Millard and I spent several hours Friday going through stills for the DVD project. We came up with some really great ideas too, and elaborated more on the story line. After we were done with the pictures, we conducted a Sir Millard Mulch photo shoot. Yesterday I spent about three and a half hours scanning, cropping, adjusting and cataloging the stills for the DVD. After my arm began to ache from all the clicking, I decided to call it a night and played some WoW for a couple hours. I’m gonna continue to scan today, as I’m about 1/3 of the way through the stills. I hope to be able to burn a CD by dinnertime tonight. Also, John is doing great. Shauna's down there right now helping him do some grocery shopping and such. I'm sure it won't be long before he gets cabin-fever again. Sick Thought of the...
Author: Chewbode
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New Writings Area
I wanted to mention real quick that I've added a new area to the site called Writings where I'll be adding all my sick and normal (sigh) short stories. The new Writings area is up under the Digital Archive.
Happy Birthday To Me
The day one’s born on is usually a day to reflect on your life, your loved ones, your friends, and most likely, your future. Instead, I’d like to share with you what really happened today… - cue wavy lines washing over the screen - Our cat Max likes to sleep between me and my wife at night. He begins the night by curling up between us (around chest-level) and then by daybreak he makes his way down to the foot of bed, usually on my side, so he can prepare to pounce on his brother, Scrappy, after Scrappy finishes taking his morning shit. So, I get this brief awakening, as I’ve said earlier, and for the three seconds I’m conscience I think “eh, Max is now at my feet ready to attack his freshly shat sibling.” I think this, as I feel his tail brush up against my leg, which...
Cataloging Complete
I finally got around to cataloging all the video we shot so far for the new project. I’m averaging about a 2:1 ratio (2 hours to catalog every 1 hour of footage), which isn’t all that bad. I put together a short sample video for Millard, who stopped by last night, for the sole purpose of inspiring us. It helped me, and I think Millard was psyched too. I spent most of the day Saturday vegging out, as I was exhausted, and that night watching a couple hockey games. Yesterday was spent cataloging the video, and then Millard and I watched Van Helsing and Zoolander. I’ve decided to create daily Suncoast Studios goals for myself, which will help me get some things off my plate. Sick Thought of the Day: Monkey bone in the hole.
Weekend Update
Last night Millard came over and we all hung out, as is our usual Friday night. We ate a bunch of chips and beef jerky and ate some chicken salads. I picked up a low-end PC for him and we put Windows on it and installed all the patches and so on. I also had a chance to show him all the new studio gear I’ve gotten recently. Today I played D&D Online for a while and got killed several times. I’m gonna go eat some more jerky and chips and watch some hockey for a few hours. Tomorrow I’ll be more productive, and will begin (finally) cataloging all the Will and Dana footage we shot a couple weeks ago. Sick Thought of the Day: Backpack midget masturbator.
Elves, Screens, and a Spyder
Yesterday I hooked up the new broadcast monitor, digital to analog converter, and camera. I got an ultra-accurate picture on the monitor and decided that the cabling I have was good, but not good enough. I ordered a really rare, 1990’s industry cable to hook the converter up to the monitor. Other than the fact the picture could have been crisper, the monitor was dead-on for color and chroma/hue. Tonight I calibrated both of my LCD monitors on my main editing workstation with my new Spyder2. I'll calibrate the monitor on the servers and Shauna’s LCD tomorrow or Saturday. I spent some time playing Dungeons & Dragons Online tonight. All I can say is that this game is absolutely beautiful and I really enjoy playing it. However, I got really tired (yawn) and had to stop. So, I figured I’d blog and go to bed. Goodnight. Sick Thought of the...
Cabling
For some crazy-assed reason I decided to re-cable all the audio and video stuff in the studio. I did it for three reasons: First, the cables were a complete mess and needed to be cleanup and organized a lot better. Second, nothing was labeled, and with all the power, USB, audio, and video cables under the desk, it got to be difficult to know what I was unplugging. Lastly, I needed to fix a problem with the audio. I tracked down the audio problem to an adapter and replaced it. Tonight, I’ll finish tying all the cables and will be finished. Ah. I got new barndoors and gels for the tungsten lights. I’ve put one light together and it makes all the difference. I’ve also got a monitor/television calibrator coming this week along with a digital to analog audio/video converter. My BNC cables will also be in late this week...
Getting Organized
I've decided today to start getting some things organized. I'm going to dedicate most of the day tomorrow for that. The studio needs to be cleaned up, I have several new tapes to log, and I have a bunch of bills to pay. I'm going to focus on all that plus get a haircut and go out and run a couple of errands all before 5:00pm. After that, it's the beginning of the Friday night deflate. The Pitts scenes went extremely well. I was very pleased. Sick Thought of the Day: Baby spiders in the bed.
Pitts
I'm getting ready to go down to Tvaarksanianica in about 30 minutes to shoot some scenes with James Pitts. I also ordered a broadcast monitor last night for monitoring the camera during shoots. Sick Thought of the Day: Sushi
Post X-Mas
Well, Christmas is now behind us by a couple of days, and I'm reeling over the fact that I gained four pounds. That's probably from all the candy, since I only really had about one and a half plates of dinner on Sunday. I've been eating a lot of salt the last few days too. Maybe that's it. I dunno. Maybe I just need to hit the gym and shut up. Ok. I'll do that. I'm going to spend some time today cataloging the tapes from the shoot last week and trying some samples out. Millard gave me the raw audio tracks, and I'm going to spend some time syncing things up to see how they sound. Sick Thought of the Day: Worms in the ear.
