Crowd chanting "Gay Straight Black White, Marriage is a Civil Right" and "What do we want? Marriage Equality. When do we want it? Now." Recorded during the NYC Lighting the Way to Equality candle light vigil organized by the Marriage Equality New York, a non-profit all-inclusive organization whose mission is to educate the public by raising awareness of the important right of all persons to enter into legally recognized gender neutral civil marriage with all the benefits and responsibilities that entails.
How I did it
This track was possible mostly because of Ableton Live's ability to wrap beats with not just sound but the video also - this allows me to properly align the crowd chant which is not really on the beat.
Both the video and the soundtrack is licensed CC-BY-SA. You can download it the 720p WMV on Vimeo, and the 148 BPM WAV file is on SoundCloud:
Marriage Equality New York is an all-inclusive organization whose mission is to educate the public by raising awareness of the important right of all persons to enter into legally recognized gender neutral civil marriage with all the benefits and responsibilities that entails.
Without marriage, committed same-sex couples are denied over 1,138 federal rights and obligations including social security, hospital visitation, co-parenting rights, estate tax, and immigration, just to name a few.
Life celebrates diversity. Life celebrates differences. Life celebrates humanity.
Regardless of age, attire, or build. Regardless of class, color, or culture. Regardless of education, flavor, or gender. Regardless of hair style, income level, or interest. Regardless of life style, location, or philosophy. Regardless of profession, physique, or race. Regardless of religion, role, or sexual taste.
Life is equilibriumism. Life is everything and nothing. Life is all of us and none of us.
I have been on Flickr for quite a while and I have met countless inspiring gay artists on Flickr whom I follow on a daily basis. Here are a few who caught my eyes over the years:
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML is an art director, designer, photographer and technologist in New York City.
See-ming combines his unique skill sets as both a designer and programmer to help international Fortune 500 companies with their websites, advertising campaigns, interactive installations and prototypes which has led to numerous industry recognitions.
Projects he worked on had been featured in The Associated Press, BBC, Business Week, CBC, CNet, CNN, Forbes, IHT, New York Times, Red Herring, ReadWriteWeb, Reuters, USA Today, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Web Designer Depot and Yahoo! They have also been recognized in multiple Omni Intermedia Awards, One Show Interactive awards, WWW Health Awards, WMA Web Awards and Graphis Interactive Annuals.
Notable clients in the past include Bank of America, Bristol-Myers Squibb, British Airways, David's Bridal, EMI Muisc Publishing, IBM, Prada, Regus Group, MasterCard International, McKinsey & Co, Morgan Stanley, WebMD, Yale University and Ziff Davis Media.
See-ming holds a B.A. in fine art with a concentration in graphic design from Yale University.