6 Feb 2009
13 Jan 2009
A world of collaboration - my adventures
Sorry that My past posts have been rather sparse in their content. I'm hoping to become more proactive in blogging as allot is happening this year so I will be posting more than once a month LOL
Anyways, on with the post. Just as a side note, the end of 2008 was just crazy, from October onwards I have been all over the place not to mention the IWM student film festival fun. So in the past three months I have made plans for three feature length productions (writing, designing and acting as producer) The ball is going to start rolling come February on all three at the same time and I'm ready! But these three productions all stand on their own in their complexity and message.
With a residential Guerilla Film-making course up at Ambleside at the end of October has yield new collaborations with young people in the North West of England (they are like rooster teeth up here!) no longer can I sit on my ass thinking up cool ideas, I have to keep up now which is really great!
My own personal film project hasn't launched as I have a lack of confidence, yes... It's true. I have had to many ideas to try and keep up in the air is near impossible but with new collaboration comes a renewed desire to visit old notes, scribbles, scripts and even old tests from college. All these ideas for little things and being boiled and reduced down into a thick soup of greatness, pure flavor! no filler! don't think thats how it goes, who cares IT SOUNDS GOOD AS I TYPE xD
So 2009 is shaping up to be a good looking year with equal parts success and failures (I'm a pessimist when no one is looking)
Keep watching!
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1 Jan 2009
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7 Nov 2008
A thousand Directions at once
Funny how things happen in my life, for months nothing interesting happens then I'm doing 50 jobs at once...
Ok, so I'm exaggerating a bit, but this month is going to be crazy. First of all I've been helping out on a Gurilla film-making course last month and this which has been a bit of a thrown in the deep end affair and a steep learning curve on education and motivation of other people *I'm just used to talking to myself xS* but it's been fun!
Next, I edited a video for the Imperial War Museum's Student Film Festival, which I got though! so on Tuesday the 18th I will be in London so that should be fun.
Plus I've my own projects that I'm working on so I want to keep those in the air. I've filmed a music video on Wednesday and now I'm editing that (looks good!) and I've two ideas floating in my brain with provisional outlines on paper. So I want to get those down quickly as the beginning of 09 I will be getting some work with a production company near where I am so that is going to be awesome!!!
I have also started the nasty habit if going though podcasts that have been in my iTunes for the past three years (once they were invented) so that is fun and distracting...
So yeah, the year two thousand and nine is really going to be MAD and fun!!!
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Ok, so I'm exaggerating a bit, but this month is going to be crazy. First of all I've been helping out on a Gurilla film-making course last month and this which has been a bit of a thrown in the deep end affair and a steep learning curve on education and motivation of other people *I'm just used to talking to myself xS* but it's been fun!
Next, I edited a video for the Imperial War Museum's Student Film Festival, which I got though! so on Tuesday the 18th I will be in London so that should be fun.
Plus I've my own projects that I'm working on so I want to keep those in the air. I've filmed a music video on Wednesday and now I'm editing that (looks good!) and I've two ideas floating in my brain with provisional outlines on paper. So I want to get those down quickly as the beginning of 09 I will be getting some work with a production company near where I am so that is going to be awesome!!!
I have also started the nasty habit if going though podcasts that have been in my iTunes for the past three years (once they were invented) so that is fun and distracting...
So yeah, the year two thousand and nine is really going to be MAD and fun!!!
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19 Sept 2008
Reality suckage - day 8117 of my life
So I've been meaning to post this for a while now but, what the hell better late than never.
So on an unfortunate trip to large mega shopping center in north west England, I wondered into a music shop *guess which one :S* and I took my selection of DVDage to the tills to pay for them (though with hie sight, I would have got a better result if I had walked out the shop setting of the poverty alarm MOTHA FUCKA!!!!) and this is where I start to get pissed of. A spotty teenager is there taking stock, not of the physical variety but of the mind, basically drooling. I try to get his attention by doing a Brian Blessed impression, but to no avail, THEN a totally hot 18 year old girl walks up and is all 'OMG, I R losted in this big shop, can U halp m3 :3' and the god damn speck of a man walks of...
At this point I bellowed with all my might 'GET BACK HERE NOW!' causing for a breath moment, the entire north west of England to fall silent................ then!!!!!! the tiny speck asked ' do you need some help?'
at this point I can go any further as, well, I became incredibly middle class and said 'well erm, can I pay for these?' BUT THEN!!!!!! he said ' well if you want to go over to the tills I will be with you in a minute...
>:O
This makes up only one of the thousands of examples of poor customer care that is now prevalent in this world (or is it just mine?) so yeah, I like computers as they do exactly what I want them to do... most of the time......
But I was pissed, REALLY pissed.
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17 Aug 2008
This mind
For 2 years now, I've been in limbo. Between the past and a new beginning, but always I have been lacking in one thing, the reason to carry on.
Many people will tell you that there are only a few stories in the world, these people are not story tellers. What makes us want to listen to stories again and again are those stories that are rooted in ourselves.
So I need to find that that is linking all of us. And the only way I can do that is to live life, and you can't get that siting at a desk you aren't going to get that.
Like a beach after a storm, the beach has been scoured smooth. So soon my ideas will be no longer disjointed and rough but a solid story. I hope is do this well...
My video life here
7 May 2008
Asus Eee PC song praising - Day 1
this was a un-expected happening. Me, writing from a new ASUS Eee PC. But hey, what ever... I'm now typing away on the tiny keyboard
So after wondering about Preston's PC World, when I come across a display for the ASUS Eee PC, which for the past few months from the interweb, thinking about having one. Looking at the price, options and why I couldn't have one for such and so reasons. I hadn't had a good go with the Eee PC and after trying the CloudBook running XP I wasn't to impressed with the mini laptop idea. So booting up the Eee PC, the person who was with me wandered over to me and said "OH! thats small!" so I told her about the tiny compy. After a few minutes of giving the pro's and con's (tiny, tiny tiny!!!) she was convinced and I was getting convinced myself. So based on he title of this blog, you can guess the out come xD
So! onto what this blog is really about. What I think of the Eee PC? well, First of all I will tell you about which Eee PC we picked. Well it's 4G in galaxy black, as is to say it's got the webcamera and 512 of ram with a 4 GB SSD. They didn't have any of the 8.9 inch screen ones in but the 7 inch does the job very well. After a few hours and a fair bit of play I think I can start to talk about so things I've found out about (so far...)
First; It's damn small... One of the big selling points of the Eee PC is it's size, or lack there of. it's so compact that you can really take t with you anywhere, weighing in at 0.92 kilograms (2 lbs for those who aren't metric peoples) and fitting in the palm of you're hand makes the Eee PC a no brainer for travelers or those who know the MacBook Air is a rip of (and thats coming from a Mac man)
Second; ease of use... Starting up the Eee PC couldn't be easier. You boot up for the first time and first of all, you notice a lack of noise like nothing, completely silent. The setup wizard is super easy and withing a minute I was done, ready to try out the Eee. The Eee comes loaded with the essentials for the web (firefox) Instant messging (skype and PidGin) office work (OpenOffice) and lots of other stuff. Would have liked to have seen the Gimp already on the Eee, but apart from that, super happy!
Thirdly; It's tiny!!! Ok, so the Eee is tiny, hence the keyboard does feel a bit crapped upon first try. But after a few hours, you get used to it.
Tune in tomorrow as I do such exciting things as download a program and connect a external monitor
P.S I chucked a couple of different video formats including Divx 6.0, MPEG 4 and photoJPEG and they played fine...
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So after wondering about Preston's PC World, when I come across a display for the ASUS Eee PC, which for the past few months from the interweb, thinking about having one. Looking at the price, options and why I couldn't have one for such and so reasons. I hadn't had a good go with the Eee PC and after trying the CloudBook running XP I wasn't to impressed with the mini laptop idea. So booting up the Eee PC, the person who was with me wandered over to me and said "OH! thats small!" so I told her about the tiny compy. After a few minutes of giving the pro's and con's (tiny, tiny tiny!!!) she was convinced and I was getting convinced myself. So based on he title of this blog, you can guess the out come xD
So! onto what this blog is really about. What I think of the Eee PC? well, First of all I will tell you about which Eee PC we picked. Well it's 4G in galaxy black, as is to say it's got the webcamera and 512 of ram with a 4 GB SSD. They didn't have any of the 8.9 inch screen ones in but the 7 inch does the job very well. After a few hours and a fair bit of play I think I can start to talk about so things I've found out about (so far...)
First; It's damn small... One of the big selling points of the Eee PC is it's size, or lack there of. it's so compact that you can really take t with you anywhere, weighing in at 0.92 kilograms (2 lbs for those who aren't metric peoples) and fitting in the palm of you're hand makes the Eee PC a no brainer for travelers or those who know the MacBook Air is a rip of (and thats coming from a Mac man)
Second; ease of use... Starting up the Eee PC couldn't be easier. You boot up for the first time and first of all, you notice a lack of noise like nothing, completely silent. The setup wizard is super easy and withing a minute I was done, ready to try out the Eee. The Eee comes loaded with the essentials for the web (firefox) Instant messging (skype and PidGin) office work (OpenOffice) and lots of other stuff. Would have liked to have seen the Gimp already on the Eee, but apart from that, super happy!
Thirdly; It's tiny!!! Ok, so the Eee is tiny, hence the keyboard does feel a bit crapped upon first try. But after a few hours, you get used to it.
Tune in tomorrow as I do such exciting things as download a program and connect a external monitor
P.S I chucked a couple of different video formats including Divx 6.0, MPEG 4 and photoJPEG and they played fine...
Check out more video's a here
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