"How could a righteous babe like you be lonely?"

"That's the sweetest thing anybody's ever said to me! ...Wanna go to bed?"

Work/Art/Creation

I feel like I'm starting to actually get a handle on things, it feels really good.

I really like Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Wearing a dress inside when it's winter outside is a pleasant experience.

LOOK! at my spoon!

I found a use for my Gruel Spoon!

It can keep the pages down of books I'm referencing while I'm working on things!

THE ALCHEMIST MAKES GOLD - POST PRODUCTION *SOUND DESIGN*

My short film, The Alchemist Makes Gold, is still currently in the hands of motion graphics artist Dino Tsaousis who is doing additional editing and working out some digital effects. In the meantime, I'm starting preparation for sound design.

I've started on a Sound Map of the Alchemist. I separate each scene and then do grouping of the sounds for the corresponding scene. Concrete sounds, Musical sounds and Voice sounds. Luckily, the Alchemist is incredibly simple when it comes to voice sounds, they only really pertain to the two characters when they're speaking, the characters are never in an environment where other people are having conversations. The concrete sounds are fairly straight forward, though they begin to get a little complicated, as there are lot of noises that would be considered "concrete" but which weren't actually audible enough to be recorded on location--things such as, bubbling, boiling, sputtering, fire flickering, etc. So, those all have to be notated and then recorded separately. The "musical" sounds are the hardest to pin down. The "music" of the Alchemist isn't exactly music, I call it a "soundscape". It is composed of industrial noises, mechanical noises, the sounds of the woods/forest, and then building shimmering sounds, glowing sounds, whooshing and resonant/hollow sounds. Basically, the soundscape is the most interpretive and complex, as it requires creating concrete sounds to relate to abstract concepts. I guess this is always what music is, but I don't want the soundscape to sound quite like music or quite like it could be the real environment. It resides in a sort of in between place, an indefinable place. Anyway, this is where Alchemist stands now. A chugging along process. I'm nervous and excited to see where all of this leads.

Nice weather today!

I have an interview with the folks who posted the "enthusiastic person" ad, on Monday. It's an interior design service that caters to folks who are moving and don't want to deal with the hassle.

I've been applying to all sorts of job positions. I applied to be a dog walker, kennel associate, warehouse PM associate(accepting shipments at a warehouse at night), animal care taker at a lab in a university, I applied to PetCo, various film positions, psychology study participant, and I even applied to a listing that only asked for an "enthusiastic person".

I need to find work and I have no job ideas. I'm not sure what to do.

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0096.html

http://www.collativelearning.com/EYES%20WIDE%20SHUT%20analysis.html

"And, you know, there is something very important we need to do as soon as possible."

"What's that?"

"Fuck."

gnocchi looks like big roly polys

It's so pretty and snowy outside. A beautiful day to hang around, look out the windows, and work on projects.

"You see how the smoke trembles up in the roof hole? As if whimpering and afraid. Yet it's only going out into the open air, where it has the whole sky to tumble about in. But it doesn't know that. So it cowers and trembles under the sooty ridge of the roof. People are the same way. They worry and tremble like leaves in a storm because of what they know and what they don't know. You shall cross a narrow plank, so narrow you can't find your footing. Below you roars a great river. It's black and wants to swallow you up. But you pass over it unharmed. Before you lies a chasm so deep you can't see the bottom. Hands grope for you, but they can't reach you. At last you stand before a mountain of terror. It spews fire like a furnace, and a vast abyss opens at its feet. A thousand colors blaze there: copper and iron, blue vitriol and yellow sulfur. Flames dazzle and flash and lash at the rocks. And all about, men leap and writhe, small as ants, for this is the furnace that swallows up muderers and evildoers. But at the very moment that you think you're doomed, a hand shall grasp you and an arm circle around you, and you'll be taken far away...where evil no longer has power over you. "

THE ALCHEMIST MAKES GOLD - POST PRODUCTION *STAGE 3.2*

Presently, my still-in-production short film, The Alchemist Makes Gold, is in the hands of an additional editor/motion graphics artist, Dino Tsaousis (http://www.dinotsaousis.com/). Dino is really great, he works primarily in the more commercial world of video/filmmaking with Arby's, Wendy's, Gillette, AT&T...etc. Presently, he's working freelance out of NY. However, he also went to college in Boulder, Colorado where he had a focus on Avant Garde/Experimental filmmaking, what a great mix!

The Process:

First, I made a cut of the whole project with rudimentary graphic placeholders, then Dino took the project and all the raw footage. He watched it through, made notes and has come up with potential changes in cuts and rhythm and concepts for the special effects. He'll make changes and begin on design and then send me low resolution files through yousendit.com where I'll review the changes and give my opinion. So far, I've seen two changes(one involving special effects) and I was happy with both of them. After Dino finishes with his changes, he'll conform the whole sequence to something that is watchable by anyone and I'll share the rough final cut with other people. Once I've gauged response and feel happy with where the video stands, we'll decide the cut is a lock and he can begin on color correction. While that's happening, I can take the footage over to my friends at The Cutting Room Studio in Manhattan, where we'll begin soundscape design . Once the soundscape is complete, the whole sound aspect of the project will be brought to the guys at Black & Gray Music (http://www.blackandgraymusic.com), where final sound mix and clean up will be completed. Then we synch our completed audio with our completed video and the project will be done!

Joe Muto rehearses in the "apartment" location.

I still really want the Canon 7D

A guy followed me into the grocery store and said I was an "evil white lady", he mumbled things about black magic and witch craft. I told him he didn't know me and he was only saying so based off of my appearance and the color of my skin. He said he could tell I was an evil white lady.

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