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the war is the war
2005-06-20 07:06:35
Atarashii laptop GETTO. \m/.
Athlon 64 3200+, 1GB RAM, DVDRW, and a whole bunch of other stuff. I can't wait to clog it up with my work data and editing schlock. And hopefully, it WON'T require current measures to keep power to it -- I've gotten some uncomfortably warm voltage on a couple occasions so far, and don't like continuing to play twist-tie grounding-strap games.
This rig does not have a name yet, but will get one when I break it in for SH102; AMV Hell I can continue to do on my old rig. I did up two tracks last night; probably another one today and maybe some source collection for further. Hate the deadline....but all these ideas are going to make it difficult to get moving on real videos so the faster it comes the better.
I actually started work on the third sweep yesterday. 35 videos, average below 2.5. This is going to be a long, dark, lonely battle, but who else is going to do it? And I did end up getting one reccable video and five other keepers, so it wasn't *all* bad....
--Kai out
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bunch of morons with a cause
2005-06-19 08:51:31
Did a bunch of AMV Hell tracks while watching Le Mans and volleyball yesterday; the great thing about Europe is that there is always some sport on, even if it's not always the most interesting. Formel 1 is like NASCAR - only interesting when somebody cracks up - and not nearly as good as motorcycle racing. They'll probably get sent out tomorrow.
My Michigan hosting has finally gone dark, so most direct and indirect downloads will not work, and will be cleaned up by the server in a week or so. My paid hosting is still on the fritz, but hopefully this will be resolved soon and the recs and other stuff will be back online.
As soon as the recs are back online, the third sweep will begin. This time, WMVs will be under survey, and no band that can be identified as metal will be spared. (Damnit, I'm going to have to watch so damned many Metallica and Nightwish videos......) It'll probably take in the neighborhood of three days per letter, maybe a week for thick ones like B, M and S, but it's worth the while of going through.
offtopic:
In the latest issue of Metal Hammer there is a profile on Demons & Wizards (whose latest disc I still do not have yet), with two hilarious pics of Jon Schaffer. In one he has sort of corpsepaint on and looks like one of the Satyricon guys as from the _Nemesis Divina_ photoshoot; in the other, he looks like a mid-level-Confederate-officer extra from Gettysburg or Gods and Generals. If these pictures are on the CD as well, it's definitely going to join Immortal's _At the Heart of Winter_ (and Horgh's pasty gut) in the "great CD, unintentionally hilarious bandphotos" file.
--Kai out
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he who has not read
2005-06-17 07:08:51
So I was awoken from my customary post-work sleeping patterns around 9 yesterday by the delivery of the two DVDs I needed for the two "real" tracks I'm contributing to AMV Hell. However, I didn't do any work on them because of one of my German colleagues getting married in the near future. As everyone in Germany knows, this means Polterabend.
Polterabend is a great custom that ought to be exported to more countries -- something that the younger guys on the team are firmly resolved to do (Sean is getting married in August). As Dave said, it is everything a party ought to be: good food, good beer, and lots of breaking shit. It's a fun time, and doing it a few weeks in advance instead of after everyone has been sitting around in fancy clothes for a few hours (as with a wedding reception in the States, the closest analogue) allows everyone to get their party on in a fairly relaxed atmosphere. And then, of course, there's the "survival of pre-Christian customs" thing, with the mass destruction of crockery to scare away evil spirits, that will warm the cockles of any postmodern heathen's volksich heart.
Over the weekend I may or may not have to go in; sources say "limited", and it's likely that I'll be able to cut up my three remaining tracks, potentially all on Saturday. Then Sunday...er....sleep, and Yakitate again. And maybe even getting a real start on SH102 -- but what are the chances of that?
--Kai out
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will be crystallized
2005-06-15 20:17:50
Between this morning before work and tonight after, I threw half an hour at some MYD previews and a track that I got from someplace somehow connected with YES, and came out with another AMV Hell track. The first one's uploading right now; after it's done, I get to go home, sleep, and recharge to do tracks that will actually be a unique contribution.
I've never been big on MEPs and am confirmed in that opinion now. They chiefly have relevance to the AMV community rather than to general audiences, they take time away from original projects, and they're too easy to dash off. How hard is it to edit 15 seconds, provided you're working from integrity rather than "stuff it full of digitial junk"? Not hard, at least as I've found it....maybe the other tracks will gainsay this.
offtopic:
One of my coworkers was getting bored and looking for something to do, so I ramped up INS06 and INS04 for him. Now he wants one with boobies...and I don't know whether I want to get INS05 or risk going the "cartoons? what the fuck is this?" route with SH048, which I do have on this unit right now. Decisions decisions.
--Kai out
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and common sense really died
2005-06-14 08:53:34
Instead of working on SH102, I did an AMV Hell track this morning. Probably after work I'll have to submit it, then waste more time working on another one. The deadlines for Connichi and AWA aren't THAT close, and in the abstract, the longer I can stretch the planned real videos on the truck-drive the better.
My Michigan hosting is inexplicably still up. Maybe Kalium, Suleman, or dkellis pulled some strings for me, or maybe ITD is just lazy. Whatever the reason, I can't expect it to last long, but hopefully until my paid-hosting account gets approved and I throw my old site on there. Some vids will not be posted...darn TOS making you actually obey laws.
offtopic:
Germany, if nothing else, levels up your parking ability. I came home last night to find the lot at my apartment complex nearly full; one space left that I could pull into, with a width of about car+2 feet, total. I did it in less than 2 minutes with Running Wild still pounding at rattle-your-teeth volumes. There's no way I could have pulled that off when I first came over; survival in Europe means fitting your car into places where, coming from America, you don't expect cars *can* fit, let alone fit with clearance. I wonder if I'm going to have "road full of dinosaurs" shock when I get back to the states -- probably not, as there are still a lot of trucks here and they all sit a lot higher than in the US, with much larger wheels. If you can sit in a typical subcompact and outnerve them here, semis and SUVs will have no power over you in a typical American rig.
--Kai out
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