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when the walls come down
2004-06-18 10:01:23
Current video: Nightingale, "The Glory Days" to Prince of Tennis. Progress check: 53%. Expected catalog number: #89. Yep, cheated. Did up the timing/feel chart this morning, because last night was blocked up with excessively long transfers (and oppressive heat, but that's not the point). I also started developing an idea for the closer on Evergrey's most recent CD, but that's going to have to wait for the R2 (at least, no guarantee that this'll be licensed) of something to actually start. And for me to get a more frame-accurate editing system; as things stand I'd pretty much be taking apart 50-80% of the frames involved in VDub and assembling them back together. I've got no desire to go back to the razor-and-matte world of editing, but I do want this to take shape.
In the interim, I've got to try to get my capture rig going again; after the current vid wraps I can start trying to see whether it's more of a hardware or software problem (thinking a hardware problem with the pod, which I have a replacement for), then working on how to fix it. Whether that succeeds on not will decide the next project: an Antimatter vid from DVD for AWA Pro if it can be revived, or that Kawarazaki video for farlo's contest if not. This last is undecided on music; there's a short Enthroned track with some promise, but I haven't gone through my Mortician library, which for the "short and disgusting" genre is like "forgot about Dre". On the other hand, it's preferable to NOT do videos with material I could potentially go to jail for having (video, not music. not sure all acts involved in Kawarazaki are legal, even animated, in the US).
Tonight: club. Pizza, metal, and anime. Tomorrow: ritual expedition to cheapo store and MPD beating up emo bands. Bonding, violence, and more heavy metal. Sunday doesn't look like it'll involve a lot of video work, but you never know. I might just get back on schedule.
YFR.
--Kai out
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let there be war for justice
2004-06-17 11:27:19
I wasn't going to write anything here today (because I did exercise and leeched manga last night instead of working ont he video), but this is up there with "freedom fries" on the "whole-nother-level-of-stupidity" scale.
"As game devices, cellphones leave something to be desired. Most of the games found on them are rudimentary, with flat, cartoonish graphics and simple scenes. But that is going to change. Soon cellphone owners will be able to play games with realistic three-dimensional graphics rivaling those on PC's and game consoles." (to_kallon submission to Slashdot)
Right. This makes so enormously much sense that my brain can't even load it all at once. Let's all stand up and cheer for the genius who decided to put 3-d graphics capability into something which, in its intended role as a phone anyways, is doing just bloody fine in my back pocket on a monochrome LCD. I'm sure this will have nothing but positive implications for battery lifetime, and will reduce, if anything, the distractions offered to drivers by mobile communications systems.
About the only upside to this, from a purely selfish perspective, is that I'm currently working for a firm that makes chipmaking equipment, and whenever a new revolution in personal electronics becomes a fad, people build more fabs and buy more machines from us.
Buy more electronic crap. Help me stay employed.
ontopic:
Video work will pick up over the weekend if it does not resume tonight. This will be a tough effort, not only because of the source volume that I have to deal with, but because it will also involve combatting tendencies to watch more of the live-action HK version of MB instead of doing anything productive. I should at least be able to bash up a timing chart for the song, which is something I have to do eventually, and it might as well be sooner than later if I haven't the time to do any clipping.
The biggest conceptual hurdle to the video is what is going to be done with this sequence in the intro, the second riff of the song, which cuts evenly at about 4/second. I don't have that kind of resolution in my mainline editing environment, so the choice is leaning right now towards some manga cuts hacked together in VDub. No idea which, though, or how many, or what I'm going to do under it (the dominant line is the keyboards, way the hell up at the top of the mix, so I need some open video flowing underneath); hopefully the timing chart and more clipping will clear that up.
--Kai out
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we will be metallian kings
2004-06-16 11:12:09
Current video: Nightingale, "The Glory Days" to Prince of Tennis. Progress check: 47%. Expected catalog number: #89. Source stands at about 5 minutes of 9:30 needed for 100% overage, and I still have 8 eps left to cut through, likely including the most productive ones. If I can cover two more eps tonight and tomorrow, clipping may finish by the end of next week. The problem as always is motivation and outside commitments...I've got a brassboard due at the end of the week that still won't compile right.
Apparently there is a MB drama (live-action), which is like winning another free Coke on the one you redeemed a winning cap for. If it still has Kouda-sama, or, otherwise, fails to suck, I will be happy. If it does end up sucking, well, then, it's not as if the weekend won't redeem it entertainment-wise. Maison season 1 for cheap, _Nordland II_, Naruto and Monster at club, and MPD at the Heart & Heavy on Saturday boils down to a whole lot of rockage. And as if there existed something Bathory couldn't redeem....
off topic:
Gokusen + Jug game tickets + UFO heifeweitzen + Finals 0wnage = good day. Now I just have to hope that we don't have a showing to run that day. That would suck. It's not quite Ohio State, but if you go to Michigan and never see a rivaly game in the Big House....
--Kai out
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sealed with a fist
2004-06-15 10:02:33
silly background:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~psdel/pot_pwnzor.jpg
not silly background:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~psdel/pot_sunbg.jpg
These are both at 1280x1024, because that's what I use. If you are using a runty screensize, that's your problem.
I was busy troubleshooting my laptop and listening to the new Exodus last night, and did virtually no work on the video. Make that precisely no work. Nothing appears broken so far, so tonight has some more promise. For now, I tossed up a better version of the SH page and linked it off the profile (also took off the bit-rotted direct from #88), so there's not a total circuit between this one and the one that's not merged into it yet. There may be some more work on the page, but I suck at HTML and have many other demands on my time.
way the hell off topic:
http://sae.cside.com/sae/kat/pc/ern005/ekana.htm
If anyone out there wants to buy their own persocon, this is as good a place to start as any. This guy has also done one in the form of the original Gundam, but that doesn't accurately capture the flavor of the body of his work. Wonder if he had the nerve to put the power switch in the same place.....
--Kai out
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one more cross nailed to the ground
2004-06-14 10:50:35
I turned 24 over the weekend, and didn't do enough work on the video (or, for that matter, on ops). I did get in a lot of laying-around-doing-nothing time, put a couple miles into my new boots, and got my knife fixed, so it wasn't a total wash. The weekend also resulted in two new PoT backgrounds, one silly one not, and a renewed commitment to do something with The Awakening (original RPG), which I have to get hosted at least for my now-reforming gaming circle. More timecrunch.
Current video: Nightingale, "The Glory Days" to Prince of Tennis. Progress check: 43%. Expected catalog number: #89. Got a little less than a minute from this one ep; may have time for another tonight. I've got a couple transactions to push through, but there should still be a couple hours open.
I'm considering more seriously making a try at translating Quarter Iceshop in miscellaneous machine-enforced blacks of spare time; even though it's mostly not-rubied, the 4-koma format means little enough text that I can slowly get over my "being totally illiterate" status, and a lot of it is written in kana, which always helps. Public circulation of this is an issue for the distant future; there are about 150 of these things (in 4-koma equivalent, there are some that approach full manga pages), and it doesn't take THAT long to move 230MB over RS232.
Plus there's the video, and writing new gaming stuff, and getting back rolling on other writing projects, and ops, and actual work...
--Kai out
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