Sunday, March 25, 2012
Monday, October 24, 2011
THE ALCHEMIST MAKES GOLD - VFX
Dino has has a hectic time of it, finishing visual effects work at his job, but he’s finally able to begin Alchemist VFX. Tonight he’s going to assemble the project into a Flame timeline and then we’re supposed to be meeting later this week to begin the actual effects and color correction work.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The Alchemist Makes Gold - Final Stages
On September 6th, 2011, which also happens to be my birthday, I dropped off my short film "The Alchemist Makes Gold" for post production work with Dino Tsaousis at Light of Day, VFX.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
The Alchemist Makes Gold - Final Stages
Dino is away on vacation until August 25th, which means that the color correction and graphics work has to be put on hold. In the meantime I'm prepping materials for festival submission.
Today I’m spending the day at the start of finalizing production packet materials for my alchemist film. I think I’ll make the production books essentially square with Peter Schafer’s alchemical chart as the cover to the book. Inside will be a few promotional images, info about the film, director’s statement, etc.
I feel like I don’t really know what I’m doing. But I often feel that way, ha!
I hope some of these festivals want hard copy materials and not just digital submissions. Hard copy is so much more enjoyable to make.
Today I’m spending the day at the start of finalizing production packet materials for my alchemist film. I think I’ll make the production books essentially square with Peter Schafer’s alchemical chart as the cover to the book. Inside will be a few promotional images, info about the film, director’s statement, etc.
I feel like I don’t really know what I’m doing. But I often feel that way, ha!
I hope some of these festivals want hard copy materials and not just digital submissions. Hard copy is so much more enjoyable to make.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Hold. The. Phone.
Whoa, it's been a while since I even considered posting on this thing.
I've moved through(with?) a series of events recently. I was forcibly removed, along with my whole home community, from the large warehouse where I was living. There was no real notice(3 days, I think?), before the FDNY locked the doors to where we were living because the conditions we were under were supposedly "imminently perilous conditions". It's a fairly long story, one that has been well (mis)documented by various blogs, newspapers and magazines and it's gotten exhausting to talk about.
But, most recently, I've moved into a pretty awesome space with a full view of the river front. The rent is low, the company is awesome, and I'm hoping to settle in and re-dedicate my time to personal creative projects.
Helen is still moving along, so is Alchemist, and I have a few other projects in the works.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Ah, Thanksgiving...
This year was interesting.
Every year I meet up with my parents and we drive to my aunt's house where we have a family meal, we're often joined by other family members. More recently, my parents have been sleeping at my aunt's house and staying a little longer. I'm very allergic to cats, asthmatic and all that stuff and my aunt has always really loved cats, she often has long haired ones. So, basically, when I end up sleeping there I have to get all dosed up on allergy medication and I use my inhaler constantly, it kind of sucks. This year, to make things simple, I decided to meet my parents at their house on Tuesday, stay there the night, they left for my aunt's on Wednesday and then I would drive up on Thursday (Thanksgiving) and meet up with them at my aunt's.
When I woke up this morning (Thursday/Thanksgiving) it was snowing outside. By the time I was leaving for my aunt's house the snow had turned to hail. I got into the car and drove out toward my aunt's house. I turned onto rt 220 and turned onto a downhill slope, I guess the car hit black ice because it suddenly lost control, spun out and whipped around so that I was facing the wrong way against traffic. Then it went up partway onto someone's lawn and began to tip over, everything in the car was thrown up into the air and then fell back down as the car slammed against a small hill and came to a stop. Nervous, I turned the car back around and started driving towards my aunt's again.
I realized my hands were shaking and then considered that I hadn't checked the car for damage, so I pulled over at the next place I could. I left the car running and got out to check out the side, I closed the door behind me. Everything seemed fine, so I walked to the front to get back in, but, as it turns out, the car auto-locks. All the doors were locked with the key in the ignition and the car running. I could hear the dull rhythm of the music playing from inside the car. I was standing out in the hail. I ran across the street towards a house, but then I spotted a car coming down the road. I flagged the car down and the woman driving it pulled over to the side of the road behind my vehicle. I ran back across the street and explained the situation to her. At this point I noticed that one of the back windows of my car was open about two inches(for when the dogs are riding), we couldn't fit our arms through the crack but the woman opened her trunk and found some random metal rods. After a bit of effort I was able to unlock the back door and get inside! I thanked the woman and she left. Then I turned the car around and drove back to my parents' house.
I spent Thanksgiving alone in the woods with the dogs. I gave them some of my steak.
Leiao
Rudy - he's blind, hence the far away look in his eyes
Every year I meet up with my parents and we drive to my aunt's house where we have a family meal, we're often joined by other family members. More recently, my parents have been sleeping at my aunt's house and staying a little longer. I'm very allergic to cats, asthmatic and all that stuff and my aunt has always really loved cats, she often has long haired ones. So, basically, when I end up sleeping there I have to get all dosed up on allergy medication and I use my inhaler constantly, it kind of sucks. This year, to make things simple, I decided to meet my parents at their house on Tuesday, stay there the night, they left for my aunt's on Wednesday and then I would drive up on Thursday (Thanksgiving) and meet up with them at my aunt's.
When I woke up this morning (Thursday/Thanksgiving) it was snowing outside. By the time I was leaving for my aunt's house the snow had turned to hail. I got into the car and drove out toward my aunt's house. I turned onto rt 220 and turned onto a downhill slope, I guess the car hit black ice because it suddenly lost control, spun out and whipped around so that I was facing the wrong way against traffic. Then it went up partway onto someone's lawn and began to tip over, everything in the car was thrown up into the air and then fell back down as the car slammed against a small hill and came to a stop. Nervous, I turned the car back around and started driving towards my aunt's again.
I realized my hands were shaking and then considered that I hadn't checked the car for damage, so I pulled over at the next place I could. I left the car running and got out to check out the side, I closed the door behind me. Everything seemed fine, so I walked to the front to get back in, but, as it turns out, the car auto-locks. All the doors were locked with the key in the ignition and the car running. I could hear the dull rhythm of the music playing from inside the car. I was standing out in the hail. I ran across the street towards a house, but then I spotted a car coming down the road. I flagged the car down and the woman driving it pulled over to the side of the road behind my vehicle. I ran back across the street and explained the situation to her. At this point I noticed that one of the back windows of my car was open about two inches(for when the dogs are riding), we couldn't fit our arms through the crack but the woman opened her trunk and found some random metal rods. After a bit of effort I was able to unlock the back door and get inside! I thanked the woman and she left. Then I turned the car around and drove back to my parents' house.
I spent Thanksgiving alone in the woods with the dogs. I gave them some of my steak.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
THE ALCHEMIST MAKES GOLD - Soundscape Design
Yeesh. I've been editing in Soundtrack Pro for hours now, my head feels foggy and my back is tired. I'm going to take a bath. I don't really know how to use Soundtrack, so I've been reading the manual and fighting with this program.
I've got 22 tracks of audio now, hopefully this will turn out fairly well. My plan is to do a bunch of "sound design" and then send it over to Jared and have him clean it up nice and add some extra touches to it, to make it sound better. Hopefully he'll add his own design to it.
Anyway, that's my plan.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Rockaway and the Surfers
My friend Chris is doing a documentary about the urban surfing scene in the cold weather, as he feels it is a practice that a lot of people don't really know anything about.
Today, I went out to the Rockaways with him to do some shooting. We set up an Ex1 on a motor controlled CineSlider and he did some video shooting with a Canon 7D with a 70-200mm lens and I shot with a Canon 7D with a 24-70mm lens. We got some nice stuff, I'm interested to see how it came out.
I brought out my GoPro but didn't really end up shooting with it. Here's a picture of Chris getting contact information from one of the surfers we interviewed.
Today, I went out to the Rockaways with him to do some shooting. We set up an Ex1 on a motor controlled CineSlider and he did some video shooting with a Canon 7D with a 70-200mm lens and I shot with a Canon 7D with a 24-70mm lens. We got some nice stuff, I'm interested to see how it came out.
I brought out my GoPro but didn't really end up shooting with it. Here's a picture of Chris getting contact information from one of the surfers we interviewed.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
"I just wanna ride my motosickle"
And here I am in a gas station bathroom...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
The Story of Mankind
In "The Story of Mankind," a film from 1985, the Devil is interrupted in a Universal courtroom by his portable telephone.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Bears Eating Corpses
"Russian bears treat graveyards as 'giant refrigerators'"
full story here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/26/russia-bears-eat-corpses-graveyards
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
THE ALCHEMIST MAKES GOLD - *Sound Design*
Jared finished a first complete sound clean up and it's sounding really great! I'm amazed at how much cleaner the audio is than it was. I watched it through and put together some notes with timecode markers which I sent his way. He's going to make changes and mess some more with the overall balance and then we'll be on our way to some serious soundscape design. Exciting!
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