Anyway, I finally got around to making the rig to spin the camera around at 1 rpm, but the little part that connects to the motor's rod broke. Gotta work on making a more solid connection there.
hmm..what am i watching in the background?
abayo
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
This Weeks Episode: "1 RPM" or "The Twelve"
So Davy and I have been pushing around an idea for a filmed Hour of Power (drink 1 shot of beer every minute for an hour) between 12 people for a long time. The main idea is to lift the Hollywood veil of going from sober to drunk. Gone is the standard "I guess I'll have a little" to cut of shirt off/lampshade on head. I'm pushing for a rotating camera in the center a la That 70's Show so that people take a shot when the camera points to them. Oh and for leaving one of the 12 seats empty, implying that YOU, the viewer, are actually a "part of the (drinking) action!"
Anyway, I finally got around to making the rig to spin the camera around at 1 rpm, but the little part that connects to the motor's rod broke. Gotta work on making a more solid connection there.
hmm..what am i watching in the background?
abayo
Anyway, I finally got around to making the rig to spin the camera around at 1 rpm, but the little part that connects to the motor's rod broke. Gotta work on making a more solid connection there.
hmm..what am i watching in the background?
abayo
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Inauguration Day
Just got through watching the inauguration and realizing how bad old people are at chanting 3 syllables in time. Obama's speech was pretty good, it wasn't awe inspiring or anything but a solid way to establish what he wants to do (make change) and have people still feel confident (not emigrate).
Finished a camcorder mount that rotates at 1 rpm, but now I've gotta test it out to make sure the motor's strong enough. Played basketball and hockey, pretty happy about both. Went ice skating after in Pershing Square. I just don't expect downtown LA to have anything remotely interesting in it so it was a cool surprise. Started reading the original I Am Legend book, really good stuff. Talked with Screen Depot about getting a silkscreen made so I should probably spend this week getting a design together. Tried to figure out what kind of camera (camcorder camera) I'm gonna pick up.
Dove into a bunch of media this weekend:
Hancock - 8/10 (Entertaining as hell, tackles the revisionist superhero story more efficiently than comics like Wanted. It's funny, it's serious, and a punk French kid gets punked. This is going to be an interesting segue into The Watchmen for people who haven't read the comic and have the snobbery behind it.)
The Mummy 3 - 6.5/10 (Hah, I never thought I'd see a Matt Damon ripoff. It commented on itself a little too much. When you don't take your own film/storyline seriously, you better have some damn good CG and creativity to make up for it.)
Sukiyaki Western - 7.5/10 (Awesome fight scenes and always interesting [shots/colors] to look at in that typical Miike fashion. I guess the fact that it was a heavy handed amalgam of spaghetti westerns and samurai flicks gets a little too strange after awhile. Tons of style, where's the substance?)
abayo
Finished a camcorder mount that rotates at 1 rpm, but now I've gotta test it out to make sure the motor's strong enough. Played basketball and hockey, pretty happy about both. Went ice skating after in Pershing Square. I just don't expect downtown LA to have anything remotely interesting in it so it was a cool surprise. Started reading the original I Am Legend book, really good stuff. Talked with Screen Depot about getting a silkscreen made so I should probably spend this week getting a design together. Tried to figure out what kind of camera (camcorder camera) I'm gonna pick up.
Dove into a bunch of media this weekend:
Hancock - 8/10 (Entertaining as hell, tackles the revisionist superhero story more efficiently than comics like Wanted. It's funny, it's serious, and a punk French kid gets punked. This is going to be an interesting segue into The Watchmen for people who haven't read the comic and have the snobbery behind it.)
The Mummy 3 - 6.5/10 (Hah, I never thought I'd see a Matt Damon ripoff. It commented on itself a little too much. When you don't take your own film/storyline seriously, you better have some damn good CG and creativity to make up for it.)
Sukiyaki Western - 7.5/10 (Awesome fight scenes and always interesting [shots/colors] to look at in that typical Miike fashion. I guess the fact that it was a heavy handed amalgam of spaghetti westerns and samurai flicks gets a little too strange after awhile. Tons of style, where's the substance?)
abayo
Saturday, January 10, 2009
New in 2009:
Hey everyone, Happy 09'. All hail easy to write 9!
Break was intense and I was sick for half of it, but there's really none of that regret that usually hits me the Monday after a vacation.
The writing's tiny and mostly nonsensical but this is the way I remember it...
I still need to figure out how to make my screen wide enough to show pics. (does anyone know how to do this?) nm, got it
As far as being productive, I swapped out my TC's dash leds, made a tutorial for it on Youtube, worked at the LA foodbank, played hockey, read Ender's Shadow, and am about an hour away from finishing the DS Castlevania. As far as being unproductive, I leave it up to you to decipher.
Abayo
Break was intense and I was sick for half of it, but there's really none of that regret that usually hits me the Monday after a vacation.
The writing's tiny and mostly nonsensical but this is the way I remember it...
As far as being productive, I swapped out my TC's dash leds, made a tutorial for it on Youtube, worked at the LA foodbank, played hockey, read Ender's Shadow, and am about an hour away from finishing the DS Castlevania. As far as being unproductive, I leave it up to you to decipher.
Abayo
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