Last night I had a dream that I was trekking across America by skidding on slippery rocks under my shoes and pushing myself with ski poles. I made it from Florida to Texas before I woke up.

Reminds me of making promo art for Steven Universe Future by finger-drawing on my phone. I wanted to contribute even though I was just composing music for the show lol it was really fun and people enjoyed it!

I’m itching to make a resume credits video of the projects I’ve worked on, but I’m also tired and I need a vacation lmao

Move over megacorp animation studios

I was the only one at Fort Abercrombie this morning

My home town!

I flew back to Kodiak Alaska for my dad’s memorial service on Wednesday.

I’d like to say something controversial yet brave: Easter isn’t real.

me playing BG3: - gets ultra rare magic book from a vault - Gale says "this will tell us everything!" - gives book to Gale - game crashes me: whoa it's a magic book of game crashing

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my internet is BACK

I HAVE A MOUTH AND I AM SCREAMING!

Update: A couple AT&T tech guys came by and investigated and took pictures. The crew from yesterday visibly broke things at the control box on a pole 250 feet away. They gotta call them in to replace all that before I’ll be back online again.

This song was a joy to mix/master. And I was given credit 😎 Thanks to everyone at Glitch who worked hard to resolve this.

Some top tier game audio dev friends I’ve known for over a decade lost their jobs :( like seriously passionate innovators that any company would die to have. These megacorps are so tone deaf.

Coooool the AT&T fiber wire tech worker people were out doing stuff with the telephone poles today and now my internet is super disconnected.

Had a good lunch hang with Rebecca Sugar! We’ll be making new music eventually, but it might take some time because Rebecca has a bunch of projects going on atm. The projects all sound pretty awesome though so I’m excited to see how it all pans out 💕

grateful for having a therapist rn

Jeff's amazing mixing work truly brought Caine's musical number to life!

The complete piano works of Ravel and Debussy

Just so we’re clear, this wasn’t a typical mix job. I massaged this track. I did a ton of vocal tweaks, replaced samples with different libraries, tweaked the timing and tuning of all the instruments for cohesion, did a last minute replacement of the strings, and matched the tone to the episode.

Anyway one of the reasons why I'm the guy who mixed/mastered the big song on Amazing Digital Circus from a bunch of home-recorded musicians is because I did that for Steven Universe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbvO...

Hey universe I could really use a win without a massive downside attached that takes away from it and requires even more effort. January was enough.

New credit! Actually my name didn't make it into the episode's credits, but I mixed and mastered the big song on the latest episode of The Amazing Digital Circus! Huge 79-track Reaper session with home-recorded musicians. Super fun.

I'm in my IDGAF era jeffball.bandcamp.com/track/elevat...

Me in my studio this week

People like this guy will actively use ignorance to justify ignorance as superior knowledge with zero curiosity.

We need a new political party called the Good Neighbor Party and it’s all about being a good neighbor.

GDC looks fun. I miss that. I didn't have enough space for it though. Everything has been such a whirlwind here trying to catch up on life, and make life better. It's tough when you have to do it all yourself.

I started taking a prescription for aldosteronism and this is the most normal and healthy I have ever felt as an adult.

Y’all should only be using employee jobs as a means to afford working on building your own business, so you can have ownership over your work and create long term revenue streams.

Yeah same. This was me recording the strings on this track

I went to Pasadena today and touched grass around the Rose Bowl

Ohhhh that’s the connection. The Ditto you play in Pokopia is giving me the same vibes as Ed from Cowboy Bebop.

I never took a composition or orchestration class

really looking forward to this game

Today was productive 👍

Game audio friends, I will NOT be at the GDC Festival of Gaming. I will miss hanging out, but like always you can still hire me 💕

Me doing last minute tiny adjustments to the mix on a track

Ah so the real driving force behind AI investment is human control. AI doesn’t dream of financial independence. AI doesn’t care about job fulfillment. AI would never silently disengage from being exploited at a workplace. AI would never go on a general strike.

I’ve been playing a lot of Oblivion Remastered if you can’t tell

Zelda's 40th anniversary was a few days ago. Good time to post the time I dove headfirst into uplifting dance-trance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfv5...

The full concert is here! This was such a fun gig to help arrange and perform. Everyone did an amazing job and I'm so proud of all of us!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ri-...

friend's cat was happy to lay on my shoulder for a good 20 minutes 💕

Me going to the sewers to rescue my violin technique after I stopped practicing for a month

I think people incorrectly connect empathy with trust. Fully trusting your empathy creates a belief that your perception of someone's experience is the same thing as their experience, which leaves you wide open to manipulation. So yes, feel empathy, but always maintain the proper context around it.

I’ve been using a tennis court metaphor lately for therapy sessions. Sometimes people dump a bunch of old dirty tennis balls on your side of the court and then expect you to hold them and clean them. It’s important to take the initiative to gently return their tennis balls back to their side.

Wonder if they’ll end up airing the short I scored 4 years ago. It’s not on the current list.