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will be a memory
2002-10-18 12:17:51
I thought I was at 5% yesterday on the current video, but that turned out not to be the case. There is now more music than there was before, though the same two samples are still being used, and there's also a really cool effect that will hopefully be transparent. In any case I've got all the audio and video source in hand, and am ready to start clipping this weekend. I'd really like a little better video fidelity, but it's not that much to gripe about.
I sent Tim his CD today, and I'll be sending Red Wolf the first two volumes of Hasshin! over the weekend (as soon as I can lay in some more CD-cases), with Perfect Collection volumes 1-5 and Special Collection #1 to follow in a box next weekend. I'm organizing this stuff into masters and it's tough on drives; I've got the first 6 Perfect Collection volumes plus the Special Collection (#48 and #30, "Sex & Death", the ones that will be going to Mindwarp if they do another contest) all grouped and mastered, and when they weren't on CD I was in serious space trouble on the drive I was using. Once all of this is straightened out, I'll put notes in all the video entries as to what CD-volumes the video appears on, and in what formats.
Current video: Death, "Cosmic Sea" + "Secret Face" (samples) to Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door. Progress check: 25%. Expected catalog number: #57. There's probably going to be a Meimi effect somewhere in here if I can get the source to set up right; there's a musical passage that fairly demands a cube-in-cube, even more than the one in #52.
Con news: umm....Sugoi Con. Yeah. If you're in Ohio, this weekend. #52 is there. We'll see how this one goes gown.
Important: lisa@tamahome.dyn.dhs.org, I've been trying to get back to you, but your host is unreachable. Please mail back from a different address. As the profile says, I do answer all mail, but really; I'm not responsible if your mailserver is down when I'm trying to reach you.
--Kai out.
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the silence | awakes me
2002-10-17 11:58:47
The video I've been working on since the start of the week is now officially "sorta done". All the components are together, and are now mixing down, but it's gonna take some extreme leetness to get the intro glued to the main body of the video glued to the trailer card. It'll be written up in a bit. If nothing else, this video gave me some practice in using the nifty SSMM tool, which is a nice freeware way to make animations out of still pictures. It'd be a shame if I'm not able to get this video out to places the way it was intended to be, but the actual music video encapsulated inside is still nifty enough to work on its own.
Distro stuff.....going to buy CDs today, so I can start mailing packages tomorrow. If you want to see a video and aren't going to be/weren't at the convention it screened at, hit me over email with a mailing address and a want list. Presently, you'll be able to order from Red Wolf's distro, but Hasshin! vols 1 and 2 are also among those CDs that need to get mailed tomorrow.
Current video: Death, "Cosmic Sea" + "Secret Face" to Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Progress check: 5%. Expected catalog number: #57. This is a combination of two solos into one entry for the Solo Project. It's fairly short, so I should be able to get it done early next week all things considering, and then on to some work for a local band.
Con news: Due to an overwhelming submission response, all secondary videos have been pulled from Sugoi-Con. That means if you're there, you won't be able to see #51. This is too bad for you, but good for me, since I didn't fee that good about double-dipping it to there and CSUN's contest in the first place. I think Sugoi-Con may be this weekend, but as ever I'm uncertain.
The club got some Chobits in, so I am happy-happy. If I can get even one of the CDs I requested, there's going to be an extremely weird video rolling down the pike in short order.
--Kai out.
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to be extreme -- or so it seems
2002-10-15 13:05:20
I have no opinion on the death of the forums. "The Death Of The Sun", however, is an excellent track from the most thoroughly underappreciated band on _Metal Massacre #1_, Cirith Ungol. And that's your left-field metal quasisequitur of the day.
This video is rollin like nothing I have done since I was capturing my own source all those months ago. Three eps (and these are 4-minute eps, not 24-minute ones), and I've already got a minute and a half at 100% of the 2:40 I'm going to need. Unreal is what it is. Probably about two more days until it wraps, depending on how fast I'm able to go.
Current video: ****** ****, "**** *** *** ****" to Kogepan. Progress check: 45% complete. Expected catalog number: #56. I hope to get through another ep or two today, and finish off the clipping sometime tomorrow, leaving the rest of the week for the intro, drafting, and assembly.
Con news: Sugoi-Con may be this coming weekend instead of the weekend of Nekocon; if so and you're there, you'll probably be able to see #52 and #51 in action. #52 in particular may have a shot at a certain award, but if I was doing this for trophies and glory, I wouldn't be doing it with metal.
-- Kai out.
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what is this that stands before me
2002-10-14 12:20:29
SA-TAN! SA-TAN! SA-TAN! C'mon, I randomly login and see journalhits at 666 and you expect me NOT to do such?
Weekend was most cool; Friday much as expected, and Saturday a definite plus. Getting into Salem on a Saturday night in October is always a castiron bastard, but this time we were actually not hampered that much by traffic. Nonetheless, we got to the club a little late, and unfortunately missed some of Ravage's set. Like a heavier DragonHeart -- damn cool, especially for power metal. Next up Trauma Concept, again pretty cool, sort of a Hatebreed-early Fear Factory deathcore kind of attack. After that, One Way Down came out, and even though the shorter sets put the hurt on what they were able to play (they're the kind of complicated death/thrash metal band that can fill up 45 minutes with 5 songs), they were pretty cool. The last band we actually stuck around for was ofcourse My Pet Demon, who just keep improving. Most of their set was material not available on their current MCD, reaffirming the conviction of everyone in the scene that they need to head back into the studio NOW. They've sold out the whole pro pressing of that CD, and so now it's home burns that they're hawking at shows, and they STILL make a good bit.
In retrospect, I should have stayed around for Candy Striper Death Orgy, but the band on before them, Bled, brought these two huge chunky hardcore kids to act like monkeys on PCP during their set, and I didn't feel like getting kicked in the head. The band wasn't that great either; more 'core dumbness.
Sunday as expected; the good guys win, aided by the fact that the Pats were playing some extremely stupid football.
Current video: ****** ****, "**** *** *** ****" to Kogepan. Progress check: 30% complete. Expected catalog number: #56. It's coming, but slowly.
Con news: Next on the slate is......Nekocon and Sugoi-con, same weekend, next month. Of course, I DID GET NOTHING! </pentasmaljoke> at Anime USA, which is the way things go.
--Kai out
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your life shall not return
2002-10-11 13:35:24
#55 is complete. It's mixing down as I type this, and will probably be finished by the time I hit "enter" and this sucker is actually up for public scrutiny. Then I basically take this weekend off.
Tonight I head into Cambridge to waste money at Tokyo Kid, MST RahXephon (Phil, if by some odd chance you're reading this, keep that 'clone' idea under wraps until it's done, then shout it up in the forums), and laugh myself purple to AzuDai with the club crew, then probably stay up way too late after coming home, because my bro's coming back from school for the long weekend and prone to arguing stupid late. Saturday, I may have time to dupe tapes before heading over to Rock Fuckin' Toberfest at Sputnik's, and then on Sunday I'll be watching the Pack slap the Patriots around with my neck in a hardcast. Hopefully, I won't have to drive Jake back to New York Monday; that would just annihillate any hopes I had of getting anything done at all this weekend.
Tim has given his OK, so I'm going to be able to make the next vid with the mega-psycho intro afterall. And he also got me his requests, so I have to stick "burn CD for best operating comedy creator" somewhere in my to-do list.
Just so you know, you don't have to, like, win an official reward to get me to send you a CD with vids on it. You can just send me a want list and a mailing address by email. If you live in like Bulgaria or somewhere where postage is expensive, you might want to suggest a trade; I'll accept CDs of your own work or demos from metal bands in your area one-for-one. If you live in North America, though, this probably won't come into the picture.
Current video: ****** ****, "**** *** *** ****" to Kogepan. Progress check: 26% complete. Expected catalog number: #56. This one is going to be a lot like #46, but the crazed technical stuff is going to be more in the intro than the video itself.
Con news: Anime USA goes down this weekend; check out #44 if you're there. It's the REALLY UGLY-looking Hajime no Ippo video; or it will be if they let it in the contest.
Unrelated: a nifty trick for computer types. Stick up the index and pinky fingers of one hand, and close the others into your palm. You should now be making the famous heavy metal "devil horns". Now think of your hand as a five-bit binary register, with the thumb as the lowest order bit. Let a raised finger be a 1, and a lowered finger a 0. This way, your hand (still doing the horns) can be read as 10010 binary. Of course, this can also be read as 18 decimal.
What's so special about that? Duh! Everyone knows that (in decimal anyway) 18 = 6 + 6 + 6. Spooky ka na........
--Kai out
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