Visitation Agreement

(Me and Eric Loundy a thousand years ago when our friendship began)


http://crypttrip.blogspot.com/

http://myspace.com/midnightponcho


these are the sites for Midnight Poncho incase anyones interested
go there or ill talk shit on all your films if im ever in classes with your guys again

Midnight Poncho Wrong Directions

Rough and Tough like leatha

okay so i thought i wrote a response to the ready about micro cinemas but i had one like it for my 6x1 blog so i guess i didn't. but i think its better that maybe because this one will be better than one i did a week ago because this weekend i wen t to such an event. I went to a premier for a friends short film "Lazer Arm" it was a short campy sci fi film. it didnt get into visions so they decided to invite all their friends over to have their own viewing. And i agreed after watching it i dunno if it fit in cucalorus but when it was just a small venue with all friends it really was a fun film to watch.. plus the whole alcohol factor it was a small living room packed with about 30 friends watching a 30 inch plasma connected to a mac and a few speakers. they started off the even with some friends DJing. when everyone arrived and had a few beers they screen 3 small shorts before the feature. which wasnt really a feature it was probly only 15 minutes but compared to the rest it was. This whole thing reminded me of the article about the rough theater. it was a bunch of friends drinking and yelling and cursing at eachother, and cheering. i dont know if it would have worked in any other format i talked to a few other friends who said the same thing. they had seen it before but the atmosphere changed everything for the better. i believe there will be more of these in our future once i get a projector or steal one.

Portriat of my roomate

lighting exercise from intro to production Kristian was part of this production you can see us for a split second

self portrait

okay so this week for my 6x1 blogg i actually wrote a huge post about the visuals of my self portrait because we were aloud to talk about anything soo check that out too but as for this post i think ill talk alittle bout the sound scape, because i really wasnt sure it was going to work. So it starts out with a really blurry shot of myself in a mirror. there is an erie ambience and a person whispering i actually just took a clip of a confessional from like a reality show and cut it all up to make it sound like the male voice is talking to himself and basically apologizing. i layered some clips of a doctor talking about anxiety. i found a really appropriate part of his speech where he is talking about your legs taking you from A to B i loved that sound bit and tried to make it very audible. then i layered another sound bit of someone talking about skateboarding but its hard to tell what hes actually talking about. i used a crumbling sound from sounddogs.com for the title and for when the pills open up into the "screen". the only sound for the rest of the time was of me riding down a sidewalk. i rented a shotgun mic and hand mount and actually recorded this on my own. im sure i looked ridiculous with head phone a camera a huge mic riding down the sidewalk on eastwood at 2 am but i was really happy with the way it came out the sound of riding on a side walk with even sized slabs of concrete makes a really cool sound and it seemed to fit with the look of the flip book images. the part when i fall on screen the sound comes to a stop i guess that was just lucky and when i land the trick i start skating again . i just ran out of side walk and i had to turn around but it worked well. i basically let it run out until my credits. which i did for my first idea of myself portrait. i figured it would be dumb to just have text as credits so i turned my old title into my credits. soo now between this post ad my other one i pretty much have covered the whole making of Page 1 of 1. the end

talk shit

soo since i didnt get to show my project in class whoever happens to watch this comment critique i really hated missing all that whether it be good or bad i really wish it worked today and again sorry to shannon and everyone i letcha down

it seriously worked perfectly right when i got home... what the fuck

i have rug burn on my toes

sooooooooooooooooooooo the shoot... was... interesting... the initial idea was shoot some documentary style footage ... and take still photos and digital video side by side then animated the stills and video into paper one plane animation with the super 8 on a tripod... if that makes any sense to you.. cuz in my mind it make perfect sense.. not in the group members reallly.. they understood after.. soo the whole doc idea got thrown out because the day got kinda boring soo it turned into a doc/narrative sci-fiction white trash type subculture shoot. i think the idea of quazi doc/narrative is very interesting .. blurring lines is only human. in my mind i tried to match the folk sound of our band midnight poncho with a kind of home movie feeling but i also didnt want to show anyones faces,but getting these shots became harder than i thought ... but i had all these masks which were going to be part of my self portrait somehow again with the "faceless" concept but that didnt work but it seemed to fit this sort of harmony korine style home movie feel i guess i was going... for the first shot was of an old 8mm projector going along with this .. "ever changing reality" (quote from the song) home movie the next was a man in a hoody pouring out a beer in a lawn chair with a clear mask on. i really liked the look of the "faceless" outcast so we went with it. going on to shoot hooded youths walking down a one way street.. how cliche .(the song is called wrong directions) i couldnt resist it's subtle tho i was trying not beat people over the face with narrative action in sinc with lyric and symbolic street sign bullshit.. pretentious i kno..sooo we saved one roll of super 8 purely for animation.. which was a learning experience. i had done my 2 plane animation in 6x1 but i dont own glax and apple boxes and i was kinda trying to get something else out of it .. like a kind of rotoscoping with only scissors and paper .. re-photographing the already recorded and putting it into a new form .. like i said it was a hail mary. all in all the shoot went well even tho my concept was alittle abstract i think everyone enjoyed the process and all memebers of our group put in their time.. as much as u would have thought id be dealing with brads bullshit he delt with alot more of mine .. i get carried away i think it will turn out good tho .. then end

fuck me right .. ive never seen any of nam june paik's stuff .. how unintentionally unoriginal of me

Fine

despite my convictions i will write more than 3 words.. but im not happy about it. As director ive been researching all over the globe. scouting every corner of the universe for talent. now when i say this i mean ive been calling all my friends and friends of friends who make music. I called a few friends who Dj and mess around with more experimental type music. I knew a few friends at home would just took a bus trip across the country who make some indie folk music. I had actually been friends with the guitarist most of my life and never really knew how into playing music he was until this summer. I called him up and he told me his myspace (myspcae.com/midnightponcho) site and that was the first time i had ever listened to his music in my life. I was blown away at how good it was. He sometimes mentioned that he was recording music and getting vocals over the internet from a friend he went to school with freshman year, but other then the few mentions of that i hadn't really known too much of what it was like. i do have a different taste for music but im hoping the rest of the team will be on board for this band. I will be open to other suggestions but i am very excited that we already have a lead. Im 100% positive we will have permission and i have all the song on my computer in full quality already. As for concepts i have been doing a little testing on my own with digital video. im not sure how great my ideas will translate onto film but i guess thats a risk im gunna have to take, because there no way to practice without wasting a lot of time and money. ill leave you with some hints towards my concept. Chest-face portal projection layered long shot. .. get some

Music Video

i am god.

I gotta Gold Chainnnnnn.... Im on Cocaineeeeeee

my editing process for this process was probably the most relaxed and comfortable ive ever been during a project in my life i was in the outer banks all weekend at my roommates grandparents house i set up my whole editing station with my laptop and hard drive it the room the call the lightning room its a circular room that over looks the ocean ive never felt more clear in my life with how i wanted to edit something it was refreshing and everything came together exactly how i wants Dylan took charge of the ending of the sound scape but being roommates it very easy to collaborate, constantly showing each other our work and helping one another.

i have been filming random things and throwing around ideas for my self portrait for a while nothing concrete tho. i actually just read the comment shannon made on my black and white photos about how i focused mainly on human figure i guess i did that unintentionally but i am an Art minor and almost all of my art in the last few years has been figure or portraiture. Ive done many self portraits whether it be for class ( drawing , graphic design) or on my own but never with video besides Skateboarding parts when i was a just a wee lad. The skate parts only focus on one aspect of my life. its hard to think of something visual that can describe me as a whole. ive been throwing some idea about how i could translate my art in a form of video. If i some how manage to project my brain on film it will make the cuts in the bourne ultimatum look slow as fuck.. so maybe ill have to find a mid ground

my scanner broke im mad

the light dims
clouds cover
what little light can penetrate the trees
glimmers and reflects on lawn chairs
clouds retreat
a beam of light enters
like a tiny spot light
streaks of light pour into my paper
a highlight glares from the window
temporarily blinding all
clouds again diffuse
small beams dance through
the leaves scatter
across the ground



The sun bleaches out all
small pockets of shade
are found behind blades
of dune grass
all is white
slowly shade of gray creep up
waves of clouds diffuse the whiteness
different bands of shade take over
some wide some thin some wavy some straight
randomly burst of sunlight emerge
like a wrinkled striped sweater
across the sky
the grass now throws
massive shadows like that of wheat stalks
small shells give off small
circular dark spots on the sand
the waves of light continue

Str88

Str8

Bumping brown lines and drinkin warm bud light

Our process towards producing sound effects started out a little bumpy but after a bit of convincing by jordan we got a camera. Ive learning getting four people to correspond via email is not as easy as it seems. Im not good at the whole email thing but im learning. Anyway once we got the ball moving it all came together very well. This maybe have been the most fun ive had destroying shit at someone else's house besides a fateful night in the fall of 04'. Police, court system not fun. This involved no court appearances and actually was for a grade. I was actually behind the camera a good amount i loved learning how to use the panasonic and the shot gun mic being a novice film maker it was very exciting. For most of my films i would steal sound FX from online libraries but creating them yourself is much more satisfying. Its unbelievable to think about the time these sound technicians go thought to produce a single sound. If we were all wearing clown outfits and crying i would have probably looked like some strange performance instillation art piece. Smashing glass and plunging axes in to cantaloupes and sniffing pepper. (the upscale middle aged woman whispers to her husband " I really like their interpretation of crisis in a Iraq.") All in all in was a fun process and it turned out very well. I think im gunna give up stealing from sounddogs.com and delve into the world of sound FXing.

If only you twer upon the wall of a stall

if i twer a fly upon a tree in my own properterium

shapter 1:

Naming and defining Avant-garde or experimental film
By Fred Camper

I like knowing I'm not the only one having trouble defining the body of work we are studying in this class. I like how Camper says " if you know exactly what avant-garde film is and how to name it, it probably isn't very avant-garde." I don't even like the term "avant-garde." I think it sounds pretentious for some reason. This article comforts me, in the fact that i can call it whatever i want. As for the 6 guide lines, I think for experimental ( i don't mind this term) film as of now they are accurate but if a body of work has perimeters it can't really be experimental. I will try and take these guide line an stray from them as far as possible when i start to work on a project in this class.

Introduction to Avant-garde film
By Scott MacDonald

Early in MacDonald's article he describes a film students first experience of watching "experimental" "Avant garde" "underground" "bi-curious" fucked up films. I feel like it was only yesterday i saw the glorious crowning of Stan Brakhage's child in Window Water Baby Moving. I cringed just like everyone else. Now I bask in the glory of experience when we watch experimentals in class. The first time reactions are satisfaction enough to call the films successful. MacDonald goes on to explain how we are all weaned on Hollywood type movies. For most this is true, but it makes me think. Has Brakhage brought up the child we've all seen come into this world only on experimental films. Is this golden child the underground film god in training. Take it in, think of the possibilities.

Dear Hans Richter,
I like your name but honestly don't really know what your talking about. I'm not sure if I've ever understood a PDF in my entire college career. Paradoxically? you lost me right there.

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