Monthly Archives July 2010

noise gig update

looks like the place is called “fecal manor” 3032 17th ave s
no idea if there is a cover
no idea when it starts
Sat the 10th

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that’s $100 the city won’t get from me

I say this to everyone who gets a ticket
It is ALWAYS a good idea to show up for the court date
I have yet to have the officer show up for my hearing
It happened again today
That doesn’t mean I can just go out and spend that $100
The satisfaction of foiling “The Man” is enough

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PPF noise gig on Sat

Emil from Cock ESP has added me to a noise show on Saturday the 10th
All I know right now is that Seth is running it and it is South of lake & 17th
I will put up more info when I get it

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damn you copy protection

All I wanna do is rip some movies to my hard drive so that I can put them into my show
Is that so wrong????
It seems that every other idea I have during the production of show #8 ends up a dead end because the DVD won’t allow me to rip it (or the disc has gone bad)
I need a better ripping program

I finished the barrage edit and finally decided on a film for the feature segment
At leat 45 minutes is already mapped out on the timeline
All that is left to do is host segments and titles/credits

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barrage edit finished

I have been working with Windows Movie maker for about a year now and have pretty much used it as a cut and paste tool
When I see video edits that use lots of filters and effects, I generally don’t see good ideas to go along with it
I feel that the source material should be interesting in the first place
You should “assist” the idea with editing to manipulate pacing and to alter or re-enforce the context of the idea
I see the function of editing as punctuation and/or rythmic timing than trying to dazzle the viewer with cool swirly effects
Apart from that, I use the simple fade in/out and that’s it

I had noticed something happening when I was moving fragments of video around on the time line
A graduating blue indicator appeared and I didn’t really know what that meant so I just ignored it a...

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wow, I didn’t know it could do that

Just found a really cool feature on Windows movie Maker.
Evidently, you can overlap two clips
Already using it for the next barrage edit

Off to Markos BBQ

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