the construct :: weblog

I had about 20 mins before class right now and I decided I wanted to see how everything looks white. I like it.

To do:

• work on musicglob and add up like a million photos from these shows: the Presets, Forward Russia; then Minus the Bear last night with the Lassie Foundation and Division Day.
• find a way to save up enough money to go to Europe for like 3 weeks in June.
• win at life.

side note, this was my 302 post. wow, that’s lots of blogging, even just here.

The last couple months Chuch Norris has been all the rage. Pretty funny Chuck Norris facts all over ther place…
Here he reads some from ChuckNorrisFacts.com

I have finished my first “real” (well sorta) short short film. I wrote, directed, filmed (with some help), and edited the whole thing. I submitted this as my final project for my digital media class, and I am pleased with the final product. Head over HERE to watch. I would suggest the direct download options.

Just so everyone knows, it’s just a story… and it’s easy to write sad stories, but the point is the turn around. It’s the cycle of life.

Everybody remember, it’s a film, I acted. That is that. I don’t even smoke, hahaha.

More film notes
I/We filmed everything in one day. I began editing that night, then it took me in total 3-4 days to get everything together. I went strictly Mac based on this project. I usually use Adobe Premiere yet decided to use the Powerbook and Final Cut in full force. It is a great editing environment, yet as any new complex program it took some time finding things I needed. Overall I really love creating on the Mac platform.. yet that’s a topic for another post.

If you read my notes on the site, you’ll notice I only had the first half of the film planned out. Basically for the second “positive” side I wanted to do everything opposite. Basically I ran out of time, thus the montage for the second half of the very short film.

My friend Lucas who I colaborate on projects frequently did the awesome animations of the circle and breaking of the circle.

Random problems: Audio not working on footage for opening monologue, uhhhh the black line on the right side of the frame in alot of shots.

Not adding in Brittany as “Light and Sound Engineer.” haha

Cutting a line of hair off my leg… and testing with flash.

i’ve taken lots of photos recently, just hadn’t really had time to do anything with them yet. Currently finishing a short film for school which I’m fairly pleased with.

I’ve always wanted to take a photo from this point on the 10 west looking west to downtown LA, and I already had my camera out, and was able to get one shot I like. It was so perfect because the rain cleared out the smog momentarily.

late night studying random poem with spelling errors.

- no title 3/13/06 2:30 am
when you think of something
write it down
cause you never know(n)
when what you wrote down
is worth a million bucks

I’m posting this at 5:50am… finals are great.