lost?

nezua — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:07:55 +0000

oh no. what will i do now that there is no Lost to watch every thursday? i liked that show.

mtv me when you see me

nezua — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:27:47 +0000

obama part 1 vid done. mtv seemed to like it a lot. i had to do an edit, to weed out some U2 music that seeped in because obama’s camp played it upon his entrance. otherwise it is approved and will go up tonight. as i said, am doing basically three vids for three acts. this turns out well, as i already have a ton of footage digitized and i’ve seen it a few times. what’s tough with the schedule (but good training in general) is that the strength of your edit depends a lot (aside from unmeasurable variables like “talent” or “sense of rhythm”) on how well you know your footage. when you do longer docs and such, you get interns if you can (i was one) to transcribe and log your footage (boy i hated that job). but if possible, you want to know your footage inside and out. inpoint to outpoint, every jiggle of the camera. that’s not so tough even on a weekly deadline (tho it is tough, too) when you shoot maybe 30 mins of footage. but if you shoot three hours, that’s a little tougher. ideally, you want to be able to recall any clip as you conceptualize your narrative arc. and tho i dismissed, or played down or glossed over “rhythm” for the moment, it really is about the most important skill to bring to editing, a sense of this. you do a lot of passes on the edit. big chunks, finer cuts, color adjustment, effects, audio, pic fine tuning, audio fine tuning, going over and over and touching here, tweaking there, until you are (honestly) lost in the motions and the rhythms. one of these passes, at least, is where you will sort of defocus a bit, pull back and just let it wash over you. let it moved you until there is resistance due to flaw in the craft. everytime you feel a tug against what your mind is feeling or where it is going, you stop and adjust. its a very intuitive sense, and you can’t learn it. you can only find where the mental muscles are for it. develop what is already there. just a sense of where it should speed up, slow down, pause, and so on. that is the editor’s intuition, and maybe you can tell by now, i love editing picture and sound. it’s one of my favorite things to do. getting the footage is almost just a sort of foreplay for the editing timeline. but dont get me wrong, i love shooting. after all, i was a photo major first, and a cinematography student in the city, and even worked as a dp for a little stint in nyc indies

obama vid halfway done compressing. just do a little edit and then you have to recompress/bounce down. and then a long wait. it will be exciting, the day i can get a Power Mac (doláres!) because they have massively more powerful processing ability than this iMac. tho i love my iMac. it’s a very stable and pretty and smoothly running machine, almost always. aside from the normally expected glitches which are not long running or troublesome overall. i bought it with money i got from my book getting pubbed. if you want something special, sometimes you have to take advantage of a rare situation when it happens. just like i bought my recent “expensive toy” the iPhone with the money my nana left me when she recently died. i even felt that she would be happy with that choice, seeing how much fun i had with the new apple gadget. which is why it so disgusted me when recently someone tried to claim that i bought it with money i stole from them. please. anyone willing to disrespect my nana’s last wishes with such lies—ESPECIALLY after they were told the truth of how i got my phone—is really fucking with their own karma.

took a break. i’m back. the obama vid is online now. i’m sort of annoyed that it looks so compressed. it skips and all the hours i put into tweaking the cuts JUSt right are lost in the browser’s dipshitiness and lag. agh. i’m getting off this internet thing. it’s starting to piss me off.

eskimo swat team thuggery

nezua — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:58:30 +0000

finally! my winter coat shows up. just when spring is rolling into town. but at least the furry part of the hood snaps off, so i can still wear it for a while. and i will! because its preeeeeetty

anger will keep me warm!

nezua — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:56:26 +0000

i’m quite pissed off at the Canadian Postal System.

i paid for this coat on the 18th of January:

now, granted, it was sold and sent from hong kong. but it made it to canada in one day. and since then, it’s taken TEN DAYS so far to get from Scarborough, Ontario to Mississauga, Ontario. If you GoogleMap that, it’s about the distance from Eugene to Portland!! come ON!! what are you people doing??? trading it around and wearing it to work? get me my goods! do ya think you are in México or something? It’s too effin cold to be takin siesta, doodes! GO GO GO!!! don’t MAKE me whip out my Privileged Fone Persona!!

words thought up to the tune ‘what is fight club’

Nezua — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:09:40 +0000

and if ya still don’t get it, don’t sweat it
i’ll take inventory like a bank yank credit
i’m gateway asymmetric
it’s hectic
i’ll pull the plug like general electric
i’ll spit palabra puro apoplectic
subtract the fact like my act’s made of metric

(edited after a night passed…and “general” to be pronounced en el español)

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lost?

mtv me when you see me

eskimo swat team thuggery

anger will keep me warm!

words thought up to the tune ‘what is fight club’