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Evil me
2006-05-09 09:28:45
Gearing up for AB, sans AMV entry. They're having an editor dinner and everything (Thursday night, so of course can't go anyways), but still. Smarmy plans to flash my AMV to the public are hovering before my eyes. My fetish for amusing t-shirts being what it is, how about I make my own lamenting the trials of "Addict" outerwear? Nice...or really lame. On the other hand, if anyone asks, I can say honestly that it's not advertisement because the darn thing isn't close to being finished and this is just an expression of one aspect (a frustrating one) of my anime fandom experience.
What, I can't do that? The real question is: can I get away with plastering the t-shirt with Saiyuki elements? Namely...my banner sig (albeit a tweaked version). Well...I'm not selling it, right? Something like this, maybe:
Front:
Warning: Depressed AMV Editor
Reason: “Portrait of the Addict as a Young Kappa”
Work to date: 135 hours
Video completed: 10 seconds
State of mind: Whee, so much fun!/Someone kill me...now.
Back:
"Portrait of the Addict as a Young Kappa"
The creator of this AMV is not a rabid fangirl, does not see Sha Goyjo as an out-of-control womanizer and has absolutely no interest in yaoi subject matter. For those likely to be aggravated, titillated, emasculated or hyper-stimulated, please remember that Minekura Kazuya is all about depraved bishounen fantasy, so blame that on her.
And somewhere my banner sig. Yah? I like doing something extra "fun" at conventions. Last year it was my Press "pass" (which will be making another appearance). Of course, now I have a novice convention companion to pal around with, which may complicate things, but it should be ok. -
HEY
2006-04-25 14:22:31
This is more to remind myself that I intend to delve deeply into my AMV ambitions once school is over...once I find a new job...move to another state...pay off student loan...yeah, ok so I'll finish my AMV in about three years.
*pats herself on the back* Nice job with your life, Lauren. You're pursuing your graphic design career and you're pretty healthy. This is all good stuff. Skills gained in design classes are certainly applicable to AMVs, so no worries there.
Anime Boston's coming up in just about a month. Woooo!!! I just hope I have as much fun this year as I have before. Of course, my grand plans for having an AMV in the competition were utterly demolished, but hey, there's always next year. DAMNIT, I NEED TO FINISH THIS AMV!! *tears her hair out* I won't have time to even look at it until October, though. *$#%! -
Err...
2006-03-07 12:59:20
Pre-editing: 95
Editing: 70
Made some progress on my project in that I finally "solved" an incredibly annoying sequence that, no matter what I tried, just wasn't turning out right.
Unfortunately, I spent all weekend reformatting my computer. Yes, the whole thing. I carefully saved all my AMV stuff, of course, and loaded it back in...but somehow, somewhere, whatever it is that tells Premiere where files are located didn't carry over, and ALL of my media turned up "offline." God help me. I spent two+ hours organizing all that stuff, and now it's completely worthless because this wretched program can't find the files, even though they are in the exact same place they always were!!
I figured that maybe this was a good thing, my project was quite unstable because all those files (18.6 GB worth). However, my organization of those files is really necessary, so I've got to do it all over again, at the very least outside of Premiere. Aha, I thought, I can use my new Adobe Bridge program to easily browse all those clips (vs. opening them in a media player)...too bad AB takes one look at them and promptly crashes.
To make matters worse, my computer is making a terrible sound I have never, ever heard any computer make before - a screeching, electronic, vibration-kind of sound that occurs completely randomly. I doubt my hd can make that sound, it has no moving parts and this is way too loud to be anything but motion-related (I can hear it from outside the house!). What the hell is it?? My video card? The one I just got back from BFG because the original died on me??
I even searched the Internet for computer noises, but nothing out there sounds remotely like what's going on with my machine. My current theory is that something is happening that then causes something else to happen and creates that sound. Aka, the sound isn't the problem or even a direct symptom of what's really going on. :(
I'll swap out my video card for my trusty one and see if that helps. If it does, the folks at BFG are going to get an earful. - Correction 2006-03-02 12:37:59 The new Gackt song with Dirge of Cerberus is NOT "Love Letter," it's "Longing." After listening to it for awhile, I actually prefer it to "Redemption."
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2006-03-01 09:52:29
I write a lot, don't I?
How to explain to my graphic design instructor WHY I'm so familiar with Photoshop when I've no business knowing it at all? I've no idea!
"So do you have a portfolio you could bring in?"
Er.... no.
"Really? You don't keep any of your work? What kind of stuff do you do?"
Err...stuff. "Really?"
Yeah, just stuff. *thinks desperately* Like CD covers...and stuff. tee hee
Apparently I'm not supposed to log this many hours unless I'm actually turning out good STUFF. Unfortunately, I'm the queen of messing around without achieving worthwhile results. I've also always had very little interest in pursuing art (of any kind) on my own initiative - someone gives me a task, I'll do it happily and turn out something good, but I just can't do much on my own. Can't justify the time, I guess - I know what I can do, but don't want to bother if I'm the only one who'll ever see it (or care about it).
I suppose this makes my high school/college art activities a little strange - people generally assumed I had all kinds of personal projects going, based on what I turned out in class, but really, my classwork was the only thing I had. Thus, no portfolio representing the best of all my activities, because there just weren't that many activities to begin with.
I fear my career as a graphic designer is going to wither unless I start embarking on impressive personal projects. And I don't think AMVs (note: I've not actually finished one, yet) count. :(
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