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[Aug. 29th, 2008|12:48 am] |
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things are startting bubble and boil over at www.vidHero.com! So much more coming soon. SO SOON! THE TASTE! THE TASTE IS IN MY MOUTH! AAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! |
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| by the way |
[May. 15th, 2008|01:54 pm] |
I've been working a lot on Solid Fuel.
if you're keeping tabs on me, you can find other (more often updated) blogs here:
vidHero News - http://vidhero.wordpress.com/
(daily updates, in theory)
Rants and Insights on each aspect of the project(s). Currently all about the comic book, but soon to transition to the movie. I've been neglecting updates while i scramble to finish the comic book by friday.
Vitreous Humor - http://www.vidHero.com/strips/
(updated on mondays and Fridays)
Abstract humor and movie/visual news commentary. attempt. This is reliably updated with a new strip semiweekly, and I try to toss insights as a comment on each one, because they're usually pretty dense.
Solid Fuel News - http://www.solidfuelstudios.com/
(Updates weekly, in theory)
Planning to put much more ranting up about how to start your own small business (in the form of mini articles on each aspect). Also plan to promote other people's work. Currently on hold until i finish the comic book.
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there is a good chance these three spaces will fill the personal exhibition needs that this live journal has filled for so long. please snoop and comment! |
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| lady film |
[Apr. 29th, 2008|12:06 pm] |
apparantly there's this whole slice of humanity called "women" and they're throwing a film fest next month, May 15-18.
http://www.powfest.com/
looks cool.
will probably go.
just wanted to share. |
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| copyright law : about to be fucked? |
[Apr. 18th, 2008|03:09 pm] |
I've been snooping into something, and getting more and more disturbed.
Trying to boil this down into a simple email to blast to all art friends. but decided i needed to take a break and get back to work.
basically, morons are preparing to push through a bill next month that will further fuck up copyright law, but pretend to be helping.
the short is : everything will be fair game unless registered with private companies. Which will lead to small timers not able to keep up with big money. (your work could be registered by someone else, if you make the mistake of releasing it anywhere before paying to have it registered with multiple private listings). the idea is that slapping a copyright notice on your work will no longer mean anything, unless you pay to back it up. even then, you'll need lawyers to win court cases (and you'll need to prove that theiving entities didn't do enough research).
it's hefty legal insanity, so it's hard to find a dispassionate short summary. but:
- here is a lengthy (but good) audio interview:
http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html
- here is a lengthy rant (filled with some annoying repetitions):
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3605&page=1#
(both seemed worth it to me)
thoughts? worth getting riled up over? |
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| imagine |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|07:24 pm] |
spent most of the morning obsessing over the (*stupid?) idea of : a giant smurf cop.
that beats the SHIT out of shady crooks.
primarily as a video game. i was discussing GTA4 with case.
but just imagine. a bunch of sleazy "hip" crooks in GTA, running around with their little dreadlocks, and their little stubble, and their little "not washed but sexy" looks. and then this giant happy smurf bounds along and beats them to death, with a badge on his hip. perhaps two smurfs do this, and perform a fruity high five afterwards.
EVERYBODY WINS.
teesn who think crime is cool would love to kill cartoony cops, and would enjoy their seemingly sinister realism. while aging assholes like me would enjoy mocking the whole game by crapping on their seemingly real malarkey with a giant french cartoon character. weee!
i don't think i'm conveying how cool this would be. damnit.
i don't have the mind grammar skillz. |
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| game idea |
[Mar. 26th, 2008|10:30 am] |
School Bus Terrorist: the video game
imagine the joy of taking over, and then trying to keep control of, a school bus full of screaming children. fire your ak at those foolish enough to try and pass while your machine is resting at a complete stop.
picture the poster: "Do No Pass : Terror Zone" |
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| global warming: still bullshit |
[Mar. 25th, 2008|02:29 pm] |
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html
yep.
global climate is complicated, and people are out of their minds.
hellllooooo.
“The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."
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"Well, the head of the IPCC has suggested natural factors are compensating for the increasing carbon dioxide levels and I guess, to some extent, that's what sceptics have been saying for some time: that, yes, carbon dioxide will give you some warming but there are a whole lot of other factors that may compensate or that may augment the warming from elevated levels of carbon dioxide." |
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[Mar. 24th, 2008|11:14 am] |
random thought:
vidHero should track down a criminal called the "Subvertiser" who runs around locking advertising gurus into buildings before burning them down. (like The Ayzenberg Group's upcoming "[a]list summit").
like those who've fought the Submariner, VidHero won't be sure of his moral high ground. |
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| the future of marketing is NIN |
[Mar. 14th, 2008|11:14 am] |
Just wanted to hammer the brilliance of NIN’s latest modern marketing move.
They’ve created a group on youTube to highlight videos made from their latest (seemingly unpromoted) digital download album, Ghosts I-IV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYDUk0ESwt4
I bought this album a couple weeks ago, when I first heard of it (since I’m a “trueFan” kind of nut), and then wondered why it wasn’t being promoted anywhere. A couple days ago I got the official email notification about the album’s release.
Now this.
I think it’s all planned out to keep their server load manageable.
Similarly, the album is just 36 very short tracks that feel like discarded demos. At first I thought it was just a cop out to make quick cash off easy musics. But now I see that it’s perfect for youTube soundtracks. (it’s just harder to make a good music video for a 12 minute song with lyrics, than a 2 minute mood piece). If they receive enough great videos, why shouldn’t they offer to release them as an affordable DVD companion piece? I’m sure the video makers would be THRILLED.
I just thought it a brilliant way to let the community use modern free-art-making-tools to promote the album. Free of charge, and better than paid PR anyway.
I can’t see this working as well for other artforms (comics, technology) because it's uniquely suited to music/art promotion (youTube is ultimately all about everyone in the world now being a filmmaker/artist). But plan to dwell on this extensively. |
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| whoa |
[Mar. 12th, 2008|09:42 pm] |
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php
this is almost exactly what i've been thinking for a year now. this is the whole point of the vidHero experiment. wooohoo!
but it leaves out any scrutiny of the fact that anyone who wants 1 million fans has a psychological problem. It's simple logic that you can't possibly process notable feedback from 1 million people, especially on a reoccuring basis. You just have this vague notion that you maybe made a difference in a bunch of faceless lives, without the ability to ever know for sure. it's anti-human being. |
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[Mar. 8th, 2008|01:08 pm] |
Watched SawIV recently.
and thought it was really pretty damned good. 3 killed the series for me, due to it's seemingly wanton torture, but 4 really cemented that the creators are doing everything on purpose and succeeding in keeping some character in the mix, while taking each movie in a slightly different direction.
ie, to be all spoilery, on some level saw 3 was about the fuck up apprentice, and saw 4 was about the good apprentice. and the level to which they mixed the movies, is awesome.
the fact they've done one each year for the last 4 years, and they're actually pretty smart and satisfying, is kind of astonishing. Now that i'm weeks from jobless, i want to buy 3 and 4. most likely i just want to buy buy buy, so i can be out of money. so i don't have to worry about how long the money will last. and can thus take whatever job i can find in the space of a day. and go back to spacing out and giving up on my life in favor of games and movies.
i mean, fuck all that. but i keep slipping into those grooves. discipline/constant-vigilance is a weird... thing.
So I was thinking that Darren Lynn Bousman might be worth keeping an eye on (since he's off the Saw movies now, after three years straight of insanely high grossing, and pretty good, sequels). In dvd extras, he keeps pimping "Repo! the movie". so i stopped by the site. downloaded some clips. and it does look weird/cool.
but it also looks like some unconnected guy's pet crazy musical that will never get made. wha? hmm.
anywho. blah blah.
woke up with sandpaper in my mouth. apparantly having slept for hours with it open. and nasal pasages super glued shut. feck. took half an hour to meticulously work different fluids and tricks to get it all back to normal. then it was like "daaaamnnnn, how did the gremlins fit an entire cup of butterscotch pudding up in my sinus?". gross but fluid revelations. from this strange wet place located maybe one centimeter away from the core of my brain at any given time? eerie, to me.
started waching a DVD my mom gave me of crazy shit from the (birth) year 1977. then i figured i should take a nap. and then try to do somethign more with my day. liiiiike, count receipts. or visit friends. orrrrr BE AN ARTIST.
egh.
i have a long list of things to do, but it seems trite. |
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[Mar. 7th, 2008|12:07 pm] |
thought:
should write a boy band / R&B song that tries to make "shiv" a sexy word.
"i wanna shiv you so hard" |
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| left field |
[Mar. 6th, 2008|08:51 pm] |
well, work has been understandably awkward, but i've gotten a lot done. Talking with people definitely helps quell the growing terror that i'm walking into a mistake (the mistake of being a proud penniless artist! fuck it!).
Although the advice i keep getting from people all seems quite common sense and simple, it helps to keep me focused/sane/organized. Frustrating how i keep slipping into "i'm just such a crazy artist freak fuckup" whenever i start discussing the mature realities of how to approa---...
Holy shit! New NIN album dropped a couple days ago and nobody told me!
buy buy buy.
10 bucks gets you all 36 songs, and the 2 CD set mailed out in early April when it's ready. (well, make that 16.99 if you include shipping).
ran into this while leaving work. and discussing some OSU positions with a friend (debating whether i could get them, and whether it'd be wiser than gambling on unknowns in portland. pretty sure i'll stick with portland).
only on track 12 out of 36 so far.
interesting. but i miss vocals, and some songs seem a lot like QUake soundtrack. others seem like quick instrument checks mixed and looped for length. but. some. SOME. are just so damned awesome. but. in a way it all still strikes me as a cry for "i can do movie soundtracks! why is nobody hiring me for this!?!?".
maybe unfair. only a third through it all.
basically curious what Maria will make of it, and can't think of anyone else to recommend it to.
oh my gad, alex is playing audiosurf. thank you steam service. MUST PLAY ALL SONGS in audiosurf. no no. wait. wait until one listen through is complete.
it is an interesting experience to segue from music on your zune to same music on your computer. non stop soundtracks of our lives and all that. weee.
side note for the judgemental: I've only applied for one job so far. The big one. (storyboard artist at Laika). It seems the perfect match. and I'm pretty sure i could convince them if they go for an interview (the unique ARENA previz angle and all). but, I hadn't thought to customize my resume extensively before i applied the other night. now i've gotten much advice about how to creatively edit your resume. always. oop.
which feels like lying.
but.
this seems to be the point of a modern resume. ie, "ok you were competent enough to at least lie REALLLY well on this peice of paper. lets talk a bit to see if any of it's remotely true". I've also gotten much advice that i won't get any fucking jobs based on a resume.
really need to put all my old art shit online. and crank vidHero. and seek contract work. and seek new communities. and start disciplining heavily. ... all after I kick this lingering brain clouding sickness. |
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