"I think you're mistaken. I don't come with the merchandise."

"My Stanley Steamer's in the garage, having her face lifted."

"Small accident...the road curved, but I didn't."

Equation of the Day

Avocado + Breakfast Sausage + Over Medium Egg with a little Spike seasoning + Swiss Cheese + A little bit of mayo ON a Toasted Sesame Bagel = AWESOME

"Henrick systematically fails at everything. He can't even kill himself"

"As a lawyer you should be used to the stupidity and repulsiveness in the world."

"Honest hate must be respected; I respect it. But I couldn't care less if you hate me. You hardly exist."

"I like you more or dislike you less when you use that tone. There's a healthy dose of hate in your banalities."

Two O'Clock PM

2PM seems to be my time this week. I have a meeting today(wednesday) at 2pm, a meeting tomorrow(thursday) at 2pm and a shoot Friday at 2pm--all different people.

Two O'Clock Post Meridiem

Metal Works

This past Friday I went to a free metal working workshop with a friend of mine. I spent 5 hours working metal into shapes and I had a great time. We were given a fairy long, thin piece of steel, which we would put into a fire pit until it turned red hot and then take it over to an anvil and bang it with a hammer. This process is repeated over and over until one's personal desired outcome. I made a spiral and a spoon. The spoon was started with a larger, flatter piece of metal(just look at the handle, thats the original piece since I didn't get around to shaping that part). I was going to put more effort into the spoon, but it was 2am by the time I got to the point where you see it now, and I didn't have the energy or the arm strength to work on it any longer, so I just did the finishing work and kept it this way.

This is My Spiral and My Spoon for Eating Gruel in my Shanty Shack.

I felt good until I felt really awful.

The Internet as Desert Wasteland

“It’s as if culture froze just before it became digitally open, and all we can do now is mine the past like salvagers picking over a garbage dump,” Mr. Lanier writes. Or, to use another of his grim metaphors: “Creative people — the new peasants — come to resemble animals converging on shrinking oases of old media in a depleted desert.”

Full article here: The Madness of Crowds and an Internet Delusion

THE ALCHEMIST MAKES GOLD - POST PRODUCTION *STAGE 3 and on*

All of the audio is now synched up, it took me working at least 10 hours straight yesterday, but now when their mouths move, there be sound!

Here is a preview image, this is from Scene 10(keep in mind it's low resolution and no color correction has been done):

THE ALCHEMIST MAKES GOLD - POST PRODUCTION *STAGE 3*

The Alchemist Makes Gold has been transferred to two miniDV tapes. I watched both of them on the TV yesterday and imported one tape to my computer, in the midst of the second one today.

The shots look good and I think the movie is going to have an interesting feel, the only disconcerting thing is that everything looks so dark on the computer screen and I have the screen set to 'Generic RGB' which is the lightest setting for the computer screen. I'll probably be giving a call to PostWorks today and asking their media guys some questions, just to make sure everything is okay. I don't like how dark it is on here. Otherwise, this is a big step forward with the project.

Alchemist, Post Production *Stage 2.5*

The film has been transferred, I'm going to pick it up today.