>\n

To build the videos of the album art that I share on Instagram I import the album art I just created in my Glitch Wizard<\/a> app. Once I\u2019ve glitched the hell out of it I\u2019ll take the video I\u2019ve created and import it into Hyperspektiv<\/a> to modify further. Once that\u2019s done I\u2019ll take the video and import it Apple\u2019s iMovie<\/a> app and add audio clips from the show I\u2019m currently promoting.<\/p>\n

I hope you got a kick out of all that. I sure do have a lot of fun creating the album art for each show.<\/p>\n

Okay, enough out of me. Go listen to today\u2019s show. It\u2019s pretty awesome!<\/p>\n