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and forget about | cold yesterdays
2003-05-09 10:23:09
Somehow, I'm still on schedule. I've got a lot of the problems in the current project licked, and I've got the two releases done that I need to have out for club tonight. My home box is currently defragging, but even so I'll have a pretty good lead on next week's renders going into the weekend.
Obviously, no video progress last night, but this is a stat that's probably going to improve over the next week. I should be able to get through another ep between Saturday and Sunday, which is a good enough floor for me to look realistically at finishing clipping by the end of next week. Then it's Sunday for timing charts (Metalfest will likely consume the rest of the weekend -- STILL haven't got tickets) and maybe drafting on one vid, with final finishing on the last taking place on the weekend following. Two years, 78 videos. Of course, when you throw out the 11 demos, the three that run less than two minutes, and the one that really shouldn't have been made at all, it doesn't look quite as impressive. As before, I'm going to keep working hard, at whatever rate the rest of my life will allow, to provide an end product both quality and true.
Packages for the conventions I currently have on the horizon will be sent out probably on Monday since I have some non-budgeted time in the orientation seminar. I'm looking at deadlines for at least Otakon, Fanime, and two smaller ones up in Canada; those are just the ones I have videos committed to. I should check for others, but the rate has been a little slow lately, and a lot of my recent output is premiering at larger conventions in the summer season, as well as nearly everything on the imminent board. Too many cons. I really ought to remember Anime North and ACen next year; those are kind of major & really shouldn't be just ignored like this.
Hopefully, the plot will go somewhere in tonight's Naruto, as we're going through like 8 episodes. That ought to be enough to finish the current fight......unless another flashback sequence strikes....
--Kai out
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in every age he's existed
2003-05-08 10:28:20
I'm not positive how long I'm going to be physically able to keep pulling these 18+-hour days. I really forget how I was able to do it in college, but hopefully I'll be able to recover and get operating at peak efficiency again. Of course, the upside is that it doesn't hit as hard when I'm coming back from club at 2 in the morning Friday night. (Did that make any sense at all??). That's just a 20-on deviating from 18.5, not a 18 deviating from a 14.
The ruinousness of the schedule will get less demanding in the future. After next week, I'll be done clipping for Project Haibane, which will make for less time committed to editing and more time flattening stuff to CD. Also, I'll be able to defrag for the first time in ages, and probably speed up my episode outputs, which have been running a little slow. I'm THIS CLOSE to just biting the bullet and buying a faster processor and more RAM, but I know I'm already close to the limits of what my operating system can deal with.
Current videos: Bill O'Brien, "Old Shoes", Gamma Ray, "A While In Dreamland" and "Farewell", and Borknagar, "The View of Everlast", all to Haibane Renmei. Progress check: 63%, 61%, 63% and 61%. Expected catalog numbers: #75, #76, #77, #78. Slowly, slowly.....I don't expect any progress tonight (or, for that matter, on Friday), but I'll probably be able to grab a good bit of time over the weekend, even with pre-processing for next week's volume for club and if Meg and I go out again then.
In the meantime there are like five or six new videos on the Carrot; #28, #29, #38, #43, #53, and #54. Yeah. Six. Once I send the Otakon con package off (should ALSO be this weekend or sometime in that imminent timeframe), I'll organize Hasshin! 3 into shape and put up some vids off that release before I send it in for distro.
Way off topic:
I never knew that 'trombone' means 'paper clip' in French. Weird. Now I have something extra to get after John about.
Has anyone else noticed that the Honda Element, especially in certain color schemes, looks a lot like a SD Humvee? Don't know whether that's weird or just disturbing.
--Kai out
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end of your masquerade
2003-05-07 10:36:30
"Various circumstances" prevented any video progress last night, but in exchange, there are like five videos up on the Carrot that weren't up this time yesterday. #1, #4, #5, #18, and #32 are now available for public viewing. Tomorrow I'll see what I can do about the videos on Hasshin!2.
www.riversandtides.org. Go now. See when and where this film is coming to your area. It's incredible. Not just for the art presented, but for the really cool filmography and a genuinely revealing look inside the head of a for-real modern artist. I'm going to have to steal a graphic of one of Goldsworthy's pieces for the cover of _Cairn Zoser_ (which is indeed still under production, all indications to the contrary).
The end of the week comes closer and closer, and I still have two tapes to dupe. It'll be a tight schedule tonight, as I have two eps that absolutely MUST be output (total ~1 hour) and ~3 hours of disk copying to do, which probably won't end up being completely contiguous. And then, of course, 2-3 hours of finishing for Project Haibane.
I really, really, want to finish this in the immediate future and put it on tape for MITAC, but that'll depend on speed and of course eventual quality of production. I'm not going to rush stuff to hit that mark, but it'd be nice to make that goal. I owe them big for both source and ideas as well as suffering my backbencher presence over the last ~year or so.
--Kai out
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before we're put to rest
2003-05-06 10:53:54
Progress on the video, not much on the job. I still don't have a clear definition of what I'm supposed to be doing here, but hopefully I'll be able to straighten that out in the imminent future. And get my books out of the cabinet I inadvertently locked them in last night. Two nearly new O'Reilly's, just gone -- for now.
Current videos: Bill O'Brien, "Old Shoes", Gamma Ray, "A While In Dreamland" and "Farewell", and Borknagar, "The View of Everlast", all to Haibane Renmei. Progress check: 61%, 58%, 61% and 58%. Expected catalog numbers: #75, #76, #77, #78. Clipped ep 10 last night, going to do as much of the finishing as I can after Meg and I get back from Rivers & Tides and such tonight. I need to start thinking of more interesting things to do; the Cabot is cool, but even this theater may get old after a while. Perhaps the Toast, but Portsmouth's a hell of a drive and I don't want to run the risk of running into any of my brother's friends there. Maybe Woodmans'; Essex is some nice country and we've still got some time before tourist season starts (when they come visit, not when you can take two with blackpowder or bow as long as they've got at least four points).
Under current schedule I should be able to start actually doing some editing on Project Haibane early next week. Figuring on two days per video in that stage, less time cut out for dates, club, and anything else that comes up, I should be done all four by the end of the month, and probably well into the next. I'm currently thinking of bumping up a limited-source idea, because the video that's sitting at #79 in the queue right now is going to require cutting through 26 eps (the first full-series/full-length video in SH history), and I'm not sure that I can get myself up for something like that so soon after a project like this. I forget how long I've been doing this for, but it seems like forever. Far better to clip from a single 55-minute OVA in three bouts, smash up a timing chart, edit the video out, and go on with life in some kind of reasonable speed.
Of course, if I use that idea, then the other Gamma Ray idea in the near-term queue (currently at #80, which has been postponed too long) will get bumped off again, because I'll have used three Gamma Ray songs in five videos and be heartily sick of them. A lot of Hypocrisy songs in the pipe as well, but I haven't used one of theirs since #30, and not anything by Tagtgren at all since last fall. About time I got back on that kind of kick....
The CD-drive on this box is on the fritz. I have to troubleshoot it or get Dave to give me a new one (hopefully R/RW), and THEN I can do the info for UC1 and PC9 and start putting up videos.
--Kai out
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the learning never ends
2003-05-05 11:42:26
Well, the setup aint exactly like it was last year, mostly in that there's no zip drive. This'll make moving files harder but not that much harder; just have to remember to unhook the portable drive from my box the night before I need to move anything. And of course I can't use this box for TMPEG processing; loading files onto the zip via RS232 would just take prohibitively long. Still, it's good to be on a fast connection again.
Looked over some housing options off-campus, and what's available looks pretty decent. Of course, I've got to act early to get a good room at a good rate. I need to check over what my actual tuition expenses are going to be, then see how much I have available for rent, but something in the $350-$450 range would probably work out fine.
Weekend....club was nice, including Ed's sendoff party. My "guests" seemed to enjoy the proceedings (Kiki subbed especially), though Meg seemed to get a little bored during Naruto. Ofcourse, this was to be expected; she's not exactly otaku, and even the most fanboyish will lose patience with a show that spends five minutes per ep reprising the previous week's events, and another five going through flashbacks that the audience has already seen.
Earlier on Friday I also met Meg's sisters, and some of their friends, an experience which must needs be described as *interesting*. Anyone who puts themselves regularly in the company of preteen girls will know exactly what I'm talking about. Not, under normal terms, a situation to be sought out.
Saturday and Sunday were less cool; just hours and hours of processing hogging my electronic resources, and neural faculties glued in the meanwhile to texts on Java and XML....which I probably won't need to use for a while, since Chuck hasn't been able to get me access to the source vault. So I'm currently chomping at the bit, and chafing under harness, to start working in earnest again.
Today I'll probably put up the DC links for the stuff on KK UC2 and PC9, and then tomorrow I'll see if I can get a FTP client going and put #32 up on the Carrot in its remastered from from the AniBo CD. Probably follow that with one video per day until I run out of decent ones that have been premiered so far, and don't break the rules.
There'll be video work done in the near future....progress stats when that happens.
--Kai out
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