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Using Music: Brendan Baker
Scoring Love + Radio
Love + Radio is a pretty weird species of radio: a collage of non-narrated interview, electronic music, and sound effects mixed with creative production techniques. I think of our episodes both as "augmented" radio stories and as music compositions that happen to contain a story.
When I first stumbled into producing radio, I was struck by how chemical the process seemed. You take a surprising or insightful interview. You mix it with some music that conveys a certain mood or sense of energy. But if these ingredients resonate with each other — even in remarkably subtle ways — you've created something far more potent than the sum of its parts. I can't say how this works, exactly. For me, scoring radio is often intuitive and based on trial and error. But I have a hunch about why it works.
People say storytelling is an act of co-creation between you and your audience. You describe. The audience interprets. And through that process of active interpretation, they turn your words into vivid scenes in their minds. The final experience is something you create together. Scoring works because it taps into that same process.
When we mix radio on a computer, it's easy to see scoring (literally) as simply laying music waveforms beneath the "dialogue" waveforms of your piece. But of course your audience never sees these waveforms or the computer screen. They can only listen.
Influences and Inspirations
Like a lot of radiomakers interested in sound collage, I've been influenced by the band The Books. I love the way they compose music from disparate samples and voices, giving you glimpses of some underlying narrative. Each song is like a subconscious radio story. (This is probably why radio artist Gregory Whitehead calls them "remarkable psychic engineers" in his Transom essay.)
On The Book's final album, there's a moment toward the end of the song "Group Autogenics 1″ where a voice sampled from a new-age meditation tape urges:
If possible, in our modern world / listen for your eyes in your ears…
Sure, it's a silly cut-up, but it's also great advice for scoring radio: when you hear an interview and start to see a series of images playing in your mind, it's a usually a good place to add music. That's probably where the listener is seeing images, too.
I suspect that the power of scoring doesn't come from matching music to the words in your story, but matching music to your listener's translation of those words into images. In other words, you're scoring for a film playing in someone else's head. (Of course, you can only guess at what this film looks like, so… I suppose you're scoring to your interpretation of their interpretation of your story. Whatever.) It's also a different experience for every listener; however large your audience may be, on some level you're always collaborating with an audience of one.
But even if you're scoring for someone else's film, you still have major editorial influence. With the right music or sound design, you can frame these images for the listener so that they resemble those in your own mind. In this way, your score is also a meta documentary; your impressions and reactions to the story are recorded in your musical choices.
Challenging Conventions
I usually keep the music playing along with my tape until just before the scene ends, or the action completes, or we transition into a new idea. If you want your listener to focus on a certain phrase or idea, take the music out. If you want to give them a moment to reflect on an idea, play some music "in the clear" for a few seconds. This is the conventional wisdom, at least.
But one of the conventions Nick and I want to challenge is this idea that radio is a didactic medium — that producers should guide the listener through every turn of the story, and explain what it all means. I think this didacticism has spread to scoring, too, when the music or sound design is a bit too "on the nose." I understand why this didacticism is considered best practice for broadcast radio. But as a podcast, we can ask for more patience from our listeners. They can pause and rewind. They can also listen to the piece multiple times. This opens up new creative and editorial possibilities for us. We can take some artistic risks.
So when I score for Love + Radio, I'm trying to push toward something more intuitive and avant-garde, more like The Books. (L + R sort of takes the opposite approach: we start with the voices from our radio stories and then add disparate sounds to create a kind of music.) And what I see in my head when I work on Love + Radio "looks" something like an Errol Morris film layered over a green screen music video from the 80s. (Another thing Nick and I keep coming back to is Errol Morris as a reference point.) Whatever that looks like, that's pretty much how I want Love + Radio to sound.
An Example
The best way for me to explain how I score is to walk you through one of my edit sessions. We usually break our episodes down into individual chapters, and each chapter has its own Logic session. (I've been using Apple's editing software, Logic Pro, for most of my L + R work, but I also use Pro Tools, Ableton Live, and Reaper for various things, and they all have their respective advantages.) While we don't score every chapter in the episode, each chapter can become its own kind of "song," and themes from these song/chapters sometime reoccur and develop as the story unfolds. Here's a screenshot from the opening chapter to, Jack and Ellen:
Here's the audio for this opening chapter, so you can follow with the screenshot.
[The letters below correspond to the letters in the photo above.]
- (A) At the top of the session, just below the timeline and ruler, you'll see some colored word blocks outlining different sections within the chapter. These sections can function like paragraphs and also like verses and choruses.
- (B) For instance, the navy blue regions labeled "blackmail" throughout the chapter all use similar music and correspond to moments where Ellen explains her get-rich-quick scheme.
All the tape comes from a single interviewee, Ellen, but I modified her voice with a pitch-shift plugin effect on the first track to create "Jack," Ellen's catfishing alter ego.
- (C) We're introduced to Jack first, but Ellen (in pink—apologies for the gendered colors) interrupts his interview until the moment where both voices speak the same line together.
- (D) Tracks 3-7 are also dialogue tracks, but with various audio plugins to mimic the sound of phone tape or to move the voices in binaural surround sound.
- (E) I'll pitch-shift and stretch these loops so they fit together in the same tempo and key signature.
- (F) Tracks 21-23 are drumbeats.
At the top of the session, just below the timeline and ruler, you'll see some colored word blocks outlining different sections within the chapter. These sections can function like paragraphs and also like verses and choruses. (A "verse" might be music that goes along with a story's development, while "choruses" could be a way of reflecting on ideas or repeating a theme/motif.) Sometimes I use the same musical themes, leitmotifs, for a specific character or idea. For instance, the navy blue regions labeled "blackmail" throughout the chapter all use similar music and correspond to moments where Ellen explains her get-rich-quick scheme.
Tracks 1 and 2 are the primary interview or "dialogue" tracks. All the tape comes from a single interviewee, Ellen, but I modified her voice with a pitch-shift plugin effect on the first track to create "Jack," Ellen's catfishing alter ego. We're introduced to Jack first, but Ellen (in pink—apologies for the gendered colors) interrupts his interview until the moment where both voices speak the same line together. The sound design tells us that Jack and Ellen are the same person. From then on, Ellen takes over. Tracks 3-7 are also dialogue tracks, but with various audio plugins to mimic the sound of phone tape or to move the voices in binaural surround sound.
Tracks 8-24 are all music and sound effects and this is where things get a bit more complex. Rather than scoring with a given piece of music like a typical radio story, I create loops from moments in several different songs (tracks 9-11). I'll pitch-shift and stretch these loops so they fit together in the same tempo and key signature. Then I assemble these loops in different combinations. This lets me mix and match them modularly, making new arrangements for key moments in the story. Tracks 12-19 are various synthesizers, bass lines, and other virtual instruments to flesh out the arrangement, and I compose these sounds directly into the session with a MIDI keyboard. Tracks 21-23 are drumbeats.
I'll also set the tempo of my editing software to synchronize with the beat of the music (134 BPM in this chapter). This lets me compose to a metronome and snap music regions to the tempo grid. Once I have a rough draft of the music, I can also use the grid help re-edit the dialogue. I pay attention to how the dialogue edit sits in relation to the beat of the music, and I'll nudge words and phrases so certain syllables are emphasized when they fall on strong beats or gaps in the music. This creates a musicality to the dialogue. Our interviews "sing" along with the score.
Finally, tracks 25 and 26 are "bus" tracks—or two submixes of all the dialogue and music elements above. That way I can export this whole chapter as two discrete audio files, called "stems." Here's what the music stem sounds link by itself. I'd like to think you can make out the various turning points in the story narration even without the dialogue stem:
Then I'll import these stem files into a final "assembly" session. Here is a screenshot of the assembly session from a different episode, our season opener, Fix:
Here you'll see all the stems from each chapter in this episode stitched together. Each chapter has its own color. There are 17 chapters in this story, so to get an idea of the whole episode, imagine 17 versions of that first screenshot I shared, lined up side by side. It's ridiculously time-consuming, and that's part of why it takes us so long to produce the show. But I hope you can hear its value in our stories.
This kind of production is closer to what you might find in a music album and isn't practical or even appropriate for every radio story. But I like to think that we're all still in the wild west of radiomaking, and all production tricks are fair game — this is just how I've been creating L + R's own brand of radio weirdness. So whether you produce sound art or a news features, I think the most important thing about scoring is to give yourself some room to experiment. Listen for your eyes in your ears.
About Brendan Baker
Brendan Baker is an independent radio producer, editor, and audio artist living in Brooklyn, NY. He experiments with the craft of public media using sound and music as tools for creative storytelling. As a part of Love + Radio, he received the Third Coast Gold Award for Best Documentary in 2011, and an Honorable Mention for Best Documentary in 2013.
12 Comments on "Using Music: Brendan Baker"
Very cool — thanks for bringing us inside your remarkable sonic+story lab, and for daring to get down into the raw, small details. Sometimes engaging with the microscopic reveals the much larger patterns. Like now. Thanks!
Hey Brendan!
This is awesome. Thanks for going into such great detail here. I had no idea that logic had a binaural plug-in. Is everything you use built-in or do you have favorite 3rd-party stuff? Also could you talk a little more about how you go about selecting music and drum loops?
Also what kind of patch do you have going on in that synth pad? Do you put those together from scratch or start working off of presets?
Thanks again!
Super interesting!
So if I understand all this correctly, Brendan makes an export of all the chapters using 1.dialog, 2.music, 3.fx exports (stems). What I see in the second screenshot is blocks which are recut and sometimes repeated. So I presume this is another editing process and not just a matter of lining up all the chapters and mixing them.
Not sure though why they need that extra step with the stems. Is that because maybe in the first step, the scoring part, it's mostly done by Brendan. And the next step is when Nick and Brendan work on the piece?
In general: who's cuts the dialog? And how do Nick and Brendan work together? They sit together in Brendan's studio? The have a chat online?
Must say I love Love + Radio. For me it's super inspiration stuff because it changes the rules of storytelling with words for me. Lucky for me. I live in The Netherlands so I only use Dutch words. So nobody will understand a flying F when I steal all those tricks from them guys…
Forgot one thing: how much time does it take for you and Nick to make an episode of L+R?
And to Marco:
Yes, exactly. Part of the reason I've exported the chapters like that is so they can be easily re-edited and adjusted at the final "assembly" stage. So in the case of "Fix," you can see how we cut up chapters C (in blue) and D (in green) to alternate between the "mafia" story and the "love" story. So yeah, we export the stems for mix, editorial, and collaborative reasons.
Since we've started to work exclusively in Reaper, I've actually tried to do the entire show in a single Reaper session–but with mixed results. (Here's an image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbOY5mnCQAE0xki.jpg:large) On the one hand, I like having all the tape, music and SFX regions "out on the same page," and being able to easily move/repeat ideas across the whole story. On the other hand, having one session per chapter encourages me to focus more deeply on individual chapters. Also, Reaper makes it really easy to import/copy things between two different chapter sessions–not just edited tape but entire tracks, grouped folders of multiple tracks, plugin settings, almost anything, really. I love that.
Our process changes a little bit for every piece. If we're working with a collaborator, they'll usually do the first few passes of dialogue edits with feedback from Nick and me, but at some point we'll take over. Here again, Reaper lets us pass edit sessions back and forth pretty easily. On the past few episodes Nick has done more of the big picture/structural edits and I do more fine edits along with the sound design, but we both get to have our hands on the tape and talk through our ideas throughout the process.
Towards the edit of production, the scoring/sound design takes over and it's usually easier for me to make all the changes on my end. But Nick and I have a system for feeding the mix through video chat, which allows him to see my screen, make tweaks, and do a final "listen through" together before releasing the episode. Here's a pic of our final mix on Jack and Ellen–you can see the Logic "stem" session, a script in Google docs, and a Google hangout session with Nick and Mooj: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BDj84FQCEAAHiad.jpg:large
Unfortunately I don't have a great answer for how long it it takes to produce an episode. Jack and Ellen was in production off and on for about 10 months, and I think the bulk of the scoring and sound design took about a month. But that's not a typical episode, either. I was talking with Kaitlin Prest of Audio Smut (who has a similar approach to scoring and production) and we came to the conclusion that–in the perfect world–we'd have at least a day to score every two minutes of scoring. We can dream, right?
Thanks a lot Brendan. The way you work with Nick online with Google hangout and docs is really interesting.
The binaural effect sounds interesting too. I'm not a Logic user, I only use Ableton Live (+ Max for Live) and Propellerhead Reason. I'm not sure what exactly it is doing but I presume it puts an audio source in an exact position in the stereo image (front and back). I hear you pan a lot with the voices which sound different than "standard" pans.
Maybe you can build some sort of binaural effect in Reaper as well. I guess the binaural effect in Logic uses EQ and delay to create that 3D sound. EQ is a phase shift (using a digital delay, see http://ethanwiner.com/EQPhase.html). In Ableton it's rather simple to build your own binaural panning effect. See for example http://seanny.net/renzutools/ That patch uses the trick to use low-pass filtering on panning. And (optional) a very short extra delay. I guess with EQ, delay and panning you can do all these kinds of binaural effects but maybe the Logic plugin makes things very easy for the end user. Next time I'm able to use Logic I might try to figure out what's it doing exactly.
I will try some of these panning ideas myself. I mostly use a Sony D-50 for interviews using wide stereo-panning on the mics while recording (so it can capture 2 voices at the same time without moving the recorder all the time) and later on I narrow the stereo field which makes it more mono sounding. Maybe binaural tricks (using low-pass on the signals plus panning) might be even better. Thanks for bringing that up!
Two thoughts and a question:
While I'm not aware of anything as simple as Logic's binaural panner in Reaper, it is very easy to set up Moore-style panning.
To create a natural sounding right pan:
1. Create an instance of ReaDelay
2. Add two taps.
3. Hard-pan one of the taps right, leave the delay at 0ms
4. Hard-pan the other one left, give it a delay between 1 and 9ms depending on your preference.
5. Make sure feedback is set to -inf DB for both
Second, I certainly agree with you about the lack of plugin UI being an issue in Reaper. I also wish that they would remove or combine the mediocre plugins. However, there are some gems in there.
I've found that LOSER/Stereo Field is a surprisingly helpful native plugin. Further, if you go ahead and download the free MDA plugin pack, there are some good effects there, too, including an auto-oscillating round panner. Last, Voxengo has a very simple and effective Mid/Side encoder/decoder called MSED that is pretty wonderful.
Okay, here's my question(s). When you're mixing the show, how are you metering? Are you aiming for -6, or something else? Do you have thoughts on K-style metering? How much dynamic range do you aim for, and in what listening environments do you test the shows before they're released?
Thanks Brendan.
Thank you.
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SALEM — The Oregon Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday about an electronic mortgage registry that's become central to the banking industry's lending and foreclosure practices.
Foreclosures have slowed significantly as the legal challenge moves through the judiciary. The Supreme Court decision is expected to resolve years of uncertainty around the role of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., or MERS, which lenders use to avoid publicly recording the ownership history of a trust deed.
A state appeals court ruled in July that lenders using MERS must go through the courts to begin foreclosure proceedings. Since then, so-called nonjudicial foreclosures have all but stopped in Oregon as lenders have turned to the court system or waited out a definitive ruling on the status of MERS.
The Oregon Legislature authorized nonjudicial foreclosures in 1959, allowing lenders to sell a property in default under certain conditions. One condition was a requirement that changes in the "beneficiary" of the trust deed be publicly recorded with the county.
The mortgage industry created MERS in the 1990s to make it easier to bundle and sell home loans on the secondary market. MERS is listed in the deed as the beneficiary, and the service tracks the actual owner of the loan through an internal database.
The Supreme Court is hearing a case brought by a Clackamas County homeowner who challenged a trustee sale of her home scheduled in 2010. She argued that MERS never received any loan payments so it could not act as beneficiary of the trust deed. She also argues that a nonjudicial foreclosure would be illegal because the transfer of her loan to a secondary lender was not recorded with the county.
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Silicon Valley hated Scott Thompson before yesterday for all the Facebook (FB) patent stuff. Yesterday's news about his fudged educational credentials gave them the excuse to start screaming for him to be removed.
There's a huge credibility issue now for Thompson. How is he ever going to be trusted in the eyes of his employees now — let alone his investors? From now on, he'll be standing up moving his lips and people will only be able to think "why did you fib about studying Computer Science when you didn't?" I just don't know how that stigma will ever lift for him, at least at Yahoo!
I guess Scott could plead ignorance and that some underling made the error and he never saw it. But that just doesn't fly. What underling puffs up a boss's resume? There's no way any CEO of any company — even if it's 12 employees — doesn't go through his own biography with a fine-toothed comb to make it sound as puffed up as possible. They always get in all their charitable work and awards from the local Rotary Club in the bio. No one will buy he didn't see this.
And guess what? Fibbing about his education wasn't Thompson's only breach of Yahoo!'s code of conduct. He currently sits on 2 outside boards of directors of public companies: Splunk and F5 Networks. Yahoo! only allows officers to serve on 2. He's in violation of that requirement since Splunk's IPO. Here are Yahoo!'s corporate governance guidelines updated on April 26, 2012. And here is the part relevant here: "no executive officer should serve on more than two public company boards, including the Company's board." And, to add insult to injury, Thompson is also on 3 other private company boards.
Scott: Is it too much to ask that you wouldn't serve on any of the 5 other boards of directors you currently serve on, while you try to put your head down and spend 100% of your time on turning around Yahoo!? I mean — in addition to all these other company boards — Thompson's also currently on F5′s Compensation Committee and its Nominating and Governance Committee. The CEO of Yahoo! should serve on ZERO outside boards until the company's stock price gets above $30.
It's just yet another piece of evidence that Thompson's decision-making is suspect and this is a guy completely obsessed with puffing up his own ego. He just had to be CEO. He just had to add the Computer Science part to his resume. He just had to serve on 5 boards so people would think he's a serious Silicon Valley heavyweight.
Make it stop!
But this whole scandal turns the attention squarely back on the biggest bunch of "doofuses" in Corporate America — the Yahoo! board.
Just a day before Dan Loeb dropped this bomb on their heads, they were telling shareholders how they'd carefully reviewed over 100 possible director candidates and — after their exhaustive search — had determined that Loeb lack the proper "skill-set" to serve on such an esteemed board.
What a joke.
Those clueless boobs — led by the incompetent and equally fib-prone Patti Hart on the Nominating Committee — seemingly did NO due diligence on Scott Thompson. Thompson apparently dusted off his resume while at eBay in December and reached out to Yahoo!'s board asking for the top job at Yahoo! Stories I have heard suggest he didn't think John Donahoe wasn't leaving eBay anytime soon and Thompson wanted to be "the man." I've also heard Frank Quattrone recommended Thompson to the board.
Within 2 weeks of first contact, Thompson was announced as the CEO. As I've been told, there were no other candidates in the mix.
A national search firm wasn't involved here and apparently there was no vetting of his background.
If this is the kind of slipshod hiring process Yahoo!'s board does, why should shareholders trust they are competent to negotiate with Facebook about patents, with Softbank about Yahoo! Japan, and with Alibaba Group about their stake? Oh, and why are they competent to oversee turning around the core business?
What's even more galling for Yahoo! shareholders is that Yahoo! — in arguing why Loeb didn't deserve a spot on the board — said: "yeah, we had a bad board before but all the old fogies like Bostock are getting the boot, so you can't criticize the new crop of directors." Well, you know what? You sure can criticize them.
Loeb has said previously that it is ridiculous to let the bad board of the past select their successors. Why should shareholders have to accept the same bad crew who made terrible decisions making another bad decision picking their successors? Let's let the shareholders select their representatives on this board.
I can't think of any company that has ever been in such a dire state of paralysis as they will be if Thompson and this board are allowed to stay on.
It's time to cut the cord with these jokers once and for all and for Yahoo! shareholders to take back control of this company.
I am sure that all the top proxy advisory firms will be very sympathetic to Yahoo! investors' plight.
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Those who prefer their sports a little rough around the edges will enjoy this pond hockey tournament featuring competitors from around the world. Athletes playing this Saturday are at the top of their game, as the event serves as a final showdown between international teams. Games start early, with the final puck fight set to go down at 7 p.m. During the day sports enthusiasts will be able to watch 32 teams—25 from the U.S., three from Canada, and one each from Slovenia, Finland, and Hungary—play for supreme pond dominance. Bring a chair and a thermos of hot chocolate.
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Jadaveon Clowney, welcome to the Houston Texans!
The Bayou City has just welcomed its newest, famous resident with open arms.
It has been more 36 hours and we finally know what our beloved franchise decided to do with the No. 1 pick. With all of the rumors that were circulating in regard to what they planned to do with it, it turned out that they actually used it — on South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney.
Let me tell you, that I'm thrilled to have Clowney here in H-Town. He will represent this team well — he will be as fierce and as mighty as can be alongside the front seven.
Although it remains to be seen the extent of him being placed on the other side of J.J. Watt, I know that Romeo Crennel will employ a myriad of schemes to throw some the league's most precise offenses off-track. After all, it's the job that he has been hired to do.
Clowney is one of those defensive talents that comes by once in a lifetime, a blue moon…a googolplex.
The chatter amongst close sports circles about his work ethic doesn't bother me. Although he would never admit it himself, Clowney turned it down a notch because he knew he was ready for the next level — he didn't want to jeopardize his career, he wanted to lend his family a helping hand.
He did just enough to radiate attention. And attention he received.
In 2012, Clowney had 54 tackles and 13 sacks versus last season's stark drop in performance to 41 tackles and three sacks Although his tackles are close to on par with last season, his sacks dropped close to 75 percent. It got people talking again and wondering if he was the man that the hype pumped him up to be.The conversation will continue throughout the offseason until he steps out on the field for the first time at NRG Stadium in September. He will then have an opportunity to make it count and squash any hearsay about his lack of drive that has been said about him.
J.J. Watt's attitude about coming to work and giving it his all is infectious — Clowney will sop it up like a buttered-up, fluffy biscuit in some hot gravy! He will not disappoint and we will love him for it!
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In honor of Febuary and it's reputation for being the month with the highest reported breakups and highest Fleshlight sales of the year we decided to share some of the worst breakups courtesy of College Candy.
Breaking up is hard to do. Is there anything worse than getting broken up with by text or email? I didn't think so until now. A note has to be the biggest insult (unless you done fucked up) because the person went to a place where they knew you would be but didn't bother to confront you. It's like when Berger left that post-it note for Carrie on Sex and The City. It's infuriating.
But one has to wonder is there a good way to breakup with someone, especially when your reasoning isn't quite nice? There are some outrageous breakups on here such as billboards bought by scorned women and delicious cheesy bread sticks, the former to destroy a reputation, the latter to soften the blow.
Breaking up is hard to do but there are certainly better ways to do it than others.
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MEAT and HEAT. Their selection of smoked meats and slaws is enough to quell anyone's carnivorous cravings. Pair this with a generous helping of homemade hot sauce, ranging in levels suited for the brave, to the REALLY brave, and the results are bloomin' delicious, every time. Oh and did I mention their pickled beetroot? You have to try it!
2. The Trolls Pantry
A vote for the heavyweight in this bout, but it has to be done really! The Troll's appetite for local, seasonal ingredients and his attention to detail when creating each of a wide range of incredible burgers has already landed him in national burger competitions. And rightly so!
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Relatively new to the Street Diner scene in comparison to the other two, Olly brings the catch of the day for his fish subs, paired with his own homemade sauces, salad and a slice of lemon. Unbelievably fresh and a must for all fish fans!
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The Ribwich. One of my favourite wiches! Likkle Bikkle does ribs like no one does them, in a bun! With some seriously good flavour combinations (and constantly creating more!). A must have for, well, everyone!
Honeycomb Cakes
A personal favourite of mine. You know you need a sugar fix! And Honeycomb Cakes are for you, all of you! From brownies to cakes to cheesecake to ice cream and every combination of the above that you can think of they have them all! And they're all more delicious than you could have imagined!


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Tragic news. Charlie LoPresti's beautiful gray 6-year-old Turallure, a Grade 1 winner of almost $1.4 million, was euthanized after breaking his right hind pastern while galloping at Keeneland. Here's a photo of Turallure getting some love from Julien Leparoux after the pair won the 2011 Bernard Baruch at Saratoga.
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6-year-old son of AP Indy and Azeri was euthanized this morning after severely injuring his right foreleg during a workout at Santa Anita
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Hall of Famer John Velazquez, won his 694th victory at Saratoga Race Course today, breaking Jerry Bailey's record as the former winningest jockey at the track.
The win came aboard Todd Pletcher-trained Unitarian, who got his first career win out of seven career starts.
Congratulations my favorite jockey, you really deserved it. I can't describe how happy I'm, I almost cried when i read it. :')
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Nursery Progress: Skirting The Issue
Some of you may remember that we wanted to make an adaptation of a crib skirt (a fitted band of fabric that would hide the view under the bean's mattress and into her storage drawer below) so we're back to share the simple step by step process. And if you guys know me at all you'll fully anticipate that I didn't even pick up a needle and thread. Yup, I used my favorite iron on hem tape along with scissors, a tape measure and an iron. About forty short minutes later I had a custom fitted crib skirt (that's removable and washable too). Here's how it all went down:
First, I measured the vertical space between the bottom of the mattress and the top of the drawer, which was the same height all the way around the crib. Then I measured the horizontal distance of each side of the crib, which left me with two smaller lengths for the sides and one longer one for the front of the crib (I opted to make a three sided skirt because the back won't ever be seen). Then I added three inches to each measurement. For example, if the measured height for the side panel of the crib was 12″ I added three more to make it 15." And if the measured length of that side panel was 30″, I added another three inches to make it 33."
Then I simply cut out a 15″ x 33″ piece of fabric for that side and moved on to the next side of the crib, using the same add-three approach.
After carefully cutting everything out, I was left with three panels, all of the same height and two of the same width (while one was longer since that was the front panel). Note: if you're using any type of printed fabric, be sure to cut everything out in the same direction, so you don't end up with a crib skirt with one vertically striped panel and one horizontally striped panel- unless that's the look you're going for.
Then it was time to whip out my iron along with the scissors and my trusty Heat N' Bond Ultra Hold (my favorite heavy duty iron on hem tape, available any craft store like Michael's). Since I wanted all four sides of each panel to have a nice finished edge, I simply cut my hem tape to the length of each side of the panel and ironed it in place ON THE BACK of the fabric, as close to the edge of the panel as possible. Tip: when ironing on hem tape, keep the clear side down and the paper side up- you never want your iron to touch the clear side or it'll get all gross and goey.
Then after ironing that strip of hem tape in place on the edge of my panel of fabric I just gave it about ten seconds to cool off a bit and got to work peeling back the paper, which left me with a strip of sticky stuff (it almost looks like clear double sided tape):
Without disturbing my little ribbon of stickiness, next I folded over the fabric so that it just covered the double-stick-tape-looking strip and ironed that fold into place.
Voila- I was left with a finished looking hemmed edge without any puckering or pinching (a common issue I have when I sew). Then I just repeated this process on all four edges of my two side panels and on the top and bottom edge of my front panel (I left the two sides of my front panel unhemmed because I'd be joining them to my already hemmed side panels).
Then place the hemmed edge of one of your side panels next to the unhemmed edge of the front panel that you want to join together (eventually you'll be joining all three panels, but pick one side panel and one front panel to start with). Add another ribbon of hem tape right on top of that side panel edge that you already hemmed. Once you peel of the paper that strip of sticky tape on top of your side panel's hem will be how you join the side panel to the front panel. Then it's as easy as ironing them together…
… for a nice finished seam when you flip everything over and look at it from the front of the fabric:
Just replicate this step to join the other panel (or panels, if you're making a four sided skirt) and you'll be left with one long hemmed band of fabric. Of course if you had enough yards of fabric you could have just cut one long strip and hemmed the edges of that without worrying about making and joining side and front panels, but most people are cheap like us and want to be able to do this project with just one or one and a half yards of fabric (which is what we used) so cutting the panels and joining them at the edges of the crib is a necessary step.
Then all that's left to do is secure this polished looking fitted skirt to the base of your crib. We opted to use velcro to hold our skirt in place, which also makes it easy to remove and wash (yup Heat N Bond is totally washable and extremely durable as well):
Plus since our crib's mattress has a lower setting, we know that someday we won't need this skirt (because the mattress will later be lowered to right above the drawer so there won't be a gap to bridge anymore) so we love the fact that it's easily removable. As for those velcro details, we just cut out a few inch by inch squares of it and placed them around the top of the crib's metal frame (three or four per side) to hold everything in place. Note: You might want to give the side of sticky-backed velcro that's attached to your fabric a stitch or two to hold it in place so you don't have to worry about losing 'em in the wash.
And once we put the mattress back on it was just as polished and fitted and sleek looking as we hoped.
We love how the colors coordinate without matching perfectly (we wanted them in the same family to avoid a high-contrast stripey effect since we don't mind letting the curtains be the star textile in the room).
So that's how we made a washable and removable crib skirt without breaking out the sewing machine or breaking the bank. In fact we completed the entire project in less than an hour and only spent money on the fabric, which was just $14 for a yard and a half (learn more about our crib skirt fabric hunt here).
And there you have one more way to make a custom crib skirt (we actually made a more traditional floor-length version right here – which is a better option if you want to be able to slide things under it for storage). Is anyone else out there planning to whip up a made-it-myself crib skirt of their own? Have any of you crafty people already crossed it off your to-do list? And while we're on the subject of skirts, where does everyone stand when it comes to bed skirts in general? Too frilly for grown ups? A great way to hide storage systems and overflow items? Do tell.
Psst- Wanna see our nursery progress from the very beginning? Here's our painting post, our big shopping spree, our crib hunting rundown, our curtain-making tutorial, our fun little chair search, our mirror-painting extravaganza, this DIY faux sheepskin project, our big dresser makeover, and our closet organization efforts. Fun, fun, fun.
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great idea! i can't wait to see the room in it's entirety!
Love this! Plus you can make it shorter when you lower the crib. Nice work, and that's coming from a sewer from way back. :)
hi sherry,
cute project today! did you guys see the Trend Spotter article today on Richmond.com?
thank you so much for posting this! you have inspired me to make my own bed skirt and closet drape… i am awaiting my fabrics to arrive any day now!! i was so excited today, i had to blog in anticipation: http://funtimeswiththebeckers.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/easing-the-panic/
~Katie B.
I read one of your comments about not using a bumper. I have decided not to use one either. But i am thinking of using a "breathable bumper" instead. Have you heard about those? Any opinions?
Puhlease tell me you saw this. Thought of you right away.
It looks perfect. And even your ironing board fabric is cute and fun.
Awww how sweet! It has been so fun to see the evolution of the nursery and this is such a sweet detail!
So cute! I want to be your kid and have a cool room!!
Hi! I love your blog! I was wondering if you had any how-to's for a bed skirt for a normal bed…would I just follow the same directions and just make them for the measurements of a normal size bed??? Thanks!
I love it!!
I am making all the bedding and curtains for my baby's room.
I haven't sewn a crib skirt before, but I do pretty well with everything else I've made. I know you're the heat n bond girl, but as long as I'm good at sewing, I should be able to get a nice hem…. right?
I love bed skirts, have one on my bed. It's ruffled, which I don't like, but it serves it's purpose for now. We have our mattress on a metal frame b/c we made a headboard out of an antique door and don't have a footboard. So, the bed skit is a necessity for us to hide the box spring and metal rails. (and the cats that like to hide under the bed like it too) Eventually, I might tackle making my own bed skirt for my room.
Question: Your ironing board is covered in that awesome Joel Dewberry fabric from last summer…did you find a cover made in it, or did you make it yourself? If the former, WHERE?!?! If the latter, THAT is a tutorial I'd love to read!
Love this! I was actually hoping you would make a bed skirt. I ordered the same crib and am planing on making a skirt for it, so you just made my project a million times easier. Plus, I have the same Dwell Studio Elephant Bedding as in the other bed skirt project so now I know what kind of material to look for!
Etsy! Of COURSE!! I love Etsy, but for some reason I always draw a blank when I'm looking for something unusual.
Found a bunch of cute ones – my ironing board and craft room thank you. :)
LOVE the new crib skirt! Very crafty :)
It's so pretty and a great solution. I've never used the hem tape but you make it look easy. I might have to try it sometime. :) Thanks for sharing – the nursery is looking adorable!
Oh Sherry! I love the nubby little texture that your bedskirt adds to the crib. Just too sweet. Can't wait to see more of the nursery progress…what a labor of love!
Some people have mentioned that the under-the-crib storage drawer is a dust collector because there's no top attached… any plans on how to combat this problem?
Great instructions! Mine turned out so well. Love these tutorials!
I recently found your blog and really love these tutorials! I bought some fabric online to give this a try and I didn't know it at the time, but it looks like due to the print (red letter day-trees), I'm going to have to piece the longer piece together. Do you have any recommendations for doing that?
Any advice would be really appreciated!
You have done a wonderful job with the Nursery!! can't wait for the final reveal!!
Can you please share where you got your rug from and what material is it (wool, alternative?)
Thanks much!!
Can you describe the color of the drawer of the crib? On Wal-Mart's website, it looks very orangey/red but in your pictures it looks darker.
LOVE this tutorial! My mom lived on that hem tape (she always called it "perky bond"), so every curtain in her house is "perky bonded!" I think I will follow in her footsteps.
You've inspired me and my future baby thanks you!
I wanted to thank you for this tutorial. I actually just made my own crib bedskirt following your directions. It turned out lovely. You just saved me a bunch of money, not to mention, I was able to make what I actually wanted, rather than having to settle for something that wasn't just quite right.
Hey Sherry and John,
I know this is an old post, but my husband, Frank, and I are adopting a baby boy from Russia and in the process of putting together the nursery. We're using this crib skirt tutorial! :) While reading the comments I came across the board under the mattress idea. We want to do this, but can you go to a place like Home Depot and ask for a board cut to those standards? How did you get yours?
Sorry if this seems like a simple question. Neither of us are wood workers. ;)
Hi guys! Once again, we have gotten some inspiration from you! :) We did a no-sew crib skirt based on your instructions here. Thanks for the ideas, and for doing no-sew options for us sewing-challenged folks ;) http://themclambs.blogspot.com/2010/09/little-mclambs-no-sew-crib-skirt.html
Hi There!
I'm just wondering how many yards of fabric you guys bought for this project.
Thank you so much for the step-by-step guide!!
Awesome! Have you made a crib bumper without sewing?
Thank you thank you! I am pregnant with my 3rd baby, its a girl… I am not a fan of buying crib sets at all! I have never had a girl before and I have only found ideas that I love on etsy… and YOU!!! wow, I am so happy of the money I will save and the time. My baby girls room will be what I imagine, and not from a bag! I have a folder of print outs, swatches, and clippings, and now can see this all coming together. *** You both are amazing, and so have helped alot of families save money and bond with cool projects! Thank yoy for sharing everything! Completely entertaining, and fun:) You deserve a show!!! Beautiful bb girl, congratulations!
What color is the carpet in Clara's room? I don't know if it's the different lighting when you take pictures or my computer monitor, but sometimes I think it is blue and sometimes I think it is gray. I just painted my office Autumn Blossom and am on the hunt for carpet. I have the same curtain fabric too. Should I be looking in the grays or blues?
This looks absolutely perfect. I'm curious what you did once you lowered the mattress (have you done that yet? I assume Clara could be pulling up in no time.. your latest progress shots don't seem to have a lowered mattress yet). Did/would you just remove the skirt, or is there still space for some little itty bitty skirt?
Hi sherry,
Just wondering…what are your thoughts on creating your own queen size bed skirt? I love the idea of velcro for easy removal, washing, etc. That is the part I hate most about bedskirts-having to remove the whole mattress each time to wash, etc. I have 2 dogs so it would be much easier to have a velcro type bed skirt like you made for the crib. Do you think that would work (or be worth it) for a big bed??? Thoughts?
THANKS, and as always…you ROCK!
How did you negotiate the fabric around the metal arm that connects the mattress bed to the frame? We have a Davinci crib and it looks exactly like yours. It looks as if you might have cut the fabric around the metal arm, but we can't tell for sure.
-Josh and Steph
This is awesome! We actually have the Baby Mod crib as well and it's great to find a tutorial to help fill that weird space between the mattress and storage area! Thanks so much!
Great idea! I actually got my fabric tonight and started on the project!
I do have a question though, the metal frame that holds the mattress (not exactly sure what the name of it is) at the front where the arms are connected to the crib itself (your picture #10 down has this piece in it in the bottom left), I'm having a hard time getting the fabric to lay down because its having to lay unevenly over those arms…I hope you know what I'm talking about, I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get this to lay flat and look tailored and seamless. My front panel is pulling up on both sides to raise up over these arms.
Is there any suggestion or solution for me?
Not sure if you guys will see this, since it's way old.. but did you have any problems w/the velcro sticking to the crib?? I had the hardest time this weekend getting it to stick at all, but it finally did about the third time I tried. I thought I was in the clear, but I checked today and it had all fallen down again! What am I missing? Maybe it's the humidity in my house? I am thinking of just tying ribbons around the whole thing to hold it up :)
Success!! Thanks y'all! I don't want to buy a full crib bedding set for our little one on the way, in part because we're also going bumper-less. I couldn't find a crib skirt I liked, and it was fun together-time for the hubby and I to pick out fabric we liked at a local fabric store. I ran into a bit of a speed bump when I realized I'd need to cut a slit in the skirt to work around a support bar our crib has below the crib mattress, but the skirt is up and we love it! Now we just need a mattress… :)
Thanks for this! I'm due on Tuesday and completed this project in about an hour. Sweet!
I even have a ton of fabric leftover, so maybe before Tuesday you can whip up a tutorial on easy valances. :)
Hi Sherry,
I just wanted to say how much your nursery inspired me. Our daughter was born in October and I just posted photos of her nursery. I think you will recognize a lot of your ideas there. Thanks so much for the inspiration!
Thanks for posting this. I loved the idea so much that I had to make one for our little girl who will be arriving in the next two months. I love how it turned out. To see it visit http://djpeach.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-crib-and-crib-skirt.html I also linked it to your blog if that is okay.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! It was extremely easy. I followed everything on your site, except I didn't connect the 3 panels. The construction of the crib made it awkward such that the fabric would lay right, and I didn't see a reason to connect them anyways. Nonetheless, it made the job even easier & it didn't affect the appearance :) Thanks again!
Thanks for the great tutorial! I know this is years later but I found it through pinterest and used it today for my daughter's crib skirt! It was so easy!
St Jude's children's research hospital wallpaper is COVERING your entire page so I can't read your tutorial here!
I know this is an older project for you guys but just wanted to say thanks! I made this tonight for our daughter's room and it looks adorable. I love that I was able to pick my own print but not pay a fortune to special order one. =)
Hi guys,
I am 3 weeks away from my due date with our first little one and after reading such great things on your blog about the crib we ended up buying the same one. I have a question…what do you store in the pull out drawer?? Thinking it might be a good place for toys but just wanted to see what you guys use the awesome storage feature for.
I love your crib skirt and used this same exact technique in my baby boys room. He is now 2 months and the Velcro on the metal crib has come up and won't stick well to the metal?!? Any suggestions? Thank you!!
I really love your crib! What brand is it and where did you buy it? We are looking at something similar at IKEA but I LOVE yours much much more!
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Airport Advisory Committee chairman Shawn Dorsch tried a crafty line of defense Monday night, appealing to free speech values to avoid telling Charlotte City Council members how hed been betraying them. It didnt work. Dorsch was fired Tuesday by Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx. You have given me very little choice, Foxx wrote in his dismissal letter. Hes right.
The mayor and exasperated council gave Dorsch every opportunity Monday to explain why he lobbied a legislator and officials from other counties to support a bill that would take Charlotte Douglas International Airport from the city. Councilwoman Claire Fallon pounded the table in front of her. Foxx sneered. Councilman Andy Dulin called Dorsch one slick fellow, which might or might not be a step up from chump, which is what Dulin called Dorsch earlier this month.
Each wanted to know why Dorsch, whose role on the board is to help the city manage its multi-billion dollar asset, instead grabbed the pom-poms for an effort that would give the airport to a regional authority. His response: I am happy to give anybody advice who contacts me.
And: Were all free to express our personal opinions in a personal setting.
And this: Freedom of speech exists in this country.
Of course. Here in the Opinion Department, the First Amendment is pretty much our favorite one. But Americans sometimes think, wrongly, that their amendments come free of limitations. The Second Amendment doesnt grant citizens the right to any kind of weapon, despite what some gun advocates might think. And even those of us who most love the freedom to express opinions, well, we know what we cant say.
The Supreme Court has provided general guidelines about speech the government can prosecute. First, of course, is speech that creates a dangerous situation the proverbial fire in a crowded theater. Same goes for fighting words said face-to-face to incite violence. Also, no libel or slander lies that damage a person or organizations reputation. In times of war, the government can restrict speech that threatens national security. And finally, obscenity.
Shawn Dorschs advice didnt fall into any of the above categories, so he should have been OK, right? Nope. As employees learn again and again the hard way especially with social media if you say something privately that reflects poorly on your employer, you can be fired. And if youre the chairman of an airport advisory board who gives advice that causes harm to the city that appointed you, officials can decide youre not good for the position.
If Dorsch felt strongly that the city was mismanaging Charlotte Douglas or its longtime director, Jerry Orr, Dorschs role as advisory chair compelled him to go to the council, not behind its back. How could any council member trust him to do his job moving forward?
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