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I’m just floored by this. I found Dana’s amazing chalk lettering and design work on Dribbble and noticed she was doing some label designs for a BC winery. Check out this shot of one of the label designs:

Even cooler is this time lapse showing her creating the original piece (on a board 7 feet wide by 4 feet high).  As a guy who relies way too much on CTRL+Z in my day-to-day work, when I see people doing proper analog work it just totally blows my mind.  What a labour of love…

The intertubes provided the separated tracks from one of the Stones’ most iconic songs (and recordings) of all time. I took those and built a little player that lets you turn each individual track on and off while you listen.  Don’t like Charlie’s drums? Turn them off. Want to hear only the lead guitar? Turn everything else off.  Want to hear Mick tell Keith to go f**k himself when he flubs a note? Sorry, that’s not on this recording… or any recording that I’m aware of.

But seriously, I love the little imperfections. Just goes to show how unimportant it is to deliver a 100% flawless performance.  The little mistakes give it life.

And around the 3:00 minute mark if you isolate the two vocal tracks you can hear Merry Clayton’s voice crack (twice)… that just gives me chills. Immediately after Mick cries “Whoo!”.  Damn right, Mick.

This guy’s resume spans more than 200 films, from “Empire Strikes Back” to “Robin Hood”.  Here he shows off a few of his secrets for getting the perfect movie sounds.  Really amazing stuff.