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nothing for January 05 o.O
2005-02-03 00:27:19
Just noticed that I didn't make or add any videos last month. That's the first time since I joined that I went a month without adding anything. And with the projects I'm working on, I don't think I'll have anything finished this month, either...
I think it's a matter of the ideas I'm getting being things that I jump into, only to get bored with the tediousness of it - then I start something else instead. I have three of these things going at the moment.
One, a lyric-based multi-anime vid is on the back burner. I went so far as to pick out every single scene (complete with the text I planned to add to each clip). I even started it, about 20 seconds of it. But I didn't feel like working on it, so it got scrapped. I still have my plans, and it only took me about 2 days to rip all the footage, so I'm sure I could start it up again if I felt like it. I just don't have any motivation to work on it.
The second is the same video I started 3 months ago. I dropped it after editing around 1200 frames. But after dropping that multi-anime vid I decided to pick it up again. So I'm back to work on it. Only, it's still not going to be finished for at least 4-5 more months. It's just too tedious - busywork, not to say it's difficult. I've been working on it about 8 hrs per day for a week now and only have 200 more frames to show for it. And I get bored quickly, so I bounce away ever few days. >.<
The third is one of my happy 'soft' videos - the sort that don't involve effects so much as lyrics and mood. I generally love doing one of those after a busy project. Like 'Innocent Love,' and 'Joyous.' I can actually go every other video (almost) and be sure there's a 'soft' vid spacing each of the more detailed projects. I figured that was the problem - I finished my Kurama profile (which ended up having a lot more frame-edits than I expected). And then I tried to jump into another complicated (boring busywork) project. I need something that's just fun to make, and funner to watch.
So I picked a song I've been wanting to see a video to. The problem? It's a multi-anime song, and I almost never plan out my 'soft' videos. So here I'm trying to get as many of my favorite scenes onto my comp (so I can have that freedom I find so fun with soft vids). And with all that ripping (knowing I won't use half the scenes I'm getting), it's tedious. Soft vids aren't supposed to be tedious. It rather sucks.
The bonus? Fushigi Yuugi.
I rented the first 26 eps from Netflix (thank Sarahtheboring for pointing me there). And I'm expecting the rest of the series, and the ovas to arrive tommorrow. I had to buy them since Netflix doesn't carry them, but I got my refund and figure it's worth it. This way, I can use FY in my multi-anime vid. ;p So it sort of makes it 'okay' that I'm putting off that video - I'll have more scene to choose from if I wait till I get the rest of that series.
I've also received two hard-to-fill requests that I've been thinking about in my "tired of this tedious editing" moments. One is an open request for another Inyasha/Miroku video. Since mine is the only video on the org (or in the world, as far as I know), I'll have to make another eventually. The footage is just so limited, and I don't want to buy the entire series (I don't like watching the anime). So I don't know what I'll do for that vid. I'll make it eventually, I just don't have any idea what it'll be about aside from the anime.
The second request is just weird. o_o
I'm pretty well known in the YYH yaoi fandom as a huge KuramaxHiei shipper. So imagine my shock when someone requested I make a HieixBotan video. My first reaction? Why me. My second reaction? How can I make a romantic video about two characters who are only featured in 3 scenes together - that's 3 scenes in an 112 episodes. They almost never speak, are not seen together, and personally, I really really can't see that pairing. But...I'm sort of back in that "if I don't make it, who will" stage. I dislike the pairing, but I love the anime. I'm curious to see if I can do a video for a pairing I dislike - and pull it off. I've decided a parody might work, so the vid is in the air for the moment. My main problem is the complete lack of footage to use.
It's like asking someone to make a romantic video featuring Vash (Trigun) and Kenshin (RK). If I'm going to have footage to use, I'll have to make it myself. I don't think I can put that much personal busytime into a video for a pairing I don't like. Maybe a cool and funny yaoi crossover pairing, but HieixBotan...? It would be like me doing a KuramaxKagome video (I hate that pairing, hate it hate hate it). It would be difficult, and unenjoyable to watch after it's finished. But, it would also be a challenge. And if I made it a parody, it could be fun, possibly, maybe. It's in the air.
The moral, no vids from me for a month. The first time that's happened since I started making amvs. At this point, I could probably quit cold turkey without really feeling the burn. Too bad I want to see that crossdressing video finished this year. ^_^; -
weather
2005-01-12 22:11:49
Two weeks ago it was record snowfall, 2 feet in under 24hrs in Indiana. Now we have record flooding. It really makes me wonder how deep we'd be if all of this precipitation came down as snow instead of rain. I guess since it's easier to swim than it is to shovel snow, we should be glad to have rain in winter and not snow. Let's just see how cold it gets after the next rain system passes. If it doesn't get below freezing, we can probably expect snow on top of the floodwater. That'll be interesting to see.
Now next year we should expect things to be even worse (more rain, yes, but a lot more of it will come down as snow). I can only imagine what will happen then.
Makes me wonder how bad it has to get before Bush starts believing there might be a problem with the environment. ;p -
durh
2004-12-25 15:43:54
Merry Christmas to Flint and India, and anyone else who's civil to me. To the rest, bah humbug and all that non-cheer. ;p
I'm actually home today - very happy about that since I expected to be stuck with my relatives (snow). I'm still trapped by the weather, but hey, at least I'm home.
Christmas was a bust, namely because my sister brought her baby's father along (she's about a week overdue now, I expect her to have it tomorrow - her birthday, the day after Christmas). My brother was moping about my sister being a classic bitch - namely for the abusive impregnator she brought to our little family get-to-gether. According to him, he'd rather have spent the day with his ex-wife. Happy thoughts!
Heh, I don't care. I had fun. We didn't really do the present thing, but mom drug out a whole nest of photos and we got to rift through the extras. I can now say I have pictures of me and my family. Never had those before. I actually have a pic of me as a kid and WOW was I tiny. You'd think they never bothered to feed me at all. :( It's no wonder I now have a great appreciation for food.
I finished my video - my Christmas present to myself. I was planning to do something conventional for a change - meaning none of my little quirky effects that I *know* people will complain about. After all, I know ahead of time that they'll complain, so it's easy to leave them out. But no, I like them so I added them, and damn, you'd think I wanted complaints.
What does it mean when you do something you know is 'wrong' or 'incorrect' and you do it because you like it for *being* off-center? The only word I can think of is self-defeating, but that doesn't really fit because I'm actually self-serving. I don't know, but it explains why I keep stubbornly proclaiming, "I do this for myself first, I share it just in case there are more like me out there."
I donated! Heh, just $15 and I didn't think I'd be able to do even that much. Luckily this snow-in left me unable to do my last minute shopping (cat food, my cat is now living off ham...and he's going to get really fat and spoiled if the snow doesn't melt soon. o_o ). So I had a little extra. One little paypal visit, and done - not quite a leech. How's that for Christmas spirit? -
Too much Snow
2004-12-23 08:05:31
I've never seen 2 feet of snow in the part of Southern Indiana I live in, and I've lived here for...jeeze, I'm old. It's been years. Today is the first time I've ever walked outside and had my leg go through the snow up to my hip.
So it snowed all day yesterday, all night, and now I'm snowed in. I did dig a path to my car (took forever - I don't have a shovel, let alone a snow shovel, so I used my sponge-mop....worked surprisingly well aside from my frozen flamy fingers...). But I'd have to dig a path all the way around the car, too, if I want to dig it out from under the big old snow hill it's formed.
Needless to say, I'm glad we aren't exchanging gifts for Christmas. This is my second day off due to snow (yesterday, too). I'll just sit here, wish I had bought coffee Monday when I had the chance, and maybe edit a little. Why not. >.< -
New project... o_o
2004-12-11 20:33:04
I've settled on a new obsession. I already have a large-scale (meaning long tedious boring work) project in the wings, but this is different. This is set and necessary. I'm doing a real parody mixing anime with live action. I've been practicing my screencap manipulation (redrawing scenes and trying to get them to look 'official') and I think I have it down. So...I'm doing it. ;p
Needless to say this is an explanation if I disappear for a while. I want to do this right.
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