-
The Assumption of Slaughtering Innocents
2004-11-07 23:28:27
Well, one thing to cheer me up lately has, surely, been AC3's AMV contest. The videos on show were all excellent, but of course nothing can possibly beat the priceless experience of not just seeing your own video played in front of an audience (first time it happened to me) or win an award (first time, similarly) - those things are nice, but not as important - it's the fact that it was THAT particular video, which got such a good response, that got me.
Don't call me self-indulgent - I'd merely like to document the experience while it's fresh. In fairness, I never tried to get up or make it known to anyone that I was in any way related to the video, and really exited incognito...
***
I was choking trying to hold down laughter, when I realized The Assumption of Innocence was coming on. Poor audience, probably unaware of what was to come - well, it was the Originality category, in fairness. Couple of awkward giggles as Fripp's babble started - I'm sure most were thinking that this was just a quick funky intro. 30 seconds - everyone is silent. 1 min - a couple of awkward giggles on a few of the 'funny' non-lip sync bits. Then sometime after 1:30, as Fripp goes into that really pretentious-sounding rant, the audience starts realizing that this STILL isn't over, and you have this slow group giggle starting to roll and crescendo through the hall, and from there it went to - I don't know! But from there, I sensed that the audience was in tune, probably laughing their heads off in a 'WTF is going on here??' kind of fashion; while I was in my seat, laughing harder yet at the hilarious response, trying to imagine what people must have been thinking there. It was pretty exhilirating, but of course I was also nervous as hell. I couldn't feel my hands for a few minutes, such a rush that was...
When it ended, the audience nearly erupted in laughter and applause, and I could here people around me excitedly exchanging 'WTF?' and 'Did you see that where...' comments, as the coordinator noted 'This one took the category by a long shot'. And there I was, still choking from trying to hold down excess laughter.
Oh god. Again, don't call me self-indulgent, but I have to say that was clearly the most enthusiastic response any of the videos got at the showing (although all had good response). It definitely made my day, and I'm surely listing this among the Master-card like 'Priceless' moments in my memory. A touch of good fun in my somewhat mopey existence lately...
Huge thanks to everyone who was there! It's the audience that made this 'experiment' worthwhile. -
Geh
2004-10-10 20:04:27
The irony! Fortunes of creativity are like fortunes of love or war... reversable as hell.
I don't feel good about where I've been going with my ProjeKctivizing again; and I'm starting to question whether I dug myself into a hole that consists of overly-high standrads on one side, and overly-narrow music tastes on the other side. But what I'm hoping for is the fact that perhaps the problem is actually rooted in fundamental lack of footage. And only time/money can fix that...
But what I certainly don't want to do is go into making effects-based videos. Sadly, the lack of choice in visuals seems to be forcing me into this.
Anyway... perhaps this will blow over. In the meantime, I'll put my creative energies elsewhere, for now.. -
ProjeKctivizing
2004-10-09 00:46:10
In honour of the (according to Mr. Fripp) new upcoming ProjeKct Crim release, and in preparation for the probable start of the LTE project sometime soon, I've been editing a somewhat improvised piece of AMV to a completely improvised track by ProjeKct 3 (it's so improvised it doesn't even have a name, technically speaking).
Whether I'll upload it is something I'll see when or if I get to the final stages; for better or worse, the ProjeKcts are notoriously busy, especially with electronic beat boxes/percussion, which seem to pretty well require effects from an AMV. I guess that's something for the next days to look at.
And with this, I've also been trying out a new approach to editing - to be honest, I had no idea what I'm trying to make when I was coming into this, so I had to invent/change a 'storyline' on the fly. From this came the neccesity to edit less linearly, and throughout the last few hours I've been jumping furiously from one section of the timeline to the other, placing, re-placing and un-placing footage as the video altered itself.
It could be neat, and it could be nice to release around Halloween, should I end up considering it worthwhile. It's not Halloween-themed per se, but the current tentative title of 'Ghost' does have at least some relevance to that particular day, even if it has little bearing on the traditional 'Halloweeny' ghost image.
Anyways, whether there will be a product or not, I'm happily back to editing, and improv-editing at that... -
Pen-Pen wrote..
2004-09-28 13:39:47
"Do you ever not want to go to class because you're busy... Busy listening to a song?"
Welcome to the story of my academic life.
No, seriously, this is exactly the way I had approached music for the last couple of years, and I don't intend to stop...
And yes, I look forward to the project...
***
Nothing much ongoing today. Trying desperately to make a thread on Demonseal sufficiently alive to not pass off as a shameless pimp of own music tastes. Failing miserably.
Procrastinating while creating some low-fi samples of some of my favorite music moments ever, whilst doubting that anyone would be interested in hearing them due to the utter solutude of that poor thread...
Other than that, all is fine. -
Let's stop the whole 'The year is xxx4 thing'...
2004-09-11 19:04:25
Alright, alright - enough of that.
Good evening hippies.
***
Decent day, if your idea of decent involves digging holes in your front/back yard in the sun for a bit.
Catching up on my Japanese - rather quickly, I might add. My vocal tract somewhat hurt after a good practice session - a somewhat good sign that I'm indeed actually adjusting my phonetic system to pronounce Japanese like... well, Japanese. Tastinesses follow, and I'll be soon back in the yard to pick up trash.
***
AMV-wise, slight state of deadness. I blame it on lack of source footage, but actually, there's a number of things I can try right now. The problem is that I don't want, nor should I - it's best to let the first two school weeks after so long a break (and, in a new university, to boot) be just that - school weeks. AMV's are a terrible drain of time, and if I'm on a serious project, nothing seems to stop me with any effect - how else to explain that right at a time I was supposed to be writing a major book review last semester, I started and finished 'The Wasteland' in the space of 5 days - all school days, to boot!
***
Forum-wise, posting like there's no tomorrow. I think I'm more active than I was at the height of OT.
Now, I don't miss OT.
But I am starting to suspect that we'll soon need a separate forum area for me and Kajino Rei - seeing how any threads we end up in together become fine emporiums of conversation that goes right over other people's heads, scaring (and possibly scarring) them for life.
I'm picturing it now - the great eyeroll forum, where most visitors are left to merely gawk in bewilderment, as the few who are cursed with the ability to over-analyze and think in logical patterns exchange bitterly sarcastic emoticons and various verbal 'pointed sticks'.
Anyway... it's true. Being too smart is a good way to scare people from threads.
Well, it could be worse. What if I was like that in real life...
...oh wait, I am :roll:
JOURNAL: Otohiko
Current server time: Jul 19, 2025 08:40:08