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Shambotters

2006-08-15T19:19:00.000-07:00

New blog: http://www.shambot.com

Go there, have fun.

Moovies

2006-07-27T21:07:00.000-07:00

Double post for today, because I finally uploaded the rest of my films from last semester! There's three:

Post(2'44, 16.4MB)
This is my "three-act structure" film. Honestly, most people just took their movie ideas and ran with them, three-acts be damned. Of course, I was no different. I'm sure I could come up with a shoddy three-act structure for this, but I wouldn't fool anyone. I really like most of it. The only things I have problems with is the lighting, and the voiceover. Granted, it is hard to light an environment and a person well with three lights, but I tried, and I kind of made it work. The only problem is that the background is mostly dark an indiscernable all the times. The exposure is okay, I actually forgot my light meter in Minneapolis (this is shot in my Dad's studio in Cedar Rapids, if you didn't know), so my dad had to go fenagle a light meter from Coe. The voice over is just bad writing on my part. Also, Bill's voice isn't great for voiceovers, and that's what my class had the biggest problem with. That's easy enough to redo, though, and I just might do that before Junior Reviews this semester.

Bogdan Raczynski: Track 9(2'21, 13.8MB)
If Steven hasn't seen this, which I don't know how he could have so he hasn't, then I think he'll like this one the most. Inspired by Bogdan's video for Track 8 of his Renegade Platinum album, I made this music video. This took double duty as my final for 16mm and my experimental film for documentary/experimental class. Slow motion is used, and it is pretty much awesome. I'm happy with it. Exposure: it's pretty shadowy, but I didn't light it at all other than the SUN, so whatever.

Capoeira Documentary(6'20, 36.2MB)
The star of the semester. Bill and I spent a weekend with the Midwest Capoeira Society at a retreat in Omaha, Nebraska. We shot nine tapes of footage, and these 6 minutes are the results. It was a LOT of fun to shoot and hang out with everyone. It was a little stressful going into it knowing pretty much only Tim, but in the end it was definitely worth it. Fun fun times, my class liked it a lot.

If these file sizes are too big for anyone, let me know and I'll upload smaller ones.

My Computer is Immobile

2006-07-27T17:18:00.000-07:00

Joel Got Guitar Hero

2006-07-25T17:36:00.000-07:00

SES is Ovah

2006-07-23T13:28:00.000-07:00

WOOF

2006-07-17T17:35:00.000-07:00

It's Effing Hot.

2006-07-16T17:29:00.000-07:00

Not Sparklers

2006-07-13T22:54:00.000-07:00

Flame On

2006-07-12T19:05:00.000-07:00

The Sparkl-o-rama Begins!

2006-07-11T18:34:00.000-07:00

Jaffacakes

2006-06-27T16:54:00.000-07:00

... and away.

2006-06-23T22:14:00.000-07:00

BAMF!

2006-06-22T19:58:00.000-07:00

Jumpin'

2006-06-20T14:53:00.000-07:00

In the Pool

2006-06-10T13:43:00.000-07:00

Across the Street

2006-06-05T20:44:00.000-07:00

I'm Gonna Get You

2006-06-04T16:04:00.000-07:00

Attack! The Goomba

2006-06-03T22:26:00.000-07:00

I See a Red Door

2006-06-02T22:20:00.000-07:00

The Phlog Begins

2006-06-01T16:10:00.001-07:00

Let's begin with an image of Joel, taken at the Bad Waitress coffeeshop. He was making dumb faces, and I was playing with the manual focus on my camera. Then photoshop came, yadda yadda yadda, this is the result.

SO uhhh, this is my temporary photo-blog since Conclave is on the fritz for who knows how long, so I don't know how temporary this is going to be. Nothing really crazy is going on up here in the motion city. We got an air conditioner last weekend, so we could stand the 96º heat, but now it's cooling off to the low 80s, so that's a LOT nicer. I'm working at MCAD doing facilities work for the summer. That means CLEANING DORMS! Hooray! It's really not that bad at all, I get decent hours and pay, and the work isn't that hard. The only bad thing is having to be to work at 7:30 in the morning. Lots of naps are taken.

We've gotten addicted to Lost. We watched the first season this past week, and Joel is downloading the 2nd seasond right now. It's SO good! OH! Speaking of which, we also got Netflix. So far, we've only rented The Omen (original), but more will come.

More posts to come.