At Work Picture Thread !

[UndertheOcean]

Me after a loooong day







What I'm working on right now



ok, back to work.

[Shell Beau]

1. Your nails put mine to shame, and I am on prenatal vitamins and

drink tons of milk!!! :P

[UndertheOcean]

3. I need them to play the Classical Guitar , and I think they look nice too

I don't find them bothersome like most classical guitarists.

[Shell Beau]

7. They do look nice!!

[DarkTirade]

10. Gah... I can't play any instruments with nails even a quarter that long.

Although ironically, I can't stand using a regular pick so I use a thumbpick that's nicely attached to my finger instead. :P

[SacredCow]

11. I've never been able to adapt to a thumb pick...

I have a jar full of flat picks of various size, thickness, materials, etc... I'll choose particular ones for certain styles and/or instruments...

[DarkTirade]

22. I think it's 'cause I started as a violinist, so I was used to picking with my bare fingers and not

a pick. And with guitar, a thumbpick has that pick sound but you don't have to actually hold a pick. So that works for me.

[SacredCow]

23. Yeah, the violin background would lead you that way...

I've also heard from other violinists turned guitarists that they tend to take a linear approach to the fretboard. True?

[DarkTirade]

26. What do you mean by linear approach?

[SacredCow]

28. What others have told me....

is that they seem to want to move up and down the neck of the guitar more than someone who learned guitar first. Rather than move to the next string, they want to just slide up the neck. Not that there's anything wrong with such a technique- some styles pretty much require it.

I like playing around with all stringed instruments, really. Violin is a little out of my scope, but I have a uke and will hopefully acquire a mandolin and a banjo here soon. And a drum kit! :D

[DarkTirade]

29. For single note stuff, sure. For chords... not so much.

Violin doesn't require your hands to be nearly as strong as guitar does, so barred chords aren't easy at first. :)

[SacredCow]

33. I've coached a couple of people who just totally rejected the "cowboy chords"...

I have no idea where that block came from, but c'mon- if you don't want to play G, C, and D then you're knocking out probably 75% of pop music from your repertoire!!! With one fella (the boyfriend of a singer I was working with) I just gave him a guitar tuned to an open G and put a piece of tape on the neck where the necessary chords were located and just let him barre up and down the neck. It worked, and it made him a "guitar player" for that particular performance.

As for hand strength... I'm largely self-taught (though I had a piano and percussion background), and my earliest mistake was using WAY too much pressure with my fretting hand (but with an el-cheapo acoustic, it's kind of hard NOT to). Now when I get tired, I sometimes find myself sliding back into that bad tecnhique, strangely enough.

[DarkTirade]

34. Yeah, I played only acoustic for years. Which needs more strength than electric.

I just finally got my first electric guitar a couple months ago. MUCH easier. :)

[SacredCow]

35. Yeah, you got that Dean EVO, IIRC....

I'm on the hunt for an EVO 60 (one they made with P90's):


I acquired a Dean Avalanche for a friend to use as a prop and was pretty impressed at the quality for an inexpensive axe. I've since fooled around with a Hardtail and a Cadillac at the store and am convinced that they're good bang for the buck.

[DarkTirade]

37. Yeah, eventually I'll probably get a strat just for the different sound. I tend to prefer humbucker

to single-coil, but every now and then you need a different sound.

But for now, I really like my cheap little EVO. I just got an airbrush set and I've been thinking about repainting it, but I'm a little paranoid about taking bits off and not being able to get 'em back on just right and ruining the sound. :P

[Lethe]

25. thats the one thing about playing classical guitar

people used to always ask me why i had long fingernails on my right hand.

[MrCoffee]

2. Hey, a guy's got to pay the bills somehow

The ladies all swoon when I bust out "The Wiper"

[kentauros]

4. Hmm, sharing proprietary information online?

Yeah, you better get back to work! :P

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear UndertheOcean!

I think your pictures are wonderful!

I'm retired now, but this is a pic of me and my coworkers on my last day...April 29, 2005!

I'm sure you know which one I am...even though I look very different now...

[UndertheOcean]

8. thank you peggy, and you are really tall !

[DS1]

6. With BONUS Myspace angle

[RadiationTherapy]

9. Do you just get the one hand manicured, then?

You SAY classical guitar, but we all get lonely sometimes...

[Pierre.Suave]

13. ROFL

It looks like DS1 just got punked...

:rofl:

[DS1]

14. damn, who is that reminding me of?

Al something

[RadiationTherapy]

17. Al Cohaulik and his photoshop wonder machine. nty

[graywarrior]

12. What are you chewing on?

Here's me at work.

[Tektonik]

15. Can I have your hair?

[graywarrior]

16. Damn, without it, I'd be nothing!

[UndertheOcean]

18. Wow , can I have your hair too!

your bus is colourful , that's for sure.

[graywarrior]

19. Thank you!

I love my trolley.

[UndertheOcean]

20. oh , its a tolley then , not a bus .

[graywarrior]

21. You must have one of those new fangled Logitech keyboards that

skip letters. Mine drives me to kill.

[SacredCow]

24. I'll have to cheat a little...

I'm not at work, and this pic wasn't taken at work.

In Washington DC with my S/O...

[Greyskye]

27. Me right now - 14.5 hours at work and counting.

I hate high priority projects...




Back to work...

[Anarcho-Socialist]

30. me, not at work, but coming back home on the train from uni

[SallyMander]

31. At "work"

I'm a lucky girl! :D

[Burma Jones]

32. Sometimes I multitask

[Richardo]

36. Posted last week, but:

In the cube...


On the waterfront...