The Icily Polite: New music video AND album out NOW!!

And click here for information on the album.

Sorry for how long this all took, but at least it's all finally out :) give it a shot. I start school tomorrow, not looking forward to it...

Nick.

Just a small update...

The Icily Polite have been working hard on a new record for the last two months, and as of yesterday the word is that all recording is finished! Now all we have to wait for is artwork and distribution to be taken care of. The record will be entitled "Earthen Sighs," and you can hear one song from it in the previous post. You can also see the track listing right over at Chris Chrippled's blog.

In other news, I went to the Dominican Republic for two weeks on a mission trip, which was really truly humbling. I stayed with a host family, built hosuses, all that... I also filmed the whole thing with a Flip video camcorder (finally got one, huzzah!) Unfortunately, the software I'm using can't properly edit the video files that the Flip takes, so I'm trying to scrounge up money for a new, better program. Because, y'know, film of a third world country wouldn't be interesting on Youtube or anything. New laptop, the new FL Studio, Flash, new video editing program... good thing my birthday's coming up.

As far as this website goes, I cleaned it up a bit. There is no more "old news" page. I updated the links and the FAQ and the contact page and all that. Also, today we have seen the decline of a Frostbite Studios veteran: the Advice from a Guy in Tights page has officially been brought down. We would like to thank Mr. A Guy in Tights for his long four years of servitude to the visitors of this site, and may he continue to wear tights and give his famous advice in his retirement.

For now, pickles.

Nick.

New The Icily Polite single + album

The Icily Polite will be releasing a new record in approximately 3 to 4 weeks. It will be entitled "Earthen Sighs". Here is the first single from the record, it is entitled "Fireworks (Stars in Blue)". You can listen to it here:

And download it for free here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?wwn4vwyzgwm

We are having a contest for the record. Email your first and last name and address to earthensighs@hotmail.com to be entered in a drawing to win a free copy of the album, a physical copy of the Lily Demo and some other goodies. The Icily Polite will not share this information with anyone outside of the contest.

Please send this song to anyone and everyone you think may enjoy it. Happy 4th of July!

Nick.

PS. I'm leaving tonight for the Dominican Republic for two weeks, so uh, yeah. I'll be gone.

SUMMER WOO

Now that summers rolled around, I've had SO MUCH TIME TO DO EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD EVER. First off, Danny Dreamland, my first long-ish film (45 minutes) is finally on YouTube! After two long days of ripping a DVD of it and then fiddling around with various publishing formats in Pinnacle Studio 11 (don't ever get that software), it's finally online! In six parts! IN HIGH DEF! Here's proof:

ALSO, I started a new myspace. Yes, I know. Myspace. Sigh. Well, believe it or not, some people still use the 'space (musicians and scene kids, mainly) and it's a pretty good resource for stuff like music and... being... scene. Yeah, I started a new myspace for my own solo acoustic on my own demo whatever shitty recordings for fun when I'm bored music. I also recorded three songs for it. You can check it out by clicking this sentence.
And there ya go, good start to the summer. That and working a lot, which sucks but'll hopefully garner enough cash to buy me a Flip video camcorder. Cheap home movies, here I come!
Nick.

Woah. Hold the phone.

A video for Song of the Century recently got, uh, made. Along with a Vimeo account for Frostbite Studios. Which is pretty cool I guess, Vimeo has a very clean and artist-oriented layout, so it's nice. I also put Dad's Experiments up there, just fyi. As always, if you'd like to download "Song of the Century" as an mp3 for free, go check out The Icily Polite's website.

On a different note, summer's coming up! I'll be working on more video projects and stuff, I simply cannot wait... I already have an idea for a video that I shall call I Am A Bear. The title was suggested to me by my grubbly friend Mike a little while ago, I figure it might be worth a shot.

In the meantime, check this out. It's me playing a song I wrote for a Chemistry project. All about Chemistry. Cause I'm cool. Special thanks to Harrison for shooting this!


Nick.

Updates? naaahhh.

Hey! I haven't posted since Easter so I figured I might as well go ahead and do so. Uh, I'm really busy with school and work and blah blah blah, which probably isn't that bad of a thing considering nobody really cares that much. Whatever, if you're bored please check out my videos Dad's Experiments or this song I wrote called Song for MLK or this series of interactive KrispyKon videos. I promise you'll like them :) you can also find all my music to listen here and to buy here.

Man, I need to find a way to get more viewers and listeners to what I create... I KINDA wanna keep making videos and music for the rest of my life and it'd be preeeeeetty sweet to be able to do so without a day job getting in the way. It's weird, with the way viral works so well with the internet today, the idea of becoming internet-famous sounds so easy to do. But I've been trying to do so for five years now. FIVE YEARS. I just can't wait for summer to finally roll around, so I can get back to work on short films and movies and such. I still haven't gotten this 45-minute-long live action film I did called Danny Dreamland up yet 'cause Macs are just so finicky... ALSO, my band Hundred Meter Trees is gonna record an EP of new stuff real soon, which should be really awesome.

Avast, gotta go pillage some villages. See ya somewhere in the Pacific.

Nick.

PS. If you read this and have any thoughts for me, feel free to drop me a line at nickemard@msn.com. It's frrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Egg Time

Oh shoot, Easters coming up... and you know what that means.

I hope everybody has a great, egg-filled self-discovering non-family-issue-enticing Easter. If you find yourself at the KrispyKon website anytime soon, they made a new page to let you stream their entire catalog right off the site... check that ish out.
Nick.