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