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they're calling they're calling
2005-04-30 12:04:15
I finally got power back to my laptop, so at least at the office I can get up and operating and throw down wrt all kinds of stuff. I found an apartment and will hopefully move in on Tuesday as soon as everyone can get their ducks in a row. Of course, it's in the one narrow slice of Dresden that can't even get Powercom, let alone real DSL, but it's a real steal (gotta look out for the company, they're looking after me), and I've been doing all right without a decent home connection so far.
Right now, AniBo is going on, and I'm not there. The Monarchs are playing their first friendly of the season against the Prague Lions, and I'm not there either. There's a party up the street that I will be going to later, but it started at 5 and I'm not there now either. I've got a lot to catch up on online; it's been tough just replying to ops and getting email ironed out.
#94 will be up maybe tomorrow, maybe on Monday; it's already debuted, but I don't have the time to go through uploading tonight. Eventually it's gonna calm down........eventually.
--Kai out
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hier kommt die neue deutsche welle
2005-04-26 02:21:13
It's not yet 8 in the morning, GMT-1, and I'm back at work. For the next 6 weeks we are going to be kind of im Stich, but hopefully the resolution will be successful.
This makes video progress unlikely, though there is some good news on that front: because we're going to be at AMD, it's a little impolitic to be lugging around Dell POS laptops, so the team has organdized a couple POS HP/Compaq laptops -- but POS HP/Compaq laptops that are probably going to be packing A64 procs and more memory, so I naturally haven't loaded any software yet. (still have to get the AMVApp, but that can wait)
Probably the most disorienting thing about Germany so far has been music video channels that actually play music videos. MTV doesn't, much, but MTV2 and both VIVA and VIVA+ both more often than not have some kind of video playing. And there is metal, both in normal rotation and beating more mainstream stuff in popular voting. Of course, that's probably just "mainstream" as regards the US; music isn't much ghettoized around here.
Notitz:
Deutsche Mitleser/leserinnen die gegen Fler stehen sollen, wie normaleweise, der Titel des Journales nicht streng bemerken. Der bloede Ami ist schon bald im Ost gekommen und als Art Eurotaku kleinesweise spinnt. :P
--Kai out
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niddhog eats the dead
2005-04-21 09:09:41
SH098 is up, and this is for-real the last video before Germany. I've got a lot of stuff to box up before Saturday.
When producing this one, I uncovered a huge hole in my production process having to do with export; if I'd fixed this and not been a dumbass as I actually was, #93 through #97 would have ended up looking much better. I can't believe I let it go this long; it should have been picked up back in INSO6 when I was trying to get rid of pixellation on the telephone lines. One the one hand, I can't believe I let those videos out the door looking like that; on the other hand, it's amusing that i'm burned up about this, since the resulting quality on all my Magix output has been so much higher overall than what I had been doing in MovieStar, all things considering. If it's not one thing, it's another....fortunately, the first video for Germany is going to be in deliberately damaged fidelity.
SH099:
- Source rip: complete
- Music: complete
- Precleaning/predamage: none
- Storyboard/planning: none
- Clipping: 0/21
- Edit: none
- Postproc: none
- Export: none
All the source for this video has been safely archived on my high-cap portable drive, but will not be touched until sometime next week, or maybe next weekend; editing is a good timekill, but I do have priorities for Germany like getting back up to speed on the language, finding somewhere to live, and drinking large amounts of local beer. Once things get stable on the living front and AMD's people decide that they can trust the machine to run long enough to let us go home and sleep, maybe then.
The "predamage" is not exactly unstarted, but none of it was done by me, coming entirely from the limitations of capture and encoding technology at the turn of the century. I may have to clean it up a little to get the pixel edges off, but I should be able to get and create some good color damage just via the limitations of the source materials. Then, after that, I can damage it some more in the video editor. It's not going to be 'Hell Maid May'-level unwatchable, but the intention is to grind it up just enough that people will be able to roughly guess what's going on, much like #92.
(as if that's not already a warning sign............)
--Kai out
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went looking for trouble
2005-04-20 08:29:15
That scratch project is about half done (half edited). I just have to get the lyrics and some graphics home, and then probably finish up the editing tonight. Hopefully, I'll be able to take the afternoon off and finish up some of my shit.....bloody training I've already done. If I finish the video, it'll show up late Friday.
Slashdot ran an article on AMD's Fab 36 this morning, and it was quite difficult for me to refrain from commenting to the effect that I would be headed there, and that there was some hocus-pocus (some negative, some positive) behind the AMD rep's comments in the linked article. I'm not under NDA or anything, but blabbing about work issues is definitely not encouraged; this is a finishing-blow opportunity, and it's only helped by staying dialed in and working to make sure all goes as planned, not by potentially tipping off the competition......who are probably fully aware of the specs of our stuff anyways, but still.
Still so much to do, still so little time....and so little space for storage boxes. I've always been a near-subscriber of the "seabag theory" (that you should try to avoid having more personal possessions than you can pack in a single seabag and lug with you anywhere), but anime fandom (and metal, of course), has filled my life and living space with huge amounts of fairly nonportable junk. I just had to dupe all of Dragonball before boxing up my entire collection and moving for a year, didn't I? ...........
--Kai out
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agony of god's art
2005-04-18 09:36:45
The remake of SH005 is finished, and it came out differently enough that I had to credit it as SH097. I'm currently working on another project, but I'm also working on work and packing stuff up, so it may not be finished before I leave; if it isn't finished then, it won't be done at all, so there's no real point in announcing progress.
Over the weekend I picked up the first volume of Shuten Doji, despite the mockage from the two volumes of Ippo sitting there on the shelf, and despite the fact that I haven't got all the way through the first episode yet, it's been quite worth it. I was really surprised that this actually got put onto DVD, but the TV rating on the back gives some idea why: having to run an anime network 24/7 puts a lot of demand for new stuff on ADV, and if they were going to dust off and digitize this one to kill time at 3 AM or whatever, they might as well put it on DVD and take some more money from the fans like myself that are starved for old-school bloodshed.
From club I also got Twilight Q1, which was the first half of the Twilight Q series to which Oshii contributed the infinitely more famous Twilight Q2. It's pretty cool, though not as focused, and the plot is more in line with the traditional "Twilight Zone" concept than Oshii's way-the-hell-out-in-left-field take. It's still good stuff, though, despite a moderately weak ending and conventional animation style, which is kind of jarring when considered next to the second installment, which at times is a deliberate conspiracy against any and all ideas of what animation ought to look like.
Back to work.....and they better send me my bloody tickets.....
--Kai out
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