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# Changing channels
- URL: https://nakedfella.com/changing-channels/
- Published: 2010-03-04T22:33:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-16T00:01:41.000Z
- Author: David Blumenstein
- Tags: Uncategorized, Animation, Development, John Howard's Knees, Music, Synthtastic, The Precinct, #Migrated-1792107978996, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-16 10:46

Theoretically, this is the "*Precinct*" production blog, but clearly, over four years, it's become "David's blog".

![Quick sketches of ex-PM John Howard](https://cdn.synaps.media/nakedfella/content/images/2026/10/howard_sketches.jpg "howard_sketches")

Since there's not too much *Precinct* news at the moment, I will probably talk a bit in coming months about the little short I'm now making, called *John Howard's Knees*. I'm VERY VERY excited about it for reasons I'll go into later.

I've been reaching out a bit lately to various people I respect and asking them, basically, what I should do next. I don't think it's that "quarter-life crisis" I've heard about, more that I have a lot of things I've been meaning to do, there are a lot of outside considerations lately (that thing outside of cartoon-making known as "life"), and I want to be sure I'm spending my time on my better, or more useful ideas (those are not necessarily the same thing, which is part of what complicates things).

It's a little bit frustrating to have put so much time into *The Precinct* while knowing the time could, perhaps, have been more profitably spent making lots of silly short cartoons. Luckily I still think *The Precinct* will be great, or I'd probably have chucked it by now and made a bunch of YouTube shorts involving robots, pirates, etc.

I've been working on comics again, which is a really nice thing. Having a regular outlet means I get at least one little creative thing FINISHED each week, which is important when the rest of your ideas involve time-consuming animation.

Anyway, *John Howard's Knees*, as I think I mentioned in an earlier blog post, is about the life of John Howard (remember him?), and how people have always tried to smash his knees.

It's basically a music video; visuals set to a song which tells the story. I've been recording a demo of the track using my trusty [Korg Poly-800](http://www.vintagesynth.com/korg/poly800.php?ref=nakedfella.com). I'd wanted to use the [Casio CZ-1000](http://www.vintagesynth.com/casio/cz1000.php?ref=nakedfella.com), but the bastard doesn't seem to want to take on wall power (needs batteries).

Frankly, it sounds underwhelming (pretty much all the Poly-800's standard voices sound like a synth flute with varying amounts of squelch), but when it's recorded and arranged properly, with real instruments, I think it'll be good.

Maybe I should dig the [HS-60](http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/hs60.php?ref=nakedfella.com) out of storage.