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Brainstorming and stuff exploding
2004-06-21 16:31:57
Well, I've done weird, I've done epic, and most recently - minimalistic-and-sad.
My brain, as always, tells me it's time to switch gears, and this time I'm looking into - that's right, stuff exploding. Presently looking into making a heavy action video, for a change. Upon which, recent anime interests are drawing me into something highly artsy-again - in fact, seems like I may be approaching the ProjeKcts for inspiration soon.
But, conditions permitting, I'll do something fresher for a change.
Other than that, one week left to live over here. Picking up and moving to the Ottawa area next monday. For crying out loud - I won't be living in the middle of nowhere for the first time in 6 years! -
I love this place...
2004-06-20 00:02:38
Hehehe... yep, once again, seems good to be at the .org. Well, maybe things are just lining up well, but still. The Instrumental Project is being finalized, with great input from everyone on things from ordering tracks to DVD covers; I got a great, appreciative response from a whole number of members I respect on my recent video - which also today had the biggest star-rating rise followed by the biggest star-rating fall I've witnessed - not that I particularly care, but it's amusing. Speculating on the nature of the numbers is fun though, and my bet is it'll stabilize around 3.65. All my ratings have been almost unfairly high lately though - but not that I'd complain. And, thirdly, I got a good lineup of stuff to do through my op thread - and many of the requests are by creators I admire quite a bit myself. And to top the occasion, I just had more ops in 24 hours than I have in my first 7 months as an editor.
The positive but encouraging trivialities... ^_^
My own hope is to get something artistic going once again, and it seems an attentive audience of good quality, whether I asked for it or not, is always a very good motivating factor - not because I want to be a centre of attention, but because I believe that perhaps a couple of dozen folks are now very much open to what I have to channel through to them, and that's a comforting thought.
Hope I can return most of you folks the favour, in some way! You know who you are... -
Ugh....
2004-06-14 15:01:23
Darn...
Have you ever had a situation where you have a video idea, a concept, a storyboard - everything has been scripted out and planned for months, you've carried out tests, learned new ways to edit and tricky effects, played around to get the hand of the series' footage, and...
...it's not going anywhere.
I'm in a situation where a video I thought about for long, a video I thought I wanted to make just pretty much fell apart on me within an hour of actual editing.
To me, this is something of a sign from above, telling me that, perhaps, best of intentions aside - this is not the time and place for me to do it. This is not the state of being in which I can, in fact, pull it off.
So, with those considerations aside, I'd like to declare the 'Serious Romantic KareKano Video' I've been bragging about on several occasions delayed indefinitely. I just can't do it right now, simple as that.
However, I still have a couple of simpler ideas for a video about Arima... so I'll keep the footage for a bit and play around with it. Still... *sigh*
On the bright side, at least I have the wisdom to accept things as they objectively are... -
@ Pen-Pen and Scintilla, and a Story About the Value of Art
2004-06-13 18:39:05
Hmm - if those are bootlegs - I wonder if second-hand bootlegs, let alone those from garage sales dirt-cheap, constitute supporting bootlegging...
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Anyway, for some reason that reminded me of an episode last week which has had me and my dad thinking since. Which I guess is a good material for a journal entry.
He was walking around, and as it often happens on Saturdays, stumbled across a garage sale. There, he found 2 items that he grabbed immideately. One was a huge canvas oil landscape painting - not a print, an actual oil painting, and a set of about of ~20 pieces of hand-made (east) Indian brass works (pitchers, candle holders, and other such things - many of them decorated beautifully with carved patterns, etc.)
The total cost? $ 8 Canadian, which translates to not even $6 American.
My dad (a professional musician) plans to hang the painting in a prominent spot in the new house. As it lacked a title, he already made a new one up for it: 'The Value of Art'
That's what's had us both thinking, as art inevitably plays great roles in our lives (in his, professionally, in mine - not professionally, but nonetheless a vital role). That painting alone must have taken dozens of hours of high-level, professional work - it's as visually impressive as something you'd see at a museum. Yet, there it is, being pretty well thrown out for not even the price of a lunch.
Naturally, gloomy thoughts have been creeping into both our minds since.
On the other hand of course, that's an awesome find that's bound to become a part of the household... -
stuffs and stuff
2004-06-04 22:55:36
My 6th video, 2nd in a series which was never intended to last... well, it never even intended to exist... anyway, it is done.
I was actually really out of it after it was done. I thought I was even kind of depressed when I went out for a walk after uploading it, but after coming home, doing some work, cooking, and tending to my worsening cold (I know. It's June for crying out loud, and I have that...), I realized it must've been that cold that got to my head after all.
So, the creative cycle resumes.
While walking today, I was offered weed by some 13-year old kid. Now that's sad, I thought. But that also must have been the most convincing-sounding 'no' I've ever said in my life.
Other than that... stuff looms over, stuff crawls under. Stuff I pick up, stuff I drop. My life is full of stuff to be done and to be experienced.
Instead of standing, as I have for some time in the past few months, I'm just crawling along through that stuff slowly. Efficiency increase needed.
Other than that... I've been reading a lot of WWII literature, particularly about the Eastern Front. Fascinating stuff.
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